Advice on costs

[rickprice]

Folks,

Quick question for anyone with 5 minutes:

I am looking at a C4S convertible tomorrow, which has MoT advisories as follows:

Offside Rear Tyre deteriorating has shoulder cracks /and cut
Nearside Rear tyre tread shoulders deteriorating / cracking
Nearside Rear brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (3.5.1i)
Offside Rear brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (3.5.1i)
Offside Front Brake hose has slight corrosion to ferrules (3.6.B.4e)
Nearside Rear exhaust silencer casing deteriorated
Offside Rear exhaust silence casing deteriorated
Offside Rear Inner exhaust manifold ports flange corroded
Nearside Rear Brake pad(s) wearing thin /and offside rear (3.5.1)

In addition someone has welded the switchable exhaust open for effect.

So it needs:
Rear tyres, discs, pads
Rear half of exhaust or possibly all of exhaust replacing (which, please?)

Can anyone give me a ball-park figure for these repairs, so that I can go into this with my eyes open?

Many thanks

Rich

[anonymous-user]

rickprice said:

Folks,

Quick question for anyone with 5 minutes:

I am looking at a C4S convertible tomorrow, which has MoT advisories as follows:

Offside Rear Tyre deteriorating has shoulder cracks /and cut
Nearside Rear tyre tread shoulders deteriorating / cracking
Nearside Rear brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (3.5.1i)
Offside Rear brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (3.5.1i)
Offside Front Brake hose has slight corrosion to ferrules (3.6.B.4e)
Nearside Rear exhaust silencer casing deteriorated
Offside Rear exhaust silence casing deteriorated
Offside Rear Inner exhaust manifold ports flange corroded
Nearside Rear Brake pad(s) wearing thin /and offside rear (3.5.1)

In addition someone has welded the switchable exhaust open for effect.

So it needs:
Rear tyres, discs, pads
Rear half of exhaust or possibly all of exhaust replacing (which, please?)

Can anyone give me a ball-park figure for these repairs, so that I can go into this with my eyes open?

Many thanks

Rich

Depends if you go OPC, N rated tyres and Porsche bits or indy and OEM etc but looking at min 2 - 2.5K I would guess.

[Chris Stott]

Pair of rears c.£400 (n rated)
Pair of rear discs c.£200 + fitting + vat
Pair of backboxes c.£600 + fitting + vat
Pair of manifolds c.£270 + fitting + vat

You'll be lucky to see change from £2k for a full exhaust inc. fitting. I had mine done recently and it was closer to £3k (manifolds are a complete pain to remove). Plus will cost a whole heap more if you go for OEM sports boxes.

You might get away with the manifolds for a year or 2. But they will need doing eventually.

[1 Pheasant Plucker]

Go into it with the stance of having to put a new set of Tyres, Brakes, and an Exhaust on it worst case.. all perfectly normal things to have to do.

Tyres £800 a set
Brakes £1000 for a full set with pads all fitted
PSE switchable exhaust, these are expensive, if you go OE expect to pay £5000 fitted, but Design 911 do switchable set for £2500, so c£3000 fitted.

If you want a pair of Milltek non switchable cans for it, PM me as I've got a brand new pair in boxes looking for a new home (£700), they were a little too loud for me so I went OE and have these spares left over...

[anonymous-user]

1 Pheasant Plucker said:

Go into it with the stance of having to put a new set of Tyres, Brakes, and an Exhaust on it worst case.. all perfectly normal things to have to do.

Tyres £800 a set
Brakes £1000 for a full set with pads all fitted
PSE switchable exhaust, these are expensive, if you go OE expect to pay £5000 fitted, but Design 911 do switchable set for £2500, so c£3000 fitted.

If you want a pair of Milltek non switchable cans for it, PM me as I've got a brand new pair in boxes looking for a new home (£700), they were a little too loud for me so I went OE and have these spares left over...

Wow! The PSE has gone up. My OPC fitted a new PSE and switch in my wife's 997 for under £2000 all in. But that was 2010....

[Magic919]

My 997 PSE was about £2.5 a few years ago. 996 is much dearer.