11bravo

On Tuesday, I picked up a nice 2011 Cayenne S in Southern California, and drove it home to Vegas. Interior and exterior look great, and I am very pleased with how it drove the 300+ miles in 109 degree desert heat. Vehicle has 170,500 miles on it (that is not a typo). I've never been afraid of high miles, though this is the biggest leap of faith I have taken. For $12,000, I figured it was worth it.

I've owned C6 Vettes for the past 6 years, and decided to get something with more seating and cargo area. Now, I just have to figure out all the buttons, lights, and switches on this thing.

Thanks for the education I got on this forum over the last month or so, and special thanks to Lee for his advice on this car. You are all very helpful, and it is much appreciated.

Jim, Las Vegas

lml999

@11bravo Looks great Jim! Congratulations!

garrett376

Oh man, what a great deal on a beautiful machine! Congrats.

Where was it advertised?

11bravo

Thank you! I found it on CL. I was doing nationwide searches on cars.com and autotrader, and west coast searches on CL. My filters were sales "by owner" only, 2011-2015, under $30K, no accidents, with air suspension, and tow package. Found a very nice 2014 in Phoenix with 104K miles, for $26K. Then I saw this one in San Diego. Figured it was worth the $80 round trip flight to take a look. It checked all the boxes, and had an exceptional-for-miles exterior and interior. I used three sources to verify no accidents/flood/etc.

I only drive about 4K miles a year, so it will take 7 years to reach 200K miles. Even if I spend $15K in repairs over that stretch, it will be very cheap ownership of a very nice car.

Probably TMI, but wanted to explain the thinking behind purchasing a 170,000 mile vehicle.

mafpolo

Congrats. Looks beautiful. You will enjoy driving it.

ShdwFx

Awesome find! Enjoy getting it to 200k miles.

Trio

You are right. For 12k, that is a good buy. Enjoy!

KBell

Awesome!
There has been some threads on High Mileage GTS: which also includes the Cayenne S V8.
Great read. Very durable V8.

Welcome

twodollardoug

The Porsche - good to know app is a handy tool for a new owner. It will tell you what all the buttons do and much more. I still use it often.

leftlane

Looks great, especially for that mileage. Congrats!

wyowolf

Right there with you, I bought a 12 S for 16k with 156k. 15k later... not a problem save for AC fan motor which was easy!

11bravo

That's good to hear. I look forward to driving it for a few years.

11bravo

Doug, there are a lot of Porsche apps...which one do you use?

Al Faromeo

Like Doug, I used the "Good To Know" app.

twodollardoug

I use the good to know app. It's basically like the owners manual in an app. Super easy to navigate and easier to find info about your specific late model Porsche. That's really the only Porsche app I use.