Are Spyders Becoming Extinct At OPCs!
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I'm new to this Spyder thing but when I was looking I'd have bypassed that car, wrong wheels and wrong seats for me.ORIGINAL: jdpef356Question is Why won't it sell? Anyone seen it? Four other Spyders at Porsche Centre and average price of one would be £40.625.ORIGINAL: flat6 Now reduced to £33,995!! Dear oh dear!!
Other than saving weight[ORIGINAL: jdpef356 New page new Spyder pic
][][] does anyone know why Porsche dropped the interior alarm sensors off the Spyders spec[&o] For a car that some like me would say should be driven 24/7 topless it is a strange security feature to have deliberately dropped from the spec but their must have been reason but I can't work it out[&:] 
To stop false alarms? Parked up with the roof down it could end up going off all the time in the wind?
No idea then - all part of the weight saving!ORIGINAL: daro911 But the standard Boxster doesn't go off in the wind and neither does my Mini[&o]Â So can't accept that one Mr K[
Standard Boxster sensors are switched off automatically when roof is downORIGINAL: daro911But the standard Boxster doesn't go off in the wind and neither does my Mini[&o]Â So can't accept that one Mr K[
Many thanks for the info ... see I had 5 Boxsters 986 x4 987 x 1 and never realised that was the case! Really strange as both my Mini Cooper S cabrios to date have excellent sensors "on" when roof is up or down[&o]ORIGINAL: Andy FaganStandard Boxster sensors are switched off automatically when roof is downORIGINAL: daro911But the standard Boxster doesn't go off in the wind and neither does my Mini[&o] So can't accept that one Mr K[
I only found out by accident when I was trying to figure how to turn off the sensors when leaving the dog in car so I actually read the manual [ORIGINAL: daro911Many thanks for the info ... see I had 5 Boxsters 986 x4 987 x 1 and never realised that was the case!  Really strange as both my Mini Cooper S cabrios to date have excellent sensors "on" when roof is up or down[&o]ÂORIGINAL: Andy FaganStandard Boxster sensors are switched off automatically when roof is downORIGINAL: daro911But the standard Boxster doesn't go off in the wind and neither does my Mini[&o] So can't accept that one Mr K[
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A 2010 Gen 2 Boxster with 18k miles recently sold to what will now be the 4th owner for £30k I know the car well as a friend was the 2nd owner and bought the car for £2k less than I paid for my Spyder back in May 2011 when I believe the car had done 4k miles v my 1k miles on the Spyder. He sold the car at the beginning of the year at circa 13k miles for £29k. The trader had it up forever eventually asking circa £33k. The 3rd owner then sold it again to another dealer at 18k miles and the 4th owner bought it within about 4 weeks the asking price was £30995 hence I am guessing a deal was done at £30k Without seeing this Spyder in the flesh it sounds like their might be more to it failure to sell than meets the eye despite the missing alloys, silver paint and of course the buckets[
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Yet a Silver Spyder came into the PC Cambridge showroom last year and two customers were fighting over on a Saturday morning before it even got onto the web site or the forecourt. I got to hear about it on the Monday and went to see what all the fuss was about only to find the customer had paid and collected the gone. Gone - quicker than you can say Jack Robinson![ORIGINAL: daro911A 2010 Gen 2 Boxster with 18k miles recently sold to what will now be the 4th owner for £30k I know the car well as a friend was the 2nd owner and bought the car for £2k less than I paid for my Spyder back in May 2011 when I believe the car had done 4k miles v my 1k miles on the Spyder. He sold the car at the beginning of the year at circa 13k miles for £29k. The trader had it up forever eventually asking circa £33k. The 3rd owner then sold it again to another dealer at 18k miles and the 4th owner bought it within about 4 weeks the asking price was £30995 hence I am guessing a deal was done at £30k  Without seeing this Spyder in the flesh it sounds like their might be more to it failure to sell than meets the eye despite the missing alloys, silver paint and of course the buckets[
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gen2 987s on a 2010 plate is circa £30k so I see that spyder at a few k more,but the nice one at Guilford all the right parts,good spec.and a late chassis is only circa £39k? as for the alarm on my 986s the tracking alarm worked with roof down so if you reached in to the glove box the alarm would go off!so that is a mystery why no interior tracking alarm on the spyder?
I don't know what you mean by "Tracking Alarm"? But the interior sensors are normally pressure change detectors, so if a door opens or a window is put through they detect the pressure change and set off the alarm. This is disabled when the roof is down as even a slight breeze would set off the alarm. The glove box is a different matter and is still active even when the roof is down for obvious reasons.
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