300,000 mile Boxster

[zero corrosion]

Just goes to show dunnit?
Internet hype blows stuff out of proportion.

So a boxster having 300k on clock and the 3.2 carrera's needing top end re build at 50k.

[xftdr]

zero corrosion said:

Just goes to show dunnit?
Internet hype blows stuff out of proportion.

So a boxster having 300k on clock and the 3.2 carrera's needing top end re build at 50k.

Except neither are the norm. MOst 3.2s will happily go, with right servicing, to over 100k before needing rebuilds and a significant number of Boxster engines goe bang long long before 100,000 miles let alone 300k. As in most things trends are more important than extreme outliers

[jamesG20V6]

xftdr said:

Except neither are the norm. MOst 3.2s will happily go, with right servicing, to over 100k before needing rebuilds and a significant number of Boxster engines goe bang long long before 100,000 miles let alone 300k. As in most things trends are more important than extreme outliers

I agree with that. I have an 04 fpsh 3.2s and am recovering from a £7k IMS failure at 45k miles. It isn't all scaremongering.

[P2BS]

It's only ever the bad ones that people post about; nice to hear of a miler even if it's not the perceived norm.

[burman]

Ive had a sneaking suspicion that low miles/ lots of short journeys is not helpfull also. This boxster hardly had time to cool down!!
Not too keen on the auto stop/start on modern stuff for the same reason, although it can be disabled.

[Shurv]

I think it proves the old saying, use the bl**dy things.It seems that the less used examples suffer from mechanical woes, and the daily used high milers run forwver.It's the same for all exotica and machines in general.I had an expensive Italian motorbike a few years ago, when it was my only bike and was used all the time, it was brilliant.As soon as I got another bike and used it less often, it started to show signs of playing up, not starting 1st time, stuff not working etc.