New Porsche experience
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Picked up my new car on Thursday night Carrera 4 GTS, had good fun in it lovely car. Got up early on Sunday morning to go on a run. Met other cars including Mclaren and Lamborghini. Had fun on motorway. To cut a long story short, lost transmission was only doing 40, car stuck in 6th. Managed to hobble to Amari cars , car died. Not impressed rang Porsche recovery, was informed my vehicle did not exist, the registration was assigned to a Cayenne diesel. Told to take my car to nearest porsche dealer and to get bus home. Told them it was sunday, reply was sunday services. Not helpful at all. An ac truck turned up, to take car asked how I was getting back told him with him, was news to him.
Not bad 3 day old Carrera 4 GTS 300 miles on the clock in total and the hydraulics for the transmission are gone. Porsche informed me they would check for driver error.
Not the good experience that Porsche make it out to be.
Not bad 3 day old Carrera 4 GTS 300 miles on the clock in total and the hydraulics for the transmission are gone. Porsche informed me they would check for driver error.
Not the good experience that Porsche make it out to be.
frankenstein62 said:
Picked up my new car on Thursday night Carrera 4 GTS, had good fun in it lovely car. Got up early on Sunday morning to go on a run. Met other cars including Mclaren and Lamborghini. Had fun on motorway. To cut a long story short, lost transmission was only doing 40, car stuck in 6th. Managed to hobble to Amari cars , car died. Not impressed rang Porsche recovery, was informed my vehicle did not exist, the registration was assigned to a Cayenne diesel. Told to take my car to nearest porsche dealer and to get bus home. Told them it was sunday, reply was sunday services. Not helpful at all. An ac truck turned up, to take car asked how I was getting back told him with him, was news to him.
Not bad 3 day old Carrera 4 GTS 300 miles on the clock in total and the hydraulics for the transmission are gone. Porsche informed me they would check for driver error.
Not the good experience that Porsche make it out to be.
Porsche seem to make a habit of putting the wrong reg plates on their new cars. Bloke down the road from me was telling me a few months back how he got caught up in some police crackdown on illegal cars when they stopped him and tried to do him for running on false plates! Dunno what model Porsche it was but he'd only had it 5 months but the long and short of it was that the plate he had on it since delivery actually belonged to a bright green Ford Focus and beared very little resemblance (other than the year and first letter) to the reg it should've actually been wearing according to the V5!Not bad 3 day old Carrera 4 GTS 300 miles on the clock in total and the hydraulics for the transmission are gone. Porsche informed me they would check for driver error.
Not the good experience that Porsche make it out to be.
Hang On, Lets see the story from both sides. Brand new car, second day of ownership and your boasting of having fun with lambos and Mclarens on the motorway, and are then appalled that Porsche want to check for driver error !!. For driver error also read Not following running in procedure, or having any degree of mechanical sympathy for bedding in a new high performance engine. I may be way off the mark here, and shot down in flames, but if i fit new brakes to any of my cars i bed them in carefully, if i fit new tyres i allow them to scrub off before fully trusting them, if i owned a plane with new wings fitted etc etc.
Perhaps i have missunderstood the ops post, but from what i have read, and aside from the obvious poor treatment by Porsche GB, then is it not a case of stuff happens.
Perhaps i have missunderstood the ops post, but from what i have read, and aside from the obvious poor treatment by Porsche GB, then is it not a case of stuff happens.
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