Porsche service in Dubai, from AED 1150.

The most expensive brand we service, said plainly

Porsche sits in tier 4 of our pricing. That is above Mercedes, BMW and Audi, and well above the mainstream brands. A minor service is AED 1150, or AED 1300 for a Cayenne, Macan or Panamera. A major service is AED 2125 and AED 2425.

We would rather state that at the top of the page than advertise an appealing number and revise it when you arrive. The parts cost more, the work takes longer, and the fluids are specified more tightly. Pretending otherwise would waste your time and ours.

What is also true: the saving against a franchised dealer is larger on a Porsche than on anything else we handle, in absolute terms, precisely because the baseline is higher. A percentage saved on a tier-4 bill is worth considerably more than the same percentage on a Kia.

The Cayenne is most of the Porsches in Dubai

By a wide margin. The Cayenne accounts for more of our Porsche work than every other model combined, with the Macan second and the Panamera third. The 911, Cayman and Boxster are a much smaller share.

That shapes where the expertise sits, and it is worth being specific about: air suspension. The Cayenne and Panamera ride on it, it is the system most likely to need attention as these cars age, and it is regular work for us rather than something we refer elsewhere.

One of our customers put it better than we could. Sebastien brought in a Cayenne GTS for an air suspension fault and had the compressor and valve block replaced, with updates through the job. That is the kind of work these cars actually need, and it is work we do.

Air suspension: checked always, priced never

At every service we check ride height and how the system behaves. What we deliberately do not do is publish a price for air suspension repair.

The reason is that one figure would be wrong for almost everyone. A fault can be a height sensor, the cheapest outcome. A leaking valve block. A split air spring. Or the compressor, which is the dearest and is usually the consequence of one of the others going unaddressed, because a compressor is built to top the system up occasionally rather than hold the car up continuously.

Advertising the cheapest outcome means most customers get a higher quote than the page promised. Advertising the dearest frightens people away from a modest repair. So we inspect, then quote the fault we actually find.

The practical lesson, and it is the same one Sebastien’s car illustrates: a system that settles overnight or a compressor that runs longer than it used to is still at the cheap end. Left alone, it will not stay there.

Why the service is fixed-price and the repairs are not

Worth explaining, because the distinction is deliberate.

A periodic service has predictable content. Oil, filter, fluids, scan, inspection. We know what it involves on a Cayenne, so we can fix the price before you book and stand behind it.

Repairs across this range are a different matter. The parts spread is enormous: a brake job on a Macan and a brake job on a 911 Turbo are not remotely comparable, and publishing a single figure covering both would mislead nearly everyone who read it. So repairs get quoted once we have seen the car and know which variant and which fault we are dealing with.

What is priced regardless of model: a full fault-code diagnosis at AED 99, a radiator flush at AED 225, and spark plugs at AED 425.

The fault scan is not a formality

These cars log a great deal, and they log it early. A Porsche will frequently have recorded a developing fault well before the driver notices anything, particularly in the air suspension, the cooling system and the electronics.

So the scan is part of every service rather than an extra, and on a car like this it is the single most informative thing we do. At AED 99 as a standalone diagnosis it is also the cheapest useful answer available if something simply feels different.

Minor or major: which one is due

A minor service is the routine one, every 5,000 to 10,000 km or 6 months, covering Mobil fully synthetic oil, a new oil filter, cleaning of the air and cabin filters, all fluids topped up, the fault scan and the inspection.

A major service is typically every third service, around 30,000 to 40,000 km or every two years, and replaces rather than cleans: air filter, cabin filter, spark plugs and wiper blades.

In Dubai the shorter interval is generally the right one. Heat shortens oil life, and on a car with these tolerances that is not a corner worth cutting.

Anything the inspection or the scan turns up is quoted for your approval, and if it is a repair rather than maintenance it is priced separately.

Porsche models we service in Dubai

• Most servicedCayenne
• SUV rateMacan
• Air suspensionPanamera
• Coupe rate911
• Coupe rateCayman
• Coupe rateBoxster
• Coupe rate718
• ElectricTaycan
• Classic928

Driving a Cayenne Coupe, Macan GTS or something older? Start a booking and pick it from the full model list.

Porsche servicing in other emirates

• WorkshopAbu DhabiSame minor and major service prices
• WorkshopSharjahDrop the car at the workshop
• WorkshopAjmanDrop the car at the workshop
• Workshop + collectionDubaiYou are here

Other brands we service

• All makes
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• BMW
• Mercedes
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