348 v Boxster

[Angelis]

Thought I'd pop into my local porsche dealer to have a nose around. Came upon a Cobalt blue Boxster S. Very nice indeed.

I'm just a few months away from getting a 348. According to the sales chap, it will cost me around £4,000 per year to run the 348.

Surely not?

I already have two other cars and I work from home, so whichever car i get will be used occasionally.

But £4,000........!!!!

Evidently, he used to own one himself.

[tonyhopkins]

I would suggest the salesman's talking bollox

[adnaanr]

Crap. I've got a mondial t which is mechanically identical to the 348. It costs nowhere near that much to maintain. I'd say on average at a guess 1K max. But then the boxter will depreciate like a rock where at a ferrari wont!

[steve f]

ask him to tell you about all the problems they have with the boxter infact ask someone in the workshop as the sales man wont know

[Angelis]

Oh...and he also said:

"It takes 40 minutes for the gearbox to warm up before you can actually use second gear".

And Steve, I know all about the RMS problem on the Boxsters, with some cars having it go twice in one year.

[steve f]

40 mins to warm up before second gear he is talking ballock5 just trying to put you off so you will buy his boxter ask him about the engine water probs on boxters and roof probs when they go out of sync

[Siban]

I think it depends on how you look after your cars.

I had a '93 348TS for three and a half years and on average I was spending £2-£3k per year to keep it sorted.

I religiously had it serviced every year and the just the service bill was never under £1k. The 348's are now getting on a bit and there was always something which needed fixing from Aircon Units, broken electric window connector's, lambda sensor's, leaking cam seals. These are all common problems.

You add tyres, front end respray's for stone chips, the flying buttreses rust and need resprayed etc' then you are easily talking well into £2-3k per year.

[stuh]

Siban said:

I think it depends on how you look after your cars. I had a '93 348TS for three and a half years and on average I was spending £2-£3k per year to keep it sorted. I religiously had it serviced every year and the just the service bill was never under £1k. The 348's are now getting on a bit and there was always something which needed fixing from Aircon Units, broken electric window connector's, lambda sensor's, leaking cam seals. These are all common problems. You add tyres, front end respray's for stone chips, the flying buttreses rust and need resprayed etc' then you are easily talking well into £2-3k per year.

and you bought a Noble?!

You must have deep pockets.

I swapped my M12 for a 355 to get a cheap runner

[chrisx666]

Standard sales speak. All cars that they do not sell are rubbish that nobody wants. That is until you buy something from them, then take it back later for PX - at this exact point it becomes rubbish and nobody wants it.

[nickster]

chrisx666 said:

Standard sales speak. All cars that they do not sell are rubbish that nobody wants. That is until you buy something from them, then take it back later for PX - at this exact point it becomes rubbish and nobody wants it.

lol

[craigw]

my 94 GTS was the most reliable car I have ever owned. Gearbox always ready to go from cold. Fantastic cars if you buy right.

Boxsters I do like, 348, different league.

[burriana]

I would say £2-3k a year was a fair estimate allowing for tyres and servicing.

2nd gear on mine takes only a few mins to become unstiff.

Touch wood, when mine went in for it's last service it needed nothing apart from a set of tyres.

348s have done most of their depreciating, they also have character and soul... and that is the main difference between Italian and German.

[celcius]

A friend of mine has a boxter,
I took it for a spin and talk about souless car.
Give me my 348 any time talk about personality.
Ferrari cars are like no other.

regards

Greg

[Siban]

Stuh,

Yer......Noble ownership has been a bit more expensive than I was expecting.

The Ferrari itch has now become too great.....think I'll be moving back to the Fezza community in the very near future. Might be a slower car and handle no where near as well as the Noble (sorry guys.....they really are very good), but there's something about owning a Ferrari that I can't resist

[rubystone]

Never trust a salesman, I say

[stuh]

Siban said:

Stuh, Might be a slower car and handle no where near as well as the Noble (sorry guys.....they really are very good), but there's something about owning a Ferrari that I can't resist

I think on a track the Noble handles way better, but for road use the 355 is sublime......those sweeping bends just make me grin

[kevinday]

As far as my brother is concerned he thinks a Boxster is a pile of pooh! He has owned one for about 18 months, and the repair bills are absolutely ridiculous. A short list of problems he has had:

Clutch
Gearbox shaft seal
Oil separator
Shocks
Steering bushes
Clutch again
RMS

and loads more I cannot remember just now. He thinks the repairs have cost almost as much as the car cost him in the first place. He is now chopping it in for a Z3M as he is totally fed up with it.

[rikilamb]

I have a 348 for two years and its only cost me about £1500 in service costs and I've done 9000 miles

[minimax]

kevinday said:

As far as my brother is concerned he thinks a Boxster is a pile of pooh! He has owned one for about 18 months, and the repair bills are absolutely ridiculous. A short list of problems he has had: Clutch Gearbox shaft seal Oil separator Shocks Steering bushes Clutch again RMS

that sounds like the list of problems on the company boxster I had for a while...it was fine when I got it

[chris watton]

Don't see a lot of Ferrari's on the road, and every one looks bloody good! Driving to pick up my son today, I seen more Boxters than MGTFs and MX5s put together!! I guess it comes down to whether it's nice to be seen or being invisible on the roads, and I'll bet the Ferrari makes the better noises