Bad day: Water pump, RMS, Leaking Front Differential - 3 months out from end of CPO warranty, 36K miles...

 

Don't know how well you know your local dealership, but you maybe be able to get them to split the bill since it is so close to the warranty end. I often hear stories like this from BMW owners.

 

If you are close and under the miles you might have a chance. Also if you have always had the car serviced by the dealership, that goes a long way. But in the end it is really up to the service manager since he is the one that has to talk to the Porsche NA representative and convince them to authorize the repair.

 

But at least your Pcar didn't cost you as much today as the market cost you today! Or yesterday. Or the day before...

 

Oh, THAT will make him feel better!

 

Sorry. I'm wallowing in a beer right now.

 

In this market, you can afford beer???

 

Yes, I'm going to speak with them about it.

What makes the whole thing worse is that 1 week before the warranty was up, I took the car in and told them to go over it completely - nothing found...

 

Will work for Beer!! A co-worker a few levels up brought me a 6 pack of Sam Adams for helping his project out last week... I could have kissed him !!!

Ok well, maybe not, but you know.....

 

Porsche won't do anything for me - I won't buy another one.

 

What year car is your 996? With only 36K miles?

 

2002, 36K miles.

 

So what was the bill then? Maybe 2K? So the blanket statement of "I'll never buy another one" is based on this? Making decisions based on emotion just isn't the way to go. Sure, you're probably upset but how far out are they supposed to honor a warranty and then a subsequent CPO warranty? The car is 7 years old, things go bad. The leaks are usually from not driving them much (low miles). Water pumps go bad. Mine went bad a few months after warranty and I paid to have it replaced.

 

Yep 3K+.

The car is driven 20 miles every day - it doesn't sit. If it had been a single item, I could understand it. But, a cluster of these failures on a 100K car with 36K miles just isn't right. The other possibility is that the car wasn't really fully inspected 3 months ago as claimed.

Either way, it leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.

 

Sorry, but your are not thinking rationally at all.

100K car? It's nowhere close to that and nowhere close to what you paid for it. It's a 35K car at best and 7 years old. When it was new, maybe 85K and under warranty. You expect a car to be perfect and never have a consumable be consumed? Pumps fail over time and seals need replacement over time. It happens. Would it leave the same taste in your mouth if it happened while under warranty or CPO? If it wouldn't then we have figured out the root of the problem.....you don't want to maintain a car that is going to need to be maintained. It sounds like you need to lease then.