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No ..... it's at least 100K miles (not klms). Thats what I have been told. The discs at over £2k per corner should last many hundreds of '000s miles.
Make that £4k per corner. The rear pads on my PCCB car are still the originals and I've got 43k on the clock and a few track miles.
Funny thing. I have just taken the extended warranty, 111 point check and all that, and I have RS 29s..........no problem (fitted by OPC too). However, according to the policy document, pads and discs aren't covered by the warranty as they are wear and tear items so it's somewhat irrelevant which type of pad is fitted (?) (unless they claim the engine blow up was down to non-OEM brake pads..........[
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With all due respect Clive, and I do see where you're coming from, none of this applies to an extended OPC warranty. It's a contract that you do not have to take out if you don't want to: It's not forced on you, and there are benefits to not having it. All they ask is that you read the terms and conditions and if you don't agree with them, then you don't have to sign it and are free to take your business elsewhere. Part of that contract stipulates that you must only use OEM parts, and if you do not then the policy is void and they don't have to pay out. It's no more complicated than that, and any relation to unfair terms is incorrect and any legal challenge based on that is going to fail. As an insurance policy, it is very fair for the covering company to attempt to mitigate their losses and the only way they can do this (short of putting a black box on your car and monitoring your actual driving!) is to stipulate that you have to use parts of a certain quality. It also means that Porsche get a nice kickback indirectly from every policy sold long-term as well. The key exclusion sections are as follows: 2. A claim made under Your Policy for the repair or replacement of a defective system or component shall be invalid if: c) Service, repair or maintenance has previously been performed on the Vehicle by You or by a third party who is not an authorised Porsche Centre/ Authorised Porsche Service Centre; or d) Genuine Porsche Parts have not been fitted to Your Vehicle; or e) The Vehicle has been modified in a manner not formally approved by Us or the Manufacturer, irrespective of whether the modification took place before or during the Period of Cover; or They couldn't make it any clearer, really. Do I agree that a lot is made of the extended warranty conditions? Absolutely, but it's also very important that people understand just how separate it is from block exemption rules that help the customer in the first two years of the car's life. The EU saw fit to step in and protect people there as there was no choice with regards to warranty selection on a brand new car, but there is once that warranty has expired. I have the extended warranty and as much as I would love to go and put a set of Supersports on or a good set of Pagids or the GT3 ARBs, I know that my warranty is invalid if I do so, and so I stick to the rules that I was very much aware of when I took the policy out. If the engine/gearbox doesn't go pop whilst under warranty then I've pretty much wasted my money, but if it does there's no way I want to take the risk of them not paying out. To be fair there's a hell of a lot out there on this subject already, so I think I'll call it a day before I bore everyone to tears! Incidentally, do you declare your mods to your insurance company? Again, you should do and I know I have, as I don't want to take the risk of not getting paid out should the worst come to the worst.
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