Porsche Owners Thread - If you own one or just like or hate them! :)

mark0006 · 8 Apr 2015 at 17:32

Rare Riviera Blue Porsche 918

From the article:
The Riviera Blue colour is arguably Porsche’s best looking colour, dependant on the model it’s featured on of course! A slightly lighter shade to the Voodoo Blue, the Riviera Blue colour is rare to come across with only a few Porsche’s in this colour being up for sale.

5 pictures and full article

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Skiddley · 8 Apr 2015 at 18:51

A mate of mine just took delivery today of a silver 918 to go alongside his yellow CGT. Beautiful things.

Housey · 8 Apr 2015 at 18:58

Skiddley said:
A mate of mine just took delivery today of a silver 918 to go alongside his yellow CGT. Beautiful things.

Mine too, chances of that

Skiddley · 8 Apr 2015 at 19:55

Housey said:
Mine too, chances of that

Radders?

Housey · 8 Apr 2015 at 20:30

I'll mail you

panthro · 8 Apr 2015 at 21:08

Went to Northway Porsche today. The guy that owns it (Ray) is such a top bloke. Always happy to chat about all things car related. Going there is like an aladdins cave. I saw a 993 Turbo S he had in for repair :cool:

dan1987 · 9 Apr 2015 at 01:02

Gibbo said:
As it's got no additional cooling and done 75k miles I'd be expecting there to be some scoring, could also be why it's cheap.

Dr House said:
Spec is good, it does look very tired but its a old car with high miles.

Thanks for the feedback on the cheap 997.1, I have thought about it and decided it's a better idea to increase the budget and get a 997.2 C2S PDK as it is more suited to what I am looking for and comes with less risk.

Got my eye on this car which seems cheap due to the high mileage, however with my low mileage and getting an OPC warranty I don't think it will be an issue.

Dr House · 9 Apr 2015 at 01:19

dan1987 said:
Thanks for the feedback on the cheap 997.1, I have thought about it and decided it's a better idea to increase the budget and get a 997.2 C2S PDK as it is more suited to what I am looking for and comes with less risk.

Got my eye on this car which seems cheap due to the high mileage, however with my low mileage and getting an OPC warranty I don't think it will be an issue.

The thing is that you will pay more upfront for a 997.2 over a 997.1 but you will get much of that back on resale and you will save a fortune in running costs as the 997.2 is much more reliable.

The car you lined to is a good spec, miles are a bit high but ok.

Me, I would be trying to get this car down to £38 to £39k.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...o_45000_miles/usedcars/make/porsche?logcode=p

Skiddley · 9 Apr 2015 at 06:05

panthro said:
Went to Northway Porsche today. The guy that owns it (Ray) is such a top bloke. Always happy to chat about all things car related. Going there is like an aladdins cave. I saw a 993 Turbo S he had in for repair

When I lived in reading, Ray used to take care of my car. Never had a bad service there. Used to hate waiting for a bloody train to get to work though!!

dan1987 · 10 Apr 2015 at 21:10

dan1987 said:
Got my eye on this car.

When buying a 997.2 from a dealer is it worth getting a pre purchase inspection? I rang the porsche dealership closest to the car I linked in my last post and they will only do 111 point inspections on site, if an inspection is worth it then can anyone recommend a company that would inspect the car at the dealers location?

Gibbo · 10 Apr 2015 at 21:30

dan1987 said:
When buying a 997.2 from a dealer is it worth getting a pre purchase inspection? I rang the porsche dealership closest to the car I linked in my last post and they will only do 111 point inspections on site, if an inspection is worth it then can anyone recommend a company that would inspect the car at the dealers location?

Ask the dealer to drive it there for you, the specialist I got my 911 from did this on the provision I paid for the inspection even if I decided to not buy the car. Fair enough!

dan1987 · 10 Apr 2015 at 22:21

Gibbo said:
Ask the dealer to drive it there for you, the specialist I got my 911 from did this on the provision I paid for the inspection even if I decided to not buy the car. Fair enough!

I will give them a call tomorrow and see if they will do that as it would make things a lot easier

Dr House · 11 Apr 2015 at 07:27

If it passes the 111 point check you may as well put a warranty on it.

Skiddley · 11 Apr 2015 at 10:36

OPC 111 checks are a waste of time in my experience, and just a paper exercise.

In other news; my car back from Mike and handles like new

. Been an expensive week!

viper_2003 · 11 Apr 2015 at 20:08

Interesting day had completing mystery shops on dealers which included a visit to a Porsche Centre (porsche were behind the shops). Having not driven either a Porsche or anything mid engined it was a delight to take out a PDK equipped Cayman, whilst not all that fast it was such fun even at under the posted limits & the Porsche instructor who took me out was great.

I spec'd up a car to £55k, now to find away to own one! The birth of my first child in a month might put a small delay on things but it won't be the end of this story.

Even received a decent wedge for my troubles

panthro · 11 Apr 2015 at 20:28

Nice! My wife does mystery shopping but it's usually womens clothes and restaurants. You get free meals and samples out of it. Where can I sign up to a Porsche mystery shop!?

viper_2003 · 11 Apr 2015 at 20:34

panthro said:
Nice! My wife does mystery shopping but it's usually womens clothes and restaurants. You get free meals and samples out of it. Where can I sign up to a Porsche mystery shop!?

http://www.bareinternational.com

Not as easy as it sounds tbh, talk to 4 dealers abouts cars with a set spec and see what discount they offer and get evidence of it then make a return visit and ask for further discount. My scenario was for highly spec'd SLK, Z4, TTS & Cayman bought with cash - who in their right mind is going to drop £45k in cash on a diesel SLK?!?

Housey · 11 Apr 2015 at 22:53

Sooooooo I am hearing noise of a load more GT4's being allocated to OPC's.....excited now. Specced and heading down to put monies down me thinks

Will · 11 Apr 2015 at 23:06

The whole thing about the gt4 seemed mad to me, restricting supply quite so much given the demand, residuals were always going to be good... And that thing about too many cars being ordered in the most popular colours and suggesting people will have to change if they want to keep their order.... What happened to giving the customer what they want?

What spec do you want for your car Housey?

OT but I saw a mate yesterday, just got a 987 Cayman S (the 3.4 I think) with PDK, will be letting me have a go in it sometime soon.... Pretty excited, not driven pork before

Housey · 11 Apr 2015 at 23:07

Ill post it up in a bit, just tweaking it a little, but I am thinking YELLA