Will it be expensive to maintain a 1999 porsche boxster?

I'm thinking about buying a porsche but the closest porsche dealer is 100 miles away. Will I be able to service it at a regular place or will it be super expensive.


Any advice would be great. Thanks!|||Heck yeah. men don't drive Porsches get a corvette,|||Most routine service can be done at any garage, but getting parts and highly specialized service is going to be expensive if you have to travel and leave the car for any length of time (your time, rental car, plus, Porsche parts are expensive to begin with).





On the upside, Porsche's reliability has been good, from what I hear (not sure about the Boxster).





Personally, I never liked the name "Boxster" - it sounds cheap, like it only has basic functionality.|||Maintenance for a Porche is like like maintaining any other car. If it is under warranty you will have to get it fixed at the dealer. Other than that it all depends on how much you can do on your own. If the regular place guy is shady he will see a Porche and jack up the price on you so be careful. In the end though with the kind of money you will be laying down for one of those it had best not need that much work done on it.|||They are good cars, light on maintenance. Consumer Reports even likes them. Consider, however, how important the tires are on a car like that. The tires with the correct specs will run you a couple of grand. The 30k at the dealer will run you about $500. The car uses synthetic oil which lasts, but takes a lot of oil. Spark plugs are a whopping $125 apiece. The year model you are looking at has a plastic rear window which fogs and cracks. On a Benz it is the front main seal on the block. On the Porshe it is the rear main seal you want to have checked. Those seals are needle bearings and require a machine press with the block out of the car -- big bucks. I would opinion you are better off with a foreign car shop doing the routine stuff for you. The BMW are the pain as they require a dealer to service.|||it will be more expensive compared to a honda s2000 or a bmw z4 to maintain and you wont look so gay driving the honda or the bmw|||After reading answers here I learned to buy a used Porsche with fairly low mileage that has good maintenance records. My used 911 had both and so far has only needed tires and oil. Use "real" synthetic oil like Red Line or Amsol.