Gorsh
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(This is an identical post to one on PH, so apologies to those who read both).
My long awaited GTS is finally here, collected it last Saturday and have now put 800 miles on it mainly in North Wales. Arrived home in the IOM yesterday, so only been on roads I know well very briefly.
First impressions? It looks great from all angles - the wide rear especially looks the business, and the interior is a lovely place to be, it has the full GTS interior with silver stitching. The 18 way seats are great (although I'm still tweaking the adjustment occasionally). Despite taking it easy and not allowing the revs to go high I can tell it's very fast - the way it picks up speed on a light throttle seamlessly changing gears at around 3k revs feels very good. Compared to my previous BGTS it's a lot more refined, a bit of tyre roar is all that intrudes when cruising, I do hear the engine and exhaust a bit when it's accelerating, I dare say that will increase when I open her up - just trying to get well over the 1000 mile mark first. I haven't heard it from outside the car when it's on the move, but at idle I notice the exhaust is quite noisy from outside. I've taken to be detailed this morning and my wife said it was loud when I started up and drove off - only a little of the noise is heard inside the car, so a good car for long drives.
The one area where I'm not sure about yet is the ride quality on bumpy roads, the ride feels choppy - it's hard to describe really, but the stability on corners is superb, it's in a straight line on a bumpy (not potholes, just uneven) surface at over 50mph, a single bump like a grid is well handled with no bounce so it feels well damped on single bumps or depressions in the road, the ride is not jarring either except a bit at very low speed. It just doesn't seem to handle bumpy sections like I think it should - it feels like the car is struggling with these surfaces. It may just be me of course expecting too much it - it's been a while since I sold the Boxster and the Boxster did jump around a fair bit on bumps, but I don't remember feeling it was choppy like this car is. I have the -10 PASM and PDCC on the car, I have tried the sport chassis setting, it certainly firms it up and gives more control, but at the expense of a ride too solid on a bumpy road - I do feel the sport chassis will be very useable though on a decently surfaced road, it doesn't feel so hard that it's for track only.
The tyre pressures are something I haven't looked at yet, the TPM tells me it is set at full load and comfort and the pressures are between +0.2 bar and +0.4 bar over. I took the car out last night and unticked the comfort box on the TPM, when I parked up a warning came on saying the tyres were underinflated. So this is an area I can experiment with to see if I can improve the ride quality - I'd be very interested to hear what tyre pressures and TPM settings you all use? And how critical are the tyre pressures in the respect of ride quality and handling?
I chose the -10 PASM because the C4S I test drove had sport PASM (-20) and PDCC, it rode really well but was too firm on typical B roads for me, so I decided on the -10 for a bit more compliancy - I did drive a -10 car too (albeit only a short drive), it seemed absolutely fine, it didn't have PDCC, but I decided to opt for PDCC on the basis that it would add extra body control to complement the -10 PASM.
I don't know if I've got a but of OCD here lol, the car is really very very good - but this ride quality is bugging me right now.
This is the best photo I have so far - will take more and some of the interior when I get it back from the detailer tomorrow.
For those who have read this far - sorry for rambling a bit - but I would appreciate your opinions - thanks.
My long awaited GTS is finally here, collected it last Saturday and have now put 800 miles on it mainly in North Wales. Arrived home in the IOM yesterday, so only been on roads I know well very briefly.
First impressions? It looks great from all angles - the wide rear especially looks the business, and the interior is a lovely place to be, it has the full GTS interior with silver stitching. The 18 way seats are great (although I'm still tweaking the adjustment occasionally). Despite taking it easy and not allowing the revs to go high I can tell it's very fast - the way it picks up speed on a light throttle seamlessly changing gears at around 3k revs feels very good. Compared to my previous BGTS it's a lot more refined, a bit of tyre roar is all that intrudes when cruising, I do hear the engine and exhaust a bit when it's accelerating, I dare say that will increase when I open her up - just trying to get well over the 1000 mile mark first. I haven't heard it from outside the car when it's on the move, but at idle I notice the exhaust is quite noisy from outside. I've taken to be detailed this morning and my wife said it was loud when I started up and drove off - only a little of the noise is heard inside the car, so a good car for long drives.
The one area where I'm not sure about yet is the ride quality on bumpy roads, the ride feels choppy - it's hard to describe really, but the stability on corners is superb, it's in a straight line on a bumpy (not potholes, just uneven) surface at over 50mph, a single bump like a grid is well handled with no bounce so it feels well damped on single bumps or depressions in the road, the ride is not jarring either except a bit at very low speed. It just doesn't seem to handle bumpy sections like I think it should - it feels like the car is struggling with these surfaces. It may just be me of course expecting too much it - it's been a while since I sold the Boxster and the Boxster did jump around a fair bit on bumps, but I don't remember feeling it was choppy like this car is. I have the -10 PASM and PDCC on the car, I have tried the sport chassis setting, it certainly firms it up and gives more control, but at the expense of a ride too solid on a bumpy road - I do feel the sport chassis will be very useable though on a decently surfaced road, it doesn't feel so hard that it's for track only.
The tyre pressures are something I haven't looked at yet, the TPM tells me it is set at full load and comfort and the pressures are between +0.2 bar and +0.4 bar over. I took the car out last night and unticked the comfort box on the TPM, when I parked up a warning came on saying the tyres were underinflated. So this is an area I can experiment with to see if I can improve the ride quality - I'd be very interested to hear what tyre pressures and TPM settings you all use? And how critical are the tyre pressures in the respect of ride quality and handling?
I chose the -10 PASM because the C4S I test drove had sport PASM (-20) and PDCC, it rode really well but was too firm on typical B roads for me, so I decided on the -10 for a bit more compliancy - I did drive a -10 car too (albeit only a short drive), it seemed absolutely fine, it didn't have PDCC, but I decided to opt for PDCC on the basis that it would add extra body control to complement the -10 PASM.
I don't know if I've got a but of OCD here lol, the car is really very very good - but this ride quality is bugging me right now.
This is the best photo I have so far - will take more and some of the interior when I get it back from the detailer tomorrow.
For those who have read this far - sorry for rambling a bit - but I would appreciate your opinions - thanks.
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