Porsche dealers selling imported cars

[IMI A]

If they have not declared its an import and not C16 I think they're fecked and have to take the car back with full refund

[gaxor]

I bought my first 996 C2 as a C98 import from UK OPC some 10 years ago. At the time I remember that it was quite a common occurrence. I also cant recall there being any difference to the UK C16 spec.
Never had any problem with the car, it had full Porsche warranty, and 2 years later was px'd for a 996 Turbo by same OPC without question.

Also, isn't the odometer switchable between mph and kph via the PCM? Again I don't recall mine having kph displayed.

[uly791m]

I used to import & sell new Porsche's from malaysia ( C98), and germany ( C16 ) and sold quite a few to Porsche dealers, BUT i have always declared whoever I sell a car to, if it's an import. secondly I wouldn't fiddle with the speedo, on the malaysian cars we used to replace the speedo, and have it programmed at a Porsche dealer, the C16 cars have dual marked speedo's anyway, and the odometer was in MPH.

You can set the digital speed display to show KMH or MPH, but the odometer will always display in the value that it was programmed to be in.

[sleep envy]

uly791m said:

I used to import & sell new Porsche's from malaysia ( C98), and germany ( C16 ) and sold quite a few to Porsche dealers, BUT i have always declared whoever I sell a car to, if it's an import. secondly I wouldn't fiddle with the speedo, on the malaysian cars we used to replace the speedo, and have it programmed at a Porsche dealer, the C16 cars have dual marked speedo's anyway, and the odometer was in MPH.

You can set the digital speed display to show KMH or MPH, but the odometer will always display in the value that it was programmed to be in.

German code cars a C00 IIRC

[IMI A]

I think Cyprus C 98 cars do not have the same level of underselling as UK cars for obvious reasons. Thats the only material difference I'm aware of.

[LITRBL]

sleep envy said:

uly791m said:

I used to import & sell new Porsche's from malaysia ( C98), and germany ( C16 ) and sold quite a few to Porsche dealers, BUT i have always declared whoever I sell a car to, if it's an import. secondly I wouldn't fiddle with the speedo, on the malaysian cars we used to replace the speedo, and have it programmed at a Porsche dealer, the C16 cars have dual marked speedo's anyway, and the odometer was in MPH.

You can set the digital speed display to show KMH or MPH, but the odometer will always display in the value that it was programmed to be in.

German code cars a C00 IIRC

Plus you can order C16 UK cars from German dealers.

Just clarification the thread title... ALL Porsches are imports

[thegoose]

Going back a bit now but as an example C98 996's didn't have a Thatcham Cat 1 immobiliser - a UK OPC could reprogramme/upgrade it for £250. I also had a C98 2001 C2 cab that had a four spoke steering wheel, which had been superseded on all UK C16 cars.

Autobahn used to order a lot of cars through Cyprus but they knew how to spec them so that were identical in all ways to C16 cars, but not many people ordering through Cyprus would know to do that, or how.