How important are options on a Boxster do you think?

eidolon

eidolon

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I've been considering going back to open top motoring and after my last thread I think I'm gonna go for a Boxster 3.2s

I've found one which sounds perfect. It's the right colour, immaculate condition, decent price however it's got zero options and I mean nothing! No xenons, no heated seats, no sat nav, no 19" alloys, not even the wind deflector!

Now if it was another Elise I was buying then fair enough, but what sort of person bought a £40k car and was too stingy to pay another £200 for a wind deflector?

I know Porsche are notoriously expensive when it comes to options but do you reckon it'll affect resale when the time comes?
 
Retrofitting the wind deflector is easy enough, costs about £200.
The xenons are a bit iffy, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't (and I'm loathed to fit cheap Ebay xenons to a Porsche).
The stereo could easily be replaced, and to be honest I'd pretty much do that on any car regardless so that's not an issue.
Heated seats can be retrofitted, but the hassle and cost just isn't worth it so I wouldn't bother.

I've just emailed the dealers and asked if I could get a service thrown in and a bit knocked off the price, will see what they come back with. If they go for it then I'll definitely consider it. If not then I'll quite happily wait for something else to come along.
 
OllyM said:
Haven't you only recently bought an Audi TT?! :p

I would walk away from that car if it's really that 'basic' too.
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Yeah, but I'm missing my open top driving. The TT is great and I'd be quite happy to keep it but I'm just hankering after a soft top again.

Whilst the car is basic in relation to other prestige brands, it's hardly poverty spec with plastic seats and wheeltrims. It still has leather, 18" alloys and all that sorta stuff, it just doesn't have some of the nice extras that can be added on (for considerable cost to the original owner.....)
 
Yep, just posted on Boxa but there only seem to be about 5 people on there so I thought I'd ask here too.

Just found out that the original owner was Lex Vehicle Finance so I'm guessing that it was a fleet car (and most likely driven with zero mechanical sympathy) so I think I'll just keep looking, there's no hurry really.
 
But more research has shown that it's been a PCP car so on the plus side that means it's been serviced properly and on time and nothing should've been scrimped on.

I guess a lot of people buy cars like this on PCP so I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.
 
Well the garage that it's at seem to be very good, they pretty much only deal in Porsches (apart from the Ferrari they've got in) so I'd hope that they wouldn't be selling a duff car.

(here's the text from their site)

At RSJ we sell Porsches and nothing else making us a true specialist for over 10 years and in that time we have built up a wealth of knowledge on Porsche which means we buy only the best cars.Many claim it but few do it.
We have factory trained technicians with over 40 years combined experience (right up to 997,Cayman & 987 models) who inspect our cars in our service centre before we buy them.
All RSJ cars are checked and guaranteed to be accident free.
We only buy them if they are accident free and turn away many cars.
Our cars are fully prepared cosmetically and mechanically and then given a full Zymol treatment.
We are so confident of our preparation procedure that we give an in house warranty covering EVERYTHING on the car with no claim limit or excess.
Our fully equipped service centre offers you full ongoing support in your ownership of a Porsche.
We offer excellent in house finance packages and take all cars in part exchange.
Come and visit our 6000 sq foot indoor showroom and see an independent selling cars at main dealer level standards at very independent prices.
 
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