As always, join the fun on my Instagram @TGE_LDNM 🤠

Buy what make you happy fella. Ignore the monkey's. Strangely you look happier and more comfortable driving this than some of the very expensive cars you own.

When you gone talk about that Patek tho baller 🎹👀

When you starting your own crisp company 😂😂

"People endlessly saying I'm a knob... I am a knob" 😂 Legend

Nothing but support and thumbs up from my side here. Congratz on the purchase, I hope you'll have lots of fun with it, make lots of good memories. And I'm looking forward to all the content still to come about your 996.

youre the only youtuber I can listen to waffle about for 20 minutes with a go pro strapped to the dash. Lad this is top quality. Transparency is crazy, entertaining to hear your take on having your first modern classic. You are getting top notch at this youtube thing.

Dad had a Midnight blue one, came with techno wheels and sports exhaust from factory. ‘‘Twas chaos.

I fully rate this purchase, these were the 911’s of my childhood. I would say you need to do a comparison with STG’s 360 which would be really interesting with a similar era of car.

Spectacular chate mate. Love how people are still making so much NEW content on 996/997. Saw a GORGEOUS driver's 996 (6 spd, cab, sensible upgrades, mint, PCA owner) for $15k USD the other day. Was gone within 24 hours. If you pay attention the deals are still out there.

That 996 is stunning, hats of to you lad. Btw very good video was nice to have a sensible one once in a while 🙂

This is actually my favourite of all of your cars, please more vids with this one :))

great car. i love the 996 C4S. I also find the Mclaren bashing amusing. more please.

Tom that was a great choice 996 ok some people don’t like the lights so what those are going for a good price and they are bullit proof as far as being reliable and reasonable to maintain. I like the color and the fact you putting in the shop to get a little facelift is a ok. Can’t wait for the review when its done. Cheers Lad.👋🏽

The thing I love the most about you is you do whatever you want. I think it’s brilliant, you have bought an amazing car and from what I’ve seen on Instagram sales are soaring!!! I love it and i mean how much car have you got for the money. Porsche have made a epic car. Congratulations and enjoy it!

Churning out quuaaaality vids even without your video editor. Can't wait to see the 996 restoration process.

I have had my 996 C2 Tiptronic since 1998 and it is coming up to 21 years old. It is Zenith Blue with the amber indicator lenses and looks great. I did change the exhaust with sport cats and lowered sport suspension in 2002. I love it and hopefully I will have it for another 20 years.

Tom, Kudos! Really enjoyed that! You’re getting good at this! 👌

I'll be honest the 996 is not my favourite 911 but each to their own on that. Yours, however looks like a really good and well looked after example. I love the colour and I'm actually on pistonheads right now looking at them. Bang for buck you can't get a better car. I want one!

Great buy, really enjoyed your enthusiasm for the c4s. I have the same car in silver with 175k miles and still going good, these are very strong well made vehicles. Keep up the good work.

Love it mate! I had a brand new 996 convertible back in the day, totally agree the 4S is a great buy 👍

This 996 spec is chaos and well-kept 👌 Congrats on 160K lad lad 👏👏👏

pretty much the best vid you have ever done in my opinion !!! great purchase

Love it dude You blow my mind with cars. Seriously my car garage 👊. Channel is chaos

More of this please lad 👌🏻🔥💸

Honestly, just the B roll of you driving at around 1:10 says it all. It just seems the perfect mix of exotic looks (yes, despite its age. It's still a 911 after all) and driveability. Not overpowered, not overdamped. Yet still enough of both to make it a ton of fun. This might be one of your best cars, mate

First thing I noticed was the lack of background noise even with roof open. Surely Acton Coachworks can recommend a company to tidy up the upholstery!? Hope A.H hasn’t ruined the Jimny while moving apartments. Chaos! 🤪🤪🤪

Great video Tom , I love Porsches , keep us informed about this amazing car !

I've always been a great believer in buying what you want regardless of what anyone else says. They are entitled to their opinion but at the end of the day its your money. If that C4S in that gorgeous blue colour, makes you smile as you walk towards it and when you sit in the drivers seat you know this going to be great drive then its the car for you :)

Nice one mate! 911's are great aren't they, i like the spec of yours, matching belts are a nice touch, i was lucky enough to get yellow belts to match the PCCB's on my 997.2. About to get my bumper filled and painted too, so much cleaner without. Come out for a countryside blast this summer, meet up at Colchester OPC in September is usually a good turn out

TGE, this is likely one of your best purchases. New cars are fun and cool but this one has character. Approachable not too ostentatious, visually appealing. It makes a great statement.

You can have the cracks and scratches in your leather filled then resprayed so they look like new. Plenty of places around London and surrounding areas I'm sure

Bloody good on ya mate, love these!

Just bought a 986 Boxster S for 5000€ recently and I love it!! Absolutely great cars!

996 definitely is/ will be a classic, great choice lad, keep churning... where are your sunglasses from TGE-couldn’t make out the brand? They are on point

Its a classic, with every incarnation of 911 that comes, the former naturally becomes a 'classic'. The 996 4S is a great 911 and I'm happy its on the channel. Safe driving Tom...

This is squarely in the Modern Classic category for the majority of people..

Great video. I'm an owner of the '02 Targa, the same colour as yours and couldn't be more happy with it. No problems whatsoever and have found my car to have appreciated in the two years since I've owned it. I put in a 2-din Pioneer stereo in it and relocated the climate control unit to lower on the dash and got some carbon pieces from macarbon (these guys are awesome btw), it really improves the interior of the car. Quick tip if you own a '02 or earlier, you don't need any conversion modules to hook up an after market stereo. It's really the only thing that the car needs to make it livable by today's standards.

Such an iconic car mate, you are making some good life choices my friend 👌 Would love to see a 'tge spills the beans on the other KZfaqrs' vid 😂

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That's Chaos. You made me smile. Bought back memories of the dinky toy I wanted in the sixties. But seriously love the Porsche and taking it for some TLC. No crisps in the car young man. Cheers.

I sold a 1999 996 a few years ago with 175k miles and I still see it flying about. Now I have a 996 turbo and a 997. Everyone says the 996 is ugly but I love it. Fair play to you for going for a cheap ( by your own admission) car

Great buy looking forward to this content I have one also. There is no c2s the s is in the 997. Look at the center console delete and a gundo hack exhaust. Would love to see it going to hartech

Nothing but pure appreciation from me lad, Tasteful is the perfect word choice!

Real clean dude. New Cars are great and all but nothing like the older ones. So much more mechanical.

In 08 had a 03 996 Turbo blk/blk manual daily. Still one of the best driving experiences i ever had. Good buy!

Oval egg headlights for the win! They just represent such a good value for money. I also made a video which shows the depreciation curves for the 996 models and they definitely bottomed. The turbo, however, shot up in value like crazy as you mentioned and I think they already saw most of their appreciation. The 4s is just the sweetspot. Enjoy the car.

Look’n very very nautilus in that 996 👍🏼👍🏼great car and video. And great time piece.

Great video lad. I'm looking forward to seeing your journey with this over the next few years! Keep up the good work. P.S. I'd rather have your watch though 😂

Love that you’ve gone against the trend. 996’s are futur Classic. That piano Nautillus is worth more than the car though 😬🔥

Great video plenty of genuine content fantastic buy fella.

Really like the style of the vid and the 996 is a bit of class cheers steve 😀

Many thanks for the porsche content and mclaren bashing lad,we(the sensible people ) do like that.

Great video. C4S is one of the best looking in my opinion also, if any of them are a classic that’s it. Seems like quite a practical car really 👍🏻

Over 15 years is getting into classic territory. Have you considered a Carnewal exhaust conversion, thus retaining the Porsche exhaust? Sounds great on my 997 GTS!

Loving this, music to the ears. 2 fingers up to the naysayers 👍

Great car, always loved the 4s with the long brake strip on the back. Want one now 🙄

I got a 996.1 C2, with a wire throttle and dual row IMS. I had to wait from 10 years old to 53 years old before I got my 911. One could assume the expectations would have over grown in that time - but in fact I was pleasantly surprised. It is such a lovely, reactive car and a lot of value for money. The only other cars that produce this smiles/miles/cost -ratio are probably Miata and S2000 but this one is a Porsche. I put the Bilstein B16/PSS10, I got Eibach AR-bars but I switched the front one back to OEM because the car became a bit too darty in grooves. I also took the engine out the first winter, put on an LN hybrid IMSB just to be sure. The original was in mint condition. Did the RMS at the same time as well as a new water pump and cooler thermostat. Ive driven now about 30 000 km without any troubles of the car. I got now the RS-size OZ Alleggeritas (8.5*18 + 11*18) as well as the OEM. Two sets of tyres PS2s and Bstone SO2 (bougth from a 996.2 C4S). It is such a joy to me. Makes me feel huge gratitude towards life. After my close ones the best thing in my life ever.

Good vid, commentary and asides. I think I clocked a Patek ?

I like the stone grey interior with the seat belt contrast. 997 is top of my pile.

Great video Tom - always like you more serious informative vlogs. Love the 996 specially the 4S, don't get why people call it ugly and all the fried egg jokes - I think they look great, been thinking of buying one for a while (guess I'd better hurry up). Remember to give us an update on the F12 - I cant remember if its already been PPF'd, if it hasnt take us along for the journey same as you did for the black one. Cheers Tom - Happy Easter mate..

Cambridge Concours for any leather work you need doing. 👍🏼

Plenty of videos out these past couple of weeks. I like it. KZfaq game is strong boy.

lovely content mate, keep it upp

Nice content just you and the camera nice one lad

RPM and JZM are what you need for specialists.. just outside of the M25

Love the 996 I had a chance to buy one 5 years ago and I didn’t and I’m gutted that I didn’t but yeah fantastic car I was also looking for an exhaust if I did buy one fab speed do some excellent exhausts take a look at those looking forward to the next stage of the car 👍🤩

Spot on re finance, I bought one (from specialist, full service history, same approach as you to the "project" element) the week before you, £3k in and £340 per month.

At 14 minutes. Missed opportunity for an emoji fresh plug 😉

You'll smile forever if you put a full Kline innovation exhaust system on your 4s. Beats any other aftermarket sports exhaust for this particular car.

Very nice thankyouplease, I reckon many older sports cars have an innate coolness, whereas modern metal can try a tad too hard and fall short on occasion.

Keep it up...Love the car. I'm into the older models

Best vid ever, and you aren’t a knob, just honest lad !

Beautifully done video 👌

Nice seat belts there lad. Acton coachworks will know a good upholsterer to repair any leather problems.

I have a 996 turbo and love it! They are appreciating quickly so grab one while you can. Enjoy!

Appreciation curve lad. We haven't seen that on this channel. Money money lad.

I believe yours is a modern classic as it’s over 15 years and what a fantastic car it is

This C4S seems to be in a really good condition. I hope you like it enough to keep it for a long time!

Absolutely stunning motor mate, probably my favourite of yours in the garage except for the T. Please don't feel the need to justify why you buy your motors. The folk in the comments talking negatively about this are probably your under 16 year old followers. Most young folk think if its more than 2 years old it's shite. They just don't understand the appeal yet so I am glad you've finally got an older motor in the garage, hopefully changes people's attitiudes to older cars.

may the next video please be a garage update and maybe driving all your cars back to back in one day plzz lad

It's a classic mate and so are you, you classic man!

I m with you Tom always loved the look of this car 🔥

That carpet between the 2 rear seats running over the carpet looks like its the stuff you lay in flats with the overlay

Tiptronic is really perfect for cruising, it is very smooth, and family friendly (my 12 yo daughter loves the triptronic...the car starts on the 2nd gear) but as soon as you don't want to cruise anymore, you realise it's an old system which does need a bit of practice to really be efficient. So yes, you did the right choice with the manual gearbox. That 996 is a fantastic car, hated for bad reasons. It is much more classy than newer model (apart from the 997) which are too sporty. The Rims you've got are not my favorites, but that's still a great, one you can use everyday. And the 320hp are more than enough.

nice video, love the porsche.

🤟 great summary...have a 996 4S convertable sice 9 years...love it mega...never would sell...acually all you say I CAN confirm..and on German Autobahn still a big player 😎

Nah I understand your frustration with 720s. It's my favorite supercar honestly. I haven't really looked too much reliability but you're entitled to your opinion of course! I can't afford a 720s yet but I'm working on it :) Loving the back to back vids by the way

It is a classic 👌🏻 and also my insurance this year was £251 for my aero kitted 996 😂

Next video - what pays for my 996? The 7 Adverts In a 19 minute video. Crisps.

"don't worry I'm just just a KZfaqr everyone... Nothing to see! Just trying to make Ad Sense okay! Just trying to pay for the Porsche" 😭😂😂😂 that's the funniest thing I have heard 😂😂😂😂 great video lad as always! I think this is the best purchase on your channel! The 996 is so underrated and I'm glad you got this over any of the other 911s previous 😊 the value! I really hope you can do more videos on this car and take us through what you are going with her! 😊 keep up the chaotic work my lad! 😊 shouted out on Insta too! TGE_TV, give a follow maaatttttteeeees!

Good video tom 🙏

Good video.. I have a 996 C2 with 85k on the clock.. I need to do the ims as I'm paranoid it will fail. You said yours has had the 997 bearing fitted? I don't think that's correct as after speaking to Hartech (porsche engine specialist?) they told me they won't replace the ims with a different one as the problem is still there, It needs the 997 ims and the 997 bearing which is bigger than the 996. So now I'm Confused as I don't know what to do.Most specialists will charge about £2.5k and just fit a different bearing... Maybe you could go into more detail about your ims upgrade as there's a lot of us worried about our ticking time bombs. Oh and at the time of talking to Hartech they had a few engines on the floor waiting to be rebuilt with failed upgraded ims bearings!...

I just bought the same car last summer,im looking four to make it better white some new parts and mods

Good choice 👍 the 996 will only go up 🙌

Love your content on the 996! Keep going #make996sgreatagain

Car is chaos lad, I’m a fan of the colour too, interior is cracking

Great value for money my lamb.

Taking great care of the car

if it's not a classic, it's definitely a modern classic. this could be a really fun and versatile ride for sure. yellow headlights, perhaps?

Sports exhaust is a must! And Porsche states its a classic