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I went the 986 route (10 year old car) and DM is right older cars will cost more for regular servicing etc not to mention no warranty so have the potential to throw up an unwanted bill.

Fell set of disks and pads - about £600
Set of rear tyres - about £400 fitted

I have had mine for about a month now and took the difficult decision this week to take it off the road or up to a month so that I can get all the little bits and bobs sorted prior to taking it on the track. Sad to see it off the road but excited about what it will be like when I get it back :)
 
So you have to have owned the car for 3 months before you can OPC warranty it?

Thing is he's not got £25k to spend this month or next so he'd have to specifically save for it and can't really save to £25k in the hope a really good cheap car comes up without any issues for the first 90 days.
 
niftyfifty said:
I get about 150 miles of fuel from the top of a full tank till the petrol light comes on, and around 9mpg average.

The sound it makes and the effortless overtaking and the fact its like your armchair with a rocket on the back means its impossible to drive it slowly.

80l tank + 150.9 optimax is £120

so thats £120 for 150 miles, easily done!
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Massaged figures if ever i saw them. 150.9 "optimax" fuel, and 9mpg average. Come off it :)
 
Peerzy said:
So you have to have owned the car for 3 months before you can OPC warranty it?

Thing is he's not got £25k to spend this month or next so he'd have to specifically save for it and can't really save to £25k in the hope a really good cheap car comes up without any issues for the first 90 days.
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If you buy not from OPC you have to wait 90 days before you can get the OPC warranty, obviously if you buy from Porsche the warranty is in place from day one.

Obviously the chances are nothing will happen in 90 days but would you like to take a gamble on a 10k failure having just spent your last 25k on a car? :)
 
You know im just yawning on now but heres how i see it.

Your young, you want a Porsche, you want the best possible Porsche experiece, not a never ending dribble of bills for rads, suspension bits, brakes and then god forbid a ****ing great disaster.

So you cut the suit to the cloth you got to get the best experience, that fella whos life savings are going on a car, make that car an OPC drama free Boxster and just enjoy.
 
DM said:
If you buy not from OPC you have to wait 90 days before you can get the OPC warranty, obviously if you buy from Porsche the warranty is in place from day one.

Obviously the chances are nothing will happen in 90 days but would you like to take a gamble on a 10k failure having just spent your last 25k on a car? :)
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That is why you just spend 90 days polishing it and not drive it. :D

Having said that I found out that I was driving my car for a year only on 3rd party insurance (not even fire and theft) in czech and had paid 42k euro for the thing. If I stacked it I would have wanted to kill my self at the time.

Now I take responsibility for my own insurance and to not just hand it over to my assistant, silly girl!
 
Jez said:
Massaged figures if ever i saw them. 150.9 "optimax" fuel, and 9mpg average. Come off it :)
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Quite.

9 MPG average in an SL55 AMG will take mostly heavy urban driving. Call it 15 MPH average. £700 @ 150ppl is 102.5 gallons * 9 MPG = 922 miles a week / 15 MPH = 61.5 hours of driving. That's really odd in an SL55 AMG.

Niftyfifty, what makes you have to drive 48,000 miles per year, or even 50+ hrs in a week in the middle of a city? You are rivaling a black cab driver!
 
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Iv killed 100 quids worth of petrol on the odd long ****ty day in town with a there and back to Heathrow at the end of it, it is possible, but every day would take some doing.
 
PMKeates said:
Quite.

9 MPG average in an SL55 AMG will take mostly heavy urban driving. Call it 15 MPH average. £700 @ 150ppl is 102.5 gallons * 9 MPG = 922 miles a week / 15 MPH = 61.5 hours of driving. That's really odd in an SL55 AMG.

Niftyfifty, what makes you have to drive 48,000 miles per year, or even 50+ hrs in a week in the middle of a city? You are rivaling a black cab driver!
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Coke.

















Only joking.

Have errands to do every day and you cant just do them without seeing the person your trading with.

For example instead of managing my stock portfolio online I go to my brokers in person, who is 60 miles away, thats 120 miles just in one errand which is near enough a full tank of fuel, so theres £90 in just one errand. Then I go to a site which is 200 miles away and back so theres 400 miles which is £300 in fuel. Then at evening I will go out, and some days I will travel to london or to newquay to see people, working for yourself and having to wait for contractors to do their work before you can finalise your own means plenty of spare time. I remember once driving from Surrey (parents house) to Newquay, to Scotland, and three days later doing the same return journey, all in a V12 E Type, that was a nice trip that was. I will wait for the internet expert above to work out the cost in fuel that cost me ;)
 
How old are you nifty, pure curiosity, cos i hate driving pretty much now, its crept up on me as iv got older.
 
you are a daily stock broker visiting, errand running, property developing, council bribing, RRS wannabe owner, yet seem to have plenty of time to post on here?
 
Morba said:
you are a daily stock broker visiting, errand running, property developing, council bribing, RRS wannabe owner, yet seem to have plenty of time to post on here?
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He also plays BF3 and has a PC in his office that he also wants to play games on.
 
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