buckwheat987

So your saying "Porsche" your dealer told you that you would be getting porsche loaners?

If that is the case then you should be upset.

Or are you saying "porsche" as a whole (like PCNA) says you should get porsche loaners.

JohnAMG

At least you get posh lounge to park your behind. I get to sit in a Bates motel waiting room with a 20 inch CRT tv, Tim Horton munchkin if I am lucky and cheap *** penny coffee. It is definitely not want you expect from a premium German auto brand. I have excellent service from both Mercedes and Lexus and by far Porsche of Buffalo is the worst ever.

John

Spiffyjiff

yes, porsche of rockville. usu an audi, but last time got a boxster with PDK. not too shabby considering i've never driven a boxster (never even driven a convertible perviously!) and first time with a PDK.

Caughtacab911

I've never had a Porsche loaner car from either Herb Chambers Burlington (where I bought) or Porsche of Nashua (NH), where I also get service done. Every time it's been a new Audi, A4 or A6. Only once did Nashua offer me a Boxster, which I totally hadn't planned on and couldn't accept because that day I needed the Audi to carry some things around. I doubt they'll offer again, but even so the Audi's aren't bad.

Gene

sandwedge

+1. I usually get a pepper but had Boxsters and Caymans too. And oil changes are $250 instead of $600 that some dealers think it's worth.

One of Twenty

What's a dealer and/or a loaner?

If/when one is at the independent tech, I typically drive the other.

gt3rs.

Brand new jetta here in Quebec,Canada.

ELUSIVE

I pay $160 for oil changes from Porsche of Boulder.

Trader220

Anyone who buys a Porsche from us always gets a Porsche loaner and even most other people who didnt buy from us get a Porsche loaner, Don Rosen Imports outside Philly. We have a fleet of Cayenne and Cayenne S's plus Q7's and A6's for the Audi side

rijowysock

i bought out of state, they said that PCNA as a whole states that if you buy the car new then you are entitled to a porsche loaner on service/etc.

its in one of the little booklets as far as perks and such, where it lists the roadside stuff and this and that.

in a nut shell, when i had a honda... i got a honda loaner, when i had an infiniti... i got an infiniti loaner, when i drop the cash for a porsche (Regardless of what DEALS they have going at the time) i feel i should get a porsche loaner, ESPECIALLY when the perks of being a porsche owner pamphlet says that on service/warranty work that a porsche loaner should be given.


bringing the "Deals" and negotiating of the sale into the deal is a moot point, i did not tell PCNA to start giving deals to dump 09's, i saved additional money because i paid the car in cash on the spot versus having them deal with any hassle of checking credit and getting me financed.. the fact that they state if you buy a new porsche you get a porsche loaner was in print far before i bought both my cars and im sure is still in print.. but these dealers are slowly and very sly'ly going away from giving their customers that drop coin a quality/fun loaner.


basically I'm saying "WTF" because doesn't the dealer make money off service? and the fact that one dealer close (Suncoast in sarasota) gives out porsche loaners yet another one (bert smith in St Petersburg) does not...

makes me want to drive the extra 20 minutes to sarasota for all my service and get a cayman/cayenne loaner... versus driving 30 minutes to St. petersburg....

if they all gave porsche loaners, then wouldnt be an issue... i can understand maybe not giving porsche loaners on cayman's and boxter's and low end cayenne's because they are the "lesser" price vehicle... but to deny a boxter when a customer brings in a 911.. just isnt right.

also, the only reason i am a porsche owner is because of the "first mile" test drive i took a few years back, because of that drive i bought a 997 911 over other comparable cars, because of that ownership i bought another 997 911 soon there after.. i feel giving porsche loaners would also be in the best interest of porsche because maybe i would like a cayenne as a second car.. or maybe i would like to give the girlfriend a cayman?... the fact is i have thought of both, but i hate going to the dealer and being forced to drive with some guy who wont shutup and wont stop pushing me to buy the damn car.. i dont need a sales guy to buy a car, if i want the car, i buy the car and do my own research.

richc

Nope, I didn't ask for any discounts this morning. I got a lot of reading done, so it wasn't wasted time....and they did have free coffee. Not good coffee, but it was free. They used to have this very nice machine for making coffee, it made an excellent cup of expresso. It's drip coffee now...the fancy machine went away. I noticed the frig that used to be full of water/soda for customers was empty, so I'm not sure I buy into the sales guy mentioning he was "selling all the inventory he could get" - since they still had a new '08 911 on the lot.

buckwheat987

I have owned porsches for years and have never heard that. Nor read that.

Maybe it was the dealer you purchased the car from in a brochure but its not a national program.

All dealers are independently owned so they can do what they want. I am not sure who "they" is but since right now the majority of people on your survey are saying no porsche loaner I think "they" got it wrong.

buckwheat987

great attitude...

...right now you can get a new 911 09 cheaper than some caymans with PDK's...

Whatever. I own two porsches and I don't care it I get a porsche loaner or not.

But I didn't vote since one dealer I purschased from does and one does not.

MUSSBERGER

Never there except for an oil change. Test drove a new S with PDK so I waited for it. So far its been bullet proof.

peterm

Porsche roslyn here on Long Island- they only have cayennes and boxsters (they may have even retired them) I alsways get a loaner especially since Im on car five from them. In truth these cars rarely need much work. that being said Im sure oil is pouring out of my rms as i write this