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981 Boxster GTS
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Carmine red or guards red? I much prefer the darker carmine and would have been my preference of colour on this, but couldn't find one during my search. Car has been great so far, but already needs a new condenser for the aircon, the design on these is so ridiculously poor...massive exposed at the front. I'll get the sunsport grills when it's been changed to protect them for the future.
How much was that one up for John?
Yeah, it's a quite a funny market and things move very quickly. Apparently just 271 of these on the road in the UK, so they've held their value ludicrously well over this past 5 years, given it was a £65-70k car when new. It does sound better than any other Porsche, other than a GT3, so I can see why people love them. My friends 911 with PSE sounds nothing like as good as the boxster GTS.
I would have loved the 18 way seats, as it's a bit of a pain me and missus using this car and constant manual change of height and reach...but they are super rare on the GTS.
I'm booked in to get the apple car play mod and upgrading the speakers (mine has the basic ones) next month, so hopefully it'll be nicely set for a good couple of years ownership.
I would have loved the 18 way seats, as it's a bit of a pain me and missus using this car and constant manual change of height and reach...but they are super rare on the GTS.
I'm booked in to get the apple car play mod and upgrading the speakers (mine has the basic ones) next month, so hopefully it'll be nicely set for a good couple of years ownership.
Angelus666 said:
It’ll be interesting to see how prices fare on the 981 when 2nd hand 718 4.0 cars start to filter onto the market, I guess not too much as I guess the 718 will still be a low volume seller.
Regarding the 18 way seats, when I sat in and also took the 718 GTS out for test drives, 3 in total, they all had the standard 2 way manual adjustable seats which I really liked, no issues, but I ordered mine with 18 ways and couldn’t live with them, far far too hard on the back, infinitely adjustable but I’m thinking that having the lumbar “bag” in the 18’s made them too hard. I know that sounds crazy but that’s how it was, in fact I always thought that if I bought another I’d want it without 18’s, another long test drive would confirm my thoughts. I wouldn’t give it much thought Angelus tbh, unless the side bolsters are squeezing you too much you’d probably not have the 18 adjusted much differently to the 2 ways.
It is ineed a bit of a joke that I can get comfortable in a VW Polo on holiday in about 5 seconds, and with my 18 way Porsche chairs I am fiddling for hours during a journey trying to get it "just right" and on the next trip, that would feel completely wrong again.
Too much choice in a way, but was standard in my 50th edition so did not have the choice.
Too much choice in a way, but was standard in my 50th edition so did not have the choice.
Two weeks into Porsche ownership and I find that I need a new radiator set as my aircon is asthmatic....£1100 for a pair of those, which luckily/handily the dealer is covering the full cost.
The totally open aspect at the front really looks like a poor design, so will need to get some of those zunsport grills to protect the new ones. My friendly inde was telling me about some the 997's he gets in needing replacements every year because of the same issue.
The totally open aspect at the front really looks like a poor design, so will need to get some of those zunsport grills to protect the new ones. My friendly inde was telling me about some the 997's he gets in needing replacements every year because of the same issue.
Are the radiators fully covered under the Porsche warranty then, or are they viewed as consumables?
Haha, yeah I get that, but are Porsche saying they’d rather replace the radiators on a non grill installed car if and when they break every year? Seems slightly strange to me.
I thought the Zunsport grills were quite easy to remove once fitted as they clip onto the front of the existing grill and you don’t need to remove the bumper.
You could just remove them before taking it into the main dealers for any work. My car is much older so I just made my own grills for my Cayman after replacing the condensers. Worth doing something to protect them as it stops debris building up and getting between the condenser and front radiators.
Lovely GTS you have purchased though !!!
You could just remove them before taking it into the main dealers for any work. My car is much older so I just made my own grills for my Cayman after replacing the condensers. Worth doing something to protect them as it stops debris building up and getting between the condenser and front radiators.
Lovely GTS you have purchased though !!!
