Topfin

over the last two years I have replaced my entire stable with high mileage cayennes.

2013 base dressed as a GTS non CPO bought at 103k for daughter instead of a Japanese tin can new. Only issue so far is rear passenger door lock not working. She loves it! I loved driving it so much I bought a

2015 cayenne S for my self with 83k on it. Been good to have CPO on this one. Blower motor and lessee lock on drivers door handle on the door broke. Both covered. Awesome car I love driving every day. It feels special. If I didn’t have CPO I could have lived without the door handle lock working.

Love both cayennes so much I bought my wife a CPO 2014 cayenne turbo. This car is immaculate and gorgeous. She loves it. We have three year CPO on it. It did end up needing a transfer case fully covered by CPO. Now that I have so much experience with these cayennes and how the drive trains are supposed to feel, I can tell the state of the transfer case.

I totally recommend high mileage cayennes as many are elk taken care of. Just make sure the transfer case is good when you buy it if you’re not doing CPO. Expect something to go wrong with the door locks. Expect a blower motor to go. Only cost of parts if you do the fixes yourself.

One other thing. Expect to clean the drains at least once per year. Learn to do it yourself to save dollars.

lml999

You just helped me decide between the Platinum and Gold Fidelity warranties.

Platinum should cover both of those failures.

jpru2001

I took the rubber tips off of all the drains and am taking my chances with the bugs. Its been pleasant so far.

Nice set of Cayennes!

Topfin

RAudi Driver

Just a heads up that a jump to the S model is a good move as that base V6, 300 hp engineis a dog. It's pretty slow.

Snipe656

I have a 2015 S w/76k miles on it and had a whole slew of problems with it over the years since buying it new. The bulk of which related to engine. Now the nice thing is while under warranty I got put into many base Cayennes for weeks at a time. Many a time I said I’d happily just exchanged my S for the base since seemingly that “VW” motor was much more sorted. Although the reality is I also got put in many a Macan too, I’d get one of those instead simply because found much more fun to drive.

garrett376

I think he's referring to the 958.1 V8 S model... The V8s are great engines.

Snipe656

Got it, just figured since the OP was looking at a 958.2 base that the reply was encouraging to jump from the base to the S.

john981

My biggest challenge is to find a decent deal. I am open to a base, S, GTS or even a Turbo but I am not willing to pay e.g. for a 2016 base with 90k miles $35k, no matter how clean it is. It has to make sense. Most of the commercially listed Cayennes are priced way too high and there are hardly any privately listed ones. Any ideas where to find one?

garrett376

Deal, as in a low price for a good Cayenne?
With a Cayenne, this is very difficult unless you move fast, get eyes on it, know what you to look for, and assess it. Good ones, and bad ones, tend to sell quickly these days. And what's difficult, is that it is SO EASY to buy a Cayenne that seems good and all of a sudden you're looking at $10,000 in work to sort it; and way more than that if you can't do the work yourself. The fancier the trim, the more stuff to go wrong and greater cost to fix. That's what makes buying an inexpensive one from a no-name used car lot, so risky! There are so many people that dump their Cayennes as trade ins, since they don't want to deal with their expensive issues. Auctions pick them, up, used car dealers buy them, and pass them off with all their problems to the next owner.

Unless you want a project, or have such love that having to pay a few thousand to sort current and future issues that arise with a used Cayenne is OK, then it might be best to buy from a Porsche dealer, or large network dealer.

slombard3000

Double check the transfer case .. it's 7 years from the time the car was delivered. I have a 2016 and it is out of warranty.

Check Carfax and see if you can see any maintenance or dealers it was at. Call the with VIN to see what maintenance was done.

Look for transfer case, coolant lines, power steering pump, starter. These are items I have had fixed on my 16 GTS

Also, no apple car play on 2016.

Hopefully with 100k they hit all those already.

PFDGSB

Here's another . . . https://rennlist.com/forums/cayenne-...lves-help.html

991TurboTim

My experience has been:
- As reliable as anything else out there
- Great Build Quality, Fit, and Finish
- Investigate a warranty. Think of them like insurance policies.
- If they are not available for sale - again, think of them similar to an insurance policy - if they won't offer a warranty similar to a high risk driver

TK

Boomer80

I would like to know where all these buyers for used Cayenne’s are? I’ve had mine listed on Rennlist and on PCA mart for a couple weeks and so far only 2 inquiries and pretty sure both were used car dealers looking for inventory but low balling me without even any real serious questions. No way I’m trading it in with estimates around $15k for trade or cash value.

RAudi Driver

I was talking about any of them except for the base V6 with 300 hp. That thing, although reliable, is not the peppiest car to drive. I'm not savvy on the reliability of the 958.2 V6 turbo engine, except that it needed a software update and it is famous for an oil leak in the front. That's about it.