Bought my 996TT end of March, drove it home, @900 miles - was a blast!
Week 1 = Enjoyed getting to know her
Week 2 = Vacation, no driving
Week 3 = More fun, let friends drive her
Week 4 & 5 = Work travel
Week 6 & 7 = Work travel and in the shop to find the source of a small power steering leak, nothing conclusive.
Week 8 = Some driving fun, replaced front brakes and rear tires for upcoming DE
Week 9 = Work travel
Week 10 = In another shop - source of leak found...cannot fix in time for track day
Week 11 = Road Atlanta - tons of fun! Thoroughly enjoyed it
Week 12 = In the shop to replace power steering pump ($1,100 part!), also found some degradation of coolant hose connections - will weld a few of the common failure ones
Next week I travel again

Cannot wait until things settle down and I can 'really' enjoy my ownership. I am confident that after this round of repairs, I should have some smooth sailing. Thank goodness my wife is supportive!
Did not expect @$5k out of the gate.

 

How many miles does the car have?

I bought mine the 3rd week of February with 45,200 miles. It has almost 49k on the clock and all I've done is fill it up with gas a whole lot of times. Well, besides the Switzer tune and exhaust.

Tomorrow it goes in for the first repair, the N75 valve, a $26.00 part failed.

So, besides brakes and tires the only real issue was a power steering pump? Was that stuff really 5k?

It sounds like your on the way now at least. Good luck, I hope everything works out this time and you get many trouble free miles.

 

Swap that out yourself

 

Bought it with 61k, has 63k now. From the big picture point of view - I'm not upset. Just poor timing. I have all of the mods I could ever want, no need for anything else aside from normal maintenance now.

Power steering thing was a surprise ($1,700), welding some coolant pipes ($1,500) are expected over time (IMO), brakes and tires ($1k) - I knew about prior to purchase. Also had a fan sensor get replaced and oil change plus I stocked up on supplies for future oil changes ($300), new front tires ($400) to match the rears, plus some other doo-dads...yes, mostly 'routine' things.

Will be glad to get her back so I can beat her like there's no tomorrow.