My friend loves his Cayenne Turbo. Has 140k miles on it, he had to do the coolant pipes and replaced the control arms, but that's it. It out tows his V10 Dodge pickup.
My friend loves his Cayenne Turbo. Has 140k miles on it, he had to do the coolant pipes and replaced the control arms, but that's it. It out tows his V10 Dodge pickup.
docwyte wrote: replaced the control arms
Interesting point of note... The 2006 Cayenne Turbo S front lower control arms are the same price as all of the others, but offers better bushings. V6, S, and Turbo all share the same LCAs, but the TTS got an upgrade. If you ever need to replace them on a "standard" car, use the TTS control arms.
Yup, that's what he used.
I was seriously considering one before I bought my Avalanche, but decided I wanted a truck to throw dirty tires and parts into at the track instead of trying to keep the back of a Cayenne clean.
They do seem like they are getting very cheap though. Maybe I could convince the wife she needs one...
Have a friend that owned him - he thought he owned it until it came off warranty!
He compounded his mistake by replacing it with a BMW Z5M. Same thing but with even worse mileage.
Unless one is dead set on trying to impress the neighbours, I'd think a much wiser choice and a much cheaper one would be to buy an American SUV. But then I don't get the whole SUV thing anyway, for the 90% of owners that never venture near a rough road, much less offroad.
Personally I am planning on UJZ100/Land Cruiser 99-2007 model. Found a 1 owner 40,000 mile original one fully loaded for 22k of course it sold very quickly. Bluebook on it was like 28. Tows 7-8k has center and rear locking diffs and is built to an international standard of reliability in hard conditions. Sure it gets the same crappy mileage of any full size suv but it will go for 200-300k miles
In reply to camaroz1985:
What't the Avalanche going for these days? Seems like my ideal second vehicle in 3 years.
I bought my wife a 2008 Lexus GX470, aka the LandCruiser in the rest of the world. Air suspension, adjustable shocks, locking center diff, tows 9000lbs, will run forever. Plus it's Lexus certified for the next three years and 60k miles.
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