POLL - Who is ON a warranty and who is OFF Warranty (risking it all)

[pbanders]

'03 Boxster w/Tip, 40K, extended warranty from Warranty Direct. Drive the car as I feel it should be driven, all regular maintance. RMS replaced under factory warranty just as it expired. Got my extended warranty because of the reputation of this engine to have catastrophic failures long before it reaches a "normal" rebuild or replacement mileage. For me, "normal" is 150K for top end, 200K+ for bottom end on a well-maintained motor - those figures are minimums for the stock late air-cooled flat 6 Porsche engines that these water cooled motors (with supposedly better reliability) replaced.

If I have an engine failure under my WD coverage, I expect it will be a battle like thenavarro had, but this is a weekend car and I've got plenty of time and energy to get my claim honored. If my WD coverage runs out and the car is still working fine, I'm going to sell it and upgrade to a later model Boxster ('05+).

[Chris02BoxsterS]

'02 Boxster S - 22K miles no warrenty, bought in '07 2nd owner with 20K, RMS done under warrenty by previous owner. Weekend occasional use plus 1 DE where is was heavily thrashed, I expected the brakes would last more than 3 laps on PS2's ... Just installed full Fabspeed exh and Evo intake no dyno #'s yet.

[986FortyEight]

'98 Boxster 2.5 with 125,000 miles. Was my daily driver until last month. Now it's my fun car only.
Slight RMS leak and saving for a clutch-kit / lightweight flywheel before taking the tranny out.
No warranty. I do my work but have a great local indy in case of more complex work.
If the engine goes I will upgrade. The car is paid off and at this point it's all about upgrading and making it the best racing car I can afford! I am looking at what Raby does and I am very interested...

[brp987]

no warranty and did my own ppi.

'01S @30k mi. 5k mi were mine. Weekend touring car. Had to put on a rear wheel bearing, otherwise no probs. The rest of the car would have to be in very good condition to justify the cost of a swap. I've built air cooled 6's and would do some of the work on the box if it came to that.

[rick3000]

When I bought the car two years ago the dealer offered me a 3y/36k mile warranty on my '99 Boxster with 17k miles. I got the warranty for $3k. Initially it was worth it because the previous owner had let the car sit and the warranty covered the $1k vacuum leak and bent engine plate.
But lately the warranty has not been used, and the Boxster has been very reliable. When the warranty is up I will probably just put $3k in a saving account or CD for any future repairs, unless I can find something like a 10k/100k engine only warranty for about the same price.

[eVoMotion]

02S - 2nd owner. 35K miles. Bought from dealer with Porsche Certified Warranty for 2years.

So far I have paid for:
Passenger wheel bearing - $700
Coolant leak around the base of the bottle - $279

now it sounds like the driver's rear is making noise - another $700.

Warranty coverage to date - $0.00

[23109VC]

Originally Posted by eVoMotion

02S - 2nd owner. 35K miles. Bought from dealer with Porsche Certified Warranty for 2years.

So far I have paid for:
Passenger wheel bearing - $700
Coolant leak around the base of the bottle - $279

now it sounds like the driver's rear is making noise - another $700.

Warranty coverage to date - $0.00

that's one of the downsides to the certified warranty - it's NOT a bumper to bumper "everything is covered" warranty - some of these little items they won't pay for - so you do get coverage for the big ticket items - but on these cars it's the little stuff that nickel and dimes you to death.

i've been lucky so far. in 6 months of ownership i've "only" had two vacuum leaks and now a water pump leaking. each vacuum leak was about $200 in parts/labor to fix. the water pump is close to $600-700 at the independent....

i figure i'll eventually need a clutch... i'm at 75k miles. but my car is a weekend toy.

if/when I lose the motor - i'll decide if I want to keep the car long term or not. If I do - i'd likely do a 3.4 swap. as the car is a third/toy car - i could take my time until I felt comfortable blowing the funds on the motor swap.

you have to admit - it would be a real blast to have a 3.4L powerplant in this car.

the one thing i would consider is how much I culd sell the car for in it's damaged condition. then look at the cost of newer boxsters. given the recession, poor reslae, you might be able to find a newer 986S or 987S for a price that wouldn't be THAT much more than the cost of an $$ swap. ??? it would be MORE for the car, but how MUCH more? given that you'd be getting a newer car that will have all the other items newer - electrical, suspension, brakes, transmission, etc et cetc... you might be smarte to just get a newer boxster, sell the broken one, and eat any "loss"...