Any Rennlisters from New Zealand?
12-19-2014, 04:27 AM
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12-19-2014, 06:21 AM
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I've just ridden home from dinner on the back of a Patrol starring at the stars on a balmy 26c evening about to depart in the morning for 6 months travelling and as much as I'm looking forward to firing up the GT3 tomorrow I'm gonna miss this place....
12-19-2014, 06:26 AM
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here are the notes on the blue car Paul spotted today made back in 2007. Its the only one wiyh blue leather but wasnt recognised as X88 option. Jun-07 964 turbo 3.6 5 93 80 NZ Midnight blue blue 89000 P / RS SB 5099, was 120k, was 115k, still for sale in Dec 07, start bid $95k, was 112k 03.08, offered for $98k May 08, and sept 08, Nov 08 requires some servicing, was 98 k, now 89k at june 09
12-19-2014, 01:36 PM
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Back to tow vehicles feedback for you John as I've been thinking more about it. As I did a lot of research on SUVs and try outs before selecting my 2003 Cayenne S 7 years ago. All my opinion of course
Commodore v6. Did 80k in this. Good towing for 2 tonne boat. Poor traction. Slushy to drive.
Commodore berlina v8. Plenty of torque for towing. Terrible match to the auto box. Lots of wheelspin, ie poor traction.
I then decided for towing it is good to have 4wd.
Reviewed, test drive and considered he following
Toyota land cruiser. Best residuals. Cheap to maintain. Reliable. Slushy to drive (like a truck). Crap interior finish. Boring to own
Taureq. Neighbour has done 200km in the v10 diesel. Pretty good. Belingy interior
X5 slushy to drive. Poor boot space. Nice looker. Great engines
Ml3xx. Pretty good. Same neighbour put 200k on one of these. Required a 7k gbox rebuild
Ml5xx loved these. Poor boot space. Tossed up now one vs 2yo cayenne s
Cayenne S v8 gen1. Ive documented my exoerience. Pleasure to drive, porsche handling. Minimalist quality interior. Biggest boot space. 3.5ton towing capacity so well capable towing 2t without being pushed around.
Doing it again I'd take the pleasure owning the Cayenne S. Talk to service experts for a final opinion on typical service issues. I've had a great run.
Commodore v6. Did 80k in this. Good towing for 2 tonne boat. Poor traction. Slushy to drive.
Commodore berlina v8. Plenty of torque for towing. Terrible match to the auto box. Lots of wheelspin, ie poor traction.
I then decided for towing it is good to have 4wd.
Reviewed, test drive and considered he following
Toyota land cruiser. Best residuals. Cheap to maintain. Reliable. Slushy to drive (like a truck). Crap interior finish. Boring to own
Taureq. Neighbour has done 200km in the v10 diesel. Pretty good. Belingy interior
X5 slushy to drive. Poor boot space. Nice looker. Great engines
Ml3xx. Pretty good. Same neighbour put 200k on one of these. Required a 7k gbox rebuild
Ml5xx loved these. Poor boot space. Tossed up now one vs 2yo cayenne s
Cayenne S v8 gen1. Ive documented my exoerience. Pleasure to drive, porsche handling. Minimalist quality interior. Biggest boot space. 3.5ton towing capacity so well capable towing 2t without being pushed around.
Doing it again I'd take the pleasure owning the Cayenne S. Talk to service experts for a final opinion on typical service issues. I've had a great run.
12-19-2014, 01:57 PM
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Insurance update. Not a lot to report.
Submitted evidence to support the cost to purchase a vehicle of the same make, age, conditoon, fratures etc as defined in the policy. There is no market in nz to purchase a 2007 or later Boxster S manual which is why it took me 6 months to have one come on the market. They're all autos.
There are four equivalent for sale in the UK. So I psdfed them, averaged the price and ran it through Pete's comprehensive import cost spreadsheet from his cayman.
This supports a replacement cost with a UK import of $45.5k
My brokers added their arguements and submitted it to Star Underwriters. A committment was received to have a decision yesterday.
Decision not received and when chased at 4 pm they were off at their Christmas party. My broker was very disappointed.
Next steps, we've notified that we are relocating the vehicle to my garage to facilitate a professional detailed valuation analysis with replacement cost by Ian Nott.
Our family went through the Prestigio policy looking for holes and traps to be aware of. We found a few.
As i recall these were some...
To have any of the following upgrades/options covered they must be listed in the schedule, examples include
Stereo ( unless factory I think)
Phone interface
Radar detector, fitted or mobile
Floor matts
Boot liners
Seat covers
Or anything not essential for the running of the vehicle.
I'm thinking that because they're not covered I can remove them.
There are a few traps for who can drive the vehicle. Be careful. Letting Paul have a drive may mean you are uninsured depending on the details in your schedule. Unless the schedule says it is covered for any authorised (by you) driver (mine does), then only drivers listed on the schedule are covered except in servicing, valet parking or emergency.
There are many good features of the policy too like loss of keys, glass, emergency accommodation, hire vehicle during repair, genuine parts for repairs, etc.
'm just saying read the fine print if you can be bothered. It takes effort and is a bit hard to follow.
For our older cars all non factory modifications to panels, engine, steering, suspension, gbox, exhaust must be approved by Prestigio. Assuming then you need approval to add a duck tail, front splitter, cup bypass etc. If you don't do this technically it looks like you are not insured.
Submitted evidence to support the cost to purchase a vehicle of the same make, age, conditoon, fratures etc as defined in the policy. There is no market in nz to purchase a 2007 or later Boxster S manual which is why it took me 6 months to have one come on the market. They're all autos.
There are four equivalent for sale in the UK. So I psdfed them, averaged the price and ran it through Pete's comprehensive import cost spreadsheet from his cayman.
This supports a replacement cost with a UK import of $45.5k
My brokers added their arguements and submitted it to Star Underwriters. A committment was received to have a decision yesterday.
Decision not received and when chased at 4 pm they were off at their Christmas party. My broker was very disappointed.
Next steps, we've notified that we are relocating the vehicle to my garage to facilitate a professional detailed valuation analysis with replacement cost by Ian Nott.
Our family went through the Prestigio policy looking for holes and traps to be aware of. We found a few.
As i recall these were some...
To have any of the following upgrades/options covered they must be listed in the schedule, examples include
Stereo ( unless factory I think)
Phone interface
Radar detector, fitted or mobile
Floor matts
Boot liners
Seat covers
Or anything not essential for the running of the vehicle.
I'm thinking that because they're not covered I can remove them.
There are a few traps for who can drive the vehicle. Be careful. Letting Paul have a drive may mean you are uninsured depending on the details in your schedule. Unless the schedule says it is covered for any authorised (by you) driver (mine does), then only drivers listed on the schedule are covered except in servicing, valet parking or emergency.
There are many good features of the policy too like loss of keys, glass, emergency accommodation, hire vehicle during repair, genuine parts for repairs, etc.
'm just saying read the fine print if you can be bothered. It takes effort and is a bit hard to follow.
For our older cars all non factory modifications to panels, engine, steering, suspension, gbox, exhaust must be approved by Prestigio. Assuming then you need approval to add a duck tail, front splitter, cup bypass etc. If you don't do this technically it looks like you are not insured.
12-19-2014, 02:55 PM
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Back to tow vehicles feedback for you John as I've been thinking more about it. As I did a lot of research on SUVs and try outs before selecting my 2003 Cayenne S 7 years ago. All my opinion of course Commodore v6. Did 80k in this. Good towing for 2 tonne boat. Poor traction. Slushy to drive. Commodore berlina v8. Plenty of torque for towing. Terrible match to the auto box. Lots of wheelspin, ie poor traction. I then decided for towing it is good to have 4wd. Reviewed, test drive and considered he following Toyota land cruiser. Best residuals. Cheap to maintain. Reliable. Slushy to drive (like a truck). Crap interior finish. Boring to own Taureq. Neighbour has done 200km in the v10 diesel. Pretty good. Belingy interior X5 slushy to drive. Poor boot space. Nice looker. Great engines Ml3xx. Pretty good. Same neighbour put 200k on one of these. Required a 7k gbox rebuild Ml5xx loved these. Poor boot space. Tossed up now one vs 2yo cayenne s Cayenne S v8 gen1. Ive documented my exoerience. Pleasure to drive, porsche handling. Minimalist quality interior. Biggest boot space. 3.5ton towing capacity so well capable towing 2t without being pushed around. Doing it again I'd take the pleasure owning the Cayenne S. Talk to service experts for a final opinion on typical service issues. I've had a great run.
One of my scheduled reviews isn't going ahead so I'm now off work until 19/1 and am going to use the time to sort the house, garage, cars etc and make a plan.
Having just sold a 13 year old car with 168,000km and swearing to myself that I would buy new and lower mileage I found myself back in the bargain basement again. I need to work out the objective and sell/buy accordingly e.g. buying another 911 means Herman has to go. If I can't do that, then Herman stays.
The ideal is 3 cars. One commuter for Donna (GTI), one sports car I can use for track and DD (Herman or GT3) and one utility vehicle (towing and long distance family/race trips).
I don't like shopping but I figure I need to get out there with the dealers and try a few. Donna needs to drive them as well. The Golf was an eye opener for functionality. I'm sure we will click with s type, then I'll come back and get some advice.
12-19-2014, 02:59 PM
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12-19-2014, 03:31 PM
12-19-2014, 04:00 PM
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Haha. Glad I've met most of you on this forum so I can take the comments in context.
Best comment of the year belongs to Paul IMHO when he suggested how he would spend the equivalent value of a Carrera GT on a F40 and Matt said he had one of those as well. 'Owned' as the kids would say.
For those that lurk and have never met the core posters I can say that the comments here are often in jest. The fact that 15 of us can peacefully co-own a Honda Integra says a lot, as does the passing of cars around at events, sharing two houses in Queenstown. In fact I can see a year round up photo posting is a good way to start up the holidays. Where are those favourite pics? Shameless self promotion ok.
Best comment of the year belongs to Paul IMHO when he suggested how he would spend the equivalent value of a Carrera GT on a F40 and Matt said he had one of those as well. 'Owned' as the kids would say.
For those that lurk and have never met the core posters I can say that the comments here are often in jest. The fact that 15 of us can peacefully co-own a Honda Integra says a lot, as does the passing of cars around at events, sharing two houses in Queenstown. In fact I can see a year round up photo posting is a good way to start up the holidays. Where are those favourite pics? Shameless self promotion ok.
12-19-2014, 04:06 PM
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The defining trip of the year, the South Island Track Tour. Two 964s made it the length of the country.
12-19-2014, 04:09 PM
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SITT Dawn Breaker at the Crown Range