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No one wants to buy a used car only to have expensive problems pop up down the road. This is especially true if you’re dropping some serious money on a sports or luxury car with complex and costly components. The best way to avoid such problems is a pre-purchase inspection.

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Recently, I was working with a client in Texas looking for a used Porsche 911 for around $30,000. Given the budget, that narrowed the field down to almost exclusively 996 generation models. As we are all aware, some of the 996 Carreras had the dreaded IMS bearing issue that can be both catastrophic and costly. While not every 996 will experience this issue, buyers need to be very careful about filtering out cars that are at risk for failures in the future. Topaz installer.

I located a black 996 C4 near the customer just to see if this was a car he really wanted to buy. It’s easy to think you want a certain vehicle, but you don’t know for sure until you get behind the wheel. I also wasn’t too keen on this particular example for a purchase, but it was a decent candidate for at least a test drive.

Turns out the customer really liked the car and wanted to discuss a possible purchase. I stressed that we need to get this sucker inspected before we start talking money. I found a shop nearby called RAC Performance: they are a specialist shop that even builds race cars. (I spoke with a guy named Hans, who had a most excellent German accent. You can’t really get much better than that to inspect your used Porsche.)

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The dealer agreed to bring the 996 to Hans, and after a day with the car, he sent this part of the report:

All those things? Those are bad things.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Incorrect size battery
• Brake fluid contaminated
• Mismatched tires front/rear
• Fuel door cracked
• Front pad sensors touching rotors
• Leak from rear mech/IMS/flywheel
• Ignition coils cracking
• Front differential axle seals leaking
• Clutch release near end of travel
• Engine over revs

Hans told my client that it would require several thousands of dollars to get this 911 up to shape; asked for a verdict, he basically said “nein.”

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After we passed on that one, I found a C2 996 at a Porsche dealer in Ohio at a price that wasn’t too far off the abused C4 in Texas. But this car came with a stack of service records several inches thick, one of which provided evidence that the IMS bearing was replaced as a precautionary measure by the previous owner.

Even still, another inspection was performed and the shop indicated that it needed a new wheel bearing and a new set of tires because they were old, despite the fact they had plenty of tread left. The dealer agreed to put a fresh set of rubber on the car.

There is a saying about used cars: “They are guilty until proven innocent.” Since you aren’t buying something fresh from the factory, it is important to take the extra step and pay a professional to conduct an inspection. Vehicle history reports like CarFax can only tell you so much and if you are buying something from far away, it is imperative that you make the investment in a professional shop that provides a detailed report so that you have a clear picture about the quality of the vehicle you are about to buy.

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In this case, a mere $250 saved my client potentially thousands of dollars down the line, and a ton of headaches.

Australian scientists have discovered a rare mineral previously known only to be found in lunar rock samples and used it to date an Earth rock which formed over a billion years ago.

Named tranquillityite after the Sea of Tranquility, where astronauts landed on the Moon in 1969, researchers discovered the substance in rocks collected from six sites in Western Australia.

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Tranquillityite was first discovered in rocks brought back from the moon soon after the first Apollo mission, along with two other substances - armalcolite and pyroxferroite. Both substances were found in Earth rocks within a decade or so of the 1969 Apollo mission but the third, tranquillityite, wasn't found on Earth until now.

Lead author of the recent Australian discovery, Curtin University professor and palaeontologist Birger Rasmussen, with others, wrote about the find in the journal Geology.

He told Fairfax Media today that he got a 'bit of a thrill' out of the discovery.

'In terms of its significance perhaps it's not a 10, perhaps it's a 7 or something, but I got a bit of a thrill,' he said. 'This was essentially the last mineral which was sort of uniquely lunar that had been found in the 70s from these samples returned from the Apollo mission.'

According to Rasmussen, tranquillityite is 'very useful' for age-dating rocks in which it is found in.

He and fellow scientists 'looked at hundreds of samples' before finding the mineral, he said.

'We had been studying lunar rocks previously, so we'd come across tranquillityite in rocks from the moon, so we knew roughly what to look for and then we hapenned to be looking at similar types of rocks on Earth and we thought 'this mineral should be present, we haven't seen it - I wonder why not? We'll keep an eye out' and eventually we found it.'

He said it was 'quite surprising' it hadn't been found in nearly 40 years until now. 'I suspect that people weren't really looking that hard I suppose.'

The discovery of tranquillityite in certain rocks also helped him and fellow scientists give an age to the rocks underneath rocks with tranquillityite in them, which Rasmussen said were previously thought to be much younger.

Although there are alternative ways to date rocks, the minerals required to date them aren't always present, Rasmussen said. 'So having another mineral such as tranquillityite, which has very useful properties for dating - it [adds] another string to your bow.'

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Ben Grubb is a Desk Editor/Locum Homepage Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.