MID-ENGINE SURVIVAL: The Smart Owner's Guide to the Porsche Boxster & Cayman (986 & 987, 1997–2012)

You found a Porsche 996 for $12,000. You think you just beat the system.You didn't. You just volunteered for a $22,000 lesson in mechanical engineering.The Porsche 996 is a masterpiece. It is also a ticking time bomb. The IMS bearing can shred your engine without warning. Bore scoring hides in the cylinders, waiting for a cold winter morning. The Air-Oil Separator costs eighty dollars to replace and twenty thousand dollars to ignore. Most owners learn this the hard way. You will not be one of them.THE PORSCHE 996 SURVIVAL GUIDE is not a coffee table book. It is a lifeline. Inside, you will discover how to spot a dying engine before you hand over cash, which repairs demand immediate attention and which can wait, the secret cross-reference numbers that slash Porsche Tax by seventy percent, and when to sell before the car sells you.Written in plain English by someone who has stood in the parking lot while grown men wept over repair estimates, this book gives you the tools, the torque specs, the part numbers, and the cold-start test that reveals everything.Why read this book? Because the cheapest Porsche is the most expensive car you will ever own. Unless you read this first.Who needs this book? Every buyer. Every owner. Every dreamer who wants a 996 but fears the horror stories.Scroll up. Click Buy Now. Save your engine. Save your savings. Save your sanity. Read more