KeithRobinson
RMS Regular
Hi All,
After selling my 996 911 in November, I had planned to wait until 2015 to find a replacement. But, I suppose I got a little impatient.
I was interested in a few Gen 1 997 S's, however one car I sent for an inspection before buying, and the inspection came back with signs of bore scoring, which is an issue that can happen in some 997's.
This completely put me off Gen 1 cars, even though I'd had no issues with my 996, so I set my sights on a Generation 2 997. These have revised engines, which don't have an intermediate shaft (no IMS failures or RMS leaks), and they don't suffer from the dreaded bore scoring. They are also direct injection which means better fuel economy and the Carrera falls into the cheaper new tax bracket - £285 (C2S is £485).
I also set a criteria of making sure the car was PDK and had a sports exhaust. This wasn't easy as I thought! Gen 1 cars were made 2004 till 2008, whereas Gen 2 are only late 2008 till 2011, meaning much fewer cars, and for some reason they are rarely specced as high.
Thankfully this beautiful arctic silver came up for sale, having previously dismissed silver as my first two were silver, I actually fell in love. Silver is easy maintenance and actually does look superb - IMO.
Here's the car in the dealers, 3rd floor of a place in Slough, industrial Lift to get it down to the ground - cool place!
Gen 2 3.6 Carrera
345bhp, 0-60 4.5 seconds (once I get sport+ added, 4.7 seconds without)
PDK Double Clutch Transmission
Sound Package Plus
Extended black leather with suede roof lining
Carrera S Alloys refurbished in GT Silver
Sports switchable exhaust
Touch screen PCM3 sat nav
Heated seats
Litronic Lights
Picked it up on Thursday morning, and traveled home with it yesterday. Bit of a nightmare with boats being cancelled and ended up on the day sailing from Liverpool to belfast - 11 hours on the boat after delays!
Stopped for fuel in Surrey
Home and washed this morning
Plans are:
H&R Springs
Paint calipers red
Retrofit Sport & Sports+
Full front end smart skin for stone chip protection
Full G-techniq protection
Drive it
Thanks for looking!
Keith
After selling my 996 911 in November, I had planned to wait until 2015 to find a replacement. But, I suppose I got a little impatient.
I was interested in a few Gen 1 997 S's, however one car I sent for an inspection before buying, and the inspection came back with signs of bore scoring, which is an issue that can happen in some 997's.
This completely put me off Gen 1 cars, even though I'd had no issues with my 996, so I set my sights on a Generation 2 997. These have revised engines, which don't have an intermediate shaft (no IMS failures or RMS leaks), and they don't suffer from the dreaded bore scoring. They are also direct injection which means better fuel economy and the Carrera falls into the cheaper new tax bracket - £285 (C2S is £485).
I also set a criteria of making sure the car was PDK and had a sports exhaust. This wasn't easy as I thought! Gen 1 cars were made 2004 till 2008, whereas Gen 2 are only late 2008 till 2011, meaning much fewer cars, and for some reason they are rarely specced as high.
Thankfully this beautiful arctic silver came up for sale, having previously dismissed silver as my first two were silver, I actually fell in love. Silver is easy maintenance and actually does look superb - IMO.
Here's the car in the dealers, 3rd floor of a place in Slough, industrial Lift to get it down to the ground - cool place!
Gen 2 3.6 Carrera
345bhp, 0-60 4.5 seconds (once I get sport+ added, 4.7 seconds without)
PDK Double Clutch Transmission
Sound Package Plus
Extended black leather with suede roof lining
Carrera S Alloys refurbished in GT Silver
Sports switchable exhaust
Touch screen PCM3 sat nav
Heated seats
Litronic Lights
Picked it up on Thursday morning, and traveled home with it yesterday. Bit of a nightmare with boats being cancelled and ended up on the day sailing from Liverpool to belfast - 11 hours on the boat after delays!
Stopped for fuel in Surrey
Home and washed this morning
Plans are:
H&R Springs
Paint calipers red
Retrofit Sport & Sports+
Full front end smart skin for stone chip protection
Full G-techniq protection
Drive it
Thanks for looking!
Keith
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