Muppets you should have just bought a Forester STi!!! :razz:

:D

Warranty lapsed last year, and was not renewed.

And we have now had the quote to put it right. £9500 :)

Blimey ,we paid that for our whole car!

Thank god I hate Cayennes and would never buy one........

but saying that 29K and time for a new engine is a bit of a p1ss-take from Porsche...

What % are Porsche paying?

My business partner has got a modified Turbo one, wait for it............£103k new, it has every available extra fitted hence the new price.

He bought it off the original buyer who stuggled to run it after only 3 months.

I have used it a lot recently and in all fairness it feels bullit proof. It is running around 570 BHP and has done 60k miles without a problem.

The major downside is it drinks like Oliver Reed but when you press the load pedal it is blindingly quick. If you select 1st gear and boot it, it will bounce all 4 wheels. I do like driving it.

I do feel for you though £9.5k for a new engine isnt good.

On another car i owned,X5 after 4 years the gearbox (Auto) failled completely £5k bill which BMW covered 95% of even out of warranty couldnt argue with them over their customer service.

Owwwww

Any option of finding a unit from a crashed one cheaper ?

Specialist engine builder to rebuild it ?

Accidentally leave the keys in it somewhere naughty ?


At least its not more than its worth, by a small margin, generally they are going for about 16 grand but at the moment I cant imagine they fly away, that said I have never failed to sell a car, there will be people using the current climate to get what they couldnt afford before for a lot less money.

Another option is to sell it as is, with the statement that it needs a new engine as you may get more for it as is than doing the engine at £9500.

Depends on whether you want to keep it I suppose.

You have my sympathy and I hope you get it sorted without taking too much wallet damage.

Options are open at the minute, currently looking at several solutions. Porsche are sending a car on loan (997 GT3? We can all dream..), and the matter is being discussed at a higher level. Let's see.

It's not our week for cars. My Alpina stopped in a cloud of steam on Friday, and my Old Boy has put a large dent in the back door of our shiny new Transporter van. Only had it a week.

It's not all bad though: my £250 Polo 1.3CL is running like clockwork. :)

There you have it!

Ditch the other motors and get several of those! :thumb:

That didn't take long :lol1: Could have been worse though, imagine the grief if you'd been the first to bump it :D

I tried the Cayeene 3.6 for a day (when I was thinking of trading my Cayman in... hated it...

Took a V10 Touareg out the following week... MUCH more like it...:lol1: :D


Still ended up getting another STI though...:Whatever_

Now considered all options. A shiny new v8 is arriving on a pallet from Stuttgart next week.

We have haggled, Porsche have listened and made understanding noises, the work is being done "at cost" whatever that is, but we're still taking a pill. Won't disclose the final figure, but it's about the same as a bloody decent track car. A warranty was not offered at first (!!!), but we persuaded them that at least 2 years was probably wise.

There were other options. But bolting in an oily 80k miler V8 from a thrashed and rolled stolen Cayenne followed by faffing with engine numbers and taking a hit on resale value didn't appeal.

A couple of well known Porsche fettlers bandied a similar figure around for a rebuild as for a new Porsche motor, but followed it by saying that they wouldn't touch the job with a barge pole anyway. Ther same people also said that the faliure wasn't uncommon, and that the V6 is even more prone to lunching it's innards. Something to do with the fact that the motor is fine in a Golf, but not too hot on lugging around 2.5 tonns.

Even considered shutting it in the garage, setting to with the socket set and flogging it's component bits on Ebay. Probably would have been the most cost effective option actually, considering it's current resale value, but ultimately too heartbreaking.

And there were other ways. Unfortunately all were illegal.

The lesson is that caveat emptor applies if you fancy a bargain used Cayenne. I must point out that Porsche only co-operated due to the fact that our car was 1 owner, low mileage and serviced on the button. Not sure if they would be so understanding on a 3 or 4 owner car with 50-60k miles.

So it's a brand new motor. We will take the hit, and then proceed to run it into the ground. Probably another 18 months then.

That's life, as they say. :)

Do you get the old one to make a nice coffee table from, that would be a fitting tribute to the German workmanship !

Funny how there is a thread about whiffy old Rovers dragging their Decrepit ancient Carcases around despite being "Unrealiable" compared to the Teutonic perfection we have all bought into.

Glad its getting sorted.