A CPO inspection is incredibly detailed and rigorous. It can’t be cheated, and is documented by the mothership (PCNA) via a real time iPad inspection. Photos are taken and uploaded, and if anything doesn’t pass, it must be rectified, shown rectified, and then approves by PCNA BEFORE the car can carry CPO.
It not JUST a warranty, however, it has the best warranty coverage on the market.
Feel free to get an independent PPI if you don’t trust the CPO program, but just understand, every single independent shop is in business to make money - your money - there’s nothing ‘unbiased’ about it.
CPO warranties routinely repair or replace items on cars costing 5-6 times as much as the warranty did in the first place.
A CPO inspection is documented and proven - ask for the inspection report, and see if there are any glaring things missing FOR YOU before you spend additional money at a shop.
Disclosure: managed a Porsche store for 7 years, and have hundreds of happy CPO clients. Yes, I expect to get flamed for having worked at a stealership, and, yes, dealer service pricing can suck, HOWEVER, CPO warranty work is closely monitored by PCNA, and they take it VERY seriously.
That may be and I believe you, but it doesn’t stop some dealers from doing shady things. Bought a CPO Macan that had warped rotors and a terrible squeak from the steering rack few miles after purchase. I was told to pound sand because it wasn’t covered. After that, I became a little weary.
I don’t know bro. Dealers get paid for the work CPO covers. Declining the work is saying, no we don’t want that free sale. It comes out of Porsche’s pocket, not the dealers.
This idea that dealers decline warranty work on purpose is hilarious and a sign many folks don’t understand how warranty work is actually paid for.
A CPO inspection is incredibly detailed and rigorous. It can’t be cheated, and is documented by the mothership (PCNA) via a real time iPad inspection.
And I have a bridge to sell you…
There are numerous complaints on this and other Porsche forums about CPO cars sold with obvious problems that would have never passed an actual inspection.
And, since CPO would only cover cars 12 model years or 122k miles from new, the 08 Cayman S that would be affected would be out of contention for Certification anyhow.
At that point, it’d be a straight-up used car, so anything goes.
You still can, however, ask a dealer to do the 144 point CPO inspection on a used car, and document as if it would be Certified. We did it often.
A CPO inspection is incredibly detailed and rigorous. It can’t be cheated, and is documented by the mothership (PCNA) via a real time iPad inspection. Photos are taken and uploaded, and if anything doesn’t pass, it must be rectified, shown rectified, and then approves by PCNA BEFORE the car can carry CPO.
It not JUST a warranty, however, it has the best warranty coverage on the market.
Feel free to get an independent PPI if you don’t trust the CPO program, but just understand, every single independent shop is in business to make money - your money - there’s nothing ‘unbiased’ about it.
CPO warranties routinely repair or replace items on cars costing 5-6 times as much as the warranty did in the first place.
A CPO inspection is documented and proven - ask for the inspection report, and see if there are any glaring things missing FOR YOU before you spend additional money at a shop.
Disclosure: managed a Porsche store for 7 years, and have hundreds of happy CPO clients. Yes, I expect to get flamed for having worked at a stealership, and, yes, dealer service pricing can suck, HOWEVER, CPO warranty work is closely monitored by PCNA, and they take it VERY seriously.
That may be and I believe you, but it doesn’t stop some dealers from doing shady things. Bought a CPO Macan that had warped rotors and a terrible squeak from the steering rack few miles after purchase. I was told to pound sand because it wasn’t covered. After that, I became a little weary.
I don’t know bro. Dealers get paid for the work CPO covers. Declining the work is saying, no we don’t want that free sale. It comes out of Porsche’s pocket, not the dealers.
This idea that dealers decline warranty work on purpose is hilarious and a sign many folks don’t understand how warranty work is actually paid for.
They said it wasn’t covered.
How many is a few miles? Was the steering rack squeak reproducible or intermittent?
And I have a bridge to sell you…
There are numerous complaints on this and other Porsche forums about CPO cars sold with obvious problems that would have never passed an actual inspection.
They certainly don’t do model specific things such as a bore scoring check on the affected m96 and m97 engines.
Nope - that is a very specific service procedure.
And, since CPO would only cover cars 12 model years or 122k miles from new, the 08 Cayman S that would be affected would be out of contention for Certification anyhow.
At that point, it’d be a straight-up used car, so anything goes.
You still can, however, ask a dealer to do the 144 point CPO inspection on a used car, and document as if it would be Certified. We did it often.