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[polkadotbabe]

Neil
Have had Burmester before, and it is the best (hoping to keep this car for a while), and laminated glass is lighter and stronger, resists 'smash and grab'.
Rgds
Polka

 

[Neil1911]

Neil
Have had Burmester before, and it is the best (hoping to keep this car for a while), and laminated glass is lighter and stronger, resists 'smash and grab'.
Rgds
Polka

Good info, I wasn't aware it was lighter, good info! I'll be keeping the car too although don't often listen to music so need to ponder on that one.....
Thanks.

 

[polkadotbabe]

There is an excellent piece about acoustic laminated safety glass by Jesse Crosse on page 13 of Autocar 19 Jan 2022.
Makes it a no-brainer in my opinion. Sadly my car was already on its way!

 

[Neil1911]

Found it, thanks. It was a piece in one of the Christophorus magazines that sold it to me but if weight was mentioned I've forgotten.

 

[WAB172uk]

Neil
Have had Burmester before, and it is the best (hoping to keep this car for a while), and laminated glass is lighter and stronger, resists 'smash and grab'.
Rgds
Polka

I never even considered Laminated glass. Without delving into the configurator, what is the cost of the glass?

 

[Neil1911]

£716, more if you add the "privacy" to it.

 

[WAB172uk]

£716, more if you add the "privacy" to it.

Thanks. Curiosity got the better of me, so I went onto check. I was thinking about adding Sport Chrono onto my spec. As that was £704 I went with that. Decided I could probably live without leminated glass, though I'd already ticked `privacy`.

The options list are easy to tick, but they soon add up. Have to say stop at some point lol.

 

[Davidelkington]

Sport chrono will do more for your resale value.

 

[polkadotbabe]

Late response. (What happened to my first??) Firstly, I dismissed the laminated glass option as heavy, expensive and unnecessary, as did sales advisor. Then I read a piece in Autocar (19/01/22) by Jesse Crosse explaining the heat and sound insulating properties of laminated glass, plus its comparative lightness (2kg for a Panamera) and resistance to break-ins. Last week my 330d Touring had its rearmost side window smashed by felons in a secure underground carpark in central London and £350 of gifts was stolen. The cost of the replacement glass was eclipsed by the labour involved, not least in removing interior trim to extract multiple fragments from the large demisting vent on the sill. A thousand pound lesson. So, I advise, 1) specify laminated glass if offered the option, and 2) use your load cover!
With regard to Burmester, nothing sounds like a Burmester unless you have lived with a Burmester!

Andrew
2022 Macan GTS
2016 Boxster S
(2019 330d)

 

[WAB172uk]

Late response. (What happened to my first??) Firstly, I dismissed the laminated glass option as heavy, expensive and unnecessary, as did sales advisor. Then I read a piece in Autocar (19/01/22) by Jesse Crosse explaining the heat and sound insulating properties of laminated glass, plus its comparative lightness (2kg for a Panamera) and resistance to break-ins. Last week my 330d Touring had its rearmost side window smashed by felons in a secure underground carpark in central London and £350 of gifts was stolen. The cost of the replacement glass was eclipsed by the labour involved, not least in removing interior trim to extract multiple fragments from the large demisting vent on the sill. A thousand pound lesson. So, I advise, 1) specify laminated glass if offered the option, and 2) use your load cover!
With regard to Burmester, nothing sounds like a Burmester unless you have lived with a Burmester!

Andrew
2022 Macan GTS
2016 Boxster S
(2019 330d)

Laminated or not, if they want to get in they will. I think the biggest lesson is don't leave anything on display in your car.

After hearing the Burmester in the 911 it was a no brainer to option the Burmester. What a rich sound came out of those speakers. It's a bit ticket item, and one I was reluctant to tick. But after hearing it my mind was made up. And now having thought about it, I'm pleased I did.

 

[ignatzcatz]

From all these remarks it would seem that nothing much has changed with odering then hoping for that new machine. I'm going back a few years when the Macan first was introduced, I think it was about 2016 and my wife fancied the Macan after having three Cayennes. We ordered one from mid Sussex Porsche and then we waited, and waited and waited. The delay excuse was that all the production was bound for China which didn't please or help us much. I was in ther States and visited a Porsche main dealer in Naples FL and posed this scenario to the sales guy. If I came into your showroom with cash in hand, how long would I have to wait until I got my car? The reply was 6 weeks to a 2 months, tops. Back in the UK I reported this tale and was advised the US had a completely different way of ordering cars, B.S. I thought and it was then that I learnt that the colour which I had ordered, carmen red I believe, had been withdrawn from their standard repertoire of colours, I was left with white, black or silver. I could, of course specially order the colour but I didn't even bother to find out how much that would have cost or what additional delay there might be for such customisation. This colour business was the straw that broke the camels back and so after nearly one year of waiting I cancelled the order and went over to my good friends at Cridfords in Ewhurst and instructed their sales chap to start a search for the right car which in fact turned out to be another Cayenne. My wife got her Macan a little later.
I'm putting this delay problem down to the fact that the Macan is very low down on revenue return for Porsche. If you are ordering a wizz bang GT3 with all the toys for about 200K you will find yourself quite high up on the list. Cheapy Macans just don't cut it.

 

[Neil1911]

BUT, cheapy Macans (and Cayennes) have reputedly saved the company, or was that done by the deposits placed (surely the dealer kept hold of them) it's unfathomable! I got a call on 12 November to tell me that my car would not now arrive in January but February (t'was ordered last January originally for September delivery) having not yet had lockdown confirmed I now assume February has gone by the board. I get the supply issues, no problem with that, what niggles is reading of other buyers having received Ss in less time AND Porsche having managed to launch and shift countless Ts in the same timeframe that I've seen sat on my thumb! At the same time my delightful current S has seen it's warranty expire (ker...ching), it's mileage rise and so: it's value drop ?? and a 40k service become inevitable before it goes (KER...CHING!). The "plan" is in tatters. On refection, buying used has a huge amount going for it.

 

[WAB172uk]

BUT, cheapy Macans (and Cayennes) have reputedly saved the company, or was that done by the deposits placed (surely the dealer kept hold of them) it's unfathomable! I got a call on 12 November to tell me that my car would not now arrive in January but February (t'was ordered last January originally for September delivery) having not yet had lockdown confirmed I now assume February has gone by the board. I get the supply issues, no problem with that, what niggles is reading of other buyers having received Ss in less time AND Porsche having managed to launch and shift countless Ts in the same timeframe that I've seen sat on my thumb! At the same time my delightful current S has seen it's warranty expire (ker...ching), it's mileage rise and so: it's value drop ?? and a 40k service become inevitable before it goes (KER...CHING!). The "plan" is in tatters. On refection, buying used has a huge amount going for it.

Reading that others have got their Macan S this year already when they ordered after me (February) has seriously boiled my p*ss. Dealer telling me not to believe what the internet says re-boiled it. As if people getting their cars was somehow a conspiracy theory.

Mine has a build date of February. We'll see if that turns out to be true. I had planned to cancel over Christmas is no build date had been given. So fingers crossed it actually goes ahead.