Cayenne diesel S (it’s a V8)

Found me a car finally - 2015 v8 S Eu5 with 75 000 miles from Porsche Gothenburg, 1 year warranty etc.

The good; PASM on Air, auxiliary heater, 21” turbo wheels, 18 way seats, transfer box replaced, new brakes all around

The not so good; white, base audio, no LED lights (base xenon), no factory tint

Love the car so far - excellent mpg considering the performance and an engine to die for - really suits the car with all that torque.

Will make sure to snap a few pictures and upload.

Plans so far; tint in the same shade as factory, possible lowering links (just a smidge) and maybe a tune if I can stomach voiding the warranty.

Another V8S owner here.
I bought mine last July and have done 10k miles in the past seven months.

I had originally planned to buy a 64 plate as it appeared to be the sweet spot of the 958.2 facelift, but without adblue complications. However, I then got carried away and bought the lowest mileage 17 plate I could find! Part of the appeal is that the original owner had specced £31k optional extras….. my essential upgrades were 18-way seats, pano roof and air suspension, which were a surprisingly difficult trio to find (most cars had 2 out of 3). But it also came with all sorts of things, including the Burmeister hi-fi, Classic Sport wheels, Sport Chrono, and leather everywhere. It also has the removable towbar and had the transfer case replaced. Mine is also an unusual sapphire blue, as I wanted something other than the usual black or grey. The one odd omission is that it has standard headlights which is a bit of an irritation.

The 18-way seats are now the most important spec for me. I’m sure they were an expensive upgrade when new, but they allow the perfect compromise between extreme comfort and lateral support when pressing on. Indeed, I occasionally do a 350 mile trip without stopping and not once have I had any aches and pains at the end of the journey.

The powertrain and handling combo is peerless, as Steve Sutcliffe opined in the video link elsewhere in this thread, it seems to cover all bases with being limo quiet and serene in Comfort yet it will also also hitch up it’s skirt and genuinely deliver driving pleasure when wind it up to Sport Plus. Having said that, it is not a sports car so is left in Comfort with Sport throttle 95% of the time.

I am a track enthusiast and have used the Cayenne to tow my M3, which it does with apparent distain! I live down in Cornwall, and after turning off the M5 onto the A30 I set the cruise control at a little over 60 mph and the car will sit there for the next 80 miles - I think it might have changed from 8th to 7th, going up one of the particularly steep hills, but otherwise the speedo remains rock solid for the entire duration! It even returned 30 mpg, dragging two tons behind it - my wife previously had a BMW X5 40e hybrid, which when performing the same journey returned 17 mpg!

The engine is incredibly robust, as long as you use it sufficiently to regenerate the DPF. I had considered a remap from Darkside Developments, including an EGR and adblue delete, but as outlined by all owners above, it doesn’t really need any more power and a modest stage one produces 1000Nm of torque, so even with the updated transmission case, I would be concerned that it will chew that up even faster.

I am a serial car nut, but I can genuinely see this car sticking around for years with the other toys rotating around it. Following Diesel-gate in the US, they stopped producing the V8 diesel and focussed on hybrids so mine, as a 17 plate, is about as new as you can get.

The only issue I’ve had in 10k miles is when the car went into limp mode. I feared a clogged DPF, but it transpired to be a common rail pressure sensor and easily resolved.

It will shortly need new boots, so I’m steeling myself for a big bill, but I’m likely to fit Michelins as I don’t see the point in saving £300 and compromising your next 20k miles!

Prices are all over the place at the moment. But as you say, trying to find one in the right spec is a nightmare. Or without a bright red leather interior - or black & toffee

We bought ours in November at 150,000 and completed a torrential trip to Amsterdam and back. It's been a really impressive bit of kit so far, I'm pretty sure the transfer box is on the way out but specialist costs don't seem too bad to replace. The engine is an absolute peach and space inside particularly legroom in the back is superb.

A couple of gripes with mine, does anybody else find that the stop / start can turn the engine off while still rolling slowly? A bit disconcerting as the power steering suddenly stops working.
And, if you hit standing water the front tyres spray water over the screen, again a bit disconcerting if the wipers aren’t already operating, I don’t think I’ve had this on any other car.
Apart from that I’m loving it, so comfy on long motorway sections, and reasonable in the twisties so long as you don’t need to adjust your line half way round a bend (when it starts to feel like a 2.25 tonne SUV)

Yep, same size tyres, although it does rain A LOT in West Wales! and I usually do the same with stop / start (have assigned the steering wheel switch to it so I don’t have to fumble about in the centre console), but every now and again it slips my mind, it seems a major oversight by Porsche that you can be rolling up to a roundabout and the engine cuts just before you decide to accelerate.

Interesting, I changed from Yokos to Michelin Latitude yesterday, I’ll see if it improves

Same here, until in 2010 I sent my then 911 C4S in for a service and they lent me a V8S petrol. I could not believe how good they were.
I ordered a V6 diesel in 2012 and ran it for 11 years. Best car I ever had in 40 years of driving. I regret selling it, I'm in a Macan S now and it's nothing like.

You don't get that big car feel in the Macan because you don't sit as high up. The offset driving position is a niggle as well but the biggest downer for me is the highly acclaimed 14-way comfort seats. I had the 8-way comforts in the Cayenne and they were comfy as hell. I'm pretty sure the comforts in the Macan aren't 'quite' as wide and this, for me (even though I'm only a slim/medium build, 11 stone weakling) ruins it. I just can't get comfy, no matter how many tweaks I make.

As an aside I reckon the Cayenne handles slightly better too. It really is that good.

I actually did a lap of the ring in mine late last year, I don't have air suspension but it coped just fine and made me laugh at the incongruity of it.

A brilliant car that even after 2 years I can't think of anything in my budget that I'd rather drive.