Pick up GT4 or wait till the 1st?
Discussion
av185 said:
Collect it now for two reasons,
1. No difference in residual between a Decemberb15 and Jan 16 65 plate.
In my experience that's not true. It shouldn't make any difference, and it's stupid, but it does. Just like being registered a day later in April to get a 16 would make a difference.1. No difference in residual between a Decemberb15 and Jan 16 65 plate.
Picking it up on Jan 1st means it would subsequently be advertised as a 2016/65 rather than a 2015/65.
Anyway I agree that it's better to ignore the negligible difference it will make to a future book value and enjoy it for a few extra weeks of this year
Depends how keen you are to finally get the car (or how good you are at dealing with delayed gratification...).
Mine will be ready in mid December as well, and I'm waiting until 9th January to take delivery. I've already waited 17 months since LOI and 10 months since ordering the darn thing, what's another few weeks!
Mine will be ready in mid December as well, and I'm waiting until 9th January to take delivery. I've already waited 17 months since LOI and 10 months since ordering the darn thing, what's another few weeks!
griffter said:
av185 said:
Collect it now for two reasons,
1. No difference in residual between a Decemberb15 and Jan 16 65 plate.
In my experience that's not true. It shouldn't make any difference, and it's stupid, but it does. Just like being registered a day later in April to get a 16 would make a difference.1. No difference in residual between a Decemberb15 and Jan 16 65 plate.
Picking it up on Jan 1st means it would subsequently be advertised as a 2016/65 rather than a 2015/65.
Anyway I agree that it's better to ignore the negligible difference it will make to a future book value and enjoy it for a few extra weeks of this year
griffter said:
In my experience that's not true. It shouldn't make any difference, and it's stupid, but it does. Just like being registered a day later in April to get a 16 would make a difference.
I would agree if it was a mainstream model but there will be only c 400 max cars for the UK broadly similar to the 991 GT3 numbers so the basic rules of supply and demand will mean virtually no difference as is the case with the GT3 which is also over twice the price btw.Actually....thats an important point.
Assuming your car has steel brakes not pccb, standing around in a compound with the constant wetting and drying on the discs without being used could cause irrepairable corrosion damage.......not a cheap fix with GT3 brakes.
I saw this on numerous GT3s sitting in compounds last year awaiting the new engines, although whether replacement discs where required were fitted by the OPCs as part of the fix is not known.
Assuming your car has steel brakes not pccb, standing around in a compound with the constant wetting and drying on the discs without being used could cause irrepairable corrosion damage.......not a cheap fix with GT3 brakes.
I saw this on numerous GT3s sitting in compounds last year awaiting the new engines, although whether replacement discs where required were fitted by the OPCs as part of the fix is not known.
av185 said:
Actually....thats an important point.
Assuming your car has steel brakes not pccb, standing around in a compound with the constant wetting and drying on the discs without being used could cause irrepairable corrosion damage.......not a cheap fix with GT3 brakes.
I saw this on numerous GT3s sitting in compounds last year awaiting the new engines, although whether replacement discs where required were fitted by the OPCs as part of the fix is not known.
Let me start the guessing at not one set of discs were replaced.Assuming your car has steel brakes not pccb, standing around in a compound with the constant wetting and drying on the discs without being used could cause irrepairable corrosion damage.......not a cheap fix with GT3 brakes.
I saw this on numerous GT3s sitting in compounds last year awaiting the new engines, although whether replacement discs where required were fitted by the OPCs as part of the fix is not known.
Minor surface corrosion at best , nothing that once round the block wouldn't sort out.
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