What to Look for When Buying a Porsche CAYMAN! - Everything you need to Know about Porsche Caymans! 

I also have a 981 on 40k. 1st Porsche for me too. Love it.

Take it to the track for an HPDE with your local PCA. You won't regret it!

I bought my 981 Cayman S with 60k miles and 2.5 years later it now has 95k miles as it's my daily driver. No mechanical issues whatsoever. I've replaced the headliner that was falling down. Unfortunately both interior door panels are coming up at the top where the glue is wearing out. I'm just driving it as is for now.

Rob realized that after we wrapped - we are actually going to make a video that shows you what a good PPI entails

9A1 is not direct injection. Or rather, not all 9A1 are direct injection. The 2.9 in the base 987.2 is port injection. The rest are DI.

Yes. Don’t buy anything 4 cylinder when there is another option. You will regret it.

4 cylinder 718 will leave a 981 for dead, and if it's about enjoyment not speed the car should have 3 pedals anyways.

Yes, but apparently the base 2.7l doesn't suffer from that problem. The smaller engine gets a 5spd with different gear ratios and it's a lot of fun since you get to use 2nd and 3rd, 4th occasionally. The 987's had water based glue on the headliners and in hot climates were prone to sagging. I love my little 987.1 base, it's great!

@@TexasRiverRat31254agree. From what I hear the .1’s are mostly free of the issue. Sweet car! I just drove my first 981 Boxster S manual last week. That flat 6 😍

​@TexasRiverRat31254 That's correct. It's because the material used on the piston skirts of the 2.7 is different than the material used for the 3.4 piston skirts. The material eventually wears off the piston, and bore scoring begins.

It's the best 982. Add the PASM and PTV, SC, and 6MT, and it is the most sought after 718 after the GT4RS. The GTS 4.0 is slower and you can't turn it into a supercar with a simple ECU UPGRADE FOR 1100.00

It’s a fun story, for sure!

Get it while it’s hot!! -AA

Pdk is solid, change the oil every 6 years. Same pdk that has been in every porsche over the last 12 years or so.

Bore scoring is not prevalent in the .2 S. This is a myth currently gaining traction, but a myth all the same. A small proportion of 9A1 engines have suffered from seizing related to different expansion rates as a consequence of the engine being pushed too hard from cold. It's not the same thing as scoring in the M96/7 engine. Also, PDK does not need fluid changes every two years. There are thousands upon thousands of PDK cars that have never had their fluid changed and work fine.

@@Jay-xr3sb PDK fluid (not oil) should be changed every 2 years (not 6).

@@flat6croc I known several 987.2 that has bore score. Dealer technician confirms, even all the way up to early 981 bore scoring. The reason why you think it’s a myth is 987.2 are rarer than 987.1 and are garage queens for that same reason. Eventually, over time and milage will build up and bore scoring happens.

@@josephlim8941 Nope, it's a myth. Go back to those technicians and ask if the cylinder damage is both sides or just the thrust side. It'll be both sides, which is seizing, rather than just the thrust side, which is scoring. Moreover, it's now 16 years since the first 9A1 cars came out (the first 997.2 were mid 2008) and 13 years since the first 991.1 cars came out, all with pretty much the same 9A1 engine as the 987.2 engine. The 991.1 and 981 sold in big numbers, but the combined examples of 9x7.2 and 9x1.1 9A1 cars with seizing adds up to very, very few cars. With the M97 3.4+ cars, they were failing with scoring at scale within a few years of launch and a decade after launch the failures were everywhere - to be really really clear, at the same point in the 9x7.1's life as we are with the 9x1.1 cars, failure with scoring was already at epidemic levels. So, yes it's true that 9x7.2 cars are relatively rare, but people forget just who long the 9x1.1 cars have been out. So, yes, the whole scoring thing on the 9A1 is a myth based on misunderstanding and the conflation of a completely different seizing issue into "scoring". Long story short, a very small number of 9A1 engines across 9x7.2 and 9x1.1 cars have suffered from differential expansion-related seizing and because of the scoring epidemic in M97 engines, people including some in the trade have jumped to entirely the wrong conclusions and misinformation is being spread at scale, including your post.

Look at the trans mount and/or motor mounts.