askgeez
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Further to my earlier "car incoming" thread, thought I would post my very early impressions .....
Collection
Didn't really sleep much the night before, and had been out for a family birthday at the pub, but had a 7:30am start to get up to Rennsport 2.5 hours away.
My good friend Gary, agreed to take me up there in his fabulous 997.1.5 GT2 clubsport. He didn't hang about :lol: , and roads were empty. Early damp and grey conditions cleared as we came over the Chilterns on M40, and by the time we arrived, it was blue sky and dry.
There is a big roller shutter on the ground floor, and the dealer heard us coming (that'll be the Kline Inconel exhaust :grin: ), he came out and gave us a warm welcome , invited us to go through the door,....
Walked in, and literally the biggest grin broke out on my face, think i actually put my hand over my mouth :yahoo: Gary gave me a good old slap on the back "Well done Geez!"
It's a ten year old car, yet it is incredibly nice condition. Clean Carrara white paintwork is unmarked. Centrelock wheels, in my favourite colour of satin platinum (previously sprayed a set on my old 4s the same). The stance, lower than my previous two , that wing, centre exhaust, PCCBs ..... just awesome thing to look at.
Interior is unmarked , oodles of carbon (£4k worth on the 2009 invoice 1), very nice place to sit.
I'd already paid for the car once the 111 point check came back clean, so literally just had a coffee , pit stop, and taxed it online.
He started it up, pulled it out front for the obligatory photo (see my instagram @askgeez :grin: )
Drive home
Well , these are early days, so just initial thoughts...
Beautiful drive home in convoy, through cotswolds in the sunshine was a delight, i was grinning like an idiot , and actually had a tear in my eye at one point.
Ride is surprisingly good, I was expecting significantly harder than GTS, but its actually comfortable. Ive now transferred my DSC controller over, so will be even better.
:drive: Steering is light, and very "pointy" , drove round some sweeping bends, and it just goes exactly where you want.
:lightening: Noise... in my excitement, I hadn't pressed "Sport", assumed the exhaust was unswitched on a GT3, but at 4k revs, really feel the valves open, and its a much deeper bellow than either my gen1 c4s (PSE and CAI), or GTS (PSE and XPipe). Woke a few people up in he tunnel on M25 / A10 , with the pair of us :floor:
:driving: Gears !! I did like my C4s, and I also enjoyed PDK in the GTS, the kick down in particular made for very brisk progress when you wanted it. Sport Plus hooligan mode wasn't used that much, but was fun, and generated plenty of noise. But now I'm back in a manual , I do appreciate driving the car, and only yesterday I think i know why... PDK makes you lazy, because its a torquey engine, I tended to switch off, and not concentrate on gears, doesn't matter whether you're speeding up or slowing down , I left in auto. Yesterday, I almost stalled, as I sort of forgot I had a third pedal when i slowed up.
:judge: Speed.. No doubt about it, its a rapid car, but lets be honest no 911 is slow. Its not hyper fast like the Gt2, and bearing in mind I haven't wrung its neck to the 8k :bandit: redline, Its definitely a car to respect , and I'm looking forward to more miles to explore that.
Going through the paperwork, the ONE LADY owner may have been a little OCD, as every single service was done at OPC Reading. Book all stamped up, serviced, brake fluid changes, bodywork condition reports etc , old MOTs, Full book pack...
Mileage a whisker over 19k miles. PCCBs, Comfort Spec, Axle Lift, Carbon packs, Crested headrests , Sport Chrono, yellow dials and seatbelts, Projector type headlights, tyres all 6.5mm
(pictures to follow!!)
Collection
Didn't really sleep much the night before, and had been out for a family birthday at the pub, but had a 7:30am start to get up to Rennsport 2.5 hours away.
My good friend Gary, agreed to take me up there in his fabulous 997.1.5 GT2 clubsport. He didn't hang about :lol: , and roads were empty. Early damp and grey conditions cleared as we came over the Chilterns on M40, and by the time we arrived, it was blue sky and dry.
There is a big roller shutter on the ground floor, and the dealer heard us coming (that'll be the Kline Inconel exhaust :grin: ), he came out and gave us a warm welcome , invited us to go through the door,....
Walked in, and literally the biggest grin broke out on my face, think i actually put my hand over my mouth :yahoo: Gary gave me a good old slap on the back "Well done Geez!"
It's a ten year old car, yet it is incredibly nice condition. Clean Carrara white paintwork is unmarked. Centrelock wheels, in my favourite colour of satin platinum (previously sprayed a set on my old 4s the same). The stance, lower than my previous two , that wing, centre exhaust, PCCBs ..... just awesome thing to look at.
Interior is unmarked , oodles of carbon (£4k worth on the 2009 invoice 1), very nice place to sit.
I'd already paid for the car once the 111 point check came back clean, so literally just had a coffee , pit stop, and taxed it online.
He started it up, pulled it out front for the obligatory photo (see my instagram @askgeez :grin: )
Drive home
Well , these are early days, so just initial thoughts...
Beautiful drive home in convoy, through cotswolds in the sunshine was a delight, i was grinning like an idiot , and actually had a tear in my eye at one point.
Ride is surprisingly good, I was expecting significantly harder than GTS, but its actually comfortable. Ive now transferred my DSC controller over, so will be even better.
:drive: Steering is light, and very "pointy" , drove round some sweeping bends, and it just goes exactly where you want.
:lightening: Noise... in my excitement, I hadn't pressed "Sport", assumed the exhaust was unswitched on a GT3, but at 4k revs, really feel the valves open, and its a much deeper bellow than either my gen1 c4s (PSE and CAI), or GTS (PSE and XPipe). Woke a few people up in he tunnel on M25 / A10 , with the pair of us :floor:
:driving: Gears !! I did like my C4s, and I also enjoyed PDK in the GTS, the kick down in particular made for very brisk progress when you wanted it. Sport Plus hooligan mode wasn't used that much, but was fun, and generated plenty of noise. But now I'm back in a manual , I do appreciate driving the car, and only yesterday I think i know why... PDK makes you lazy, because its a torquey engine, I tended to switch off, and not concentrate on gears, doesn't matter whether you're speeding up or slowing down , I left in auto. Yesterday, I almost stalled, as I sort of forgot I had a third pedal when i slowed up.
:judge: Speed.. No doubt about it, its a rapid car, but lets be honest no 911 is slow. Its not hyper fast like the Gt2, and bearing in mind I haven't wrung its neck to the 8k :bandit: redline, Its definitely a car to respect , and I'm looking forward to more miles to explore that.
Going through the paperwork, the ONE LADY owner may have been a little OCD, as every single service was done at OPC Reading. Book all stamped up, serviced, brake fluid changes, bodywork condition reports etc , old MOTs, Full book pack...
Mileage a whisker over 19k miles. PCCBs, Comfort Spec, Axle Lift, Carbon packs, Crested headrests , Sport Chrono, yellow dials and seatbelts, Projector type headlights, tyres all 6.5mm
(pictures to follow!!)