Man bought a mechanically totaled Porsche for scrap value and fixed it with a $200 product from Amazon

This YouTuber bought a Porsche Panamera S for scrap value because the car had been listed as totaled.

It had several engine issues, but they all boiled to one thing.

It was a relatively minor problem, but it was causing a sequence of annoying issues.

In the end, he ended up fixing it for just $200 with a cheap product he got from Amazon.

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The main issue with this Porsche

This Porsche Panamera S, with 180,000 miles on the clock, cost SamCrac around $5,000.

The car came with several engine-related issues, including bad idle, but they all came down to the fact it had timing issues.

In order to simplify, the car’s components were basically not running in sync.

He took the car to Porsche, and the quote he got was outrageous.

Porsche said it would cost him $4,346 for motor mounts, $2,587 for brakes, and $2,246 for spark plugs.

So that’s nearly $10,000 on top of the $5,000+ he had to fork out to buy the car in the first place, which didn’t really represent a great deal.

This is why SamCrac decided to go the DIY way and bought a timing kit from Amazon for about $200.

Amazingly, that basically did the trick, and the car ran pretty smoothly after.

Not SamCrac’s first rodeo

SamCrac’s YouTube content focuses on cheap cars that seem impossible to repair, but usually end up being fixable for not a lot of cash.

He buys the car for peanuts, usually from a scrapyard or a salvage auction, fixes them for peanuts and enjoys them for some time before selling them on.

So far, he’s done with a Chevrolet Camaro, a Bentley Continental GT, a Range Rover, and an Audi RS7.

He even did with a Tesla.

Now, that takes talent.