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Trivial question that's buggin me - rear model designation

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Count

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The car I am buying has no model designation on the back currently. It's a 997 C4S with the Aerokit and it's in GT Silver. It looks great just plain but I have the option to replace the C4S badge on the back. How many people are running without anything and what is the general view, I'm new back into 911 ownership so I'm not aware of the current trends. I do like the simple black "911" badge but that would be wrong for my car from an official perspective although I think it would look quite stealth and I like that. Right now the lines are clean: http://www.flickr.com/photos/count/473483208/ a picture as is.

Views please, badge or not ?
 
thanks for the reply, I may well just ask for the badge and see how I get on. On my old 964, cleaning around the badge was awkward but not enough reason to lose it and the 964 was much plainer at the rear. This new car is much different and I am in two minds still..
 
Hi there

Your silver car without the badges looks great.

I ordered my Guards Red C4S from the factory without the rear model designation because I thought the standard bright silver badges look very strong on a red car. However, after a few weeks of being constantly asked what model it was, and after seeing all the other 997s on the road with their badges, I decided to have the badges fitted afterall. However, I had them painted in Guards Red so they are more discreet and blend into the bodywork. See picture. As it only cost £65 for the badges and painting from my OPC, I think it was a good alternative solution.

Regards


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With the aerokit the previous owner probably wanted it to be mistaken for a you know what. I agree with others in that get the badge from the OPC separately and then decide in your own time...

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Count, very nice car. I must admit that I like the word Carrera!...think it looks cool on the back of the car, not bothered wether its a Carrera 2,2S,4,4S or whatever, but the word Carrera is just cool!...id have my badge on.
Also you need turbo wheels on that car to finish it off properly!
 
The Sport wheels are being fitted, dealer is being crap about doing me a deal on Turbo wheels which I do prefer.
 
Yes it seems dealers do not get on very well with supplying turbo wheels...I had the sports design ones on mine when I bought it from Bristol OPC and they wouldnt entertain getting turbo wheels at all. Luckily found a contact that supplied brand new boxed Porsche turbo wheels for £2,500 and flogged my sports designer ones on fleabay for a grand. Shame we don't live in the states as ebay.com always seems to have lots of turbo wheels on, think many yanks chop them in for bigger or more bling ones!
 
I am getting the standard wheels swapped for Sports and offered to pay the option price i.e £500 on top to get Turbo Wheels. Given the dealer would still have to source the Turbo wheels it was a non-starter. Of course I can pay the full amount but that's hardly a deal. I'm going to keep an eye to eBay for a set but I doubt they will come up very often.
 
Thanks for the link, I am already watching them, not sure of the price they should go for ? I reckon the starting price is about right, not sure what my new Sports will be worth to net out the difference
 
I snapped the 'C' part of the Carrera badge today when cleaning bird poo off it. Sponge caught underneath it and it snapped off. They're only £14.50 to replace, so I would take it without badge & then fit it when you decide. Personally I'd want the model designtion slapped on the rear lid stateing what it is ............

 
Hi Count,
A great car choice.
Which OPC are you buying the car from?
Looks like Guildford in the pics and they had an identical car in when I bought mine.
Good luck with the wheels I'm still waiting for mine from Guildford OPC.
 
The car is at Guildford. Saw the thread where you are still waiting for the wheels, is this not sorted yet ? I'm guessing if that is the case I will be behind you in the queue ! I'm not willing to hang on for ages for them to source a set from another car, my deal is for new wheels so I would expect that to be sorted before I pick the car up.

If they mess me about, those Turbo wheels are back on the agenda [;)]

 
Count

Very nice car - either no badge or the proper badge (C4S). Personally I'd have the c4S badge otherwise it does smack a bit of "i am pretending this is a GT3". But like all these things each person ahd their own perpective - go with what you like!
 
Still not sorted unfortunatley. Still no date as to when I can expect them.
I have taken Jamie's advice and sent a letter off to Porsche GB HQ.
Hasn't stopped me enjoying the car though ;)

You should receive some paperwork from Porsche sales and marketing a week or so after your sale completes where you will be given details of a website where you can login and rate the service level you experienced etc.
Who knows if they take much notice, but it is quite detailed so allowed for a good old rant.
Good luck and enjoy the car.
 
Do you know what Count, Ive messed up here...I am trading my car for a GT3 on saturday, and to be honest the trade in on my car I m sure would have been the same if I had non turbo wheels on, and my turbo wheels are as new, we could have traded, never mind, hindsight is a wonderful thing, i probably should have taken them off, put some cheaper std wheels on and sold the turbo ones on ebay...note to self: must think more in future!
 
I do like the clean badgeless lines myself and for a brief period (24 hours) I had my aero C2S spec'd this way. However the fear of everbody looking at it and thinking "what a tool this guy is with his GT3 lookalike" made me think it was a big mistake. Ive since come to thinking that the debadged car actually looks a little too bare.

However, if you dont have any worries about the pretending to be a GT3 look, then Id just go with whatever your heart tells you is right and gives you personally the most kicks when you see the car. At the end of the day come resale it makes no difference as its only £15 either way.

If however you put a GT3 badge on it, then you will indeed be a tool [:D][:D]
 
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Do you know what Count, Ive messed up here...I am trading my car for a GT3 on saturday, and to be honest the trade in on my car I m sure would have been the same if I had non turbo wheels on, and my turbo wheels are as new, we could have traded, never mind, hindsight is a wonderful thing, i probably should have taken them off, put some cheaper std wheels on and sold the turbo ones on ebay...note to self: must think more in future!
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I think that Turbo wheels will fetch better money to the right buyer on private sale but not trade in.
 
Badge every time indeed...never really understood debadging at all. Just always makes me think people do it to try and pretend the car is a better/higher priced model or whatever. Dont care what car I drove, the badges would be left on, If I see a 5 series BMW debadged for example I just presume its a 520 basic model,it seems its only the lowly models in the ranges that are debadged.
 
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