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 Post subject: Porsche Cayenne Turbo Buying Advice
PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 8:05 pm 
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After some advice please , I've already posted on PCGB but would welcome any additional advice

I am looking at buying a 58 Plate (09 Spec) Cayenne Turbo that has had one owner and has done 75k miles with a Full Service History. The car will be my daily driver and I do approx. 1200 - 1500 miles a month mainly on A Roads with a bit of town traffic.

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What is the mpg like for normal driving (It says 19mpg officially but my Audi RS4 never got close to it's official figures)
What are the expected yearly service costs
How good/bad are they on tyres
Are there any things I need to look out for with the car at this sort of mileage (it will come with a 12 month dealer warranty but not OPC) and are there things that need replaced at this time or in the near future?

It has plenty of extras including Touch Screen Sat Nav, heated memory front seats and heated rear seats, reversing sensors with camera, 21" Sport Alloys, Xenons, Air Suspension, MP3 Input, CD Changer, BOSE sound and Keyless Entry. It has PCM with Bluetooth.

It doesn't have PDCC, is this important?

Is it missing anything else?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:02 pm 
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I investigated a while ago with various people including my OPC.
This was the list.

Prop or Driveshaft failure - OPC is to swap it around £700 + fit, but they can be repaired for around £350ish all in. Seems to be miles based around 70-90K
Coolant pipe failure, this is a spider of plastic pipes under the inlet manifold. The plastic fatigues & fails. The part has been replaced with an aluminium one all in around £700-900. Leaving it for too long bathes the starter in coolant & knackers it.
Non-Turbo V8s have bore & piston failure but this doesn't happen on Turbos.

Where I work guys (& gals) drive a mix of Cayennes. Turbos do 10ishMPG on the school run, mid teens on normal driving & high teens on long motorway runs driving like a saint. Don't expect the smaller V6 to be fantastic, it is slow & does high teens low twenties.

I've never driven one but as a passenger they are stunning, think sports car handling on mini roundabouts & ballistic acceleration. It makes you grin as 2 1/2 tons of 4 x 4 just shouldn't accelerate or go round corners like that!

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I've driven a couple of Cayenne S's, as Jim says sportscar performance and handling, did get the mpg down to 4 mpg at one point :oops: I've been a passenger in the 3.2 and it felt very pedestrian in comparison, and the economy is only slightly better but no V8 baseline

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:18 pm 
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Car has now been bought and collected today :D

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Nice!! Do you have an pics? How's the car been for you?

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Car has been awesome in the year I have owned it.

But I have just put it up for sale as I am getting a new car in a couple of weeks time :shock:

Will add pictures tomorrow.

Have been offered £19500 from the trade so £20k will secure it

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Cayenne now SOLD :D

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