Porsche Cars North America has recently introduced the Porsche Scheduled Maintenance Plan, a program that helps facilitate the recommended maintenance schedule through the convenience of prepayment.

By paying for scheduled maintenance costs when purchasing their new Porsche vehicle, the customer will not experience any additional charges over the chosen term for covered items. The Porsche Scheduled Maintenance Plan includes the replacement of critical, serviceable parts for a period of 3 years/30,000 miles, 4 year/40,000 miles or 5 years/50,000 miles, depending on customer preference and will be performed by factory-trained technicians using Genuine Porsche Parts.

“The Porsche Scheduled Maintenance Plan helps alleviate concerns regarding essential service and maintenance intervals by locking in the cost for up to five years,” said Tim Quinn, vice president, AfterSales for Porsche Cars North America. “Not only does this hedge against normal price increases, but typically the Plan is less than purchasing the services individually.”

Any new model Porsche, with the exception of the 911 Turbo, 911 GT3, 911 GT3 RS, 911 GT3 RS 4.0 and 911 GT2 RS starting with model year 2010 is eligible, as long as it has been in service less than 12 months or 12,000 miles and has yet to have its first scheduled maintenance completed.

Plan pricing starts at $1,250.00 with three levels to choose from. In the case where the vehicle is either sold or traded, the coverage stays with the car for the remainder of the term

Source: PCNA

 

Someone has already talked about this and it is not that great of a deal. It is basically oil changes at the factory time table. So in 3 years you might get 3 oil changes for a cost of $1250.00. OUCH!!

 

It also includes brake fluid, spark plugs and all scheduled inspections. It does save you a little $ if you were going to do everything at the dealership anyway. Luckily, my dealer had a special that was in effect when my car arrived, so I got it for free.

 

Need more info about what would be covered. Spark plug changes are very pricey and my most recent 60K service (996TT) at the local dealer was quoted at around $1500. (spark plugs accounted for about $800. of that).

Of course I hate to see what the service is on a Carrera GT. I saw one at my local dealer today up on the lift with its engine out getting it valves done for 40K service - ouch.

 

This was in its infancy when I got my GTS in February. I've had similar plans in the past with Audis and thought they were a good deal. When I heard the Porsche prices, I wasn't so sure. So I took the sales guy's figures for the pre-paid maintenance to my service manager (same dealership!) and we figured that the pre-paid plan would cost close to twice what it would cost to just pay for each service. Needless to say, that made up my mind.

I can't say if the situation has improved, but their initial version of pre-paid maintenance was just plain silly.

DMoore
'11 GTS
'10 Panamera 4S

 

X2. I had a 09 Audi TT and I bought the 4 year/40,000 mile program for $600 and it covered all of the same stuff as Porsche offers. For $600 it was a good deal even though I do some of my own service work. For $1250 it's absurd.

 

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