Aberdeen 911 Carrera S Service

[nigelonich]

What are the options for a 997 C2S service in Aberdeen T&C are nearly £500. Any ideas who the others are and how much and how good they are?

Cheers
N

[Curry Burns]

I'll do it for £350, I'm not a mechanic, but I'll have a bash .

[x200sxy]

Some people swear by Bavaria Autowerke, others wouldn't go near them.

I know it's not Porsche but I'm told AW Autotech on Ardarroch Road are apparently top notch on BMW/Alpinas and there was a 70s Ferrari 308 in there on Friday (my XJS was being fettled next door to them).

[wazza]

In the current economic climate, to have a modern Porsche missing an official main dealer service stamp will depreciate your car by a small fortune!!

[nigelonich]

Thanks for the £350 offer, ill consider it.

WRT the current economic climate, I have an A Class for the kids to be sick in and cutting about town and when I bought service items for it at the MB Dealer they persuded me to get them to do it by discounting the service charge!

I think that ill see if that applies at Porsche.

To me FPSH and FSH (with genuine parts) on a car in MOT world are not a world apart.

[stiglet]

wazza said:

In the current economic climate, to have a modern Porsche missing an official main dealer service stamp will depreciate your car by a small fortune!!

If it was a 996 or earlier it probably wouldn't matter (as much): but a 997....?

Do T & C not have some deal whereby you get "cheap" servicing if you only do X thousand miles per year?

[CGF993]

I have a 993 C4S and after an unsatisfactory service at T&C 3 years ago was recommended to go to Pitstop and have been getting my annual service carried out there since.
Graeme Davidson is the tec who carries out the Porsche work and no complaints from me at all.
Of course I dont have the issue of weighing up the service stamp being Porsche or indy as the car is 1997.
May be worth a call or asking others experience of pitstop

Chaz

Edited by CGF993 on Thursday 27th November 13:33

[CharlesW]

I have also heard good reports about Pitstop. However they were not keen to work on my Porsche that was still under the manufacturers warranty. If it's just a service they may do it.

[x200sxy]

pm me about recent service from Pitstop.

[gdr]

Had my 944 serviced at Pitstop many moons ago and thought they were very good (back then they were on Hutcheon St). Older guy that ran it knew his stuff. Am wondering about a 911 again as they are pretty good value these days so interested to hear who is currently considered to be the best independent garage if I get one outside OPC warranty.

[TWJPToyota]

gdr said:

Had my 944 serviced at Pitstop many moons ago and thought they were very good (back then they were on Hutcheon St). Older guy that ran it knew his stuff. Am wondering about a 911 again as they are pretty good value these days so interested to hear who is currently considered to be the best independent garage if I get one outside OPC warranty.

JD Motors in Insch are very good, handle anything with competance from 1 cyl to 16 cyl, reasonably priced and the train station is at there gate. Tel [phone]

[edinandrew]

Only my 2p but I would seriously recommend getting the OPC to do the service and then get the specialist to do any work required. Might just be me but I wouldn't look at a "current" model Porsche of any variant that didn't have full Porsche history and stamps. Especially now all these 997/987 variants only need servicing every 2 years or 20k miles - it's not daft money at an OPC anymore either.

[edinandrew]

P.S. Nice garage