/pog/ - Le Mans Edition

That's racist

Frog lives matter

They're great cars on the track and on the street
They're also very practical daily drivers and actually pretty reliable if you treat them right and actually drive them

I only have one of my 911 without it's muffler
youtube.com/watch?v=9O3y0O_nP-w

Any common problems with the early models? Almost tempted to wait till 2009's are more affordable because I think they updated the infotainment system. I know it's a Porsche, but I really want some way to play music from my phone lol.

no user, racist to Porsches

Oil separator

It's a simple fix and a $70 part but it can look like a blown head gasket
Untreated it can hydrolock the engine with oil

If it's 50-70k miles, is it likely the original owner already dealt with this?

Probably not, it happened to my Boxster at like 120k miles

It's easy to replace yourself even if you have no experience working on cars, you only need basic tools to undo the engine cover and pull off the hoses from the separator, it should all take about an hour

One thing to make sure is that it really is the oil separator that failed
When you notice the engine is pouring white smoke out of the tail pipe, try to take off the oil cap while the engine is running. If it's hard to remove any there's a huge vacuum holding it down, the separator needs replacing

Is it worth it to save more for the 2009 (2010?) face lift? As far as appearance, it pretty much looks the same to me other than a different steering wheel. I think there were some mechanical changes and power bump though?