718 GT4 UK Allocations

718 GT4 UK Allocations

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ChrisW.

6,302 posts

255 months

Tuesday 13th February
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That was one of my three ...

kmpowell

2,927 posts

228 months

Wednesday 14th February
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TDT said:
Would definitely have been worth at least a conversation, never know where it might have lead and what it might have done to your standing with the centre.

But good news for GT4s
If I was a good driver and/or trying to climb the Porsche ladder, I think it probably would have been worth a chat, but in all honesty, right now I have no plans to come out of it. Cost to change to anything upwards would be a huge step up with, for me, not enough reward(driving or financial) in return. I count myself lucky to have got a GT4 allocation, for a car that at the time (and still now) I thinkght/think is one of the best value sports cars Porsche do £for£. So anything upwards (992 GT3, 4RS, Spyder RS) for me would just be for bragging rights, which at my stage of life I'm not interested in doing.

When it drop it off tomorrow morning, I'm taking my 10yr old son (the joys of half-term) with me to have a look around the showroom, so I'll no doubt see the aforementioned 992, and also have a chat with the salesman if he's there, but there's nothing currently in my interest (or in their financial interest) that would see me change/sell.

smile

kmpowell

2,927 posts

228 months

Wednesday 14th February
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av185 said:
Yep and even slimmer pickings if you specify buckets/CS/manual etc.
Just had a little look, and I am surprised to see just 4x PDK/Bucket/Extended-Leather cars. That goes down to just 2x if you want LED's. And 1x if you want PCCB's.

honda_exige

6,027 posts

206 months

Wednesday 14th February
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kmpowell said:
av185 said:
Yep and even slimmer pickings if you specify buckets/CS/manual etc.
Just had a little look, and I am surprised to see just 4x PDK/Bucket/Extended-Leather cars. That goes down to just 2x if you want LED's. And 1x if you want PCCB's.
65 GT4s on Autotrader - down from 92 last Nov - only 5 are Manual, Clubsport with PDLS+ and PCCB.

northernmedia

1,988 posts

138 months

Wednesday 14th February
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ChrisW. said:
I wonder how many have actually sold in the last couple of months ?

I can think of three ... all of which were priced at around £160-£165k for a very high spec car with a good story. With one of them the watch was free ... !! Only one had PCCB's, which I would not want on a GT3 or GT4RS ... the other two had mags ...

From memory ... the 17 cars before Christmas has become 25+.

Prices are falling but I wonder if they are just following the market down. Which will be the first to de-couple from the norm and sell ?

The UV car looks lovely, but still £20k over current list.

There is a non Weissach car at £155 ... I contacted the OPC two months ago to say that I was interested but that it was far too expensive, I didn't get a reply and it's still there and still too expensive compared to others.

One of the three sold (with the free watch) was a very nice but high spec car and that OPC was really on the ball. But by then I had changed direction.
The one at York has dropped £15k but still too much imho.


av185

18,514 posts

127 months

Wednesday 14th February
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Agree the Racing Yellow York car is overpriced and it was recently on at a rather hopeful £195k.

Drove that car for half a day last November it is truly mint unlike quite alot of other OPC 4RS.

ChrisW.

6,302 posts

255 months

Wednesday 14th February
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Agreed ... a great road car.

But I would never now recommend PCCB's for track use. I was gob-smacked to discover that after 10,000 miles and approximately 12 fast trackdays the PCCB's that I removed from my 981 GT4 (prior to significant other modification) appear to be 50% worn. That despite following all the rules on pad changes at 50% and two cooling down laps ...

ST's are now very expensive, but better to put the cost of PCCB's towards them than to specify PCCB's IMHO.

As for the price at which it will sell ... £169 ?? £10k over current list to lubricate the process, for a very nice car now ... when who knows what further price increases there may be ??

honda_exige

6,027 posts

206 months

Wednesday 14th February
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ChrisW. said:
Agreed ... a great road car.

But I would never now recommend PCCB's for track use. I was gob-smacked to discover that after 10,000 miles and approximately 12 fast trackdays the PCCB's that I removed from my 981 GT4 (prior to significant other modification) appear to be 50% worn. That despite following all the rules on pad changes at 50% and two cooling down laps ...

ST's are now very expensive, but better to put the cost of PCCB's towards them than to specify PCCB's IMHO.

As for the price at which it will sell ... £169 ?? £10k over current list to lubricate the process, for a very nice car now ... when who knows what further price increases there may be ??
Be interesting to work out the Maths for say 25k miles PCCB Vs STs.

Surface transforms £14k - at least one renewal of 25k miles and track work? £2k to renew =£16k

Second hand value ~ £8k (based on an almost new set being sold on FB)

Total running costs £8k over 25k miles

PCCB - Renew once before 25k miles, £2k per disc =£8k.

So over 25k miles not too dissimilar, if you're keeping your car longer or doing more trackdays then go Surface Transforms + ST pads last longer I believe.

But at the moment we have one guy on 56 trackdays and 33% PCCB wear and yourself at 12 trackdays and 50% wear. Those 2 cases are so out of alignment that I don't think you can draw a reasonable conclusion yet over lifespan.

av185

18,514 posts

127 months

Wednesday 14th February
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Interesting Solihull have 4 GT4RS all with top spec with mags all but 1 with ceramics. The 23 73 plate 1800 mile Arctic car has a current list of £163500 with an AP of £180000.

Best value atm looks like the recently listed GTS mags and steels Teeside car April 23 1764 miles at just £5500 over current list.

ChrisW.

6,302 posts

255 months

Wednesday 14th February
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honda_exige said:
ChrisW. said:
Agreed ... a great road car.

But I would never now recommend PCCB's for track use. I was gob-smacked to discover that after 10,000 miles and approximately 12 fast trackdays the PCCB's that I removed from my 981 GT4 (prior to significant other modification) appear to be 50% worn. That despite following all the rules on pad changes at 50% and two cooling down laps ...

ST's are now very expensive, but better to put the cost of PCCB's towards them than to specify PCCB's IMHO.

As for the price at which it will sell ... £169 ?? £10k over current list to lubricate the process, for a very nice car now ... when who knows what further price increases there may be ??
Be interesting to work out the Maths for say 25k miles PCCB Vs STs.

Surface transforms £14k - at least one renewal of 25k miles and track work? £2k to renew =£16k

Second hand value ~ £8k (based on an almost new set being sold on FB)

Total running costs £8k over 25k miles

PCCB - Renew once before 25k miles, £2k per disc =£8k.

So over 25k miles not too dissimilar, if you're keeping your car longer or doing more trackdays then go Surface Transforms + ST pads last longer I believe.

But at the moment we have one guy on 56 trackdays and 33% PCCB wear and yourself at 12 trackdays and 50% wear. Those 2 cases are so out of alignment that I don't think you can draw a reasonable conclusion yet over lifespan.
I agree ... but the savings on pads are substantial ... I would say three sets of pads every two years saved ... in my case say 7 sets of pads ... and the ST's will go another 200 trackdays ? The cost of my refurbishment was £2500+vat ... who knows how long the Renew treated discs will last.

One has to question how much upside there may be in the measurements taken from my discs ? But they can't be more than 50% worn !

ChrisW.

6,302 posts

255 months

Wednesday 14th February
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av185 said:
Interesting Solihull have 4 GT4RS all with top spec with mags all but 1 with ceramics. The 23 73 plate 1800 mile Arctic car has a current list of £163500 with an AP of £180000.

Best value atm looks like the recently listed GTS mags and steels Teeside car April 23 1764 miles at just £5500 over current list.
I agree, particulalry if you add back the first registration charge ...

But this car was added in the last week or two (and priced at that level) ... are most of the others just ornaments in the showroom ?

isaldiri

18,583 posts

168 months

Wednesday 14th February
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honda_exige said:
PCCB - Renew once before 25k miles, £2k per disc =£8k.
You might want to check your PCCB cost per disc........

ChrisW.

6,302 posts

255 months

Wednesday 14th February
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isaldiri said:
honda_exige said:
PCCB - Renew once before 25k miles, £2k per disc =£8k.
You might want to check your PCCB cost per disc........
I believe this was the cost for Renew to "renew" them ...

honda_exige

6,027 posts

206 months

Wednesday 14th February
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isaldiri said:
honda_exige said:
PCCB - Renew once before 25k miles, £2k per disc =£8k.
You might want to check your PCCB cost per disc........
Sorry meant to say relayer rather than renew, I meant for a Rebrake relayer in Germany, they do thousands of OEM PCCBs from all brands and the new layer is better than OEM Spec plus track tested etc. Branches in Germany and the USA only hence not widely known here.

gt4rs.wp

93 posts

23 months

Wednesday 14th February
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av185 said:
Interesting Solihull have 4 GT4RS all with top spec with mags all but 1 with ceramics. The 23 73 plate 1800 mile Arctic car has a current list of £163500 with an AP of £180000.

Best value atm looks like the recently listed GTS mags and steels Teeside car April 23 1764 miles at just £5500 over current list.
When’s yours due to arrive?

Augustash

66 posts

62 months

Wednesday 14th February
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av185 said:
Interesting Solihull have 4 GT4RS all with top spec with mags all but 1 with ceramics. The 23 73 plate 1800 mile Arctic car has a current list of £163500 with an AP of £180000.

Best value atm looks like the recently listed GTS mags and steels Teeside car April 23 1764 miles at just £5500 over current list.
I have just been in there and seen both of those GT4 RS cars: The black one at £175k is the higher spec and has full PPF and was was £155k book price when new

kmpowell

2,927 posts

228 months

isaldiri

18,583 posts

168 months

Wednesday 14th February
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honda_exige said:
isaldiri said:
honda_exige said:
PCCB - Renew once before 25k miles, £2k per disc =£8k.
You might want to check your PCCB cost per disc........
Sorry meant to say relayer rather than renew, I meant for a Rebrake relayer in Germany, they do thousands of OEM PCCBs from all brands and the new layer is better than OEM Spec plus track tested etc. Branches in Germany and the USA only hence not widely known here.
The issue as far as I'm aware is that heat cycles on the ceramic rotor is something that potentially affects the entire disc rather than simply the outer coating as the structure of the thing changes with usage. Rebrake (in their former incarnation as SICOM before that went all funny some years ago) are afaik only recoating the top layer which may or may not even be degrading. Whether that then restores the carboteq reading back to say a 'new' disc is.... not entirely obvious I'd say as the carboteq tool (per the patent) seems to be designed to detect the deterioration of the core of the rotor which happens through the high operating temperatures as much as anything else surface coating related.

kmpowell

2,927 posts

228 months

Saturday 24th February
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This very lightly specced, but very very low mileage, 2020 car sold this morning for £72,000 + 15% buyer fees. So £82,800.

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/2020-porsche-cay...

Edited by kmpowell on Saturday 24th February 20:25

Augustash

66 posts

62 months

Saturday 24th February
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kmpowell said:
This basic spec, but very very low mileage, 2020 car sold this morning for £72,000 + 15% buyer fees. So £82,800.

4% depreciation in 4 years, admittedly not used but even so that’s still impressive

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/2020-porsche-cay...