While I'm waiting for my Porsche to arrive from across the country, I flipped through the autocheck report for the car and noticed that the car was reported as CPO'd when it first went up for sale after the first owner traded it in at the start of the year.

The second owner, who I bought the car from, says he didn't buy it CPO'd when he bought it about four months ago because he never had a problem with his previous Porsche and the car still had a couple of years of factory warranty on it (it's a 2007).

I guess my question is ... once a car is CPO'd, can it be sold "un-CPO'd" by the dealer? Trying to figure out if I lucked into some extra warranty on the car. I guess I should just call a dealer here and verify the status of the car.

 

That's a great question . It is transferrable from one private party to another .

If however the CPO car is bought by or traded to a dealership I wasn't sure so I did a search to find out . It took me to rennlist .. according to this thread it must be a private party to private party transfer to retain CPO transfer status. http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforum...-warranty.html

That raises the question of whether you are sure that somewhere along the line it wasn't sold to a dealer whereby it lost its CPO status ? Or did the second owner simply not know the status of his car ?

 

When I was searching for my car, I found out both ways are true. You can get a non-CPO car, have the dealership purchase it from the third party seller, do whatever maintenance the car needs and have them put on a CPO classification. The only problem with that is if the car has aftermarket stuff done to it, they need to put it back to stock before they will CPO the car. UGH. No thank you and not worth the $2500-3000 plus cost of parts, labor to fix what they determine needs to be fixed.

As for the other way around. My dealership told me that they had a used CPO car on the lot that if I was interested in getting without the CPO classification, they would reduce the price by $2500. Ultimately, I did not like/want that car, but it was curious to know they could do this.

It seems to me that the CPO classification is treated more like an aftermarket accessory that can potentially drive the price of the car up. With so many good (not US Fidellis types) third party warranties available and for much longer periods of time then what the CPO adds, for me I did not care about the CPO.

 

I would contact PCNA and see what they tell you. Chances are if it was a CPO then it still is.

 

If once CPO - always CPO unless sold to another dealer. If it goes from one private party to another - should be CPO.
Call 1 800 porsche and ask `em. If it is CPO they will put your name next to its VIN and next time at dealer they will see it in a computer.