OPC warranty query..?

[RatBoy M3CSL]

Q.. I'm considering my next car options and found 1 at an indie dealer I'm looking at with 12 months OPC warranty left to run on it, as the car is already under warranty would this cover be seamless through a change of ownership..? I understand there is a 3 month rule that sometimes applies..?

Q2, Does this tie you to an OPC for servicing to keep it valid too, or can you take it anywhere..?

Edited by RatBoy M3CSL on Sunday 1st September 20:33

[sidicks]

RatBoy M3CSL said:

Q.. I'm considering my next car options and found 1 at an indie dealer I'm looking at with 12 months OPC warranty left to run on it, as the car is already under warranty would this cover be seamless through a change of ownership..? I understand there is a 3 month rule that sometimes applies..?

Q2, Does this tie you to an OPC for servicing to keep it valid too, or can you take it anywhere..?

Edited by RatBoy M3CSL on Sunday 1st September 20:33

I thought the OPC warranty was only transferable for private owners, not dealers.

[RatBoy M3CSL]

I'm not clear if it makes any difference to the warranty status if the dealer has an SOR car and they are facilitating a sale, or if they own it either ..?

[purpleperil]

sidicks said:

I thought the OPC warranty was only transferable for private owners, not dealers.

It is! They must be doing SOR and will get the current owner to sign the transfer paperwork

[Callughan]

After 90 days if it passes 111 point check will be eligible for a new warranty.

Otherwise for SOR you have 14 days after purchase to transfer warrranty.

[RatBoy M3CSL]

Callughan said:

After 90 days if it passes 111 point check will be eligible for a new warranty.

Otherwise for SOR you have 14 days after purchase to transfer warranty.

Thanks, in the non SOR scenario, did you mean the warranty with the car dies, and after 3 months you can put the car thro' an 111 point check then buy another one if it passes, or the original warranty is re-activated..?

[pikey]

I take it this is the extended warranty we're talking about - ie. the one after the standard 2 year policy expires ?

According to the text of the policy (when I last read it) the following applies :

• If sold privately, the policy can be signed over to the new owner
• If sold through a dealer, the policy ceases and the new owner cannot apply to buy one (the Porsche one) for 90 days
• If sold through an OPC, they will put a new policy on it.

So if you have a scenario where it is being sold through a dealer, the T&Cs say the policy *cannot* be transferred to the new owner. If the dealer is attempting to do something dodgy so Porsche don't know, then it's against the conditions / insurance fraud / obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception / something else that isn't approved.

[RatBoy M3CSL]

Yes, it's an extended 2 year warranty, the car has another 1 year to run on it, and the guy has either sold it to a dealer or the dealer is SOR the car.

I wanted to get the facts ahead of the dealer potentially trying to BS me..!

[thegoose]

It's a shame that cover that's been paid for isn't honoured when the car goes out of private hands - the only reason I can think of is that a dealer's more likely to have other similar cars, which in turn may tempt him to put failed parts from one onto the covered car and claim for their replacement - clearly fraudulent of course but hard to police so they remove the temptation altogether.

However, to repeat a story I've told a few times I once sold a Cayenne Turbo, before the 90 day rule came in, had it inspected, had some remedial work done elsewhere, re-submitted it, it passed and the following day the customer collected the car from me and paid Porsche for the warranty. Shortly after Porsche GB wrote to him returning his payment telling him the car was covered for another 4 months yet (the remainder of the extended warranty the previous owner had purchased). He was clear with them that he'd bought the car from an independent dealer etc and they insisted the car was covered and they'd transferred cover to him.

That may lead you to conclude that it's definitely worth trying to get the existing warranty transferred even if strictly speaking it shouldn't be, and I'd understand that.

[pikey]

thegoose said:

It's a shame that cover that's been paid for isn't honoured when the car goes out of private hands - the only reason I can think of is that a dealer's more likely to have other similar cars, which in turn may tempt him to put failed parts from one onto the covered car and claim for their replacement

I understand the same applies for an OPC (ie. the policy is immediately terminated as soon as they take ownership). However the OPC will put a new 24 month policy on (at their expense) before it goes out of the door.

As for why, I would have thought it is more to do with commercial factors and the desire to direct potential customers into the OPC network. Why wouldn't they do this as a business - it's an easy win for them?

[Stirlings]

I was told that Porsche don't want dealers have pre sales work done Free of charge because the car is under warranty.
If an OPC buys a car under warranty they can suspend it , and reactivate it when the car is sold