991 GTS Must haves

[m88ony]

spec looks good to me!

[paul789]

m88ony said:

spec looks good to me!

Thanks - I'm a repentant Audi owner looking to get a GTS and I'm not sure of the 'house rules' around spec for these (yes, buy the one you want but you have to have an eye on re-sale).

Edited by paul789 on Thursday 15th September 15:02

[porkgts]

paul789 said:

Thoughts on this spec?:

GREY, Exterior Sliding Glass Roof, Park Assist Front and Rear, Cruise Control, Adjustable Heated Front Seats, Traffic Sign Recognition, Sports Alcantara Steering Wheel with Paddle Shift, Brushed Aluminium Interior Package, Auto Dimming Interior and Exterior Mirrors,Privacy Glass, Centre Console Brushed Aluminium, PDK Selector Lever in Aluminium, 20" Turbo S Centre Lock Wheels painted in Matt Black, Sports Seating with 4 Way Electrical Adjustment, Auto Start-Stop-function, Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus, PSM, PASM, TPMS, Body Widened by 44mm at the Rear, Sport Design Front Apron, DAB Radio, PCM Navigation System, Universal Audio Interface, Heated Rear Screen, Electric Windows, Remote Alarm with Central Locking, Bi-Xenon Headlights with PDLS, 2 Zone Climate Control, Windscreen with Grey Top Tint, Pollen/Particle Filter, Split Folding Rear Seating, Roof Lining & C Pillars in Alcantara, Cup Holders, Manually Adjustable Steering Column, GTS Logo to Headrests, Sport Chrono, Porsche Sports Exhaust.

Most of that lot is standard. GTS interior pack was a must have for me, looks great with the stitching and carbon and the leather dash.

1000 miles in and I'm still loving it, can't stop taking it out for a drive in this weather!

Prices seem to be holding up and the cars with the right spec seem to sell very quickly. My car only had just over 2k miles on it, but it's good for me to see cars with 10-15k more miles and less spec up at the same or more.

Fokker - you asked about the glass roof. My car has it and in 99% of driving you don't notice it in terms of flex or noise. The positives in terms of looks and ability to open up the roof (esp when the weathers great like now) far outweigh the tiny negative. It's a very sought after option resale wise too.

[Shiverman]

paul789 said:

Thoughts on this spec?:

GREY, Exterior Sliding Glass Roof, Park Assist Front and Rear, Cruise Control, Adjustable Heated Front Seats, Traffic Sign Recognition, Sports Alcantara Steering Wheel with Paddle Shift, Brushed Aluminium Interior Package, Auto Dimming Interior and Exterior Mirrors,Privacy Glass, Centre Console Brushed Aluminium, PDK Selector Lever in Aluminium, 20" Turbo S Centre Lock Wheels painted in Matt Black, Sports Seating with 4 Way Electrical Adjustment, Auto Start-Stop-function, Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus, PSM, PASM, TPMS, Body Widened by 44mm at the Rear, Sport Design Front Apron, DAB Radio, PCM Navigation System, Universal Audio Interface, Heated Rear Screen, Electric Windows, Remote Alarm with Central Locking, Bi-Xenon Headlights with PDLS, 2 Zone Climate Control, Windscreen with Grey Top Tint, Pollen/Particle Filter, Split Folding Rear Seating, Roof Lining & C Pillars in Alcantara, Cup Holders, Manually Adjustable Steering Column, GTS Logo to Headrests, Sport Chrono, Porsche Sports Exhaust.

Hi, it doesn't say it has the GTS interior pack (leather/alcantara dashboard, door cards etc. carbon interior trim, contrasting sticking in silver or red, instrument dials in carmine red or grey). If it doesn't it will be a plastic dash which some people don't like. There is another pack called interior pack with leather and this gives you the leather/alcantara dash but without the other GTS interior pack options and can look quite dark without the GTS pack highlights. Other nice to haves are Bose and preparation for mobile phone and floor mats.

Depends on the price and your personal preference, but if you read a lot of the previous posts a lot of people want the GTS interior pack and cars with this tend to move more quickly and at a slight premium to those without.

[Porsche911R]

I think if it has the " leather/alcantara pack with (leather/alcantara dashboard, door cards etc) " then that's good enough, you forgo the nasty red dials then on the GTS pack:-) but get to have full leather and stitching all be it darker stitching.

Carbon is also nice but again can be added on it's own.

In fact I think I would rather the leather pack and Carbon pack over the full GTS pack just because I hate red dials.
but then 1 or 2 cars with what looks like GTS pack don't have red dials !!! unless they were in fact speced up with the nicer parts of the GTS pack.

It's tricky.

Edited by Porsche911R on Thursday 15th September 15:11

[Shiverman]

Porsche911R said:

I think if it has the " leather/alcantara pack " then that's good enough, you forgo the nasty red dials then on the GTS pack:-) but get to have full leather a stitching.

I absolutely agree it's good enough, but I actually like the 'nasty red or silver dial' (prefer silver) and I like the contrast stitching. Also think the carbon interior (part of the GTS pack) looks better than the black brushed aluminium and I have cars with both!

All about personal preference and a lot of people spec'd the cars without leather interiors so there really is no right or wrong.

[Porsche911R]

Shiverman said:

I absolutely agree it's good enough, but I actually like the 'nasty red or silver dial' (prefer silver) and I like the contrast stitching. Also think the carbon interior (part of the GTS pack) looks better than the black brushed aluminium and I have cars with both!

All about personal preference and a lot of people spec'd the cars without leather interiors so there really is no right or wrong.

you could have silver dial on GTS full pack then ?

that seems the best option , for me anyway. like the white reading car at £97k

this looks great imo
http://locator.porsche.com/ipl-customer/ipl/detail...

Edited by Porsche911R on Thursday 15th September 15:15

[GT4P]

Porsche911R said:

you could have silver dial on GTS full pack then ?

that seems the best option , for me anyway. like the white reading car at £97k

this looks great imo
http://locator.porsche.com/ipl-customer/ipl/detail...

Edited by Porsche911R on Thursday 15th September 15:15

Had my eye on that one myself!! not interested in a sunroof,gts pack option was red stiching red dials or silver stitching silver dials which I also prefer!
now I wonder if they would do a straight swap for my gt4 lol

[Shiverman]

GT4P said:

Had my eye on that one myself!! not interested in a sunroof,gts pack option was red stiching red dials or silver stitching silver dials which I also prefer!
now I wonder if they would do a straight swap for my gt4 lol

I really like the Reading car think it looks great and the price is good too. The problem for me was my 997GTS was white so I fancied a change in colour. I also put miles on my cars so I wanted uber low mileage to give me some buffer (I put 6k miles on the GT4 in 6 months).

Depends on spec and mileage but I doubt they'll do a straight swap with the GT4 even if they could! I think I got a good deal though by negotiating the 'cost of change'. I went in with a figure I could swallow to change and stuck to it. It was then up to them whether they 'overpaid' for my GT4 or 'discounted' the GTS. On the sales invoice they discounted the GTS so I guess they had more margin in that car. Finance can also help seal the deal as they get a kick back from Porsche for the agreement.

I did miss the GT4 and still do a little, but the GTS is great everyday more comfortable goes as well if not better and in most situations can cover ground as fast. Not quite the scalpel feel of the GT4 when you're on it but still very good.

[Shiverman]

Porsche911R said:

you could have silver dial on GTS full pack then ?

that seems the best option , for me anyway. like the white reading car at £97k

this looks great imo
http://locator.porsche.com/ipl-customer/ipl/detail...

Edited by Porsche911R on Thursday 15th September 15:15

GTS pack comes in 2 colours - Red - which has contrast red stitching on seats, dash and door cards etc., red trimmed seat belts and red rev counter, OR Silver which has all the stitching and seat belts and rev counter in silver. I like silver as it is understated and classy, but I must say we now have two cars with red GTS stitching and I like it! The red also matches with the brake callipers so there is really very little colour contrast just car colour, black trim (exterior and interior) red brakes and red GTS pack - lovely! Very poor picture attached.

[ted 191]

When specing our GTS we went through all the different options as my wife doesn't like alcantara, you can get plain leather to get rid of the nasty plastic but it comes with matching stitching, if you opt for plain leather with contrast stitch, it's something like a £6k option..........I persuaded her to go for the GTS pack !

[paul789]

Shiverman said:

paul789 said:

Thoughts on this spec?:

GREY, Exterior Sliding Glass Roof, Park Assist Front and Rear, Cruise Control, Adjustable Heated Front Seats, Traffic Sign Recognition, Sports Alcantara Steering Wheel with Paddle Shift, Brushed Aluminium Interior Package, Auto Dimming Interior and Exterior Mirrors,Privacy Glass, Centre Console Brushed Aluminium, PDK Selector Lever in Aluminium, 20" Turbo S Centre Lock Wheels painted in Matt Black, Sports Seating with 4 Way Electrical Adjustment, Auto Start-Stop-function, Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus, PSM, PASM, TPMS, Body Widened by 44mm at the Rear, Sport Design Front Apron, DAB Radio, PCM Navigation System, Universal Audio Interface, Heated Rear Screen, Electric Windows, Remote Alarm with Central Locking, Bi-Xenon Headlights with PDLS, 2 Zone Climate Control, Windscreen with Grey Top Tint, Pollen/Particle Filter, Split Folding Rear Seating, Roof Lining & C Pillars in Alcantara, Cup Holders, Manually Adjustable Steering Column, GTS Logo to Headrests, Sport Chrono, Porsche Sports Exhaust.

Hi, it doesn't say it has the GTS interior pack (leather/alcantara dashboard, door cards etc. carbon interior trim, contrasting sticking in silver or red, instrument dials in carmine red or grey). If it doesn't it will be a plastic dash which some people don't like. There is another pack called interior pack with leather and this gives you the leather/alcantara dash but without the other GTS interior pack options and can look quite dark without the GTS pack highlights. Other nice to haves are Bose and preparation for mobile phone and floor mats.

Depends on the price and your personal preference, but if you read a lot of the previous posts a lot of people want the GTS interior pack and cars with this tend to move more quickly and at a slight premium to those without.

Cheers - that's really helpful. This is the one just listed today by Bramley. Will await pictures with interest!

[Shiverman]

ted 191 said:

When specing our GTS we went through all the different options as my wife doesn't like alcantara, you can get plain leather to get rid of the nasty plastic but it comes with matching stitching, if you opt for plain leather with contrast stitch, it's something like a £6k option..........I persuaded her to go for the GTS pack !

It's the contrast stitching that's the killer on price. I've been specing a Macan turbo and the contrast stitching option alone is £2100 !

[I Like cars]

Shiverman said:

ted 191 said:

When specing our GTS we went through all the different options as my wife doesn't like alcantara, you can get plain leather to get rid of the nasty plastic but it comes with matching stitching, if you opt for plain leather with contrast stitch, it's something like a £6k option..........I persuaded her to go for the GTS pack !

It's the contrast stitching that's the killer on price. I've been specing a Macan turbo and the contrast stitching option alone is £2100 !

Worth it as it looks so good

[Bystander1978]

Hm spec. I went Ott but think the following are key:
Gts pack silver
Lowered 20mm
Glass roof
I went burmester but Bose at least
Parking front and back
Phone of course
No rear wiper
Rear bumper painted around exhaust if light colour
Led lights to give special look and feel

Ducktail up for debate but does make car again feel step on from standard.

[Fokker]

porkgts said:

Fokker - you asked about the glass roof. My car has it and in 99% of driving you don't notice it in terms of flex or noise. The positives in terms of looks and ability to open up the roof (esp when the weathers great like now) far outweigh the tiny negative. It's a very sought after option resale wise too.

Thank you for that. I just dont want a wobbly car like a targa or a convertible and was worries that the glass roof would take away too much ridgidity.

[paul789]

Porsche911R said:

I think if it has the " leather/alcantara pack with (leather/alcantara dashboard, door cards etc) " then that's good enough, you forgo the nasty red dials then on the GTS pack:-) but get to have full leather and stitching all be it darker stitching.

Carbon is also nice but again can be added on it's own.

In fact I think I would rather the leather pack and Carbon pack over the full GTS pack just because I hate red dials.
but then 1 or 2 cars with what looks like GTS pack don't have red dials !!! unless they were in fact speced up with the nicer parts of the GTS pack.

It's tricky.

Edited by Porsche911R on Thursday 15th September 15:11

Pictures up now and unless I'm mistaken, I think it does have the "leather pack" - or at least seems to have a leather dash (image # 14)...

http://tinyurl.com/j8bp56y

[Fokker]

paul789 said:

Pictures up now and unless I'm mistaken, I think it does have the "leather pack" - or at least seems to have a leather dash (image # 14)...

http://tinyurl.com/j8bp56y

Paul you are indeed correct. The extra leather is to the dash top and also includes the centre console to come degree and also the door tops with stitching.
The only thing you dont get is partly colour seat belts, deviated stitching (diff colour) and carbon but to be honest leather is just as good. I actually think that the silver interior trim lifts it somewhat from what would otherwise be quite dark.

Great contrast between the Agate Grey and black wheels, looks quite menacing.

Price about right I would say. Cheaper than an OPC who would be charging at least a couple of grand more.
Just make sure they transfer you the remainder of the 3 year warranty from the previous owner if you go for it.

[Phooey]

Fokker said:

Price about right I would say. Cheaper than an OPC who would be charging at least a couple of grand more.

I think it's a bit pricey tbh

[Shiverman]

Phooey said:

I think it's a bit pricey tbh

I agree. Seems pricey to me with that mileage. Would expect that price as an advertised price at an OPC before discount.