Porsche Owners Thread - If you own one or just like or hate them! :)

Awesome! A Carrera T is the only 911 that appeals to me.

I did the Porsche experience in a 991 Turbo S a good few years ago, and it really wasn’t my cup of tea. Just felt like too much car, and I think there’s something to be said for driving “slow” cars fast. It’s just more enjoyable to me.

I much, much preferred the experience I had in the 718 Boxster than the Turbo S.

I’d love for you to be right and they’ll be 60-80k in 3 years, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.
 
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Did Porsche experience today with PCGB and I selected the Carrera T manual as wanted the rawest 911 experience possible as no GT cars available.

Got 60 minutes to drive as I wish on various handling circuits and skid pans plus donut roundabout drifting ring.

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Instructor let me drive as hard as I felt safe to do as such was passing everyone even those in the 911 Turbos and was never passed.

Had fun on skid plates and caught it everytime and enjoyed doing some roundabout drifting and again never spun, nearly lost it once but was near the exit so styled it out by taking exit haha.

The 911 (992.2) Carrera T really impressed me and its electric power steering was feelsome in the wet greasy conditions allowing me to feel where understeer was about to show and I could reduce it by trail braking.

Rear was also telepathetic on been able to apply power on exit and feel grip also various traction control modes work well especially if you work towards and upto limits and drive just below them you can really get amazing pace going. Think that was my secret to speed the lighter less powerful RWD allowed me to drive right upto the cars limit of grip and drive it on that knife edge with absolute control and thus pass all those in more powerful stuff.

My mate was in the 992.2 Targa AWD GTS and he could not get passed me and his words were when he got out I picked wrong car it’s too heavy and numb.

Carrera T impressed me reminded me of my 997.1 Carrera S and thus probably the best choice if not going GT3 but at 130-140k optioned up no way but am sure in 2-3yr they will be 60-80k range a better buy then.

Highly impressive event and Carrera T is an old school car in a modern age superb driver’s car and the lack of power makes it more fun and the engine feels very NA on boost but it’s a bit weak if you get caught off boost at low RPM in higher gear.

Was like £265 for event including full catering and a guest absolute bargain of an event. Shall be back again for sure!
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A friend of mine has a Carrera T and absolutely raves about it. Your positive feedback is also interesting.

Anything bad to say about it beyond the usual turbocharger drawbacks? I may have to give one a test drive as the GT4 just isn't getting the track time that I was hoping to give it.
 
aaronyuri said:
A friend of mine has a Carrera T and absolutely raves about it. Your positive feedback is also interesting.

Anything bad to say about it beyond the usual turbocharger drawbacks? I may have to give one a test drive as the GT4 just isn't getting the track time that I was hoping to give it.
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It’s way too much money for what it is.

Does not look or feel particular special when you think you can buy a 600 LT Spider for same money that will loose little now in depreciation and is two cars in one than the 911 is very out niched but it is unfair to compare used to new.

I’d like to drive a 992 GT3 on same circuit but not sure if the GT3 is available for just the 60-90 minute stuff and is more the 1-3 day for training sessions that cost around 3k.

The downside might be in the dry with the T as maybe lack of power would become more a deficit whereas today in wet conditions the T really did shine would be very interesting to see how a GT3 manual compared and how gearing compares on both cars.

I did notice on the T over 6000rpm to around 7500rpm they have managed to get that harmonic zing engine note like a GT3 has at 8-9k obviously not on same level of schrill a GT3 has but impressive Porsche has worked some magic on engine note inside cabin, from outside of course a GT3 is in a different league of sound.

Having owned a GT3 (PDK) I’d say Carrera T 992.2 Manual is a better road car particular in wet you can work it hard and it’s very capable. Dry GT3 would be faster and on a faster circuit GT3 will be much quicker but Carrera T has impressed me but if I was buying and at 140k I’d be probably buying myself a 992.1 or 991.2 GT3 Manual but I’d have to drive them all back to back on the road.

What I liked about Carrera T it still felt rear engine under steered but resolved with trail braking but the balance from understeer to oversteer is very close and very feelsome.

What always made me so quick in my 997 Carrera S was the confidence it gave me and how telepathetic it was and today I’m impressed that a modern car with electric steering has instilled same confidence in me more so than my 991.1 GT3 had on front end but that will also be advantage of double wishbone setup coming into play as I assume the Carrera T 992.2 has a double wishbone front end???

Great car but not a 140k car but will keep an eye on used prices and may give a 992.1 T a try but suspect the 7 speed manual will not be as good as the 6 speeder in the 992.2 T
 
merlin said:
Any 991.1 or .2 GTS owners in here? Decided you only live once so my trusty Macan Turbo has gone back to Porsche in exchange for a 2015 991.1 GTS with aerokit. No pics as the weather knows I've got a new car and has rained pretty much non-stop since I picked it up. To take up the daily chores I've bought an Audi A4 Avant - the family/work miles can go onto that & keep the GTS mileage down (10 yrs old but only 17k on the clock).
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Yes, have a 2017 .2 GTS. Epic car, you will love yours I'm sure, even thought the .1's are very different cars engine wise to the .2's!
 
merlin said:
Any 991.1 or .2 GTS owners in here? Decided you only live once so my trusty Macan Turbo has gone back to Porsche in exchange for a 2015 991.1 GTS with aerokit. No pics as the weather knows I've got a new car and has rained pretty much non-stop since I picked it up. To take up the daily chores I've bought an Audi A4 Avant - the family/work miles can go onto that & keep the GTS mileage down (10 yrs old but only 17k on the clock).
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I have a 2017 991.2 Carrera 4 GTS PDK.
 
merlin said:
Any 991.1 or .2 GTS owners in here? Decided you only live once so my trusty Macan Turbo has gone back to Porsche in exchange for a 2015 991.1 GTS with aerokit. No pics as the weather knows I've got a new car and has rained pretty much non-stop since I picked it up. To take up the daily chores I've bought an Audi A4 Avant - the family/work miles can go onto that & keep the GTS mileage down (10 yrs old but only 17k on the clock).
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All you ‘kids’ getting into 911’s and old man housey about to get a new Cayenne.

bah humbug
 
merlin said:
Any 991.1 or .2 GTS owners in here? Decided you only live once so my trusty Macan Turbo has gone back to Porsche in exchange for a 2015 991.1 GTS with aerokit. No pics as the weather knows I've got a new car and has rained pretty much non-stop since I picked it up. To take up the daily chores I've bought an Audi A4 Avant - the family/work miles can go onto that & keep the GTS mileage down (10 yrs old but only 17k on the clock).
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Nice choice. I'd argue that although you only live once you have taken a relatively safe bet with this one and will likely lose nothing when you come to sell it!
 
panthro said:
Nice choice. I'd argue that although you only live once you have taken a relatively safe bet with this one and will likely lose nothing when you come to sell it!
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I REALLY don't like getting done with depreciation - I mean ok it's pretty inevitable to some degree but hearing stories of people losing £70k+ on Taycans etc makes me feel nauseous. The GTS has pretty much picked itself as the net result of being a) a 911 b) normally aspirated and c) a good bet on the depreciation front (subject to me not putting moon mileage on it, which I won't). I just need to learn how to drive the damn thing now, with the engine being in the wrong place 'n all.

Wowzers, lots of 911 owners here. Does anyone here have center lock wheels? Potentially a right pain in the bum, I guess it's just a call to Porsche breakdown to fix a flat?
 
I think the 991.1 is the right choice, less rapid than the 991.2 but for me the normally aspirated engine suits the GTS. Centre locks look good but add little more than complexity. Be wary however, Porsche is stronger than most but market is softening. 15k to 20k is possible off a new 911 and also Cayenne too of you are willing to take pre-specced cars, undercutting nearly new and dealer demos in some cases. 991.1 has done most of its depreciation and GTS’s tend to hold prices well too. Buy and enjoy, life’s too
short.
 
merlin said:
Wowzers, lots of 911 owners here. Does anyone here have center lock wheels? Potentially a right pain in the bum, I guess it's just a call to Porsche breakdown to fix a flat?
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Yes, I've got the centrelocks. What I've found is most tyre places don't have the 600Nm torque wrench to get them off so it limits where you get your tyres from.

I've had 2 punctures in 4 years. First was a very slow one, I just added air each day until I got a new tyre.

The second got caught by the TPM on my way to the Lakes on a Saturday evening. It was losing 10psi every 8 minutes or so. I made it to a Kwik Fit just as they were closing at 5pm but they didn't have the bar and correct fitting to get the wheel off and do a repair. I made it home pumping it up twice to 50psi on the way back. I fortunately hadn't got far.

No where on Sunday to get it sorted so on Monday, gave it 50psi and drove to the Porsche dealer 2 miles from my house to get a replacement and then on to the Lakes.

So yes, centrelocks are quite inconvenient if you get a bad puncture and a Porsche dealer or tyre place with the correct tools isn't nearby!
 
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merlin said:
Any 991.1 or .2 GTS owners in here? Decided you only live once so my trusty Macan Turbo has gone back to Porsche in exchange for a 2015 991.1 GTS with aerokit. No pics as the weather knows I've got a new car and has rained pretty much non-stop since I picked it up. To take up the daily chores I've bought an Audi A4 Avant - the family/work miles can go onto that & keep the GTS mileage down (10 yrs old but only 17k on the clock).
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Sweet, gotta be done really :)
 
Just bought a Cayenne S V8 Coupe, former Porsche show car (that covered 71 miles in total) with pretty much every option on it for the other half. Golf R becomes the station car for me, she drivers the Cayenne as do I as family motor, toy for me in the new year.
 
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Porsche brothers - does anyone have any useful info on whether 911's with an extra lower lip spoiler will foul your typical modern multi-story car park ramps?

Tempted to take my GTS to work tomorrow (finish early tomorrow and it looks dry so could take the looooooong way home), subject to being able to get it into my local multi-story without leaving parts of it on the first ramp.

It's the aerokit that I'm concerned about - it adds in a lower lip front spoiler so I'm running a little lower than the average 911.

Seems old multi-story car parks sport some pretty harsh ramps, whereas most modern built ones are more shallow, or at least that's my feeling.
 
merlin said:
Porsche brothers - does anyone have any useful info on whether 911's with an extra lower lip spoiler will foul your typical modern multi-story car park ramps?

Tempted to take my GTS to work tomorrow (finish early tomorrow and it looks dry so could take the looooooong way home), subject to being able to get it into my local multi-story without leaving parts of it on the first ramp.

It's the aerokit that I'm concerned about - it adds in a lower lip front spoiler so I'm running a little lower than the average 911.

Seems old multi-story car parks sport some pretty harsh ramps, whereas most modern built ones are more shallow, or at least that's my feeling.
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It will scrape unless you go really slowly and at an extreme angle where the ramp meets the flat floor.
 
Sorry it doesn’t help the predicament, but it’s yet another reason I love my 997 - it can be driven round multi-storey car parks and over speed humps without worrying. Helps that it also fits into parking spaces and the visibility is good. Just need to drive the thing more!
 
Housey said:
Just bought a Cayenne S V8 Coupe, former Porsche show car (that covered 71 miles in total) with pretty much every option on it for the other half. Golf R becomes the station car for me, she drivers the Cayenne as do I as family motor, toy for me in the new year.
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Been offered a Cayenne turbo GT.
Was thinking as a replacement for the Mrs's Macan 4, But i may think about replacing the M5Comp instead. They werent really on the radar as I was looking at the new M5 but concerns over it being a side or even backwards step in quality so the Porsche had peaked my interest somewhat
 
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