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Hi everyone, this is Heidi and this is Franny, and today we're gonna talk to you about what we have spent on our 2004 996 Turbo.

So, what I've done is I've broken out all the individual costs that it cost us the last...

Um, sorry um, do you think maybe we can get a little better location than inside the dingy old garage here?

Maybe something more like this?

That's better!

Okay, so Heidi you were saying...

Yeah so we bought our car used we bought it used in 2014,

and actually about four years ago...

And some of the major service that had

been done to the car before we bought the car was:

the clutch accumulator was rebuilt at 18,000 miles,

the battery was replaced

the clutch slave cylinder was replaced at 28,000 miles

the power steering pump at 32,000 miles.

Now, I wanted to go on and talk a little bit about that power steering pump.

Now, it's kind of a funny thing the pump didn't fail it was just SuperDuper noisy.

So Porsche redesigned it, it's kind of a funny thing.

There was a piece inside it that the fluid had to flow by and it was making a bunch of noise,

so they redesigned it, so this car has the redesigned power steering pump in it.

Okay and then the front left wheel bearing was replaced,

the front axle was replaced from a leak at 39,000 miles,

which that seems kind of funny to me that that would happen,

but whatever, any rate... All of this was done under warranty, so that's why it's so important to have the full set of records.

And since this all of this was done under warranty and done at the dealership,

the dealership was able to tell us what had been done on the car so, that was actually really really a real big plus.

And of course the car had you know annual service, oil changes, filters, wiper blades that sort of thing.

Yep yep. Okay, so then, when before we bought the car,

we spent three hundred and six dollars having a pre-purchase inspection otherwise known as a PPI.

So some of the things that the pre-purchase inspection found was:

that the low tone horn was bad, so this is a duo horn card has two different tones.

and that was wrong so one of them was pooped out.

Small oil dampness at front of engine.

which that was inconclusive about what that would be,

so it was it was so small it wouldn't have been a shaft bearing or anything so I'm not sure what that was.

The car still had its original coolant. It should have been flushed out a long time ago. Right.

Front shocks caps..wait, front shock caps worn.

Yeah so at the top of the shock towers in the front there there's a little bushing up in there,

and those can wear out and allow the shock tower to move ever so slightly and cause a little bit of looseness in the handling

and also in the alignment as well.

So that's something we still actually have to fix.

So the rear tires were 30% worn, I believe within a year they were like 99% worn or about 110%. After we bought the car....

Right, right, they were way gone. yeah.

So, it needed an oil change, and it needed air filter, and so there were several items that the PPI missed.

yeah so okay, so that's a thing about PPIs. So we spent $300, we had the PPI done at a dealership,

because it's a more modern car. Right. Maybe an indie shop would be better...

I don't know, any rate, we got it done at a dealership, and it's a dealership we trust and we we still do.

Yeah, but they missed a few things (They did) and that's our thing about PPI is is I think you should always get one,

but don't just expect that they're gonna get absolutely everything. Exactly it's never perfect.

Because they probably won't, I mean. So in this car, what they missed were some weeping radiators.

Both radiators, one was almost leaking and one was definitely weeping this car has three of them.

That was a big miss. That was kind of a big deal huge - yeah kind of a huge miss and kind of expensive too.

Yeah, and then the idle was not settling down on this car, when it would get hot the idle would climb up and then go back down and up and down...

Yeah, but remember it didn't actually do that until the first time we drove at home so right that was something that the dealership was not going to find.

Do you know why? Because they didn't drive the car. No. So they didn't drive the car. Had they driven the car that probably would have fixed...

They probably would have found that and the next problem, which was we found several turbo air leaks as well.

Yeah, so it's just you didn't have that nice washy sound initially when you stepped on the gas.

Well yeah because the after the turbos on the pressurized side there were some leaks and those had to be sorted as well.

And in fact, I thought that that's what the problem was. I figured that was just a some air leaks in the system and that can cause it to run lean. Bla Bla Bla.

It turned out it was a bad mass airflow sensor, and once I replaced that the idle was perfect and has been ever since. Right.

So, we bought the car and you know the dealership was actually kind of a little envious that we found a car like that, so we knew it was a good find.

And we spent $49,000 on it. Now it was actually listed for $54,000, but because of the windshield having a dink,

which it still does and some other a couple of other items that we found during the PPI,

we were able to talk the seller down by $5,000 and that's about right for what this car was.

And what was the mileage on the car?

Um, it was right around 48,000 49,000 miles. So less than fifty. Yeah. Okay.

So after we bought the car, so Franny, as she mentioned, replaced the mass airflow sensor,

so that was $182.50. So, we got it off eBay.

Now, Porsche wants like 800 or 750 dollars for that part, we put in an actual Bosche part with a Porsche part number on it.

It's just, if you search around, you can get the parts for a lot less right, but it took it took me months to find out that it was just the mass airflow sensor. Right.

And so we did start smelling coolant after we had been driving the car a bit, and so we ended up looking at around

and doing some research on whether or not to actually replace the radiators with original Porsche radiators or an aftermarket set.

Right. Do you want to talk about why you... Yeah so, the original Porsche radiators I believe they're steel with plastic end caps,

and they end up sort of weeping after about six or seven years at those at those end caps, and that's exactly what was going on with ours.

So I looked into.. There's a company called CSF that makes racing aluminum all 100% aluminum radiators for the car,

and they had a group buy on one of the forums, and so yeah, right, I forgot about that. We all got them at the same time. we did.

So we picked up a set of all three because this one of course has the three. So we got the center radiator and the two side radiators for 1600.

And the ..Porsche radiators probably would have been about 1450, so they were a little more expensive,

and we did have a few problems with them, but I have to tell you the folks at CSF were wonderful,

They were great. They got back to me on a Sunday afternoon, so total thumbs up for those guys.

We did have a few issues with the radiators and they we had to swap them out once or twice, but we got it all sorted in the end.

The dealer, so once you do that with the radiators of course, you lose all the coolant...

We needed to swap out the coolant anyways. Since we did go back to the dealer and say you know...

Look, what's up, you guys totally miss this! This is a bummer, so they did so they gave us all the coolant.

So yeah the car was kind of expensive. So they gave us the coolant which was nice but..

We got that all taken care of. They wouldn't pay for the radiators, we were hoping they would take care of that too. oh well.

So okay, so some of the other things we did. We did a fuel filter replace that was something that they found during the PPI. Yep. That was only $45.

Yep. The high sounding horn, we actually ordered the low sounding one and found out it was a wrong one.

Yeah they got the wrong. They got it wrong on the PPI $12.75 not bad.

In fact I think we still have the low horn if anybody needs one. Yes

So radiator hoses... Okay so.. Alright so after we did all the radiators, and this was year or two after at least.

I was out taking a friend out for a ride she was very interested in buying one of these cars. We went out for a little bit of a test drive,

and pulled over so we could swap... So we had driving for...I don't know, ten or fifteen minutes, I pulled over in a side street,

so that we could swap right we swapped and as we were kind of just barely pulling out, the dash lit up like a Christmas tree

and huge steam went out from in the back of the car. Well it had split the radiator hose out of the pump,

so all the way from connected to connector and blew all of its radiator fluid on the ground.

Had to have the car towed back. It actually says 'call towing,' no I'm just kidding...

Pretty much! Your whole dash! Yes it pretty much says, 'Do not drive this car!' Exactly, it's pretty bad....

So we had the car towed back, that didn't cost anything. but then once again had to replace the radiator fluid that had all flowed out again.

and I replaced both of those hoses in the back there, so the one out of the pump is the one that seems to always go bad.

Right. So we replaced that. They weren't too expensive. What were they? $143.75. Yeah, so now a bad cost at all.

And yeah, remember you know Franny is doing a lot of the work on this, and the research, and everything else,

so you know if you don't want to do the work yourself then probably double or triple the price of everything.

Yeah it would probably be a little expensive. The Porsche's are easy to work on in those hoses they literally

just have a clip and you just pull the clip out push new and then boom and you're done.

It's super easy. Right, okay so Heidi and her lead foot caused us to replace the rear tires. Yup.

And so how it works with the turbos is usually it's all four and then the rears all four than the rears.

Yep, so we got two new rear tires those were $1030.75. I believe they're Michelin Pilot Sports or it's something like that.

So it that what we have? Yeah they're big and they're kind of expensive, but they're nice tires.

They're really good rear ones are more expensive than the front. So then we had a battery failure, once again the dash lit up like a Christmas tree.

And, that was pretty easy. We just found actually found a battery at Costco. Yeah so and we're able to place replace that for $120.

Right around sixty thousand miles we did the serpentine belt, and that was just kind of preventative there was nothing wrong.

In fact I still have the old belt, it's just that if that goes you lose everything all at once and I didn't want to get the car towed.

She has the old one. She saved it. And that was only $25.75. Not a bad price for that.

So then all of our other annual maintenance, you know, either air filters, cabin filters like every other year and then

the oil changes run us around $86, air filter $24.53 and cabin filter $23.50.

Yeah, so basically all right so does a drum roll what's the what's the grand total?

Right, so we had a couple other real optional things that we'll talk about that.

Yes so the total that we spent in four years on the car minus the tags and the tax for the State of Colorado.

$3884.75, so over four years it's a little less than a thousand dollars per year.

Yeah, so yeah, that's not too bad actually.

This is a pretty high performance car one of the fastest cars you could buy in its day,

and to just spend a thousand dollars on this and that right it is really pretty low money.

These cars are really solid they are very solid, so the couple of the optional items:

We actually had a friend selling a set of aftermarket wheels with snow tires on it.

We spent $900 on that. Yep and then some optional side marker replacements make it a little more European looking.

Yeah the original ones are orange, so you know, so we've spent a little bit more than what we've just you know estimated

but really that $3884.76 for four years $1000 a year. Remember this car is now 2004 to 2018 so it's a good solid

mathematics here, 14 years old and... What's up what's the mileage on the car? Right now?

Just over 60,000 miles. Okay.

Yeah so we haven't put a ton of mileage on the car. Right, we bought it right around 50,000. We have definitely driven it.

And it's been, short of that one radiator hose blowing, the cars been great and always gotten us home.

Right! It's just been it's just been a great car. Really enjoyed it, and surprisingly yeah I love it. This is probably Heidi's favorite car in the garage.

It actually does do really well in like snowy, crappy weather because of the all-wheel drive. We just put snow tires on it and it does a very good job.

The biggest thing I worry about when it's crazy snowy is somebody else running into me.

Yeah, of course. So, but yeah, I really do like the car. It's my favorite.

All right, well I hope you enjoyed this sort of breakdown on the cost of at least what we spent on our car.

Since we've owned it, it hasn't been bad and it's it's just been a wonderful car.

So if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up if you've got any questions or comments go ahead and leave them down below

and we'll get right to them. Yep we can ask any or answer any other financial questions you might have.

So thank you so so much for watching. So until next time, safe travels. Bye.

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LEGO Speed Champions Porsche 919 Hybrid review! 75887 - Duration: 8:18.

hey everyone this is the lego speed champions Porsche 908 tribute to a

recently terminated racing program but an absolute shrine no a temple to the

progress that Lego design has made in a short period of time with the help of

experience and practice and new parts and I say that because of this the last

speed champions Porsche 900 the same exact vehicle this represented

the first generation when they first came out with this car in 2014 and this

represents a 2017 card they don't have the same bodies they don't have the same

aerodynamics however they do look close enough in real life they don't look this

different no we're nowhere near this does not look like what it represents

this looks like what it represents this shows dramatic progress a huge

improvement in Legos capabilities between these two generations here it's

it's I almost can't say it's even close when you really get down to the

nitty-gritty and a lot of it comes from the fact that they do have some new

pieces available now and some of it does come from the fact that again they've

just gotten more experience and more practice building these things at this

scale with this unique size and and shape with the six stud wide rather long

kind of narrow and also somewhat tall proportions of these cars in general

relative to the things they actually represent but this looks great to me

this does use the newer style of the fender pieces the newer style it has the

curved under ends at the front and the back for each that just allows them to

make things look a little bit more sleek in that space a little less box

in I think maybe they could have used the older-style at the back I'm sure

that they tried it and you know made the the decision to go with this I think

that one of the major things that really helps with the design here is the use of

these interesting road sign pieces they're actually clipped on to the side

there it's just really great part usage they've got the corner cut one by two by

two-thirds slope piece used right there a lot of studs on the side of course and

studs upside down even construction these are brackets on the front that are

facing with the studs underneath and they didn't put tiles under there

because it's not enough space it would have I mean the whole thing kind of

scrape you wouldn't be able to play with it very well this is yeah it's just a

great-looking little thing for for a Lego set that is not a mock that is not

at all fragile doesn't use any illegal building

techniques it doesn't fall apart when you grab it the wheels turn it's

playable it's easy to put together by just following the instructions I mean

they have some some tricky techniques in there but it's all easy to replicate

even if you're not an advanced builder I also really like the shaping from above

they got this streamlining down pretty well given normal LEGO pieces not even

any really special pieces used there but it looks great I love this thing might

be my new favorite LMP car that they've made the the nine one seven is still

something that I really really like but this is definitely up there to get

inside you do need to retract the air inlet that's a major hassle havin to

turn that up but it being as users is aegis of course but then you get in here

they've once again used the doors facing backwards the standard car doors facing

backwards gets a little bit of texture with just the door handle there I don't

know why they did this instead of using the one by three

panels now that those are available but maybe have they not made the one by

three panels in white yet not sure I like this technique gives room for the

hands or the arms of the figure to fit in there a little bit open on the

underside but you'll put a figure in there and that gets covered up with

their legs and you do get a printed console at the front and the steering

wheel which is at a more reasonable level than on most of these cars look at

that difference though they're essentially the same size the models and

again they're not supposed to be the exact same vehicle but pretty close look

at how much lower the nose is alone and the splitter at least the rear views are

more similar and the wing stays did need to be designed differently but what this

shows most clearly to me is the difference in how the canopy sections

are smoothed off behind them here's the driver figure end I think he looks good

good print for the torso and a fine choice of face it doesn't really bother

me that they didn't print the hip or leg pieces you get print around the back of

the torso no alternate face on that and a fairly straightforward fairly plain

main face but you know this isn't fantastic I just think it's it's good

it's more than good enough and here's the alternate design of wheel hub

inserts which are also in black like the standard ones

lastly the side build is really simple just a handful of pieces there but I

think it's pretty cool and actually useful for something they also do

include that laptop piece with the exclusive sticker that just comes on the

same sticker sheet as the rest of the car and that can be looked at as a

either a design study or some readouts of some telemetry from the vehicle this

is excellent it's so difficult to capture all of the

major elements of the design of a vehicle or any object that's this

complex in its in its structure in such a small scale and the Lego designer here

has done it in a package that anyone can just go out

and buy and just build by just following instructions and hold itself together

you know current pieces legal building techniques it's much more difficult than

most people will ever understand so this is this is a real triumph if you ask me

above and beyond the norm for Lego quality honestly this photo here does

not do good justice to the model that photo almost looks more like one of the

late model Audi 's I think most press photos of the nine one nine 2017 spec

will show you better most other photos will show you better just how good of a

model this is and yeah it has it has the most important aspects captured to a

degree that you can just say okay I'm going to show you a car tell me what car

it is what car was that and if you're a car person if you're a fan of endurance

racing you will recognize it just that quickly they've done that well and

that's that's no easy task anyway I'm gonna stop gushing about this

thing obviously I love it quite a lot look forward to more from the speed

champions line in the future as they continue to somehow improve thanks for

watching I'll talk to you in soon

you

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rev up your engines!

Porsche's they're beautiful cars, they have great handling and quick

acceleration, and today I'm going to tell you why you should never buy one, a customer of mine

just purchased this one as a toy, he paid about $7000 for it, it's only got

68 thousand miles on it and it looks beautiful, but somebody paid over fifty

thousand dollars for this car when it was brand new, so why oh why did it lose 43

thousand dollars of its 50 thousand dollar value, when it still looks so good

and still runs decently, and here comes the answer, it's got a mid-engine which

is great for handling, but horrible for repair, as you can see in this picture

the engine is way up front here in the middle, it's very hard to work on, you

can't even see it without taking a body off, so in an actual car that's all

hidden way down in here, say something like a water pump goes out and when we

look under the car, needless to say there's not too much working room up

there in the engine, this thing is really something to work on when you have an

engine problem, well in a normal car with the engine in the front, I can do most

water pumps in an hour or so, might cost you two or three hundred bucks, but on this

thing, just changing out a water pump is going to cost you well over a thousand

dollars, and literally that's just the tip of the iceberg, I had a customer with a

911 Porsche, it needed two catalytic converters, and the bill would have been

over seventy four hundred dollars to replace them, he just got rid of the car

instead, now yes they aren't really fun cars to drive and my customer was smart, he

got a standard transmission, because they're pretty reliable but the

automatics, they're very unreliable as they age and cost a fortune to rebuild

and while they do corner and drive quite well, they actually have a very rough

ride, especially with these low profile tires, every time I get one and I'm done

road testing it, I asked my wife if she wants to go for a ride, she says no

thanks I hate those things they ride like go-karts, now if your looking for

style, hey this might be for you, a lot of people say they're beautiful lawn

ornaments, now Janis Joplin sang about how all her friends drove Porsches, but

really, following Janis Joplin's lifestyle may not be such

a smart choice, and remember if you've got any car questions just visit the

Scotty Kilmer channel,

so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to

ring that Bell!

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