History and specifications

The car is a manual 1995 Carrera 4 993 in Aventura Green with black leather.

I bought her in 2007 and am the fourth owner. She had lived a quiet life in London until then, with only 35000 miles on the clock. I've added just under 20000 miles since then, and have had her regularly maintained by independent Porsche specialists Autofarm in Oxfordshire, with major work also carried out expertly by Carnewal, Belgium  and Braunton Garage, Devon. Various "standard" 993 maladies have come along and been fixed as they came up.

More detailed specifications:

• Hardback sports seats
• M030 sports suspension, factory fitted
• Air conditioning
• Sunroof
• Motorsound intake option
• Hi-fi speaker factory option
• 17" cup alloys

I had the following major overhauls and upgrades carried out:

• New Bilstein shock absorbers
• HID headlights
• RSR silencers
• Upgraded aftermarket clutch slave cylinder (smoother action)
• New front disks
• New distributors and plug leads
• Repair/replacement of rear heat shields
• Complete airconditioning repair (£ouch !)
• Alloy wheels refurbished, with new nuts

The car was now near "as good as new" bar a few minor paint flaws, stone chips, etc, and after four years I was enjoying ownership as much as ever. So when I was offered a job in New Zealand, I had a difficult decision to make: sell and buy another in NZ, or take the old girl with me (and the car too ;-)

So what to do ?