Geesh! Current Porsche Colors Mostly Suck!, Henry Ford All Over Again - Black, Black or Black! Options

[Tom_T]

Geesh! Current Porsche Colors Mostly Suck! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)

Just venting my frustration over my now 2nd year of hunting for a Cayenne S! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

That's including wasting the first 14+/- months trying to find a 2006 CayS Titanium Edition in that 6 month only "continuation model" Iceland Silver - a light silvery blue metallic, similar to my 85 BMW 325e's Cosmos Blue. After looking at 6-10 really nice appearing low mile 28-55k mile ones - none of which could confirm if they did or werre previously had them done by a PO for the dreaded V8 plastic to metal coolant pipe update! A few other high cost predicted failure items in the Sereis 1A (or 1) 03-06 version (headlight/composite units heat failures at a $1-2k per side to replace, rear hatch strut failures at $700+ every 2-3 years, etc.).

So we've moved on to the 2008-10 Series 1A (or 2) & maybe 2011-13 of the Series 2 (or 3A) Cayenne S, where we probably should've been in the first place due to the improvements.

Preferably one with both the factory tow hitch receiver & rear camera already installed - (the latter requires Nav/PCM to also be optioned), & preferably shod with 18" or 19" or 20" factory wheels (maybe factory 21") with proper N-Spec tires.

We're not too picky on interior colors - preferring Gray or Tan, but prefer to stay away from the darker Black & Brown due to both heat & showing too much dirt easily.

Now we're not overly picky on paint colors either, since we can accept the Blue, Silver, Dark Grey, & Gold/Jarama Metallic colors just fine & maybe even White - but not the other odd & cop-attracting colors (RED! & ORANGE!).

Black is NOT favored since it's such a PITA to keep clean & looking nice .... & our CayS will primarily be towing our restored vintage 1960 Avion T20 (#2 off the line - looks like an Airstream but better!) to vintage trailer events - so black will look cruddy all the time at those!

I feel like I'm back in the 19-teens & twenties looking at Ford Model T's - you know: "You can have any color, as long as it's black!" - as ole Henry I used to say! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

I mean really - how friggin' many BLACK & BLACK-on-BLACK & BLACK-on-BLACK-with-BLACKOUT-Trim did Porsche have to make!? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Just not my taste all blacked out - but black with a tan interior & chrome/metal brightwork does look sharp to my eye - just not to keeping it clean!

Couldn't Porsche have offered/offer a CHOICE of decent colors!? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I thought I'd found "the perfect one" in a 2-owner 45,000 mile 2008 CayS in Marine Blue on Havanna/Sahara Biege Interior with the factory rear camera, but the DAPO had "improved" it with upsized non-factory 22" wheels & non-Porsche-spec tires - both of which rears had sidewall splits in them + the 4% speedo/odometer error.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

.... Plus he had swapped out the excellent factory upgraded BOSE Audio/Nav/PCM for some supposedly "better" aftermarket unit - along with who knows what else was hacked-up on the harness since the rear camera now opend/closed every time a door opened or the key was turned - rather just opening when put in reverse & close when taken out!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

It was well cared for & maintained - but those above both prevented me from even taking a test drive (no blowouts on my dime!) nor considering it further without them all fixed (I could swap wheels/tires with another fool with a factory set later, & can get the factory tow hitch installed for $1200-2000 at a dealer).

A lesson for you folks - do NOT hack up your electrical harnesses with your "improvements" - especially not with the newer cars where all of the onboard computers, sensors, ECUs, Obi-wan-kanob-I's & -II's, etc. are linked together! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Nuff said.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Feel free to shoot me a PM or email if you hear of a likely 2008-12-ish Cayenne S candidate in our colors etc.! TIA! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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[Tom_T]

Thanx Darren - cool!

PS - I like the SS DeLorean in the reflection too!

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PS - the upcharge for paint to order of a Porsche color on the Cayenne is $6700-7600+ last I saw - & more for paint to sample - plus Porsche has to approve doing your color, which they apparently often do not do - not $3-4k!

First off - the CayS is now a V6 3.6L TT - not a normally aspirated V8 & the Turbo V8 comes with the Air Suspension which I don't want - so ordering a "paint to match" new 2016> Cayenne is out for us.

Besides, I cannot see putting $80-100+k into something which will sit more than 200-250 days a year!

Because I office at home & only go out for meetings - & fly then rent cars on biz trips, & my wife works 2 miles away, most shopping is close & kids are grown & gone so we've been just a shade over 5,000/yr on both cars combined since about 2010. Since July `12 we've been renting big a$$ed F250/Ram 2500's pick-ups to tow our trailer for another +/- 2000 miles/yr.

So our CayS will serve perhaps only 3-5,000 miles/yr. primarily as a tow vehicle, plus as a back-up 3rd DD car, & for PCA fun events & my required bi-annual Concours entry until the 914 resto is done - then towing that for maybe a year or 2 to do Full Concours while it's still clean, then I'll just drive it for fun!

I can do a lot of other things than tie up the $60+k difference between $20-40k for an `08-12 CayS & $80-100+k for a new one.

Anyway - if you really want a new one - the smartest play is to find a 1-3 year old one still under the original factory warranty at a Porsche dealer, then get it with their Porsche CPO out to 10 years & 100,000 iles - & let someone else take the 25% value loss driving it off the new car lot & another +/- 20% every year thereafter.

Imagine a clean 1 owner 2 year old Porsche with about 10,000 miles on it, & buying it with an 8 year/90,000 mile CPO! That's about double the 48month/50k mile original factory warranty - & getting it for 25-30% off sticker price when new!

Still too much for our needs though!

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Tom
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