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Eurotunnel Porsche tax

FZP said:
If you curb a rim, you can claim against Eurotunnel, so it's a way of reducing their liability.
Alternatively, it's a Porsche tax. I'm not cynical though🙄
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They weren't interested in compensating me for damaging the rims on my Vanquish when I was shown onto an upper deck. I tried for a long while, but they weren't interested.
 
FZP said:
If you curb a rim, you can claim against Eurotunnel, so it's a way of reducing their liability.
Alternatively, it's a Porsche tax. I'm not cynical though🙄
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I'd be astounded if they'd pay up for driver incompetence.
 
I sold my e46 m3 and transfered the ticket to my 997 4s. I had to pay more and was put on single carriage.

The car was said to be too low and wide.

Absolute joke. I paid £75 extra over the e46.
 
My experience today:

Had previously booked for a classic car I own that wasn’t on their ‘low and wide’ register (didn’t input numberplate). So paid the standard ‘middle’ fee (not the lowest rate my Mini would get, not the extra rate all Porsches get).

Arrived at the terminal in the 996, put in the booking reference and it spat out a hanger no problem. I then proceeded to join the standard double decker carriage (which is what I’d paid for).

So I got the service I wanted, and that I paid for - without having to pay the Porsche tax. Looks like I will have to do all bookings like this in the future :ninja:

I think if I’d either inputted a number plate, or used a different class of car for the booking (my mini) then it might well have wanted me to pay the tax.
 
AllatSea said:
Was on the Shuttle in May 2024, to do Route Napoleon, normally go in the DISCO 5 with the family, but was alone in my 986S, and defiantly went in the 'normal' bit of the train, because I'm normally in the high car one I particularly noticed. PTS GT3 Touring and GT3, in the normal carriage ahead, Belgian plates on their way home. Same last year on the way to Seville, both ways, 986S, both times in the standard carriage.

On my way to RN again in late Sept....I'll check.
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Booked today to take 986S next week and yes, they booked me on the double height and charged me the premium....
 
I have travelled on the tunnel since it opened - at which time passengers were shown onto the double decker carriages whatever car they were driving. These days (and as noted above) if you have a low and wide car, you are automatically assigned the larger single deck carriages. To be honest, I would rather pay the extra and not hit my wheels on the metal curbs - I don't see it as a 'Porsche tax', but simply a premium for having a wider car.
 
NDA said:
I have travelled on the tunnel since it opened - at which time passengers were shown onto the double decker carriages whatever car they were driving. These days (and as noted above) if you have a low and wide car, you are automatically assigned the larger single deck carriages. To be honest, I would rather pay the extra and not hit my wheels on the metal curbs - I don't see it as a 'Porsche tax', but simply a premium for having a wider car.
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The point of this thread is that not all Porsches are a wide car! No problem to pay more if you want the width or do have a wider model. But seems odd to charge wee classics the same as a 992 GT3RS.
 
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