Maybe I’ve been watching too many Tavarish videos but would you ever take the risk and buy a salvage Porsche? I love Targas and found a sweet looking one on copart with very little cosmetic damage. Buy it now price is $72k so it seems more than worth it in the right circumstances.
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Only if I knew exactly what had happened, what the repairs were and was planning on keeping the car until it explodes on the track from absolutely throttling every drop of life out of it.
My take is that if you don’t plan on selling it, it may be worth a roll of the dice. That being said, the stated/known problems may be the tip of the iceberg, and you may be buying a money pit. $72k isn’t pocket change(for most)so id proceed with caution. I wonder if there’s a way to inspect the car prior to purchase.
There’s a reason why it was salvaged.
Probably hidden damage where insurance did not want to pay for repairs.
Something like this no way. If you try to sell it later, the ding on the Carfax will deter buyers and demand pennies on the dollar.
Good luck!
Only to build a race car. Too many problems with salvage cars. A race car candidate will be stripped of most of the types of parts that would be problematic.
It says primary damage is mechanical, but I can’t see the report without setting up an account. Nothing looks damaged, which makes me wonder if it’s flood damage or a blown engine. A quick search shows the going rate is $175k+, so yeah, the price is low. All boils down to what is wrong with it and how much money you can afford to invest in it.
Imo To me It depends on level of damage and carfax history. I bought a 2005 911 carrera s cabriolet end of last year with minor water damage from copart. Car only had 4700 miles on it. Water was only in floorboards. Fresh water. Just replaced module under driver seat for top, frunk and trunk to work. In all with transport i paid 26k. Car is now a rebuilt title. I will never sell it so it does not bother me.
Were you able to get it insured?
I have clients who bought cars with minimal damage and they are sound excellent cars. They drive them. If it is for you and not to resell and the damage and price is in the ballpark, then sure.
Water damage. Nah I’m good
Salvage auctions are fine, just not for a Porsche.
Not a chance, unless I was building a track purpose car maybe
Copart says it’s got a certificate of destruction. This is a parts car (or a track-only car, depending on local rules).
Unless you’ve got some means of (illegally) washing the title, you won’t be able to get insurance or a registration for it.
No only that the pictures don’t add up. One of the pictures has the bucket seats and the others have the comfort seats. Different chronis as well.
The most obvious is differencr in these pics is one is PDK one is a manual lol
Have owned at least half a dozen prior salvage vehicles that I purchased myself from auction. Absolutely nothing wrong with it if you know what you’re doing when selecting and repairing. There is zero quality difference between professionally manufactured and professionally remanufactured. Ignore all these comments talking out of their a**. If you have no personal experience with it, how do you know enough to throw out all these negative things? A few basic rules I follow. No water damage. No mechanical damage. No frame damage. Run and drive verified vehicles only. Oh yeah, the whole insurance thing is bs too. Once the vehicle has passed a highway patrol inspection and a safety inspection, you are then issued a prior salvage title, and in the eyes of any insurance company it is no different than any other vehicle.
Don’t you feel that you have a lot of ‘if’ statements to be so dismissive of the alternate opinion?
I’m not being rude, but your thesis is that basically you agree salvages are just like a regular car, or we are just dumb and don’t know anything.
But to arrive at that conclusion, you have to (per your writing) have a set list of things to look for (presupposing you can get that perfectly right every time or even that you won’t be scammed).
You have to deal with a professional remanufacturer (I used one for my rs7 that one of the largest rs dealers in the country subs work to. They painted it the wrong color, dear lord, what else do these pros get wrong?).
And then there’s your insurance statement. I was actually curious, because every brain cell I have says that there’s zero chance what you wrote is true. So I researched it. So either you’re wrong, or every insurance company’s page on salvage is lying.
I’m not being rude, maybe you’ve had great luck and that’s awesome. But you’re making definitive statements that are broad, then having a basically best-case-scenario outcome that isn’t backed up by any evidence.
Yea this is absolutely correct, there’s a lot of garbage about salvage cars that gets repeated especially in the Porsche world by guys who think they’re Ayrton Senna and that the car “won’t feel the same” after it’s had a minor head-on repaired. They don’t realise that literally every Carrera Cup or Porsche Supercup 911 has literally been rebuild over and over but gets dialed back in perfectly each time. My current car is the first non-salvage car I’ve ever owned, and I’d happily enjoy the discount they come with again in the future. The only way to tell the current condition and state of a car is to put it on a lift and carefully inspect it, making guesses based on how clean or dirty the title is leads you to make poor guesses.
Florida certificate of destruction. That’s all you need to pay attention to here, no need to debate on it
What do I look like, Mat Armstrong?!
I personally would not because the anxiety of trying to resell it later kills the fun for me, I never keep any car forever. I passed on a 50th anniversary 991 that was a great deal, because it had 2 separate accidents on the Carfax and had been sitting for 4 months at the dealer. It sat for another month after I passed it up.
So many people shit on salvage cars acting like the car is botched with other outlandish claims. Salvage vehicles retain 80% of their value. I thankfully drive a clean title… but to those of you out there make sure to check his/her registration… that’s where it’s at. Personally idc THAT much if it’s clear title or salvage more so if it’s actually yours or leased/financed. But buying wise if it was a roll over or water damage I’d say stay tf away ~ at least 15 feet.