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Thinking of 991 Carrera 4 - advice sought

For what it's worth, I have dealt with Richard Lane at West London. An 'old time' and very experienced guy, albeit in sales.
I bought second Boxster via him and took his advice on current car purchase.
 

ORIGINAL: jbanfie


I'm fairly settled on Agate Grey as a colour and Chiswick Porsche have a fully loaded demo C2S that's nearly a year old that could fit the bill.


Watching Bloomberg TV this morning, the chief exec of Porsche has said that Volkswagen have had a worse start to 2013 than they did to 2012, this makes me ponder!!!
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Have you seen the Agate grey C2S at Portsmouth PC? Good spec and 124 miles!

http://ucl.porsche.de/ucl/plsql/uk/clients.show_car?sid_=79615283SNLXDPNT9ZPBO4K9SV0PZEN&pnr_=3&lnr_=3&caller_=

While you ponder someone else will buy.............[;)]
 

ORIGINAL: tscaptain

Have you seen the Agate grey C2S at Portsmouth PC? Good spec and 124 miles!

http://ucl.porsche.de/ucl/plsql/uk/clients.show_car?sid_=79615283SNLXDPNT9ZPBO4K9SV0PZEN&pnr_=3&lnr_=3&caller_=

While you ponder someone else will buy.............[;)]
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Sounds like one a certain Mr.Willn coud have spec'd up! [8|]

Regards,

Clive.
 
Seems that most of the dealer specced cars come with pdk but not with paddle shift. But a nice car nonetheless
 

ORIGINAL: pwebb

Seems that most of the dealer specced cars come with pdk but not with paddle shift. But a nice car nonetheless
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The ever present problem when it's not your own spec! I wonder why dealers don't spec paddle shift? Still, it's a relatively cheap fix to change the wheel if the rest of the car is up to scratch.[:)]
 
It wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.

The latest PDK is so good, it's almost intuitive - even if the buttons aren't! [;)]

Regards,

Clive.
 
Changing from a M/F Wheel to a Sport Design Wheel is about a £1200 retrofit less any dealer discount you negotiate, my 991 was a stock car and came with a M/F wheel which I thought was a good idea and would have specified it on a factory order purely because of my previous experience of this type of wheel on a BMW. However I drove one with the Sport Design Wheel and IMHO it's a much better option when mated to a PDK gearbox.

M/F Wheel advantages
- Audio Volume Control
- Single button press for one of the parameters on the M/F display or PCM (you can customise it to select either 1 item from the PCM or the M/F display .e.g.. Audio
- Telephone buttons to answer and end the call

M/F Disadvantages
- Right hand selector thumbwheel is way too sensitive and with the 911's hard ride it's too easy to overshoot the menu items in the M/F display
- Easy to accidentally select something with the right hand thumbwheel when turning the wheel
- Pushbuttons to change gear are not intuitive, Push to change up does not feel right

Sport Design Wheel Advantages
- Paddle shift is much more intuitive
- Separate stalk for the M/F display is easy to operate without moving hands away from the wheel and much more precise to use.
- IMHO it does look more sporty and the silver spokes match the rest of the silver interior trim

Sport Design Wheel Disadvantages
- No Volume control
- No single button press for one of the items on the M/F display or PCM
- No telephone buttons

It's a lot of money as a retrofit but if you save a lot when buying the car it just erodes a bit of the saving and in the context of a £80K plus car it's only 1.5% or less


 
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