981…Waiting in anticipation – Running Report page 17

guest1 – Posted September 17, 2017

On 9/15/2017 at 3:51 PM, Stuart21UK said:
Their’s or mine?

Ours as well, getting to read about your trials and tribulations of dealing with OPC Silverstone …………

Having only used Indies for my 987, I now wonder why — when we had the Cayenne — I continued to use an OPC for servicing. Mind you, the loaner cars from OPC were always very enjoyable, I used to enjoy taking them out for a day around the south east.

Stuart21UK – Posted September 18, 2017

On 9/17/2017 at 10:11 AM, guest1 said:
Ours as well, getting to read about your trials and tribulations of dealing with OPC Silverstone …………

Having only used Indies for my 987, I now wonder why — when we had the Cayenne — I continued to use an OPC for servicing. Mind you, the loaner cars from OPC were always very enjoyable, I used to enjoy taking them out for a day around the south east.

yeah…we borrowed a Cayenne S (gen 2) back in 2014 (IIRC)…was told the mileage limit was 100 miles and took it back with 350, having gone to Bournemouth for the day with the kids…dropped it back with sand and everything!

Never did charge me for the excess mileage either…lovely sounding V8 motor burned £100 in fuel on that trip…I so would love to be able to afford to run a petrol..

Stuart21UK – Posted September 30, 2017

so update for the car…

I had the front discs, pads etc replaced by RPM Technik on Tuesday at a cost of £740…rear pads have been put off as they apparently have 20% life left in them, given I’m on about 34000 miles they could be for another few thousand without any issues 🙂

Stuart21UK – Posted December 8, 2017

so I washed the car last week and its nice and sparkly (or was!)

Also gave the roof a scrub but it still has ingrained dirt that I need to attack with some ‘other’ product…

BUT the thread update is more to do with an issue with the roof in another aspect…basically the roof where it meets the window should look like this ie a healthy distance between edge of window and roof

(passenger side)

but on my drivers side looks like this

It looks like both the window is too far to the rear of the car and the window rubber is worn and doesn’t support the window quite as well as it should, this resulting in a nice 1 inch area where the window has worn through the roof seem!

I have it booked into OPC for an inspection just prior to Christmas, I am pretty sure I will get ‘normal wear and tear’ as a response but that’s not the way I see it…thoughts peeps?

NB earlier in the thread you may recall the other issue I have with the roof i.e. wear, where it folds on itself, at least that hasn’t seemed to worsen over the last 3/4 years

BTW almost 10,000 posts 🙂

Menoporsche – Posted December 8, 2017

Ouch!

A quick call to 981 owners here of similar vintage, for photos of theirs, to support your argument it’s not “normal”?

Stuart21UK – Posted December 8, 2017

On 12/8/2017 at 3:26 PM, Menoporsche said:
Ouch!

A quick call to 981 owners here of similar vintage, for photos of theirs, to support your argument it’s not “normal”?

yeah I haven’t seen it on any other cars but then the other issue I had isn’t exactly on every car either, didn’t stop them claiming ‘they all do that Sir’…

the other angle they will have in declining a warranty claim is that it would likely cost them a new roof and I suspect that will run them £5000, they’re almost certain to claim it was my fault for not picking up the fact the window was catching the roof (but then how would you if you are inside the car!)

Stuart21UK – Posted December 20, 2017

As far as the roof/window….the OPC have seen the damage (19/12), at this point they have booked the car back on for later in January as they will need it for 2 days…

They think its ‘possible’ a faulty window regulator that has caused the issue with the window rubbing the roof seam but will only know when they take off the door card, they say.

So they are having it in to look at it further, with a window regulator on order for when they do so.

When asked what they will do about the roof seam, ‘Gee’ said that they will either call in a specialist to repair it, or if this is not viable, then will take Porsche advice/authority and potentially replace the roof (now that would be good in view of the other scuffs the roof has caused to itself from initial ownership – I pointed out these to Gee and made sure he was aware of the prior history of this).

So we’ll see some late January 2018 what happens….

On another note this is my 10044 post after 9+ years on the forum (who knew one person could post such an amount of drivel!)

Patt – Posted December 20, 2017

Well fingers crossed for that new roof !

Menoporsche – Posted December 20, 2017

Fingers crossed for new roof and less drivel!

… :whistle:

Stuart21UK – Posted December 20, 2017

On 12/20/2017 at 9:24 AM, Menoporsche said:
Fingers crossed for new roof and less drivel!

… :whistle:

you know thats not likley…BTW Ithought of you as I stood in the OPC yesterday, I will upload the Cayman 718 pics later if I remember 🙂

Patt – Posted December 20, 2017

If it’s in Miami blue – every OPC I visited in the last month has had either a Cayman or a 991 displayed in that colour !

Stuart21UK – Posted December 20, 2017

On 12/20/2017 at 3:22 PM, Patt said:
If it’s in Miami blue – every OPC I visited in the last month has had either a Cayman or a 991 displayed in that colour !

as if Meno is famous for Miami blue 😆

Stuart21UK – Posted December 22, 2017

On 12/20/2017 at 3:17 PM, Stuart21UK said:
you know thats not likley…BTW Ithought of you as I stood in the OPC yesterday, I will upload the Cayman 718 pics later if I remember 🙂

here you go @Menoporsche

actually two separate 718 Cayman’s in the showroom, I cant remember if they were the same colour or not (and the camera sometimes lies)…

first one

and the other

I liked the Panamera Gran Tourismo though or the 911 (Linen?Cotton?)

Or Richard Attwood Special?

Menoporsche – Posted December 22, 2017

On 12/22/2017 at 12:02 AM, Stuart21UK said:
here you go @Menoporsche

actually two separate 718 Cayman’s in the showroom, I cant remember if they were the same colour or not (and the camera sometimes lies)…

I can’t work out if they are orange or red? Closer to red for me?

Not sure I like Lava nearly as much as my own. I feel mine is blatant orange whereas Lava is someone less bold trying to do “red with a tweak”.

Stuart21UK – Posted December 22, 2017

On 12/22/2017 at 8:21 AM, Menoporsche said:
I can’t work out if they are orange or red? Closer to red for me?

Not sure I like Lava nearly as much as my own. I feel mine is blatant orange whereas Lava is someone less bold trying to do “red with a tweak”.

I dont think its Lava…more of a flat v v slightly pastel orange…yes slightly less ‘bright’ orange than yours

Stuart21UK – Posted January 15, 2018

I noticed what looks like mould on the inside of the petrol filler cap (mostly evidence to the right of the photo) today….never had anything like this before?!

Stuart21UK – Posted January 21, 2018

car due into OPC for roof issue tomorrow (if its not snowing)…fingers crossed for a C4 as a loaner (bet its a 718 instead)

mrbikerdood – Posted January 22, 2018

On 9/12/2017 at 11:40 PM, Stuart21UK said:
Well the next saga with Silverstone OPC…I have no qualms in naming and shaming when the hit rate with them is so poor…

The quote from RPM is to do the front discs/pads/sensors on the 981 at £720 and an additional £270 to do the rear pads/sensor (no discs needed)…

I thought I’ll call the OPC to see what price they would charge….

A phone call to them and I’m told £675 for the front pads/discs/sensors etc and £270 for the rears pads/sensors…I ask the girl to confirm by email…she does firstly by screen dumping their internal booking system into a word document (totally unprofessional looking) and adds some reference to labour rates and reduction of 10-12% of cost in the body of the email…

I reply asking for a proper estimate and the one I get the following day covers all the detail and its £1240!

Now its a good job I work in the financial world as I was fully able to add up £675 and £279 and could see that it didnt add up to £1240!

Turns out (after several emails back and forth) that ‘there was some miscommunication between us’…too right there feking was…I asked you for a fully inclusive quote for my brakes to be done and you forget ot add in the labour cost!

So its now booked in with RPM to do the fronts and I’ll wait for the rear sensors to come on before taking it back to do them…(they reckon they are 80% worn so I could get another 4-5000 miles out of them on that basis!) – anticipated cost £720 for the fronts for the time being… 🙂

I honestly dont know why I keep trying to give the OPC business…

I paid £365.35 for new front discs,pads and sensors at Dovehouse on my 981 …… ill never go back and Silverstone OPC, i think they are naff from the two times i used them!

CMA – Posted January 22, 2018

On 1/22/2018 at 9:22 PM, mrbikerdood said:
I paid £365.35 for new front discs,pads and sensors at Dovehouse on my 981 …… ill never go back and Silverstone OPC, i think they are naff from the two times i used them!

Si

£365 is a very good price based on £312 + delivery for the parts alone from here, might have to see if I can find them cheaper elsewhere

http://type911shop.co.uk/epages/de867ca1-377e-432e-84fd-bdccf2206766.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/de867ca1-377e-432e-84fd-bdccf2206766/Products/8788

Stuart21UK – Posted January 22, 2018

So this is what I am currently driving around in…bright I think you’ll agree…718 Cayman 2 litre with pretty much zero options…..its not for me, I miss the sound of a non turbo’ed engine, a manual box and more involvement in my driving (it’s fast but not exciting in the process, not like mine 🙂 )

talking of Silverstone OPC, they have a decent splash of colour in their used section at the moment…

tcornet – Posted January 23, 2018

On 1/22/2018 at 10:36 PM, Stuart21UK said:
So this is what I am currently driving around in…bright I think you’ll agree…718 Cayman 2 litre with pretty much zero options…..its not for me, I miss the sound of a non turbo’ed engine, a manual box and more involvement in my driving (it’s fast but not exciting in the process, not like mine 🙂 )

Wow that’s bright

Stuart21UK – Posted January 24, 2018

So some news on the roof front….OPC says the technician supports a replacement roof but it needs to be approved by Porsche Warranty dept (which I’m yet to be convinced of)…built to order and 40 days before received…I said I dont care how long i takes to make the roof if they are replacing it!

I’m going to get my car back tomorrow after they have kindly washed it 🙂

Stuart21UK – Posted January 28, 2018

I had a loaner 718 Cayman (2 litre 4 pot turbo – the NON S)

after 3 days of use, mixed roads including some 50/60mph average limits, a little bit of A/B road, the OBC showed an average (I’d reset it) of 26.2 mpg over 113 miles

This car has 1000 miles on it so presumably it will improve like my 981 did over the first 5000 miles or so

I’m not terribly impressed with it though TBH…I mean PDK and with the smaller engine that is supposed to be more fuel efficient, my 3.4 litre S would likely have shown 23 mpg at that point (and now after 34000 miles its showing a long term average of 26.4 mpg). I’m guessing this may get to 28 mpg over the long term in my use? Not a compelling reason to buy the smaller engines 718 IMHO

It certainly had more torque low down in the rev range compared to mine though (although I’d not say it was fast as such, just maybe more effortless)

Anyway here’s a couple of pic including my dear old 82 year mum taking a trip to her hospital appointment in it!

3 day average

Single trip

Menoporsche – Posted January 28, 2018

On 1/24/2018 at 10:36 PM, Stuart21UK said:
So some news on the roof front….OPC says the technician supports a replacement roof but it needs to be approved by Porsche Warranty dept (which I’m yet to be convinced of)…built to order and 40 days before received…I said I dont care how long i takes to make the roof if they are replacing it!

Very positive noise 🙂 Good luck!

spyderman8 – Posted January 28, 2018

Is it just me or are most of Stuart’s photos not loading?