Parts prices to affect values ????

[Jamie Summers]

Just wondering what (if any) effect the recent hike in parts prices from Porsche themselves may have on our cars ? Clearly in one stroke of an accountant's pen our cars have become more expensive to maintain thanks to "harmonisation".

I'm really not sure what the impact will be, but it certainly won't be immediate. One might now argue that it will have a negative impact on the harder used RS, as the cost to bring it up to top standard has just gone up by c.50%. The flipside ought to be a preservation, or indeed, increase in the value of the better examples.

I wonder whether this might actually price a lot of people out of RS ownership and ensure that those of us who use them as their maker intended are a little more circumspect about doing so ?

Could Porsche have just killed the 964 RS market in one easy step ?

Your thoughts ........................

Jamie

 

[Matt]

jamie
you're right - values will plummit with immediate effect.

Best get out whilst the going is good. I'll give you £15k for your car. Offer only open until tomorrow however. and you'll have to drop it round to me as well as its not worth me getting out of bed for at that price...[]

matt



(sorry for flippant reply mate - been a looong week...[&:])

 

[Stewart H]

If your clutch still has some wear in it, I'll give you £15,001 so I can break it for spares and make a fortune plus increase the value of mine by reducing the total number of RSs by one[] Only if it has originaal wheels of course...

 

[Jamie Summers]

Right then, Matt seeing as you were first in the queue, make it £20 and it's yours

Jamie

 

[carreraboy]

Jamie the 964RS Price crash is coming, particularly those horrible unfinished N-GT and Cup Cars....[] I would get out now particularly if you have a right hooker...[]

 

[Jamie Summers]

I hear you Des, someone please take this depreciating liability off my hands ..............

 

[Matt]

ORIGINAL: Jamie Summers

I hear you Des, someone please take this depreciating liability off my hands ..............

told you it was bad news Jamie - now you can't even give the thing away...

tell you what - you give me £20 and I'll take the car off your hands for you....

(as Des said - just thank your lucky stars you don't have one of those even noisier & bumpier ones with no carpets...and poor old Mel - apparantly someone painted his to look like an ice cream van...must be worth even less.....[])

 

[RSGulp]

Too bad it's this week and not last Jamie. You could have given the car away to a poor, unsuspecting trick or treater and got rid of it before it loses you any more money. []

 

[George Elliott]

Jamie, one effect is to slow up the supply of replica's and copy rs's which have emerged in recent years. I guess a rep Bill of Matl's is now £15k steeper to put together, which if you think it thru makes one cost say 50k, 60k, completed - and therefore a real one is worth ??% more........
And of course do a bit for wendelin towards outright vw ownership in the process.
George
944t
964rs

 

[Jamie Summers]

George,
That is a very good point, I hadn't thought of it from that angle. It will be interesting to see whether 9m and Jasmine put up the prices for their replicas. The overlap with early GT3s from a price point of view is going to get even bigger ...........

Matt / Rich,
Looks like I've missed the opportunity to get rid of the car, so out of pure selflessness I've decided not to dilute the market further and will have to keep it .............

Jamie