How hard is it to find a decent Cayman R??

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n17ves said:

Whats everyones opinion on the Porsche warranty.....is it something that people look for in a 2nd hand Cayman R?

The warranty on mine runs out in May, but I cant decide whether there is any value in renewing it (I've got my name down for the GT4), particularly if it doesnt make much difference to its 2nd hand value.

Personally, it would (and did) entirely depend on the proposition as a whole Eg price, spec, history, mileage etc.

I was prepared to go up to £45k for exactly the right car but would have wanted Porsche warranty at that price range....if I was buying private I wouldn't expect a car to come with Porsche warranty but would expect the car to be of a standard to be able to get the car warranted Eg N spec tyres etc etc....

I was lucky to find a car that had been bought from an OPC in March 2014 so it has warranty till March 2016.....

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n17ves said:

Mine does have nearly new tyres (correctly provided/fitted by porsche), full porsche service history (its about to have its major service) and still under Porsche warranty.

I just cant guage if the extended warranty adds much, if anything to its 2nd hand value....

Offer it as is, and if it's raised as an issue offer to get the car warranteed as part of the deal? If I was a seller, I wouldn't lose a sale over £850......you never know when another buyer will come along....

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£37.5k manual Peridot car. No PCM, PSE or Chrono that I can see........

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

Looks nice though

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Missed the PSE in the listing......pretty sure this car was for sale around Sept/Oct last year when I was ordering my GTS but was still looking at CR's.......pictures are exactly the same too.....

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I've only just noticed that my car doesn't have a rear wiper!

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Jim1556 said:

Looks quite nice:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Buckets, PSE, rear parkers... What more could you want? Though it'll cost you another £2k to get OPC warranty if you so desire!

That car was £39,995 privately a week ago, looks like it on SOR or the dealer snapped it up and added a £5k premium.....

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PorscheGT4 said:

;-) I also tried to buy that car at the time.

Pic looks like the same location that Mackay Trading use, the ones who Dan911 bought the white car from around october last year?

Not sure if I'm a fan of that colour.........

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V800MJH said:

Really haha.

Thanks for sharing that knowledge mate.

No problem!

I bought my car two months ago after trawling the classifieds for 3-4 months........I was told that there were high spec cars out there.........but two months on and not seen one I would have bought over mine.

Maybe the GT4 will crowbar a few owners out of their R's this Spring/Summer.....

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V800MJH said:

Hopefully. I'm trying not to rush into this purchase and trying to wait for one with the perfect spec for me.

I'm surprised at how many PDK vehicles there are, would have thought 90% of them would have been manual!

What's usually unpopular when cars are bought new, then becomes rare and then suddenly everyone wants!

It happens with colours too. A certain colour may only be ordered by a few people, then a few years later buyers now decide that they now like it as there aren't many in that colour...........

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V800MJH said:

I seeeee...... Manual all the way in my opinion, even though I know that PDK box is awesome.



Does anyone know sales figures for these cars? How many were sold in total, how many were manual, how many had certain options etc? Are those figures available to the public? I know they are for some other manufacturers...

When looking at a specific car, it would be extremely helpful to know how many were also sold in that coloud/spec etc?

Anyone know? Or can point me in the right direction?

Also, what about the original price breakdown per option? Is that available? Would be good to know what each listed option on each car would have cost to spec originally...

Cheers

Not sure that information is out there........I'm guessing at around 250 UK cars, of which circa 100 are manual from memory......high spec cars were still £60k+ but at the time OPC's couldn't shift the cars so they discounted the later cars quite heavily to get rid of them I believe....as mentioned, what wasn't so popular then, is now

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V800MJH said:

Seems to be the case, that manual owners are holding on to them for longer. And that PDK owners are shifting them on for then next best gadget..

Looks like it could be hard to find what I want, if that ever happens.

My experience of buying an R, is that my perfect spec isn't out there or if it is, it would be more than I wanted to pay. You could literally wait years for the exact spec to come along and when it does, it might be too expensive or have too many miles, or be in poor condition etc etc.

Make a list of what you absolutely must have and work backwards. I really wanted black spyder wheels, buckets, PSE & PCM.....it's actually surprising how few cars came without PCM! A lot of people didn't/don't want it or need it, but it was a must for me. Even more so over Manual/PDK......wasn't bothered about that really!

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V800MJH said:

Cheers chaps, some very helpful information and points in here.

I MUST have:

Buckets
Silver Spyder wheels
PSE
Manual box

The WOULD LIKES:
PCM
Audio Interface
BOSE
SS (Only just aware this was an option but it's good you can fit it afterwards)
Xenons (aware this is now very rare)

Ideal colours:
Meteor Grey
Blue
White

Did you miss the grey manual car with silver wheels that was sold by Cameron recently? The new owner posted a few pages back!

Blue is pretty rare, think two owners posted up on this thread, ShaunRS was one from memory?

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Pauly-b said:

I spent three months or so tracking cars before I bought - there are always manual cars out there.

Of the 30 cars over that time 13 were manual and 17 PDK - funnily enough there are 6 for sale with Porsche at the moment - 3 manual, 3 PDK and two of the manual cars don't have buckets..

For some reason we seem to be moving into a myth that manual cars are hard to get and never for sale.... Which isn't the case, they've always been out there.

It's the people with manuals that are saying this

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Webdunk said:

Anyone ever seen a purple/amethyst one?

No......

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Mermaid said:

PDK owners will not be panicking, I expect.

We will be stockpiling our cars now the market will be flooded with manual GT4's

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This OPC seem to be pretty ambitious with their pricing;

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

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PorscheGT4 said:

NO spyder wheels and chairs as well .

good news for me :-)

No PSE either............they seem to think a manual car is worth +£10k???

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Nice car;

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

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DRH986 said:

Is this the car that was on sale privately recently for several weeks at £37500? If so, looks like the owner let it go for a fair bit less.

Maybe, but who knows what he let it go for? Or if it's on SOR?

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Errrrrrrrrrm

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

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Edited by Sarnie on Friday 20th February 23:17