Reply to: Rip-off main dealer Porsche servicing costs

[minsky1]

Car is cheaper and you don't have to lie saying you love it - if you drive it then you love it!

Plus when man divorces his sports car he gets some money back.

Get sports cars - not wifes!

HTH

My last new 911, a 12 plate 991 Carrera Cab was pretty cheap to service - Long life service at 20k was about £450 IIRC which wasn't too much of a shock. Coupled with subsidised Porsche branded insurance (less than £300 fully comp for an almost 80k car is amazing), the running costs were a lot less than other cars I've had.

The previous new one before that, a 10 plate 997 Gen 2 Carrera 4S Cab was more expensive but mainly due to the fact I ran it up to nearly 40k so that covered a new set of tyres and a warranty extension after it was 2 years old. on the 991's they increased the warranty to 3 years.

My other 911 at the time I had both these, a 993 Coupe was serviced at an independent garage - I used to use the main dealer until realising there was only one mechanic working for them trained up on the older air cooled cars so it was a bit of a worry for reasons I wont go into - the mechanics at the indie were ex-Porsche trained anyway and had set up in business on their own.

Factor in the fact you get sent on a good few driver days at the Porsche Experience Centre while purchasing and owning them (from new), get to go the new model launches with great hospitality and its good fun.

You'd never walk into a dealer to buy a new one, you'd need a broker to work on the deal for you - there are so few dealers they will go to surprising lengths to make a sale, and the good brokers have contacts at specific dealers so they will be able to negotiate better deals than any punter off the street. I got some good discounts on both the new ones.

[ASB]

Mechaphilia - the sexual attraction to objects and mechanical equipment

Must be a few on here who have this?

I wonder what their wives think?

Dunno, but I reckon it is a condition that afflict quite a lot of women....

[vetran]

For Battersea dogs and cats home. Is she a dog or a kitten?

A tiger darlink!

[BrilloPad]

So you'd spend hours to find that vetran's already floated it? How odd.

Whilew CUK is being beaten up by the CUK feminist mob I will be tuning into radio venus. oppps - showing my true colours there....

Brillo is right, vetran is a right sexist pig who should go to the corner now!

For Battersea dogs and cats home. Is she a dog or a kitten?

[AtW]

I know you are stuck in the 1970s and women are just objects. But these days you have to consider them as people. At least when posting publicly.

HTH

PS I would like to spend time with Amanda Holden getting to know her personality before spending hours finding out what floats her boat.

Brillo is right, vetran is a right sexist pig who should go to the corner now!

[LondonManc]

I know you are stuck in the 1970s and women are just objects. But these days you have to consider them as people. At least when posting publicly.

HTH

PS I would like to spend time with Amanda Holden getting to know her personality before spending hours finding out what floats her boat.

So you'd spend hours to find that vetran's already floated it? How odd.

[BrilloPad]

I'd like to strip Amanda Holden down and give her a good service

I know you are stuck in the 1970s and women are just objects. But these days you have to consider them as people. At least when posting publicly.

HTH

PS I would like to spend time with Amanda Holden getting to know her personality before spending hours finding out what floats her boat.

[vetran]

Mechaphilia - the sexual attraction to objects and mechanical equipment

Must be a few on here who have this?

I wonder what their wives think?

I'd like to strip Amanda Holden down and give her a good service

[BrilloPad]

This Morning hosts question Edward Smith who 'lost virginity to a car' | Daily Mail Online

Mechaphilia - the sexual attraction to objects and mechanical equipment

Must be a few on here who have this?

I wonder what their wives think?

[AtW]

This Morning hosts question Edward Smith who 'lost virginity to a car' | Daily Mail Online

or

[ASB]

This Morning hosts question Edward Smith who 'lost virginity to a car' | Daily Mail Online

[AtW]

But if you hump a car before you buy it, they might be pretty cross.

It's called a test drive...

[d000hg]

Car is cheaper and you don't have to lie saying you love it - if you drive it then you love it!

Plus when man divorces his sports car he gets some money back.

Get sports cars - not wifes!

HTH

Like you have a choice

Here's the thing, you don't have to marry a woman before you hump her.

But if you hump a car before you buy it, they might be pretty cross.

[DimPrawn]

How many Makawrns have you seen on the road?

Nuff said.

[AtW]

True.


I made the point of not living up to my car stereotype by driving up in my Alfa, instead I arrived in the wife's car.


The receptionist's first point was that I didn't have an appointment. It was a Saturday morning. There were 2 customers in the showroom and at least 5 salesmen sitting at their desks doing SFA.


Next, the pronunciation of Macan is not Macan, but MAKORWN, the idiot in me didn't spot the extra letters. (her exact words were "sorry sir, you need to pronounce it like this")
Hey, you know what, if I drop 60k on a car, I'm going to call it whatever the flip I want. Anyone with a basic understanding of English would understand what I mean, and if their marketing department wanted to make up a word, they should have thought about how people would say it.


And finally, she suggested I wait while she got a salesrunt over to show me the car. She called one on the phone and he told her to tell me to wait 10 minutes. I asked if it was OK to go look at the car while I waited, and as I walked away from her, the really busy salesman suddenly got up from his desk and walked over to her. She pointed at me, he looked at me then went back to his desk.

You should have asked to get paperwork sorted pronto for new GT3 RS.