Front brake pads at 58k miles: $756!

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We all learn that its cheaper to go to an independent Porsche specialist the hard way when first venturing into the brand, particularly if this is your first sports car.
An easy mistake to make because Porsches are uncommon cars and most corner mechanics will not touch (nor do they know how) your Boxster.

Granted, today its much much easier because we have the internets and everyone has an email address.

But you're not out of the woods yet if you car has close to 60K miles. You'll be entering the 'high mileage' side of Porsche ownership soon. Take this $400-$500 overpayment as an early warning to locate an Indy that is recommended by other Porsche owners. Then you can "average in" the cost of your luxury brake job with other fixes vs. sticking with the stealership. I just did major maintenace (clutch, flywheel, IMS upgrade, axle boots, 02 sensors, brake and coolant flush plus a new starter and alternator that both failed) and it ran about $6K through an Indy, the dealer would have charged about $13K--but he gives you free sandwiches, a shoe shine, dounuts, all the Diet cokes you can down and they wash your car! Most of that was from the clutch which required other fixes be made if you're going to go through the trouble of dropping the trans. Bottom line, put a away a couple of hundred every month money market account for major maintenace.