(Or on good enough terms to ask one on my behalf.)

1 small question.

Easy cars to work on? Im talking about the modern stuff really. Say 1998 (ish) on.

Thanks for reading.

 

You might want to clarify "work" - changing the oil or overboring the cylinders?

 

Generally.

Im always interested by the fact the boot hatch is quite small, and how that impacts on maintenance. How do you change things like Spark Plugs for example. Are they as reliable as zee Germans would have you believe? Or are they riddled with obscure electrical faults?

Just a overall feel. Some marques are more tricky than others.

 

I know Porsche owners may get upset by the comparison, but as a youngster I had some Beetle-owning friends, and they were telling me that the competition record for driving a beetle over a line, removing the engine, tools down, replacing the engine and driving it back over the line was something like 3 mins or less. Perhaps a Porsche is similar, but of course now they're water-cooled, so not so simple... ie maybe they just remove the engine and do all maintenance from there?

 

I did wonder that. I considered that maybe the whole engine sub frame is "quick release" and it just drops out really quickly. But thats a lot of grief just change a set of 6 spark plugs.

If anyone reading this has got a picture of a 911 or Boxster from the underneath (like on a car lift) or being worked on. That would be great

 

New Boxster goes 60,000 miles on a set of plugs and £250 quid for the first service at 20,000.

 

AFAIK For big jobs back bumper is removed, entire area is then workable.

 

You cant over-bore the cylinders; theyre Borasil coated. Even 'VW-derived' engines such as the 356/912 engine bear little real resemblance to a Volkswagon engine Im afraid. They look similar but the materials are all different, so they require building in a completely different manner (clearances in a VW engine were huge to allow for thermal expansion, not so in a Porsche). Im not a Porsche expert, although that description sits very loosely on a BBS.....


Simon

 

aahhh I see.

Thanks for that

 

Going by how long my boss has been thrashing his 1990 911 up the road from cold, I'd say they don't need much maintenance (it's on 125k miles and he's been doing this over 8 years to the poor bastid)