Clive, I had "company" cars all my working life and during the last 20 years these were my choice premium makes. I had a succession of brand new BMWs and Mercedes, each one on a 3 year contract. So my mind set is still to change every 3 years. While working our 'second' cars were always convertible ...

Welcome SteveRams With a Porsche, where there is no discount and no dealer or manufacturing contribution [£'000s] on a factory order Macan, So buy it outright for cash if you can. Treat is a well deserved retirement gift. :D The man maths works because interest rates on bank / building society / ISA...

Regarding prices, maybe I should have shopped around more but my usual place was much more expensive than Porsche (and I like the idea of the work being done by Porsche themselves). Regarding the amount of tread left then yes I agree, there was loads of tread left. I did suggest to the Porsche deal...

The future of mass transport?

A Macan features.....but not in a good way!

Just checked ATS Euromaster [Michelin owned tyre distributor] and I see that a set of 4 x Michelin Latitude Tour HP in Porsche approved NO tyres in your sizes comes out at £575.96 fully fitted. You quote the Porsche dealer charging £619. ATS are far from the cheapest too. There are several reputable...

Regarding the Pirelli failure on Chilgrove's Macan, it's difficult to say the cause of this without seeing a section - could be lack of under tread between bottom of groove and thr steel belt. If it was not in the tread centre I would have suspected an issue with suspension- but 31k mileage not bad ...

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Sun Aug 11, 2019 9:28 pm

Interesting post. Photo is not the best, can't quite make out where the damage is, I would have liked to have seen better pics.

Me too.

Regarding the original poster's "1. All the switches surrounding the gear lever need to be re-positioned to suit a right-hand drive vehicle. In particular, the “sport” button is impossible to locate and use without a high level of driver distraction. It should be adjacent to the driver not the passe...

Using the same insurer? Which company?

Here's the official Porsche GB website http://tyreselector.porsche.com/widget/gb