r/boxster

Spent a couple of years driving a £500 hatchback, change of jobs enabled me to join the club. It has part-red leather interior and dash.

It was either this or a 4 series, the only regret was considering anything else. I did look at a guards red Cayman but it was on 21” wheels and it felt a bit rough on the local roads.

I’ve added a Bluetooth CarPlay adapter and I think I’ll get the calipers painted red (maybe).

Just hit 1k miles at the end of week 3!

2013 Boxster base. Anthracite Metallic Brown with Luxor Biege interior. $35k with 68k miles.

My first Porsche so I’m here to learn.

Previous owners kept the car in dry climate. I had a full PPI done with an oil change. The car is in great shape.

However, I want to fix some small cosmetic things.

- The UV coating on the right headlight is peeling off.
- The leather on the PDK shift knob is worn out
- The Porsche emblem on the hood is fading and peeling

I don’t really trust myself to do these updates on my own. I don’t have any experience doing upgrades to cars. I have some money set aside for the car so ok with paying for labor.

Any advice for a mechanic or body shop? Should I just do it all myself?

I bought this 2000 986s a couple months ago and the day after I bought it it started making a terrible rod knock sounding noise, I then drained the oil and found glitter everywhere.

I am currently tearing the engine down and just took the heads off today and found what looks like the start of bore scoring. I also found thickened oil sludge in some of the oil passages near the cylinders. The worst cylinder is cylinder 1 on the front of the engine passenger side. Cylinder 4 is the second worst on the front of the engine driver side. I can feel very very slight ridges on the lines with my fingertip, but nothing on the walls catches my fingernail.

Need to choose whether to continue the rebuild with these cylinders, buy used cylinders, or spend like 15k and send the block off to get bored out to a 3.8.

I'm also thinking about buying a wrecked car from copart and swapping the engine from it into my car, but if I can I would prefer to rebuild an engine so I know I have a fresh one that will last a long time.

Any thoughts are appreciated

I bought this Boxster 987.1 with the 3.4L M97.21 engine a few weeks ago. I'm concerned it might have a bore scoring issue. An endoscopy is scheduled for next week, which will give me more clarity, but is there anything you can tell from the engine sound that might indicate whether it's affected, so I can have some peace of mind in the meantime?

Car has been stood for about 3 years. Oil change has been made maybe 2 years ago. But it made some weird noises before it was put away. Sorry for bad quality!

Dumb guy in a meeting looking at his phone rear ended me and launched me into the car in front. It's likely totalled. He didn't even get out of the car while he continued his meeting. When I walked up he put up a finger to tell me to wait, state trooper saw it all happen and gave him a citation. Insurance already found him at fault.

2.7 2014 boxster pdk
Just hit 100k flawless miles
Don’t think I could’ve had a better first car

My red 981 Boxster

6MT Base

I’m looking at this 2003 986 Boxter, what should I look for and ask when I go the check it out?

I’m heading to the Tail of the Dragon for the Rennspeed Dragon Rally in November, driving from Austin.
I have a choice to make.
Do I take the ‘22 C2 (Cobb stage 1 tune, Eibach sport springs, PDK), or my ‘07 Boxster S 6 speed? The Boxtser was a very recent impulse bay, for nice days and a more analog experience than the 911.
I’m thinking the Boxster may be the way to go. Even though the drive out would be much more comfortable in the 911, I think the Boxster would be more fun on the actual drives.
Better to drive the slower car fast? Take the 911 because it’s my show car? There are a ton of silver 987 Boxster Ss out there, but there’s only one Raven.
Thoughts? What would you do?

Won this beauty on Cars and Bids today. I'll likely be having it shipped to me as it's nearly 1.1k miles away, but so excited to finally have a Porsche. There hasn't been one in my family since my dad was in high school! I'm coming from a 2016 Hyundai Sonata that I've put 160k miles on since high school, so it's definitely an exciting step up in my car journey.

I'm posting as I definitely have a few things I will want to do, and would love some recommendations!

1. CarPlay, (maybe speaker upgrade) Haven't driven an S with the Bose speakers yet, but I definitely want an infotainment.

2. Seat or Wheel to upgrade Height I'm quite tall and have driven a base 06 Boxster for maybe 20 minutes total, where it was definitely cramped for my legs but not unbearable. Has anyone done a seat change to buckets or replaced the steering wheel with a different one and noticed space improvements?

3. Service to do: It's got 34k miles on it and recently had brake, oil, filters, etc. done, but is there anything I should look out for to do early to make sure this guy is a great daily?

Thanks for the help, and I'm so excited to join this community!

Just joined the community. Became obsessed with nabbing a 2025 718 Boxster before they go extinct (coming from a Miata). Style edition, CPO / demo with 8k miles. I have no clue what I’ve gotten myself into but very excited about this beautiful car.