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Originally Posted by dreamingat30fps
I dipped my toes with the Cayenne. Sure it's not a 911 or Cayman, but it gave me a feel for the ownership experience and I honestly didn't care for it. While I could afford a 911 or Cayman, it doesn't mean I like blatantly getting ripped off at every turn and then expected to pretend to like it.
The dealership experience was not great even under warranty and I tried 2 different dealers. Long wait just to get in, half the time couldn't even get a loaner unless you wait even longer. They would keep the car for a week sometimes without even looking at it until the last day then not doing anything. It was a pita to get them to fix stuff and some stuff they just refused to fix.
I almost bought a Boxster before getting the Miata and the whole experience was just shitty. I specifically wanted a manual and everytime they would get one in I would contact my sales guy and he would either tell me the car wasn't available to view yet (going through inspection) or ghost me then eventually say it sold. I'm 99% sure they were selling them to their "friends" or customers who are buying brand new GT3s or whatever with markups etc. The whole thing felt very pompous. No thanks.
I liked the Cayenne, but not enough to justify everything else. Honestly how many 911 owners are actually driving the cars hard enough to benefit from the minimal incremental improvement in power, handling, whatever vs much cheaper alternatives? My guess is almost none.
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This was also my experience. So my issue was that my transmission would sometimes have slow shifts when driving aggressively from 2-3 and 3-4. It was a substantial delay of over 750ms to up to 1.5s between shifts which is NOTHING like the PDK normally is. It was a huge buzzkill while you waited for it to decide to change gears. I did a M-Eng TCU tune, and sure it shifted faster, but it still occasionally wouldn't shift correctly. What was necessary was a full relearn of the TCU with PIWIS, but of course, it required a special snowflake version that none of the porsche shops had other than the dealer.
Porsche North Scottsdale can burn down for all I care because they treat their customers like shit.
Porsche Chandler, which I got the car from, had the car for ages and didn't do much to it other than bullshit me that it was going to "take time" when we damn well know it's hooking up a laptop with PIWIS and starting the service operation and let it do it's thing. I never got a loaner, or even so much as "shit man sorry your 283k car drives like shit from the factory" after being gaslight that I was using the car wrong. I had to go film videos of me driving the car to reproduce the issue again and again before they even would decide to take it in to look at it. Why? Because they didn't want me to just drive it to them and demonstrate it to the techs. They were not able to do it themselves. (Then they couldn't reproduce the issue)