£200 for a battery, I would have gladly taken that, however having tied myself into a Porsche extended Warranty, my replacement battery fitted and coded into the system cost me approximately twice that amount.
During the necessary 111 point inspection to be able to buy into the Porsche warranty system, there was found to be a 10mm outer rim of corrosion spotted on the inner face of the front discs, only 5mm of that swept by the pads, fortunately not deemed as a failure in terms of acceptance on to the warranty and a long way away from any chance of the corrosion being an MOT issue, the quote for replacement was somewhat over £1K... Which I imagine covers replacing the 20% worn pads with new and replacement caliper holding bolts as a matter of course when fitting replacement discs to a 991..?
As I purchased my 991 during Covid as a distance sale from a non-Porsche Sytner dealership down South and my local Porsche dealership is also Sytner, such were the discussions with both thee sales and service that I made them aware that I had a "reasonable" experience and insider understanding of motor trade practice, in a bid to avoid the more usual expectations and which I think worked up to a point.
My good lady`s Evoque went into LR for a replacement wheel rotation (ABS) sensor, the backs of the front discs were quite rusty to the extent that I expected them to advise replacement... Nothing highlighted... Though at the time they were pleading difficulties relative to Covid related short staffing issues, thus I expect turn around was the priority for customers with disabled LR`s and my good lady`s car had been off the road for three weeks as the result of this one sensor failure issue....!
For sure back street garages seem unlikely to have the overheads of high street operations, and can also well outperform manufacturers agents all too often in terms of customer care. Apparently on a mid to high end sports car in some cases the trade in value between full official customer service history and that of an independent specialist may be valued at no more than circa £500 by a marque expert trader.... As ever with pre owned vehicles the three most important factors seem to be condition, condition and condition...?
