[Rick Lee]

Just found this one. I would be very wary of any car with no records and equally wary of a car that had been "cared for" by any dealership. I haven't come across too many dealerships with 993-savvy folks. If that car drove tight, then it's had the suspension redone. You can confirm this without even getting down on one knee.

I don't know anyone who's had a fussy 993. Mine certainly has not been. I just drove mine to the Grand Canyon this weekend, where it turned 64k miles. While getting gas I decided to add some oil. It needed .5 qt. When I entered it into my log book, it turned out the last time I had added oil to it was when I did an oil change at Steve V's house in March, almost 5k miles ago. Other than body repair and alignments, my 993 has only ever been in the shop one time and that was for some fuel and emissions diagnostics that I couldn't DIY. My 993 has been the most reliable of anything I've ever owned. I think I've spent $500 (rebuilt injectors and diagnostics) on it in the last year and maybe $600 (plug wires, rebuilt dizzy, caps and rotors) on it the year before that. I blew the budget on new tires the year before that at $850. Any Porsche you can keep running perfectly for well under $100 a month averaged over several years is what I call reliable.