Ppi

[urseppos]

Had a car PPI'd & all was clear. Bought said car, car delivered, drove car about 10 miles and now she is in the shop and the bills have surpassed $4k & still climbing. The shop that has the car currently believes the car wasn't PPI'd and or they purposely turned a blind eye. The shop owner played the part of "I'm not sure where the owner is" whilst he was the one I was speaking with & then finally fessed up, wtf ?

Do I have any recourse ?

[Matt Monson]

No recourse.

You don't say what level of PPI you got nor do you say what is wrong with the car now. I can find $4k of work on any old 911 if I'm looking for it.

[Rick Brooklyn]

Is that for the GT3 you were looking at recently?

[mulsanne79]

Originally Posted by Matt Monson

I can find $4k of work on any old 911 if I'm looking for it.

Yep. Very true.

[specialtyoneinc]

What car did you buy? More details.

[Rick Brooklyn]

My car passed ppi yet I've pissed some $15k into it over a year and a half. Thing is, most PPIs are shyte, and things on a 10+ year old car can puke shortly after a PPI for nobody's fault anyway.

[Matt Monson]

Damn. Mad max is unusually bitter today.

[wildthing]

Who picked the mechanic?

[manbridge 74]

Techs are generally paid 1.5 hours to do a basic Ppi meaning without leakdown/compression test. Some heaps I've seen could've had 6hrs spent and a guy could still not find every issue.

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by urseppos

The shop owner played the part of "I'm not sure where the owner is" whilst he was the one I was speaking with & then finally fessed up, wtf ?

Can someone translate this sentence into English?

[Toast54]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

Can someone translate this sentence into English?

Shop owner acted like an employee, then admitted he wasn't...whiskey tango foxtrot

[Matt Monson]

Originally Posted by Toast54

Shop owner acted like an employee, then admitted he wasn't...whiskey tango foxtrot

But why? To what end? Why was the owner being requested, to complain about the ppi or something else?

[techweenie]

If the shop doing the PPI had a relationship with the customer, the PPI is suspect.

There are a lot of shops around with high integrity, but if you, a distant, one-time customer, spending a few hundred are expecting the same treatment as a long time customer looking the shop owner in the eye, you may find some shops get selective blindness.

[manbridge 74]

And these shops should be called out if blatant disregard is evident. I would never sign off on even my best customer/friends car in a PPI. These things wil come back on you in the worst way.

[Macroni]

if it is the GT3..... there was a reason many passed on that car prior to you......

[Rick Brooklyn]

But if $4k sorts out the car it's still a pretty good buy imo

[1979-930]

^^^ Amen to that. $4k is Pocket change in the Porsche ownership world.


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[Matt Monson]

$4k won't get you a clutch and coolant pinned on a gt3

[Rick Brooklyn]

OP, where you at? Tell us more.

And unless the car is catastrophically compromised, fix what needs fixing, chalk it up to bad luck (not even particularly bad, just slightly worse than average) and drive the piss out of that beautiful car.

[bpu699]

All of these cars need something. Unless you paid for a top dollar restored car, don't expect one.

A ppi is to look for major red flags. Huge issues.

I honestly think people buy a used 40 year old car and expect new car standards...