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Car Forum / Porsche / Porshe 911 / September 2003what do you meand by: "well taken care of"
Hello, In lot's of post were peoples give advices on buyin a used car, you can see sentences like: > 2.7 liter engine are not all bad, "if they are well taken care off" or similar (not always refearing to the 2.7 liter engine, but this one popus up often). Well, I own a car, and I would like to know how to "well take care of it". does that just mean: - check the oil and replace it when needed? - have your 15KMiles valves adjustement? - don't drive in high RPM (actually, how do you define high RPM? is is 4K and above) when the engine is cold? anything else? regards, cyrille Hi Cyrille- Wouldn't you think it was purely a subjective term? It's like the term "Like New" , it may mean something entirely different to me than it does to you. The best case scenario....A 2.7 should be fully updated, head studs, tensors.....ect. Complete maintance records including interval service performed on Porsche mileage specs. Pre-Purchase inspection. Happy Hunting, Steve > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > regards, cyrille "Cyrille de Brébisson" wrote: > Well, I own a car, and I would like to know how to "well take care of it". > does that just mean: > - check the oil and replace it when needed? > - have your 15KMiles valves adjustement? > - don't drive in high RPM (actually, how do you define high RPM? is is 4K > and above) when the engine is cold? A seller saying, "Well taken care of," doesn't mean anything unless they have the receipts to back it up. For your own car, changing the oil anywhere between around three and 6000 miles is important, change the coolant every other year, and that's really about it other than filters and preventive maintenance like timing belts and things, depending on the car. You can get all up in there like having fuel injectors cleaned and all that, but that's a subjective thing and often not worth the bother. The main thing is to change the fluids when they should be changed. And yeah, don't rev the snot out of it when it's cold. > like timing belts Timing belts? 911? Please have another look. > > like timing belts > > Timing belts? > 911? > > Please have another look. Please have another look at both the original post as well as the three words I wrote after what you quoted above, which you edited out. Despite asking the question in the 911 ng, he never said what car he has. Hello, actually, I have a 1980 911 SC, and I am just wondering what I have to do to ensure that it stays a good strong car... for the moment, the only thing I do is change the oil every 5K miles (and the filter), check that the oil is always high enough, and get the "big" service every 15K miles (valves ajustement), but I do not know exactly what the auto mech does at that time... regards, cyrille > > > like timing belts > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Despite asking the question in the 911 ng, he never said what car he > has. On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:07:38 -0600, "Cyrille de Brébisson" <cyrille@hp.com> wrote: >actually, I have a 1980 911 SC, and I am just wondering what I have to do to >ensure that it stays a good strong car... for the moment, the only thing I >do is change the oil every 5K miles (and the filter), check that the oil is >always high enough, and get the "big" service every 15K miles (valves >ajustement), but I do not know exactly what the auto mech does at that >time... I'd define "well-cared for" as keeping up with the maintenance schedule *and* repairing items when excessive wear is noted rather than waiting for them to break, as well as prompt repairs of parts that have given out. Letting things go places more load on surrounding components in most cases, resulting in a domino-effect. Emanuel  Signaturehttp://home.att.net/~epbrown01/1966-rolls.jpg http://home.att.net/~epbrown01/1983-porsche.jpg > > > like timing belts > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Despite asking the question in the 911 ng, he never said what car he > has. One assumes that as the original message was not a crossposted message the vehicle in question is a indeed a Porsche 911. Explain why would anyone post a question about 'your' Honda or Toyota to a 911 group? your pathetic squirming and laughable excuse just doesn't make sense. Just grow up and admit you was wrong brad , then learn to live with it and hang your head in shame. As you obviously know ' jack' about the 911, I can't see too many people taking your ill-informed advice either. You should come on over to the general Porsche group. Brad has told us everything we need to know over there about 2.5 liter 944's from 1989 (of course there aren't any). He also considers the 3.0 from the latter 944 and 968 models to be quite rare(there were over 20,000 of them) It does not surprise me that he would think timing belts are in a 911. Maybe someone could keep him busy looking for a radiator for my '83 SC. > > > > like timing belts > > > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > As you obviously know ' jack' about the 911, I can't see too many people > taking your ill-informed advice either. > > > > like timing belts > > > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > As you obviously know ' jack' about the 911, I can't see too many people > taking your ill-informed advice either. Read his post again, as well as my reply, since you didn't comprehend either the first time. He was talking about cars in general. I replied about cars in general. Not even about Porsches, really, although when I read one Porsche ng I often think of all Porsche models. You're just trying to make an argument out of it. |
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