308QV ownership costs
Discussion
Seriously thinking about selling my Porsche 964 and buying a 308 QV.
I posted on the 964 forum and Nevpugh308 was kind enough to extol the 308's virtues, but I'm still concerned about servicing costs (seems like luck of the draw). My budget would be around 30k to buy, with say 3-4k servicing / maintainance every year (say about £1 per mile). Is that fair / OTT / not enough?
Also, general feedback from porker owners is that the 308 isn't an every day driver. I don't actually intend to drive it every day but it would be good to have the choice. Any comments?
Many thanks....
I posted on the 964 forum and Nevpugh308 was kind enough to extol the 308's virtues, but I'm still concerned about servicing costs (seems like luck of the draw). My budget would be around 30k to buy, with say 3-4k servicing / maintainance every year (say about £1 per mile). Is that fair / OTT / not enough?
Also, general feedback from porker owners is that the 308 isn't an every day driver. I don't actually intend to drive it every day but it would be good to have the choice. Any comments?
Many thanks....
I do between 2k and 3k pa, either way that equates to one service a year.
Doing the service myself is about £150 in parts. If I took it to my local specialist, it would cost about £450-500.
Every 3 years or so it's belts time, which is another 400 or so, but I've been lucky in that I've had other things done at the same time (e.g. aircon overhaul) so I've had the belts replaced at the same time.
A carb tune up is about 200 or so. Insurance is 450 pa from AON, 3500 miles ltd miles (it was 500 per year for 5000 miles)
I'm due a new set of tyres which will cost me 1000 but thats because I'm going for the original 70s XWX's. The later cars have more "modern" styled tyres and cost a lot less (70+ per wheel)
Even on a 'bad' year I've never spent more than 1500 in a year. Usually much less.
Also enquire on www.ferrarichat.com if you haven't already (they have a UK section)
HTH.
Doing the service myself is about £150 in parts. If I took it to my local specialist, it would cost about £450-500.
Every 3 years or so it's belts time, which is another 400 or so, but I've been lucky in that I've had other things done at the same time (e.g. aircon overhaul) so I've had the belts replaced at the same time.
A carb tune up is about 200 or so. Insurance is 450 pa from AON, 3500 miles ltd miles (it was 500 per year for 5000 miles)
I'm due a new set of tyres which will cost me 1000 but thats because I'm going for the original 70s XWX's. The later cars have more "modern" styled tyres and cost a lot less (70+ per wheel)
Even on a 'bad' year I've never spent more than 1500 in a year. Usually much less.
Also enquire on www.ferrarichat.com if you haven't already (they have a UK section)
HTH.
angelis said:Interestingly that was the decision I came to a few years back, although a chance meeting took events in a slightly unusual direction even so. As I've already had a say over on the Porsche forum, for my part I'll leave it at that and hope cerowe gets more input from owners like nevpugh308 here in FcarLand.
Maybe spend a bit more and get a 328?
turbobloke said:
Interestingly that was the decision I came to a few years back ...
Argh !!! He's following me ! 
sorry ! 328 Vs 308 ? Well, IMO (of which I'm full of, amongst other things
) it's down to heart over head. The 328 is faster (slightly, though my mate in his 328 can't pull away from me if I'm trying). It's more "modern", which means a bit more comfortable, better cold starting, less tune ups and so on. Taken as a pure, cold objective opinion, it's the better car (to drive and to maintain)
But I prefer the 308 because I'm an old car freak ... it's the original and purest of the designs (no colour coded bumpers which dont work IMHO, no tacked on spoilers) the interior is nicer (very 70's chrome in the 308, compared to very 80's in the 328, which means cheap plastic rocker switches etc). It looks prettier being the unadulterated, original design, and looks better on the 14" alloys with XWX's rather than the later 16"ers. Stuff like that.
But both are fine cars ... most details are pretty cosmetic between the two. Under the skin they're very similar.
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