Hello all,
I've been operating under the assumption that I was preparing to do the year 2 DIY maintenance on my 2016 Panamera S E-Hybrid, but then started wondering if that is true...and could use advice from those who know?
I bought the car new from the Porsche dealer 12/2017 (2 years ago)
Car now has ~9,500 miles on it
Dealer took delivery/inspected the car 8/2015 (it then sat on the lot)
As noted, i was thinking I should be doing year two maintenance, but because of model year, or date dealer took delivery, should i really be performing maintenance associated with year 3 or year 4, instead?

Thanks for your help,
Christian

 

Did you get the maintenance booklet with the car ? It's usually very specific as to whether mileage or time is the trigger for a specific type of maintenance. Since I do most things myself, I usually error on the conservative side with things such as PDK transmission or differentials.

 

Thanks Yves!

 

Agreed. Do maintenance based on mileage and year intervals from warranty book. Safest bet

 

Thanks both. I plan to do the regularly scheduled maintenance...that wasn't what i was searching for an answer to. To clarify my original question: when you buy a new car, when does the clock associated with the scheduled maintenance start ticking:
1)the date you buy that new car?
2)the MY of that new car?
3)when the dealer took delivery/inspected that new car?

I haven't been in this position before, since in the past when i purchased a new car, it was in the MY of that new car... As an aside, additional info: the service adviser that took care of my recent recall service, quoted me the year two maintenance from what i can tell.


Thanks!

 

from a warranty standpoint everything is triggered from date of sale, or the "in service date"

but - if you bought a left over and it sat on the dealers lot for more than 6 months before you got it - you might error on the conservative side and do the maintenance based on the date the dealer received the car. If you can even find that info. But the warranty and service book are technically all based on a start date of the in-service date. For right or wrong.

 

Thanks c4racer!

 

make it easy on yourself.. start with the date the car was sold to its first owner. The chance that anything notable is different because the car sat for several months is minimal-to-none. Plus your service book will be expected to be followed by any future owners, mechanics, Porsche, etc.

since two people did this in the thread, I'll point out that the word is 'err', not 'error'. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dict...he%20side%20of . I find it interesting how society can slowly migrate toward using words in a common phrase that are different from what was originally used. Language evolves.

 

Thanks StrassenKurven!

 

I have 2016 hybrid as well, 34k miles. I did all maintenance myself. I bring my car to dealer for warranty work only. I replace cabin filter yearly, oll change every 8-10K depending my free time on the weekend. Plan to replace belt, and spark plugs in this spring 2020.