Porsche OPC Courtesy Car question????

[knightrider]

Hi

I was just curious, say if you gave your car into a Porsche OPC for some repair work or servicing and they gave you a courtesy car for a few days e.g a new Cayman. Say you then took that car to a trackday before giving it back to them, do you think they would notice its been tracked, and if so how?

Regards

 

[chrismouzou]

poss the car will no have track day insurance to do track days big risk

 

[Dylan1]

they would be able to tell immediately, and next time your car is in for a service they will take yours for a trackday instead of servicing it[]

 

[knightrider]

ORIGINAL: dyllan

they would be able to tell immediately, and next time your car is in for a service they will take yours for a trackday instead of servicing it[]

lol that's a good answer, have to disagree though as how would they be able to tell immediately?

 

[THX911]

Insurance is about the only issue; OPC or any loan car company would except you will drive a courtesy car like you stole it anyway...

 

[Rotorhead]

I think you sign a disclaimer which specifically excludes such use.

Personally, if I am given a Courtesy car, I treat it as I would expect the garage to treat my car. Surely, it's all to do with respect, goodwill and trust.

 

[jasonp]

ORIGINAL: oliver

I think you sign a disclaimer which specifically excludes such use.

Personally, if I am given a Courtesy car, I treat it as I would expect the garage to treat my car. Surely, it's all to do with respect, goodwill and trust.

yes,nail on head, oliver, i would like to think its about trust and goodwill otherwise how would things be? regards jason p

 

[Rodney Naghar]

ORIGINAL: oliver

I think you sign a disclaimer which specifically excludes such use.

Personally, if I am given a Courtesy car, I treat it as I would expect the garage to treat my car. Surely, it's all to do with respect, goodwill and trust.

Totally agree.

 

[unclewinks]

Do you not think that opc's reads these conversations I know exeter does.

 

[adrian996]

Is this a joke? When you sign for the courtesy car the small print says that the car is insured for nothing other than commuting and 'social' driving. I think they'd nail you if they discovered a few millimetres missing from the tread of the tyres and a smouldering clutch![]
They'd also soon prove that you'd tracked it as any 'track' will have a record of your reg plate and (I would think) some sort of insurance record too.

Having said this I once read a post on here from one member to another stating that he'd seen the other one's yellow 993 (Turbo?) being driven "enthusiastically" 'round a roundabout near to where he lives with two OPC mechs in it! Apparently it was proved that the OPC had let the two tw*ts take the car out!! I think that it was quite late at night too - certainly it was after hours!!

 

[Porrohman]

I am also under the impression that they plug their computer in to see if the engine has been over revved as they do on the 111 point check. I have always thought that the OPC's are pretty good with courtesy cars (I have been lent a new 911 Turbo and a new Cayenne GTS in the past) and that their goodwill should not be abused.

 

[garyw]

ORIGINAL: Porrohman
their goodwill should not be abused.

Completely agree..
However I've treated this as a joke and its the first time I've ever heard such a question asked..[8|]

garyw

 

[dilloncallum]

My business partner attened a track day and found that his car was being used by the garage as a track car.

He was not amused.

Also, it was not a Porsche.

But the question does bring up the trust element.

If you are lent a 'courtesy car' it is just that, a 'courtesy' and whilst you may use your car for track days and the like, the vast majority of people do not and I am sure the dealer that lent you the car would (have the right) to be pretty pissed to find that the car has come back with tyres that have lost a vast amount of tread and brakes that have lost the pad use.

I am sure anyone that found their car being used on a track without permission would be pretty pissed off, dealer or private individual alike.

If you want to track a Porsche, why not just pay and do the Silverstone Porsche day. Its not the same as a fully fledged track day, but you can fling around a new Porsche for a couple of hours and wont piss anyone off (in the unlikely event) that you came off the road / track.

 

[Melv]

Can't believe this q is being asked!!![8|]

Like many 'privileges'............abuse it and it will be withdrawn....[&:]

 

[Dylan1]

like many here i too assumed it was a joke.!

 

[Rodney Naghar]

It's a serious question that's Bern posted on Pistonheads as well, and given the same responses.

 

[knightrider]

lol rodney it was me who posted it, just to set the record straight I have not done this and have no intention of doing so. it does raise the question however about whether it is ever worth purchasing a car from an OPC that has been used as a courtesy car - who knows what kind of abuse it may have been subjected to in its poor life....

 

[geoff lane]

Just to turn the situation around and in answer to Knightriders comment on courtesy cars, when I did my Silverstone experience at Porsche's invitation I asked what happened to the cars being used and was told that after a period of time (not sure how long) they are checked over and sold through the OPC's as ex demonstrators.
So who knows what sort of life the 6 month old ex demonstrator has had, how many drivers, and how hard a life etc etc.

 

[Dylan1]

indeed!!

remembering the way I and the instructor thrashed the car round silverstone,not sure i`d want to buy one[]

mind you ,i guess they can take a fair bit of stick-not as tho they are eastern/american junk buckets[]