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I'm glad I stopped daily driving my 928


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When I bought my 928, the plan was to daily drive it and I did. Here's the thread when I first bought it:

http://www.lambopower.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=58775

 

I put about 40k mi on it a couple of years. It was great but one day it hit me, this car is too nice to be abused with daily driving.

 

Fast forward a few years later, I'm glad I stopped driving it. Yesterday I took the car out, gave it a wash, and found a new appreciation for the car. I love it!!

 

Here are a few pics I snapped:

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  • 5 weeks later...

Fantastic collection of cars.

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Love the 928

 

 

My old porsche mechanic had to sell is MINT S4 (I mean mint) back in the day in order to raise money to be able to keep his adopted daughter from being taken away from him. He sold the car to some guy named Alan.

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My old porsche mechanic had to sell is MINT S4 (I mean mint) back in the day in order to raise money to be able to keep his adopted daughter from being taken away from him. He sold the car to some guy named Alan.

Nice. What color was it?

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I have always wondered how good are those headlights? Angle seems so horizontal on those.

 

Not sure if serious but...they are popups.

 

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WTF! :D Yes I was serious!! I have _NEVER_ seen any driven or parked like that and never even photos of one like that! Still deadly serious! Those look funky! :D

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Such beautiful and weird quirky cars. I would love an early S with the telephone dial rims. Kermit green on brown.

 

My friend just did a pretty funny music video with some of his 928s:

 

 

Still can't figure out how to embed.

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928 will always be a Porsche favorite for me.

 

It's a bit of a money pit I hear, but up until recently they weren't too much money to buy.

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While things can be expensive on the 928. The biggest mistake is taking them to shops that have no clue about the model. For an example there is a trick to doing wheel alignments. The procedure isn't covered in any Porsche technical publications. If not done you get very poor alignment. Many shops and even Porsche dealers start replacing suspension components, etc. Most of the expense comes from dumb shops fixing and charging until they find the problem. Maintenance wise its a timing belt, pricey but no big deal. Usual shops will do the water pump once during a belt change. Id say every 3 to 4 years and 30k miles or so a timing belt change, change fluids, a couple of grand no big deal. Its not a budget car, but its not a money pit either. I've had one problem in 30 years of 928's, a radiator cracked. My Dad was buying them back in the day brand new. I've had more then 30. Non have been money pits. Some expensive maintenance items. No more then a Merced or BMW.

 

Onto the 928 S series. Since the U.S. has a rule 25 years or older no longer need DOT and EPA to be imported. Id look in Europe if you want an S series 928. The ideal would be an 86 1/2. The reason to sell the remainder with the S4 coming out. Porsche upgraded the suspension, brakes and exhaust to S4 spec. The Euro engine on all year S models, had different intakes, camshafts, valves, etc. versus the North American cars. They also don't have pollution controls. While the NA 32V engine has 288hp from 84 up Euro spec is 306hp claimed by the factory. A misconception is the 86 1/2 has the S4 engine, no just the exhaust. The rumor started because magazines began DYNO testing them and many found the actual HP was over 320. Long way of saying if you buy a late 86 Euro spec, you are basically buying an S4 in the S body style.

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Risky Business was an early model 16v engine and so was Scarface. The Risky Business 928 was found a few years ago and restored. Excellence Porsche magazine did a huge write up on it.

 

I've never owned an early 928, lowest year so far is a couple 85 32V S all the way up to a GTS.

 

My Dad started out with a 930 in 1980. Canada had some tax deal on buying new cars every few years. So he bought new cars every 3 years. In 83 he was tired of shifting gears in city traffic. So he bought an MY84 Jaguar. The Jag dealer was also the Porsche. Buying new cars every 3 years, including my Moms cars (Jaguars at the time). The dealer tends to treat you very nice! On a Jag service they gave my Dad a 928 as a courtesy car. He got to the office and bought the 928. Even though I was 13 and a car nut. I read most of the popular car magazines, etc. I didn't know much about the 928 when he brought it home. He upgraded to an S4 in 1987. Anyway, in my early 20's, bought my first 928 an 88 S4. Sold it. Bought another S4, sold it, so on and so on bought a GTS, sold it bought another S4, etc. Then started getting nostalgic for the S and bought one, bought another because I wanted a 5spd. I always seem to go back to an S out of nostalgia. Not that the older cars are bad, just don't love them as much as the first owned S4 and the first experience with the model S.

 

There is a guy here who specializes in 928's. Most 928 owners in the Pacific Northwest take their 928's there. I've sold him two S4 in eight years for his personnel collection. I was at his shop one day, he had six 928's in his shop. I once owned five of them excluding the two I sold to him!

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That was my car.

 

 

Uh, DUH! Please refer to post #10, you must be that guy named Alan?! That was felix's old car.

 

Right after you bought that car (1998 or 1999), the same broker (wasn't it bald/fat Brian that later turned into a drug dealer) offered me a mint 1995 manual GTS (red tan) and I said no because the owner was a smoker.

 

DUH!

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Uh, DUH! Please refer to post #10, you must be that guy named Alan?! That was felix's old car.

 

Right after you bought that car (1998 or 1999), the same broker (wasn't it bald/fat Brian that later turned into a drug dealer) offered me a mint 1995 manual GTS (red tan) and I said no because the owner was a smoker.

 

DUH!

 

 

Ha, sorry I wasnt paying attention. :turboalex:

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