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My wife really wants a Macan. She doesn't ask for much but has been hinting at trading in or selling her Lexus for a while now. We drove a 2015 S at the Porsche dealer today. She was practically giddy after driving it. The PO bought it at this dealer and they've done all of the services. One owner, pretty loaded with PASM, Adaptive cruise, 14 way seats, heated and cooled, heated steering wheel, park assist, adaptive cruise, lane change something or other, 21" wheels, sport chrono, premium package plus. List new was over $73k. She loves it. Really well cared for, looks new inside. Drove great. I'm really impressed with the way they drive. She also loves the color combo, Gray over black. We then drove a new 2018 2.0 that I did not like as well. In sport mode it was ok but in normal model it took a while to spin up and get in the powerband.
The part I'm struggling with is it is higher miles than I'd ideally like to buy. It has 64k on it. They would sell it around $34k. She doesn't drive much. 25k on her Lexus in 4 years. We'd probably put a few more on this as I would like driving it more. Her 2005 RX drives like grandmas caddy. It is out of any warranty and an aftermarket service contract is crazy expensive.
Anyone with any opinions or experience owning one into the 100k range in mileage? Am I crazy to buy out of warranty or should be bite the bullet and look for a newer one and pay quite a bit more? The newest Porsche I've owned is my 2004 996 C4S which at slightly over 100k in miles and needs a suspension refresh and has one bad window regulator but has otherwise been pretty reliable.
e folks in our neighborhood remember these signs from early 2016. I was interested to find out that Shawn Poole, now candidate for Mayor is the one who put them in his yard where he lived at the time. The house was sold and the new owners still get asked if they were the ones who did this.
If you're coming from a Lexus you will be disappointed with the reliability of a Macan. If it were me, I would buy a CPO car for a few bucks more and have piece of mind. There is a reason why third party service contracts are expensive -- because these cars break and when they do, it's crazy expensive to repair. Some possible repairs that could come up, timing cover's are known to leak, transfer case failures seem to be pretty common, coil packs, and control arms. If you plan on keeping the car a longtime the PDK transmissions in these cars can't be rebuilt, they must be sent to the factory for replacement -- It's too early to tell how durable PDK will be but a replacement is a 5 figure job (Wowzers!).
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