981 GT4 high mileage prices
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- Steel brakes- how often do they squeak? Car was serviced by porsche last week.
A few good, heavy stops will stop the squeaking. It sounds like your pads are slightly glazed. Mine don't squeak at all, I can just hear them skimming over the discs.
- also are you able to purchase the porsche warranty if you have purchased private?
Yes, but you'll need to wait 3 months(?) from buying the car before the warranty can take effect. Speak to your OPC about it.
A few good, heavy stops will stop the squeaking. It sounds like your pads are slightly glazed. Mine don't squeak at all, I can just hear them skimming over the discs.
- also are you able to purchase the porsche warranty if you have purchased private?
Yes, but you'll need to wait 3 months(?) from buying the car before the warranty can take effect. Speak to your OPC about it.
Dung8 said:
Thank you all.
I decided to go for it- picked up the car today!
Steel brakes- how often do they squeak? Car was serviced by porsche last week.
also are you able to purchase the porsche warranty if you have purchased private?
thank you
Congrats.I decided to go for it- picked up the car today!
Steel brakes- how often do they squeak? Car was serviced by porsche last week.
also are you able to purchase the porsche warranty if you have purchased private?
thank you
Steel brakes squeaking... there may always be a little bit of squeak, but this can be easily resolved with a few hard applications of brake pedal to generate heat in the system... rotor and pad material.
If the car still had Porsche Warranty on the car with the previous owner, the balance is transferable to a the new owner in a private sale.
If the warranty has expired, you can renter the extended warranty programme subject to recent servicing at Porsche Centre and/or passing 111 point check.... which you may or may not have to pay for.
As Dave says there may be a moratorium as to when you can actually apply.
Edited by TDT on Monday 22 March 18:11
Dung8 said:
Thank you all.
I decided to go for it- picked up the car today!
Steel brakes- how often do they squeak? Car was serviced by porsche last week.
also are you able to purchase the porsche warranty if you have purchased private?
thank you
Yes you can take out extended warranty, you will need to have owned / registered the vehicle for (I think) 90 days, your OPC will carry out a 111 point check and any remedial work will need to be carried out, once that is completed you can extend through your OPC. I decided to go for it- picked up the car today!
Steel brakes- how often do they squeak? Car was serviced by porsche last week.
also are you able to purchase the porsche warranty if you have purchased private?
thank you
jcosh said:
The perceived 'high' mileage on these cars is daft. I recently sold a very high spec GT4 with 17k miles on it. Everybody I spoke to - trade or punters commented on the 'high mileage'. It was four years old, so circa £4k miles a year, as I say daft!
Mine was a one owner car with warranty and in perfect condition with PPF etc, but still took time to find a buyer. In fact it's now, still, for sale with the OPC.
Thread resurrection. Mine was a one owner car with warranty and in perfect condition with PPF etc, but still took time to find a buyer. In fact it's now, still, for sale with the OPC.
I echo this. I’ve just bought a GT4 with 18,000 on the clock. Which I suppose by GT4 standards makes it leggy and liable to prompt teeth sucking.
Looking at AT the >20k cars are mostly private sales presumably because the trade in values offered are terrible.
But this is all crazy for two reasons. First, 911-based GT cars are nowhere near as mileage sensitive as this (ok, they are a bit sensitive but not this bad); and secondly a GT4 is hardly made of chocolate apt to fall to pieces through overuse (at least I hope not).
I really don’t get it. Maybe they have become victims of their own reviews: because journos say they are “best car ever” (hyperbole), owners think they’re sitting on a gold plated pension fund as long as they keep the mileages on the floor.
Defeats the point of actually owning a “best car ever” IMO.
BlackWidow13 said:
jcosh said:
The perceived 'high' mileage on these cars is daft. I recently sold a very high spec GT4 with 17k miles on it. Everybody I spoke to - trade or punters commented on the 'high mileage'. It was four years old, so circa £4k miles a year, as I say daft!
Mine was a one owner car with warranty and in perfect condition with PPF etc, but still took time to find a buyer. In fact it's now, still, for sale with the OPC.
Totally agree, I think a lot of people are sucked into the “don’t use it or you will destroy the value” thing. Leaves me questioning why they bothered buying one in the first place. Mine is 10 months old and I have done 4500 miles. I ran it in very carefully, it’s only been me who’s driven it, it’s never been over revved and it’s never been tracked (have an Exige if I want to do that). Assuming I keep it 3 years I expect it will be a definite “high miler” as I suspect it will be 15/20K miles by then. How much of a penalty will that have? Who knows, one thing for sure though I will have the memories and have had the enjoyment of using it. You are, after all, as someone once said, a long time dead! Mine was a one owner car with warranty and in perfect condition with PPF etc, but still took time to find a buyer. In fact it's now, still, for sale with the OPC.
Thread resurrection.
I tried selling mine privately for 66k, 19000 miles and porsche warranty.
No takers so sold to a dealer for slightly less but without the cost of replacing tyres etc so quite happy with price I got.
Someone now is going to pay a significant premium, for the cost to dealer of 2 tyres.
So a high miler that I struggled to keep this low, such great cars to drive, always an event.
No takers so sold to a dealer for slightly less but without the cost of replacing tyres etc so quite happy with price I got.
Someone now is going to pay a significant premium, for the cost to dealer of 2 tyres.
So a high miler that I struggled to keep this low, such great cars to drive, always an event.
JohnGK said:
I tried selling mine privately for 66k, 19000 miles and porsche warranty.
No takers so sold to a dealer for slightly less but without the cost of replacing tyres etc so quite happy with price I got.
Someone now is going to pay a significant premium, for the cost to dealer of 2 tyres.
So a high miler that I struggled to keep this low, such great cars to drive, always an event.
Really! I I took mine to we buy any car last week and they offered £67k!No takers so sold to a dealer for slightly less but without the cost of replacing tyres etc so quite happy with price I got.
Someone now is going to pay a significant premium, for the cost to dealer of 2 tyres.
So a high miler that I struggled to keep this low, such great cars to drive, always an event.
Dung8 said:
JohnGK said:
I tried selling mine privately for 66k, 19000 miles and porsche warranty.
No takers so sold to a dealer for slightly less but without the cost of replacing tyres etc so quite happy with price I got.
Someone now is going to pay a significant premium, for the cost to dealer of 2 tyres.
So a high miler that I struggled to keep this low, such great cars to drive, always an event.
Really! I I took mine to we buy any car last week and they offered £67k!No takers so sold to a dealer for slightly less but without the cost of replacing tyres etc so quite happy with price I got.
Someone now is going to pay a significant premium, for the cost to dealer of 2 tyres.
So a high miler that I struggled to keep this low, such great cars to drive, always an event.
I was happy with the price at the time, but someone could've had a serious bargain.
When you think at the end of last year I was expecting 58-60K and still spend some on it.
It’s great to see low mileage cars come out of collections boosting the prices up, I got offered £72500 from a dealer, 10k miles, club sport car, at a guess I would of said a dealer would of paid this3 years ago as I paid £83k for the car and most work on 10%+ margins so holding up quite well, as said above the right GT3rs or a 600lt is my next move, hopefully next year I can make this happen
One week after getting my hands on mine and I really cannot understand how there are low mileage versions of these kicking around. Have their owners died, or just forgotten they ever bought them?
I’ve been out in it every day since I got it either doing genuine trips or just looking for reasons to get out in it - especially looking for bendy bits of road and roundabouts. It’s absolutely addictive!
I’ve been out in it every day since I got it either doing genuine trips or just looking for reasons to get out in it - especially looking for bendy bits of road and roundabouts. It’s absolutely addictive!
I agree, I don't get it either.
These cars wear the miles better than they age sat there, far better.
Whether a car has 5k or 45k on it would not bother me, I would want to pay less as it got to 80k as I could easily put 20k on one over 2 years or so.
I just finished doing a complete suspension refresh on the 996 with Michelins all round and a proper geo set up, that was Monday. I did 60 miles Monday evening, another 60 Tuesday and yesterday did close to 100 miles around some lovely twisty back roads.
These things need to be used. My 996 now has 133000 miles on it, with completely new suspension it feels like a new car. I bet I will put 5k on it by the end of the summer.
These cars wear the miles better than they age sat there, far better.
Whether a car has 5k or 45k on it would not bother me, I would want to pay less as it got to 80k as I could easily put 20k on one over 2 years or so.
I just finished doing a complete suspension refresh on the 996 with Michelins all round and a proper geo set up, that was Monday. I did 60 miles Monday evening, another 60 Tuesday and yesterday did close to 100 miles around some lovely twisty back roads.
These things need to be used. My 996 now has 133000 miles on it, with completely new suspension it feels like a new car. I bet I will put 5k on it by the end of the summer.
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