Is this something that the dealers just do for Porsches traded in and qualify or is it available to original owners who plan on keeping their car and want to extend their coverage? Is there a cost involved?

 

On a traded car, if the car is good enough the dealer will CPO it.

For your own P car, I would think you would need to sell your car to the dealer then buy it back after they CPOed it (assuming meets all Porsche requirement). If you are friendly with a particular dealer, I think you can pay a few thousand to CPO it.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

 

unsure If buying and selling it would create a taxable event. If it does, buying an extended wrrty may be better.

 

Mr. PT:

This is one of the many 'freakin' ironies about Porsche NA; if I traded in my soon-to-be 4 year old 911S (which I believe to be perfect) my dealer could do the 100+ point inspection, fix anything wrong including new tires, register it with Porsche as a CPO, and the buyer would then have either of two warranties depending upon whether or not the car was still under the Original Factory warranty when I traded it in. HOWEVER, if I want to keep the car and am willing to pay the dealer to do the same inspection/remediation I cannot get the CPO status (extended Porsche warranty). I would have to sell the car to the dealer and then repuchase and reregister it to get CPO status. Anyone who writies or tells you otherwise - and we've seen these claims on this forum - is flat wrong.

I can only conclude the Porsche, despite all their flowery rhetoric, really does not want us to keep the cars beyond 4 years; some Teutonic turd wants us to buy another new one.

 

Hmmmm.... why would a car company want to do that?

 

by ur sig, im guessing ur thinking of the long term since u have an '09. i think the porsche cpo warranty from pcna is a couple thousand bucks, and that doesn't include any add'l work the car needs to be brought up to cpo spec.

my suggestion would be to do what many others do, which is to go with the aftermarket extended warranty. you don't even have to purchase it now. a fellow over on RL was selling his 4 yr old 2004 C2S. to help with the sale, he purchased a catastrophic coverage (less comprehensive) aftermarket warranty for under $1000 i believe. i think it was from warranty direct. some porsche dealerships i think sell the fidelity aftermarket warranty.

when u buy a p-car, u should expect little things. the big things to protect against is overall engine failure that would cost 15-20K. and it's too early to say if there are any HUGE problems with the new DFI 997.2.

 

Thanks, everyone. Yep, hoping to keep my '09 as a long term relationship. Just seeing what my options might be 4+ years down the road.