Pit falls of owning a Cayenne

[RoyNBaker]

I am strongly thinking of selling my 92 968 coupe and buying a Cayenne which would suit my young family needs better. I would appreciate any advice in what to look for and what to avoid when looking at Cayenne’s.

It appears that the 93/94 Cayenne S models have dropped considerably in price. Are there any widely known issues with these models or even other Cayenne models (apart from a huge petrol thirst?)

[tr7v8]

I had a chat to my local OPC about this.. Their comments were 1/ the coolant "spider" which is plastic, ages & disintegrates, this is replaced with an alloy one & is around £700ish. 2/ The rear driveshaft fails also around £7-800.

They have had the odd one with a noisy engine & it appears this is piston failure, quite rare but a nightmare on a £13K or so Cayenne.

[DavidWH]

the coolant issue is looking like one of the major failure items on older / higher mileage KN's

Our's hasn't gone (I've done 30K miles in 18 months)
but I have looked into exactly what it entails to fix it !

parts are £350
no special tools needed, just a days labour

I'm seriously contemplating going the preventative route and DIY

other than that...nowt.
oh, new set of tyres (plus a set of ice & snow on 18" for winter) and a fair bit of Super...

Centre propshaft bearing is a fave too - not silly to fix tho.

If you want to scare yourself though, have a look under the bonnet of a turbo - you can't get a fag packet anywhere around the engine - talk about no space !

as for fuel consumption, don't fool yourself into thinking that "I'll get the smaller engine cos it will use less"
well, yes it will - I borrowed all models, for a week each.
I found exactly ONE mpg difference between each model...
I bought a turbo...
the advantage here is that they come fitted as std with EVERY option you could ask for (and usually a few extra...)

The power is great - getting on for 500bhp even is a bus like this really shifts.

makes dealing with the c*cks on the M40 in their Audi's a pleasure

[RH944]

There an owner in the South East who had the LPG conversion fitted to keep cost down. Does take a chunk of boot space as the tank sits in the rear wheel well.

He's happy with the result and drags a historic racer around

[DavidWH]

wish I'd had it done when I bought the car - but then I want planning on putting so many miles on it !

Would have paid for itself several times over by now...

[Siggy]

Last year I bought a Cayenne, not this one but same model/spec we had it for 2 months, well we owned it for that time, it was only in our posession for about 57 days. To list everything that went wrong would take me all night, it even had a fault as the dealer drove it back to me once.
In the end they took it back

I have no complaints about them, they did everything they could and in the end they agreed to take it back


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