Another car, another thread.
With the news of my wife being pregnant, 2 months to go at the time of writing (it's a boy!), my first thought was obviously new car time! It didn't take me long to decide on a Cayenne, she doesn't like estate cars, a hatch would be too small and the boot on a saloon may be challenging,we both fancied something high up although most high up non estate cars tend to be diesels which are a no no as I feel the government wasnt to phase them out and in additon, most tend to be unreliable which ruled out the 2nd inline choice of a BMW X5 4.8. A shame as I test drove one and I couldn't fault it, with it being much much much more modern inside compared to the 957 Cayenne and generally newer looking, after driving it, I couldn't stop seeing them on the back of AA trucks, so I just kept returning to search for Cayennes. I would have loved a Macan but the budget doesn't stretch, the Cayenne is pushing it on the size factor and I'm going to have to see how the wife gets on with it while we still live in suburbia. So, I had always liked the Cayenne and being in love with the Porsche brand, it made sense to add a 4th to the collection. Realising they do a GTS version which had alcantara and nice bits on it, it had to be one of those!
I have been looking for one since October/November and just wasn't finding much, they either pop up and disappear really quick or they have remained on sale for months and months for whatever reason. They always seem to be black which I really really didn't want as black is my nightmare colour to maintain and on a car the size of a house, multiply that by 2!
To cut a long story short, I found my perfect one albeit, more miles than I wanted but I started to get a little desperate due to time, I wanted to get a car that I could get up to my standards before all my time is occupied with the baby.
The car I found was silver which is great as that is my favourite colour on a car, it had the wheels I wanted, full history and all the options I wanted and more.
I contacted the owner and a deal was done. In the time I was awaiting a good opportunity to go and get the car, I managed to locate the previous owner and spoke to him, a lovely guy who told me about his time with the car, who the 1st owner was and the various bits of work which was carried out on the car in his time. This was brilliant for me, I love to know everything I can find out about a car I own and to get this kind of contact and info was priceless. I was sent old pictures, info on jobs done and original brochure.
This all gave me confidence in the car and as it was 300 miles away, it helped, I normally don't like buying cars that take longer than an hour to get to as I have had my time wasted so many times with dishonest sellers, an exception was made here.
So here is the car based on some pics from the 2nd owner, I am now the 4th.
Collection day begun with an alarm at an obscene time on a Sunday and a train journey from South London to the North!
A ride to the tube to get to then get to Kings Cross...
Reading material (Can't believe mags are £5 each now!)
Started getting dizzy up there..
Collected from the station, good look around the car and then to a pub to go through paperwork and details over a pint (I love Northerners!)
The car was generally as described, lots of paperwork, a great owner who was a copper and his wife used it mostly, it could be described as an honest used car, I love this as once I have finished with it, the results are much more noticeable. There was one thing which I wasn't aware of and it did kind of put me off the car as I hate this kind of thing.. I was warned about the rear doors too! It is just the one door so it won't be costly to repair and the price did reflect this in the end so not too bad, just an extra hassle to have sorted.
I will seal it up the best I can for now, make sure the wife is comfortable with the car and then book it in to be repaired. I will do some preventative stuff on the other side too! It looks to have begun from stone chips, this area of the door seems to catch stones, just like 911 lower rear arches! Doh!! Will 3M PPF this at some point.
After a drink and waiting too long for the payment to go across, I was homeward bound! First fill of V power from near empty, £121!
I got home after 310 miles, 5 hours 5 minutes, 10:30pm.
With the news of my wife being pregnant, 2 months to go at the time of writing (it's a boy!), my first thought was obviously new car time! It didn't take me long to decide on a Cayenne, she doesn't like estate cars, a hatch would be too small and the boot on a saloon may be challenging,we both fancied something high up although most high up non estate cars tend to be diesels which are a no no as I feel the government wasnt to phase them out and in additon, most tend to be unreliable which ruled out the 2nd inline choice of a BMW X5 4.8. A shame as I test drove one and I couldn't fault it, with it being much much much more modern inside compared to the 957 Cayenne and generally newer looking, after driving it, I couldn't stop seeing them on the back of AA trucks, so I just kept returning to search for Cayennes. I would have loved a Macan but the budget doesn't stretch, the Cayenne is pushing it on the size factor and I'm going to have to see how the wife gets on with it while we still live in suburbia. So, I had always liked the Cayenne and being in love with the Porsche brand, it made sense to add a 4th to the collection. Realising they do a GTS version which had alcantara and nice bits on it, it had to be one of those!
I have been looking for one since October/November and just wasn't finding much, they either pop up and disappear really quick or they have remained on sale for months and months for whatever reason. They always seem to be black which I really really didn't want as black is my nightmare colour to maintain and on a car the size of a house, multiply that by 2!
To cut a long story short, I found my perfect one albeit, more miles than I wanted but I started to get a little desperate due to time, I wanted to get a car that I could get up to my standards before all my time is occupied with the baby.
The car I found was silver which is great as that is my favourite colour on a car, it had the wheels I wanted, full history and all the options I wanted and more.
I contacted the owner and a deal was done. In the time I was awaiting a good opportunity to go and get the car, I managed to locate the previous owner and spoke to him, a lovely guy who told me about his time with the car, who the 1st owner was and the various bits of work which was carried out on the car in his time. This was brilliant for me, I love to know everything I can find out about a car I own and to get this kind of contact and info was priceless. I was sent old pictures, info on jobs done and original brochure.
This all gave me confidence in the car and as it was 300 miles away, it helped, I normally don't like buying cars that take longer than an hour to get to as I have had my time wasted so many times with dishonest sellers, an exception was made here.
So here is the car based on some pics from the 2nd owner, I am now the 4th.
Collection day begun with an alarm at an obscene time on a Sunday and a train journey from South London to the North!
A ride to the tube to get to then get to Kings Cross...
Reading material (Can't believe mags are £5 each now!)
Started getting dizzy up there..
Collected from the station, good look around the car and then to a pub to go through paperwork and details over a pint (I love Northerners!)
The car was generally as described, lots of paperwork, a great owner who was a copper and his wife used it mostly, it could be described as an honest used car, I love this as once I have finished with it, the results are much more noticeable. There was one thing which I wasn't aware of and it did kind of put me off the car as I hate this kind of thing.. I was warned about the rear doors too! It is just the one door so it won't be costly to repair and the price did reflect this in the end so not too bad, just an extra hassle to have sorted.
I will seal it up the best I can for now, make sure the wife is comfortable with the car and then book it in to be repaired. I will do some preventative stuff on the other side too! It looks to have begun from stone chips, this area of the door seems to catch stones, just like 911 lower rear arches! Doh!! Will 3M PPF this at some point.
After a drink and waiting too long for the payment to go across, I was homeward bound! First fill of V power from near empty, £121!
I got home after 310 miles, 5 hours 5 minutes, 10:30pm.