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OPC Warranty - Experiences Please
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the warranties are very comprehensive and they are run well but they are extremely petty that everthing is as it should be, genuine parts only ( down to battery, brakes etc ) , they try and insist all work done by them but this is wrong, all tyres must be same "N" rating etc etc
I've got one on my car (every OPC car comes with a 2 year one along with the 111 point check). It's about £800 + £200 odd for the 111 point check for every additional year and is 100% well worth it.
If you have a car that can have the warranty put on it then do it. You get locked into OPC servicing and OPC parts and not modifying the car (although Gibbo has found out with official Porsche parts you can do a bit) but it's well worth it.
Look at WillGill, a £30k+ car has been sat outside his house for what seems like forever (well over a year) as it wasn't under the OPC warranty and threw up a £12k bill!
My opinion is if you are getting a Porsche and are not a millionaire then get the warranty put on it for the £1k a year it costs and it's total peace of mind.
I've had my car back for 1 or 2 little things and I've just phoned up and said "X and Y isn't right" and then book it in and fix it without issue.
Do it. I wouldn't have bought a Porsche if they didn't offer the warranty as who can afford to pay a £12k bill when it just pops up out of the blue.
If you have a car that can have the warranty put on it then do it. You get locked into OPC servicing and OPC parts and not modifying the car (although Gibbo has found out with official Porsche parts you can do a bit) but it's well worth it.
Look at WillGill, a £30k+ car has been sat outside his house for what seems like forever (well over a year) as it wasn't under the OPC warranty and threw up a £12k bill!
My opinion is if you are getting a Porsche and are not a millionaire then get the warranty put on it for the £1k a year it costs and it's total peace of mind.
I've had my car back for 1 or 2 little things and I've just phoned up and said "X and Y isn't right" and then book it in and fix it without issue.
Do it. I wouldn't have bought a Porsche if they didn't offer the warranty as who can afford to pay a £12k bill when it just pops up out of the blue.
Dad just did this to his exactly same car (OP). It's £2,500 for 2 years.
'd say it's worth it just in case but nothing has ever gone wrong with his car (a couple of niggles but nothing worth the warranty imo) - but I'd get it every day as one bill could come to that...
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The flipside is that I believe that something like a Porsche shouldn't throw up big bills, it should be the epitome of German reliability, it's not a TVR or something.
I accept that all cars have small issues, I'd expect alternators, starter motors and the like to fail but it seems more common these days that some pretty expensive cars throw up £10k+ bills which I think is totally unacceptable from a top marque.
Surely Porsches are designed to be driven hard and should be able to withstand pretty much anything. Hell, Honda Civics seem to cope with countless boy racers bouncing them off the redline from cold so why can't a £70k car?
In large they are very reliable, but nothing is 100% reliable and being a £70k car that offers massive performance the parts are not cheap.
When a £20k Honda Civic breaks down and needs a new clutch it's £500, fair enough. When a £70k Porsche breaks down and it's a couple of thousand pounds it's the same idea, the Porsche clutch has to be a much higher spec part to handle the power going through it.
They are very reliable from what I can tell but when they go wrong they throw up a bill that as in line with the cost of the car - ie a lot.
Most people can afford to run a boy racer Honda Civic without a warranty because they are cheapish parts and most people can find a couple of hundred quid for when something goes bang.
It's a moot point anyway, they can and do throw up massive 5 figure bills as seen by Will's experience, cover yourself.
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There is some belief from those more in the know that cars which have failed are those which have never been driven as intended, basically never seen above 6000rpm, or are cars used rarely that say only get an hour or so use per month.
If any truth into this who knows.
Some also believe the 20k service interval or 2yr is simply way too long and could also be a cause.
Who knows, mine is used regular, driven as designed, fed only Vpower and the oil changed every 6k miles.
I do this even though I have warranty.
Mine is 2 year/20k service and I've done 4k since i bought it 8 months ago.
I'm unsure if I should service it after 12 months (and roughly 8k), Porsche say not to, the internets and other owners say you probably should.
It's the £600-£800 question.
I'm unsure if I should service it after 12 months (and roughly 8k), Porsche say not to, the internets and other owners say you probably should.
It's the £600-£800 question.
An oil change cost less than £100
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I got a 2 year OPC warranty when i bought from porsche in April 2011. As i've said in previous threads my cayman has been using a lot of oil, circa 3L per 1k miles 
Its currently having the engine stripped down to look for the cause, but i've had a 2011 cayman PDK for the last 2 weeks and don't have to pay for any of the investigations, labour costs or replacement parts. It annoys me that it needed this work doing to begin with, but the process of getting it sorted has been painless and easy. Easily worth the warranty IMO as the above after private sale would have cost thousands IMO.
Should hear sometime this week what they are doing with the engine. I'm planning to post a review of 6 months ownership of the cayman S and the cayman 2011 PDK once it gets sorted.
Its currently having the engine stripped down to look for the cause, but i've had a 2011 cayman PDK for the last 2 weeks and don't have to pay for any of the investigations, labour costs or replacement parts. It annoys me that it needed this work doing to begin with, but the process of getting it sorted has been painless and easy. Easily worth the warranty IMO as the above after private sale would have cost thousands IMO.
Should hear sometime this week what they are doing with the engine. I'm planning to post a review of 6 months ownership of the cayman S and the cayman 2011 PDK once it gets sorted.
It just the oil which counts, do it yourself or take it too a specialist.
I suspect OPC would do it but you'd be paying their labour rates
Mine will only visit an OPC for the 2yr servicing and/or warranty work. The in between oil services and consumables I shall do myself or get a specialist to do.
It just the oil which counts, do it yourself or take it too a specialist.
I suspect OPC would do it but you'd be paying their labour rates
Mine will only visit an OPC for the 2yr servicing and/or warranty work. The in between oil services and consumables I shall do myself or get a specialist to do.
I wouldn't know where to start with an oil change on a normal car let alone the Boxster where you can see naff all of the engine.
My best friend owns an independent non specialist garage so maybe I'll get them to do it. Is it really worth it though when Porsche say 20k/2 years is fine?
Its upto you. But oil and filter will cost your roughly £60, throw your mate £40 to do it, I just would not leave oil in any car for 20k miles, especially as a high performance engine.
Porsche have quite a few engine failures on these cars and the 3.4l in the Boxster/Caymen is quite prone to failure, who is to say the 20k interval is not a contributting factor?
For sake of peace of mind, I'd just do it, as the cost is £100. You may have warranty but do you really want the stress of a failure? Though of course I am not saying a failure will happen, but I change all my cars with 10k or less oil change intervals, oil is cheap, just seems like a good idea to do.
In 2 years though I'm likely to do 10k-12k, is it the time or mileage that makes you change the oil?
As my car will only do 5k a year.