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2 minutes ago, smartin said:
Not many down south but lots up north. Probably down to people in the south having too much money and there being a number of respected indies up north, too, so more competition for the OPCs
Not sure what the Mildlands are, either 😄
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On 3/10/2023 at 7:44 PM, iborguk said:
“Participating centres only.”
Not many down south but lots up north. Probably down to people in the south having too much money and there being a number of respected indies up north, too, so more competition for the OPCs
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On 3/10/2023 at 7:36 PM, moonshine said:
I've just had a quote on an OPC 10 yr service at £750 Inc VAT
"Lucky" you. When I asked my two nearest OPCs in November last year, one wanted £825 and the other £950 😲, even when I mentioned that on the previous fixed price scheme it was only £525! They don't do much in the 10 year service - it's just a standard oil and brake fluid change; no plugs, belts or air filters like some of the other years. Dread to think what they would charge for the 12 year one as that's the biggie with plugs, belt, air filter all needed plus the PDK oil change !
I took it to a local indy that did it for £470.
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12 hours ago, Simo_UK said:
Coming in at £1350 in brake fluid and spark plugs. Might be cheaper as I need to query the 'drain cleaning'....on a Cayman 😁
I rang around a few OPCs and only one other came with a similar quote. Others ranged from £1500-1700
That is ridiculous. When I had my 8yr service done two years ago the price was £795 inc the brake fluid and spark plugs. When I asked about checking the drains was told that would be an extra £180ish, so told them not to bother and when the service report came back it said the drains were checked, found to be blocked, were cleared and there was nothing added to the cost!
That same OPC now wants £949 for the far simpler 10yr service, so am leaving the OPC network for servicing and maintenance now.
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18 hours ago, Simo_UK said:
Likewise, 8yr service due on Friday but about 1yr of warranty left on my '14 CGTS.
Taking one for the team and going with the OPC quote.
As a mild consolation I get a Taycan as a courtesy car. Wonder if I have to return it with the same amount of charge in the tank 😁
What price are you paying for the 8 year?
Didn't ask what courtesy car I'm gettting whilst they do the recall work next month. I've been slowly rising up through their 718 loan car range - starting with a 718 Boxster, then a 718 Cayman S, so surely must be a 718 4.0 GTS next 🙂 Although, having told them that their latest service pricing sucks and I won't be servicing the car with them any longer, I'll probably get relegated to a base Macan now
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4 hours ago, moospeed said:
How did I know you were going to say that? 🙄 I've had all my work done at that one, when the time comes I'll have to play them off against Tonbridge.
Last time I did get to use a brand new Cayman S for the day, and I mean "the day" - I'd booked it off work with the sole intention of giving it a proper test even though I didn't know what I was going to get until the day. It was a perfect choice as until that point I'd considered the Boxster 718S as the next logical progression.
The other OPC I called up was Tonbridge and they quoted the lower price. They were much more friendly than Sidcup this time, which is the opposite of my previous experience with them when I was looking for my car just over 4 yeards ago. When I was searching for a car they dismissed a 981S PDK for low to mid £30K as an impossiblity, even though there 2 such cars in the OPC Approved used scheme at the time, so I thanked them and didn't speak to them again until last week 🤐
At least Tonbridge offered some advice ; joining the PCGB to get a discount on the servicing, whereas Sidcup just said, this is the price that Porsche tell us and we cannot do anything about it.
Maybe it depends on who you talk to at each OPC!
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5 hours ago, moospeed said:
Was one of those the Sidcup one? I had it in mind to go there for my 10 year, just renewed the warranty until Nov ‘23 and service will be in Feb/Mar I think so my hands are tied to them I guess.
Yes, the higher of the two was Sidcup. My car is going there for the recall work to be done, but after that it looks like no more fancy courtesy cars for me🙁
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59 minutes ago, CMA said:
A 10 yr service is just the 5th service of the cars life. In the old Porsche Fixed price paperwork they used to show all services as 2yr, 4yr, 6yr, 8yr, 10yr, 12yr. They didn't differentiate between major/minor plus extras.
The old fixed price system used to show "Service" and Brake fluid change as constants every 2 years, although additional checks would get done every four years. Then at years 4, 8 and 12 they would do the spark plugs and in years 6 and 12 they change the air filter cartridge and the drive belt.
That meant that every service had a different price but sometimes from the outside it looked like 2 services were apparently doing the same thing but they charged two very different amounts; for example the 4 and 8 year services appeared to have the same work done but the 4 year one was priced £180 more than the 8 year one!
Meant that the 10 year (and the 2nd year, actually but again priced differently) were the "cheap" ones as just standard service items and brake fluid change.
The 12 year one is the biggie as needs service, extra 4 year checks, spark plugs, drive belt and then a clutch/ pdk transmission oil/fluid change, too. I jokingly said to the second OPC that I spoke to "I probably don't want to know how much the 12 year service would cost" and they agreed 😄
So, it is really alternating between minor and major but with extras thrown in every 4, 6 and 12 years.
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Now that my car is not going to an OPC for servicing, it's looking like a t*ss up between Steve @ GoshallWerks (nearer to me) or LaRose. Both seem to have decent feedback in Google reviews and I know that LaRose got taken over by the Eporsch guys, who have a good rep.
I had already reached out to Steve and his price is the same as LaRose. Decisions!
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Just to update this thread. Having been in contact with the only 2 OPCs within a reasonable distance, it's not going to either of them as, compared to the now extinct fixed price scheme price of £525, one of them wanted £826 and the other £949 😮 Neither of them would budge when I mentioned what it used to cost - I guess they've got too much work on, anyway.
It will be going to one of them to have the recall work done, but for servicing, it's going to go to an independent that I reached out to before I called the OPCs.
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34 minutes ago, bbob1 said:
Last October I got prices for a 6 year service from all OPCs within a 60 mile or so radius from me. I am based in the midlands. None of them were following the old fixed price servicing and their prices had gone through the roof. I decided to go with a reputable independent and will continue to do so from now on. The difference saved paid for my insurance!
Living in East Kent, I'm not blessed with a large number of independents (let alone reputable ones!) and the two nearest OPC are both an hour away. I feared that with the fixed price servicing scheme going the way of the Dodo, that prices would go up.
My car needs to go to an OPC to have the recall work done, anyway, so will just ask them how much they want to rob me for a service. If their service quotes are ridiculously higher than the old fixed price ones, I'll just get the recall work done at the OPC and look for opinions on independents for the service.
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23 minutes ago, Ninja02 said:
About £650 inc brake fluid change
Thanks. Which OPC was that, please? I see you are in East Yorkshire so hundreds of miles from me but maybe your OPC is part of the same group as one of nearest ones to me
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My car is due it’s 10 yr service in a couple of months,so wondered what the current pricing is for OPC? It’s not like I need it to be OPC as not maintaining OPC warranty on the car and it isn’t 100% OPC service history already as the selling independent did the 6 year service just before I bought it.
Last service was the 8 year major including spark plugs and was done at an OPC still sticking to the fixed price scheme and came in it £795. Looking at a previously downloaded document showing the old fixed price costs, I was quite looking forward to the 10 year one as it was only £525!
Wonder what they are trying to charge now?
Not many Independents near me, so OPC with a courtesy car would be easiest. Plus I still need to sort out the recall work from last year as when I had previously booked it in to be done they couldn’t get the parts. Have now had a reminder to get it sorted. Could be done at same time as service to minimise the c100 mile round trips to OPC.
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Mine is very temperamental. Sometimes it will activate after a few hundred yards, sometimes it won't even after 10 miles. Not sure if I still have the original battery in my 2012 S. I have only had it for the last 4 years, so don't know if it had been changed before that.
Is there a way to tell from some markings on the battery how old it is? I could see some numbers stamped on the negative terminal (39 12) which could be a date stamp, maybe week 39 2012 or 3/9/2012.
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19 hours ago, daz05 said:
Vacuum issue no doubt.
Needed a new brake booster vacuum pump
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38 minutes ago, GTSMarky said:
Yep, I'm still waiting as my Jan 4th appointment was cancelled as they didn't have the parts & nothing since.
Didn't realise GTS's were part of this, too. Maybe, only the earliest ones.
20 minutes ago, daz05 said:I was cancelled in Dec and just been informed parts are in now so booked in during Feb for the day. Hopefully get a good courtesy car, Cayenne is nice but keep getting those a 4.0l GTS would be nice.
At least I'm not alone, then! They are probably tackling them based on the order they were first contacted. I left it a few days after receiving the initial recall letter.
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19 minutes ago, daz05 said:
I was cancelled in Dec and just been informed parts are in now so booked in during Feb for the day. Hopefully get a good courtesy car, Cayenne is nice but keep getting those a 4.0l GTS would be nice.
Mine was supposed to get done at the beginning of Dec but got cancelled as parts not available. As my car decided to develop a coolant system fault, they used the time my car had been booked in for to diagnose and fix that, instead. Had a Cayman S for a couple days 🙂 Think you're pushing your luck expecting a 4.0 GTS but we live in hope 😄
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Just thought I'd check and see if I'm the only one waiting for the recall work to be done. Maybe time to give OPC/ Porsche GB a nudge?
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1 minute ago, Greenman said:
There’s a common fault where the interior fan gets stuck and doesn’t blow, usually you can flip the frunk and give it a spin with you hand and is ok again for a period (various threads on here covering this). I had this issue and manually restarted fan maybe 4-5 times, but then it wouldn’t go at all. Took it in and said regulator/resistor pack was replaced, fan has been perfect since (2-3 years).
I suspect what is happening is that something in the regulator pack is going out of spec resulting in insufficient start current being sent to the fan, which can cause an intermittent non starting fan. In my case this progressed and failed completely replacement fixing the issue completely. In other cases the fan issue just persists. Porsche have been known to replace the fan itself to try to fix the issue but I bet 90% of these type of cases are that regulator pack.
I had the sticking fan a few weeks before the won't stop fan issue, so already had done the give a spin trick.
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On 12/14/2021 at 9:12 AM, Greenman said:
- Interior fan resistor/regulator pack replacement. Under £500.
Is that the one that is located under the glove box and causes the fan to not stop unless you pull the fuse? I got a replacement and fixed it myself - probably under £50, plus a lot swearing and grazed knuckles as access isn't easy 🙂
A couple of weeks ago I had a cooling system warning come up. After several hours of diagnosis and checking of various control valves they thought it was a faulty brake booster pump. Which it must have been as error message now gone. Bill came to just shy of £1300 😮 £1k of which was labour
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Mine was supposed to have the recall work done this Wednesday but when I called them on Saturday to check all was going ahead and if they could also look at a cooling system fault that popped up a message on Friday afternoon, they told me they wouldn't be doing the recall work as the parts haven't turned up and they didn't know when they would come in 😞
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Mine had the alarm siren fail and needed replacing at the beginning of last year and on Friday, threw up a cooling system fault yellow warning 😞 Plus it is one of those affected by the recent recall. Car is not under warranty.
Car was booked in to have the recall work done this Wednesday but that is now not happening as when I rang them up on Saturday morning to check everything was still going ahead, they told me that, as the parts needed for the recall had not yet arrived (and they had no idea when they would turn up), that repair wouldn't be going ahead. As I had a loan car booked for the day, anyway, they are now going to diagnose the cooling system fault instead.
So, what was going to be a no cost recall repair has now turned into at least £192 for the diagnosis, plus whatever they find needs replacing 😟
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56 minutes ago, bbob1 said:
Well spotted. I had never noticed this before either.
Me neither! I just assumed that section was for the newer "connected" cars.
Apparently, my car came with Power Steering Plus, which I don't remember being mentioned when I bought it secondhand nearly 3 years ago. Also confirms that things that could have been retrofitted (mesh wind deflector, cruise and SportDesign steering wheel) were there from the start.
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4 hours ago, Paul P said:
This just got posted by PCGB boxster register secretary.
After much searching and discussion with Porsche I have been told that the models affected are
01.09.2012 to 31.01.2013 and 01.04.2014 to 31.07.2014
I hope this reassures those of us with a different build date and allows those within these dates to contact their local PCs.
Mine must be right at the start of that first range (first reg at end of Oct 2012, so imagine built in Sept) and have had the recall notice. Contacted OPC and booked in for the 8th December. They said they did not expect parts to be with them until end of November, whereas the letter suggested 1st November, so were booking people in for early December. Need it for a day and are supplying a loan car for two days in case it overruns.
Hopefully, I will be able to get some fuel in by then, as right now, wouldn't have enough to get to the OPC and back 🙂
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I think the 981 PDK oil/fluid change is done at the 12 year service, not the 10. Mine had it's 10 year service at the back end of last year. My two nearest OPCs (both more than an hour's drive away) quoted between £875 and £950 for the 10 year service, where they basically change the oil and brake fluid and that's it! It was shown as less than £600 on the old fixed price service scheme. Needless to say, it didn't go to either of them and I took it to a local Indy, who did it for less than £500.
The 12 year one is the biggie and I what an OPC would charge for that, doesn't bear thinking about. Seem to remember it was over £1000 on that same, old fixed price scheme.