AFJufat. What you are seeing with your Porsche customers is not limited to Porsches. My best friend owns a shop and he gets it from all type of car owners. Says its "normal".
What adds insult to injury is the relationship between cost of ownership vs. value of car. My father owns a Ferrari 348ts that he bought 5 years ago for $55k. It is still worth $55k(+). Although both of us do our own work, due to time contstraints, he paid to have a Ferrari shop do the 25k service. It was $10,000. In their defense, they do ALOT to the car. He paid the bill with no issues.
Now, with a 944 that you paid $3-6k for, and get a $2500 bill for clutch and belt job, they freak.
Think of this. If you can easily afford to pay big repair bills, most likely you are not buying an older 944.
And, I disagree with the performance issues. Yes, it is down on power. But at the last PCA autocross last weekend, my 87na 944 took 2nd place OVERALL against all sorts of Boxters, 911's and 914s. The ONLY car to beat me was a dedicated 911 race car with a very good driver, and that was only by .5 seconds. I held TToD untill his last run.
I love my baby.
