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

[RXP]Andy;29401480 said:
What a bit of kit though for a weekend fun! However, my friend had the 18 way seats in it which though they are nice I feel it requires the buckets for full effect. Although getting in and out of the car with the 18's is a lot less dramatic.
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I love the 18 ways, I specced the 918's because they look cool and for resale however if the car was a keeper I would get the 18 ways.
 
Housey said:
Typically they release the GT2 before the RS, but the pipes suggest this is the GT2 mule doing it's testing. It will need 700bhp frankly as the McLaren's and alike are moving the performance game on hugely. At Spa last week I had mates out in 991 RS's and they were getting destroyed by a McLaren 675 up the straights.
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Isn't the 675LT double the price of the RS though? I do agree Macca have moved the HP game forward but so have they with the prices.
 
[RXP]Andy;29402456 said:
Isn't the 675LT double the price of the RS though? I do agree Macca have moved the HP game forward but so have they with the prices.
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The Macca 650S is pretty much 675LT territory and given the overs on the RS they are priced equal but it offers vastly different levels of performance.

Chris H did a great overview.

 
SDK^ said:
The Macca 650S is pretty much 675LT territory and given the overs on the RS they are priced equal but it offers vastly different levels of performance.

Chris H did a great overview.
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I did see that review a little while ago, pretty good review as it goes. However, the 675LT are also trading hands at dramatically more than list price as well. Its also a shame most of them will be put away and a garage and never used. :mad:

We do need a bit of a market crash to normallize these cars values.
 
My 25 yr old sisters 26yr old boyfriend has just taken receipt of his 2016 Cayman S. Kinda makes me sick driving around in my sun faded Toyota Rav 4 :(
 
Noakesy85 said:
My 25 yr old sisters 26yr old boyfriend has just taken receipt of his 2016 Cayman S. Kinda makes me sick driving around in my sun faded Toyota Rav 4 :(
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There is nothing wrong with a Rav4, I have one. Athough my GTS is better on fuel than it oddly. :D:eek::D
 
Noakesy85 said:
My 25 yr old sisters 26yr old boyfriend has just taken receipt of his 2016 Cayman S. Kinda makes me sick driving around in my sun faded Toyota Rav 4 :(
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I have a Y reg Ford Focus lol.... My Porsche is nowhere near as economical....sub 20mpg on V-Power....

But it makes me smile! Bonus is apparently on the 111 point check Porsche do they plug it in to identify faults and nothing flagged up so it wasn't mentioned so all good! Saves me £120.
 
[RXP]Andy;29403118 said:
There is nothing wrong with a Rav4, I have one. Athough my GTS is better on fuel than it oddly. :D:eek::D
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Ha, the RAV is just a cheap 4x4 I bought as a run around for the 3 years I'm in Cyprus, its about 15 years old and feels and looks every bit its age! When I return to the UK in 2 years I'm planning on buying something a little more suited to my taste. Unfortunately I don't think a Porsche would be very child friendly (or within budget) :( Perhaps once the little ones are a bit older :D
 
Housey said:
If you'd gone in my old GT3 you'd have felt the GT4 was an S-Class.
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Your GT3 stopped me buying a Porsche way back then. :D

But no regrets as I got to own a CSL, but 996 GT3's were proper hardcore. Amazing how far dampers/suspension have come along, still amazing track ability but now far more comfortable on the road.
 
Noakesy85 said:
Ha, the RAV is just a cheap 4x4 I bought as a run around for the 3 years I'm in Cyprus, its about 15 years old and feels and looks every bit its age! When I return to the UK in 2 years I'm planning on buying something a little more suited to my taste. Unfortunately I don't think a Porsche would be very child friendly (or within budget) :( Perhaps once the little ones are a bit older :D
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I find the C4S (and consequently pretty much any 991 variant of a 911) is really spacious for my kids (4 and 6 years old). Much more leg room for them than in my GT-R (I am 6'4''). They love being driven in it and prefer it to my 4-5 seaters.
 
Voxination said:
When were you at Spa? I was there 7th-9th so may have walked past you without realizing.
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I wasn't there due to work commitments, but I had planned to go on the Saturday for the social and some laps in friends cars as I wouldn't take the MX5 race car to an event like that due to being far too slow on such a track with the cars that were running. Load of friends were there in a mixture of motors, but lots of GT3's/GT3 RS's, McLaren and some classic Porsche too and Lotus's.

What were you in Vox?
 
Gibbo said:
Your GT3 stopped me buying a Porsche way back then. :D

But no regrets as I got to own a CSL, but 996 GT3's were proper hardcore. Amazing how far dampers/suspension have come along, still amazing track ability but now far more comfortable on the road.
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To be brutally honest they were hard work on the road, really hard work. When you drove mine the set up was also all wrong and running far too aggressive set up for road use. I had it into Fearnsport a few weeks after and wound a lot of that back but the 996 GT3/RS is never going to be a good road car.

They follow cambers, move around at the front, move around at a pebble and all of them do that. I think I said before but on many roads a good fast saloon would hand it it's backside purely because it wasn't trying to die you dead. However, on the right road, on the right day (and their were many of both) and I am unsure any car is more exhilarating. Had to learn to drive again when I bought it. Wife did 2 miles in it and parked it saying "never again" and you sampled some of that.
 
Got the day off work to work on mine tomorrow. Order of the day is replacing coolant pipe to the thermostat and also coolant pipe to the water pump as well as removing the under tray so I can get at yet another coolant pipe I noticed was feeling nasty when I had the front end off. New plugs, coils, oil filter and fresh oil is on the cards as well.

Before all that I need to find the source of an oil leak which I am almost sure is coming from the offside variocam actuator but I guess it is possible it could be coming from near the AOS or the rocker cover, possibly even the cam position sensor on that bank. Thinking about it I'm not at all sure where it is coming from but I would really like to find out as oil consumption is not good and half of it is finding its way onto my driveway.

I just know it's going to be a day of crawling around with little to no access to whatever it is I am working on while taking chunks out of myself and getting angry with how little progress I am making.
 
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