Warranty - Boring
Discussion
Just to add some balance to the discussion 
Whilst the car is under 100k miles or 9yrs old (or whatever it is) there is arguably no better nose-to-tail warranty available.
Remove recovery cost if you want to cut price.
My 2006 C2S (~35k miles) is still on Office Porsche warranty.
I like the idea of putting the money aside each month/year instead.
But I am scared of bigger bills.
It's all about one's aversion to risk...
Whilst the car is under 100k miles or 9yrs old (or whatever it is) there is arguably no better nose-to-tail warranty available.
Remove recovery cost if you want to cut price.
My 2006 C2S (~35k miles) is still on Office Porsche warranty.
I like the idea of putting the money aside each month/year instead.
But I am scared of bigger bills.
It's all about one's aversion to risk...
Whether to take the warranty depends on your attitude to risk. Gen 2s have proved relatively bullet proof even with intergalactic mileages, so personally I would not bother and have no current warranty on my 2011 GTS PDK and have had no problems whatsoever during 2 years of ownership.
I find most OPCs will negotiate to a more sensible price for servicing and for the last 2 year service including brake fluid change mine charged £500......
I find most OPCs will negotiate to a more sensible price for servicing and for the last 2 year service including brake fluid change mine charged £500......
Waitforme said:
I'd skip the warranty, put the money in a jar for issues that come up. In a few years you'll have a sizeable slush fund built up.
I with you. Despite the doom and gloomers, I've had mine now long enough without a warranty to have saved enough money (half priced servicing at specialists too) for an engine rebuild should it be required.
juansolo said:
Waitforme said:
I'd skip the warranty, put the money in a jar for issues that come up. In a few years you'll have a sizeable slush fund built up.
I with you. Despite the doom and gloomers, I've had mine now long enough without a warranty to have saved enough money (half priced servicing at specialists too) for an engine rebuild should it be required.Wouldn t recommend servicing a 2011 Carrera at an Indy, this will adveresely affect residuals on a car this age. 6 years old+ probably okay.........
av185 said:
Whether to take the warranty depends on your attitude to risk. Gen 2s have proved relatively bullet proof even with intergalactic mileages, so personally I would not bother and have no current warranty on my 2011 GTS PDK and have had no problems whatsoever during 2 years of ownership.
I find most OPCs will negotiate to a more sensible price for servicing and for the last 2 year service including brake fluid change mine charged £500......
I'd argue that very few Gen 2s have done intergalactic miles.I find most OPCs will negotiate to a more sensible price for servicing and for the last 2 year service including brake fluid change mine charged £500......
GregorFuk said:
av185 said:
Whether to take the warranty depends on your attitude to risk. Gen 2s have proved relatively bullet proof even with intergalactic mileages, so personally I would not bother and have no current warranty on my 2011 GTS PDK and have had no problems whatsoever during 2 years of ownership.
I find most OPCs will negotiate to a more sensible price for servicing and for the last 2 year service including brake fluid change mine charged £500......
I'd argue that very few Gen 2s have done intergalactic miles.I find most OPCs will negotiate to a more sensible price for servicing and for the last 2 year service including brake fluid change mine charged £500......
Gen 1s tended to lunch their engines for a number of reasons often not linked to mileage.....my Gen 1 C4S cab tip piston slapped at just 13k and had a total engine rebuild at OPC luckily just before its 2yr warranty expired....
I suppose there will be cries of scaremongering as soon as I report that although we have not yet seen a Gen 2 with bore scoring, one of our European customers has.
I would not expect them to have issues like the gen 1 with other problems but while I would expect the new piston coatings to last longer in the Gen 2 Alusil, than in Gen 1 Lokasil - I don't think they will last as long as the original coatings that were used successfully when Alusil was last used (in 924S, 944 and 968 engines).
I don't expect this to become a major issue but while the posting is about Warranties and the cars are new enough to often be on the manufacturers extended warranty - I think it would be worth considering extending it.
You see I am not even proposing our Lifetime Maintenance Plan - just passing on the sort of advice we gave years ago about other engine faults 944 S, S2 and 968 cam chains, cylinder bore cracks and bore scoring) - that we picked up early and proved to be good advice as the years rolled by and failures became more common place.
By giving this type of advice - I expect you can realise that the more people that take preventative steps or Porsche Warranties - the less business we would get repairing the engines until many years later - so please - no accusations of trying to drum up business - this is just the same sort of advice we have given before to help customers have the best possible experience of Porsche ownership and recognise when it is a good idea to take up some form of protection.
Just about to duck under the barricade!
Baz
I would not expect them to have issues like the gen 1 with other problems but while I would expect the new piston coatings to last longer in the Gen 2 Alusil, than in Gen 1 Lokasil - I don't think they will last as long as the original coatings that were used successfully when Alusil was last used (in 924S, 944 and 968 engines).
I don't expect this to become a major issue but while the posting is about Warranties and the cars are new enough to often be on the manufacturers extended warranty - I think it would be worth considering extending it.
You see I am not even proposing our Lifetime Maintenance Plan - just passing on the sort of advice we gave years ago about other engine faults 944 S, S2 and 968 cam chains, cylinder bore cracks and bore scoring) - that we picked up early and proved to be good advice as the years rolled by and failures became more common place.
By giving this type of advice - I expect you can realise that the more people that take preventative steps or Porsche Warranties - the less business we would get repairing the engines until many years later - so please - no accusations of trying to drum up business - this is just the same sort of advice we have given before to help customers have the best possible experience of Porsche ownership and recognise when it is a good idea to take up some form of protection.
Just about to duck under the barricade!
Baz
What sound advice------and I am not an owner of the Problem models.So many bad Engine stories ,of poor quality engineering and design.The reports of problems are out of proportion to the numbers built, compared to other companies.The Kings New clothes syndrome seems to be alive, and accepted due to an image which doesn't exist, in the Real world.WHY???
LindsayMac said:
freddy the frog said:
absolutly skip the warranty, just quote the sale of goods act statutary rights, has to be fit for purpose
5 years.
LOL you need to take up comedy.......5 years.
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