My 996 has 120k miles and I do most of my own repair/service and this has been a wonderful car to own.

Hi, I bought a one owner 996 2002 facelift with 155k. Owner was using car for regular commute from north England to London most weeks With mileage at motorway speeds. Had the car for 8 years now 176k miles and sound. Mobil 1 every year and regular checks and home servicing by myself . Great car which I hope is my keeper !

Great video and advice thank you, now looking at purchasing my first 911 which I think will be a 996 and found this video very helpful.

$12,000 to buy, another $12,000 over 3 years for repairs on an 88k-100k car. Now it’s settled. Great car.

Excellent video, I have a 997.2 with 101k on the clock, I bought it with 60k on it, I have had some big bills, front suspension rebuild but I absolutely love it, the good thing about 911s is that will do high mileage if you maintain them properly.

Great transparency, and proved it does not cost the earth to run a 996, great cars and anyone who hasn’t had one should try the experience. God knows who put a thumbs down on this video.

Interesting to see this real life information 👍🙂

Hi. A really objective and interesting view of ownership thanks. I am am hopefully early in the new year about to look to buy a 996 and your video certainly confirmed to me ownership for such a great sports car should not be ridiculously expensive for what will be a weekend toy to visit some shows and hopefully at least one yearly European tour. Expecting to do 7-10k a year so will accept costs to be higher for maintenance but will be looking to do as much of this as I can myself. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your next post👍

152k on my 996.1 C2 Cabrio I purchased this year with thorough service history. Runs very strong and pulls nearly to redline effortlessly,, hard to believe after so many years and miles. I’m about to do my first oil change and decided to go all in with L&N engineering’s product and advice based on their long-standing reputation and affiliation with Jake Raby’s IMS Solution etc. This means abandoning the Mobil 1 that got my engine safely to high miles and switching to their Joe Gibbs Driven line for fluids. How will the 152,000 mile workhorse respond? To find out together, we’ll need some kind of... 150k+ CLUB! Partially for fun, but much more for the practicality of sharing our first hand experiences with keeping these near-classics on the road. Have any of you guys checked for bore scoring? If so, what’s the history specifics and extent of the scoring? I’d love to be able to compare notes and make use of any best practices that emerge. Anyone?

Probably little or no depreciation (possibly appreciation?) which offsets some of that cost and you get to drive around in a very nice car.

This is interesting. I bought mine nearly 2 years ago and it had 147k miles on it (videos on my KZfaq channel) but I bought the cheapest one out there and run it on an absolute budget to prove a point (also my everyday car...not that we go anywhere these days). Good to see the other point of view where you can buy high miles car in good condition and spend a bit on it 😊👍🏼

Really interesting video , very informative I love looking through all the old service history of mine Total sado but it’s great to know what has been done to the car in the past Keep up the good work !

Excellent video. So much cheaper if you go to a specialist rather than an OPC. Really impressed by your tidy garage though!

I like how you bought a high mileage! You went for it and made it happen! Enjoy it life is short!!

I don’t like trickle chargers. Even at low charge levels they can overcharge lead acid batteries. The car will always start giving the impression that they are great but the battery plates get damaged affecting battery life. Just bought a car with an Exide battery which was always garaged and always on trickle and it started first time for 3 days but then it was completely dead. I have an expensive tester it was registering just 58 CCA instead of 680 CCA. Far better to buy an AGM battery that has low self discharge and charge it with an appropriate AGM rated charger (they need 14.8v) every 2 weeks.

Got exact same car and just spent 4k on it, brakes, suspension and engine bits, they are NOT cheap to run and mines only done 86k and fully looked after.

The GT1 headlights look great on the 996

Great video. I have banked on £1000 a year in servicing and maintenance costs on mine.

Would love to buy one but as I live in Ireland it would cost over 1200 euro for road tax, lovely car

Really good , thanks for sharing all the info

Did you try resetting the airbag light first? It's really common for a low battery to trigger an airbag light, has happened to me a couple times working on my 996 C4S and drained the battery and I got an autel tool from amazon that you just plug in and reset the code, also works great on my VW's neat little tool.

I would guess (and I may be wrong) that, for those service costs quoted at the start of the video, they aren't doing much more than an engine oil change.

Nice stuff Barry it's a keeper

Sports seats and manual! Nice 👍

Manual and sport seats! Nice

Great info. thanks !!

Very helpful. Thankyou

Sweet 911

Such high mileage? Not that unusual for these cars, espcially in the US. The team at G autos in Uppingham are excellent, I am local too and use them as well for my 996! Dove House in Rushden are also excellent and not too far away, I've always had my "annual" there. You need to aim for 7k miles per annum to keep everything well used and stop dampness/ drying of rubber and plastics! If the steering issue is a leak on the pipe it just needs a clip to tighten it up/ seal it - a recognised "fix`.

Subscribed interesting video.

Very useful thanks, I'm seriously considering one of these in a few years time, so this is a great insight, like you I'd rather buy high miles with loads of history. Have you seen the Friends Green Porsche channel? He's a specialist in 996's would be good if you did a collaborative video!

Nice car, bought myself an Arctic Silver 98 996 in September these running costs are good to hear. Any chance you can share where you got the tyres at that price please, as I’ll be needing a set in the not too distant future?

Great video, just to recap regarding the cost of parts, did that include the labour cost too?

Nice practical perspective. If I understand correctly, ‘total’ cost after getting the steering issue fixed will be around 5 K 🇬🇧? This for a total usage of 10 K miles over a period of 3 years? Thanks

Very nice, how do you connect the trickle charge? Do you have to disconnect the negative battery from the car?

NICE

So it was the jumpstarting that blew the sensor?

How much oil are you burning?

You’re the Max Power bloke aren’t you?

IMS done?

set aside money to fix the bore scoring. It's coming