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Just over 2 years ago, I bought a 4 year old C2S (Gen 1, 3.8) from a Porsche Centre. Mileage was 25k, now 47k. The warranty expires in a week, on its 6th birthday. Offer is renew at 12mth £1,405; 24mth £2,581. Includes 111 point check and Porsche assist. It's my only car. What would you do? TIA.

I'm not a great believer in warranty's and don't have one on my car but on a gen 1 997 if I were planning on keeping it for the duration of the warranty period then I think I would bite the bullet for the peace of mind on the engine alone.

Renew! Or keep a big slush fund just in case! Hope it's been great so far with more to come, but they can get expensive if they go wrong and I'd prefer the warranty...

I love easy ones!

Oh and do the 2 year.

I always planned to go down the indy maintenance plan route myself, but having discussed with the garage, the entry costs are unreasonable in my view....£3500 to do things that are not necessary at this stage Therefore, with my 8yr old C2S, I'm going down the slush fund route I think.

Had my 987 Boxster for 2 years, and my 997 Turbo for 1 year....no warranties so at those warranty prices '12mth £1,405; 24mth £2,581' = £3,986 in the bank.....and my outlay has been a new front coolant pipe on the turbo £190...thats still £3,796 in the bank, add to this the cost of a service each at Porschtek instead of OPC a saving of around £900 so thats £4,696 in the bank....it soon adds up and and i can fit what battery, tyres etc i wan't.

Forgot to mention if i was going the warranty route i would now be renewing at say 2 x £1,405 = £2,810 added to £4,696 gives me a fund of £7,506 for the next year.

James McScotty said: Just over 2 years ago, I bought a 4 year old C2S (Gen 1, 3.8) from a Porsche Centre. Mileage was 25k, now 47k. The warranty expires in a week, on its 6th birthday. Offer is renew at 12mth £1,405; 24mth £2,581. Includes 111 point check and Porsche assist. It's my only car. What would you do? TIA. how much have you claimed in the last 2/25k miles years and that's your answer.

mrdemon said: James McScotty said: Just over 2 years ago, I bought a 4 year old C2S (Gen 1, 3.8) from a Porsche Centre. Mileage was 25k, now 47k. The warranty expires in a week, on its 6th birthday. Offer is renew at 12mth £1,405; 24mth £2,581. Includes 111 point check and Porsche assist. It's my only car. What would you do? TIA. how much have you claimed in the last 2/25k miles years and that's your answer. Its not really the answer though is it? It's like saying "How much money have you wasted on life or critical illness insurance over the years?" It's never a 'waste', its the mitigation of a risk, it depends entirely on how risk averse you are. OP, If it was me, I would renew for two years.

mollytherocker said: I love easy ones! Haha

Must say this depends on each individuals circumstances, personally i work away for 6 months a year..and have a 4x4 for winter duties..so do 3k miles max in each....if i had a 60k mile car and was going to do 20k miles a year over the next 2 years..i would have the warranty no problem.

Do it I was in two minds of about renewing as nothing had gone wrong in the car for the first year i had it, when it went in for the 111 point check a couple of weeks before the renewal OPC found some issues turbo leak, door membrane, alternator etc all replaced without any quibbles. Having said that I ran my lotus for 5 years without any warranty and it needed nothing apart from consumables and regular servicing, but then there wasn't much to go wrong in an Elise; modern 911's have a lot of things that can go wrong

First owner of my Boxster renewed the warranty at 2 years old with a total of 5316 miles on the clock, at a cost of 1132 pounds....warranty company must have been laughing all the way to the bank.

OK, thanks for replies. In the past two years, the car has had a CV joint, leaking steering rack, and front & rear trailing arms repaired/replaced. The problem is I don't know how much this work would have cost if I had been paying for it. The other problem is that I don't know what's round the next corner. I'm not too worried about the engine - I believe it was earlier cars which were prone to the bore-scoring problem (please correct me if I'm wrong!). Mines a July 2008 model. I intend to keep the car for the foreseeable future (at least two years), and do about 10,000 miles per year. It's the best car I have ever had. I think I'm probably going to "chicken out" and renew the warranty for two years. Wimp that I am.

All gen 1 997 are prone to bore scoring.

Porkerjag said: Forgot to mention if i was going the warranty route i would now be renewing at say 2 x £1,405 = £2,810 added to £4,696 gives me a fund of £7,506 for the next year. Well its nearly warranty renewal time if i had them.... for my 997 Turbo and 987 Boxster S so say another £2,810 of OPC warranty...thats £10,316 in the pot.

Porkerjag said: Porkerjag said: Forgot to mention if i was going the warranty route i would now be renewing at say 2 x £1,405 = £2,810 added to £4,696 gives me a fund of £7,506 for the next year. Well its nearly warranty renewal time if i had them.... for my 997 Turbo and 987 Boxster S so say another £2,810 of OPC warranty...thats £10,316 in the pot. Excellent , another 15k in the pot and you'll maybe be able to replace the turbo engine if it blows ! Partially jesting as I have run my cayman since the official warranty ended but not sure I could live with the potential huge bill of a turbo engine going pop.

If the engine goes pop....its being broken for parts !!

James McScotty said: Offer is renew at 12mth £1,405; 24mth £2,581. Includes 111 point check and Porsche assist. If you're going the warranty route 2 years looks like a no brainer at £1,176 for the 2nd year. I'd probably take it on a 997.1 C2S.

newboy997 said: I always planned to go down the indy maintenance plan route myself, but having discussed with the garage, the entry costs are unreasonable in my view....£3500 to do things that are not necessary at this stage Therefore, with my 8yr old C2S, I'm going down the slush fund route I think. What was the indy offering for £3,500? Surely if it's been maintained by an OPC, you should just use the indy to stick to a similar maintenance schedule. Are you adding extra radiators etc?

Personally I would take it on a Gen 1 car, gen 2 I would not worry so much. My old Gen 1 Targa had a hell of a lot of work done under warranty including a full engine rebuild. The Gen 2 cars I have owned have been rock solid.

g7jhp said: newboy997 said: I always planned to go down the indy maintenance plan route myself, but having discussed with the garage, the entry costs are unreasonable in my view....£3500 to do things that are not necessary at this stage Therefore, with my 8yr old C2S, I'm going down the slush fund route I think. What was the indy offering for £3,500? Surely if it's been maintained by an OPC, you should just use the indy to stick to a similar maintenance schedule. Are you adding extra radiators etc? It might have needed the 111 point check, brake fluid change and a new set of N rated boots.

No brainer for me...nearly got bitten hard by the 'cheapest of Porches'...to explain: Took the wife's Boxster S into to Hatfield for a warranty assessment (on the very last day of its three years from new!) only to be told it needed some quite big money spending to make it warrantable for the extension. Can't recall what it was now, but new discs, pads and tyres were all mentioned. And yes, I know that consumables aren't warranty items, but the discs alone were eye wateringly expensive. Why, I asked myself, have all the 20 and thirty year old Corvettes I've ever had been on the originals when Porsche seems to engineer their to rust out at a precisely timed three years... Anyway, lost my famously short patience, pointed at a nice while 991 Carrera 2 and barked out 'Right, let's trade it for that then!' (Idiot that I am). But here's the point - I took the 991 in for something "trivial" (I think it was a recall to avoid the car catching fire from a juxtaposition of the fuel line with something hot) only to bump into 'my' salesman who pointed out at the parking bays and said "Recognise that?". Indeed I did. It was the aforementioned Boxster S which, it transpired, had just come out the workshop after having a new engine fitted. At the cost of about £8,500... I'd want a dealer warranty before I turned a wheel in a Porker, like them though I do...

Two years ago, I thought long and hard about whether to go with a Gen 1 or Gen C2S. Went with an OPC-supplied Gen 2 in the end and, over the two years of the warranty, I had the following done under warranty: - new rear lights (filled with water) - problem with remote locking sensor sorted - leaking coolant hose fixed However, the OPC cocked up nearly every time they touched the car and I completely lost confidence in them. In the last week of my warranty I therefore went to a good indy (PK Supercars in E Lothian) and had the equivalent of a 111-point check done by them. They found I needed new front trailing arms (I already knew that from the clonking) and that the brake tandem pump housing was about to corrode through (common apparently but not something I knew about). So I had those the sorted under warranty, without quibble, by OPC. Then, despite their offering to waive the 111-point check portion of the warranty extension, I opted not to renew and am going down either the slush fund route or Hartech's maintenance plan. The cost of rectifying the minor problems I've had was probably less than warranty cost (at OPC rates) and certainly less (at Indy rates). And I'm afraid that I have a LOT more confidence in a reputable Indy. My decision was based far less on cost than on quality of work - I don't mind paying main dealer rates/warranty if the work is being done to standard, but I strongly resent paying over the odds for incompetent and uncaring service. If I'd gone for a Gen 1 car however, I think I'd have played off the lower cost of the car against extending the OPC warranty, unless it had already had a new engine.