991 GTS Must haves

[I Like cars]

Shiverman said:

I Like cars said:

I collect my car this week and it has a leather steering wheel, I am thinking of changing it for Alcantara, can anyone who already has Alcantara say how is it holding up ? Or should I stick to the existing leather wheel? Thank you

I've bought an alcantara brush and leave it in the car and make sure I brush the seats and steering wheel regularly to keep the pile looking good. works really well.

Thanks all for your comments, I will look into and see if I can justify it to my wife !

[I Like cars]

Shiverman said:

I Like cars said:

I collect my car this week and it has a leather steering wheel, I am thinking of changing it for Alcantara, can anyone who already has Alcantara say how is it holding up ? Or should I stick to the existing leather wheel? Thank you

I've bought an alcantara brush and leave it in the car and make sure I brush the seats and steering wheel regularly to keep the pile looking good. works really well.

Thanks all for your comments, I will look into and see if I can justify it to my wife !

[Fokker]

Just bought a GT silver GTS PDK with nice options including roof, GTS red pack, Bose etc. It used to be on reg number GB64 GTS and last owner was called Nigel.
Was bought from Sheffield originally then went through JZM to its second owner.

Anyone here?

[porkgts]

Fokker said:

Just bought a GT silver GTS PDK with nice options including roof, GTS red pack, Bose etc. It used to be on reg number GB64 GTS and last owner was called Nigel.
Was bought from Sheffield originally then went through JZM to its second owner.

Anyone here?

Nice, I knew I recognised that reg, if you google it there are quite a few pics of when it was for sale before...

GT Silver the best colour IMO!!

Enjoy!

Private or trade sale?

[Fokker]

porkgts said:

Nice, I knew I recognised that reg, if you google it there are quite a few pics of when it was for sale before...

GT Silver the best colour IMO!!

Enjoy!

Private or trade sale?

Cheers, yes it looks properly epic in the flesh. Ive always wanted a GT silver 911.

I bought it through an OPC before it had been advertised. I basically got on the phone and called about asking for one and got lucky.

Pics of it here https://www.porscheclubgb.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=8927...

And here http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?331124-Incom...

Edited by Fokker on Monday 19th September 17:02

[Shiverman]

Fokker said:

Cheers, yes it looks properly epic in the flesh. Ive always wanted a GT silver 911.

I bought it through an OPC before it had been advertised. I basically got on the phone and called about asking for one and got lucky.

Pics of it here https://www.porscheclubgb.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=8927...

And here http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?331124-Incom...

Looks a great spec and GT silver is the best colour silver Porsche currently make. Did you px against your GT4?

Hope you enjoy it and let us know what you think with the switch from the GT4. Strange how everyone wanted to get into the GT4 and now lots of people are swapping out into 991GTS.

Edited by Fokker on Monday 19th September 17:02

[Fokker]

Shiverman said:

Fokker said:

Strange how everyone wanted to get into the GT4 and now lots of people are swapping out into 991GTS.

Edited by Fokker on Monday 19th September 17:02

I know I am going to miss the GT4 as a drivers car, I just needed something more everyday hence the change. If it was a weekend car I'd have kept it longer.

It was also 6 months and I generally change my cars every 6 months to a year anyway...

[Not Ideal]

Fokker that looks awesome. Love to hear more about it as your ownership continues.

[paul789]

Yeah, love that. That's probably the way to go, ringing round the OPCs.

Long shot, but is the owner of the Voodoo GTS from the Cardiff OPC on here?

[porkgts]

paul789 said:

Yeah, love that. That's probably the way to go, ringing round the OPCs.

Long shot, but is the owner of the Voodoo GTS from the Cardiff OPC on here?

I asked the OPC to call the owner of that car and ask if interested in selling when I was looking for my GTS. Was told they weren't looking to sell as they were still enjoying it too much. I hadn't seen it in the flesh but I saw a pic and it looked ace.

But now I couldn't be happier with GT Silver, the past few days have been quite sunny and when the evening sun catches it the depth of the paint with the stark contrast to be black details just makes the car look stunning to my eyes...

[tuffer]

Fokker said:

Cheers, yes it looks properly epic in the flesh. Ive always wanted a GT silver 911.

I bought it through an OPC before it had been advertised. I basically got on the phone and called about asking for one and got lucky.

Pics of it here https://www.porscheclubgb.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=8927...

And here http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?331124-Incom...

Edited by Fokker on Monday 19th September 17:02

Great looking car, not seen one with the red highlights before and they really compliment the silver, nice find.

[m88ony]

Looks stunning and congrats finding one. I too got my GTS from my OPC even before it was listed for sale. Worth leaving your details with a few OPC's if you are looking.

[Fokker]

Just looking at pistonheads and many GTS' have been sold by the looks of it. There were 23 ads, now there are 16.
Mixture of 997 and 991.

I reckon that they're being snapped up? Even some cars without leather / GTS pack have gone. Notably the Guilford carmine car with 6k miles which was on for 97k.
The car in Bristol with 17k in Carmine went in a day too. I saw the white Reading car on Sunday and its really clean, doesn't have a glass roof so not sure if that has a bearing at 97k?

[Fokker]

• *Top Tip***

As a result of my calling about last week, I have had Dan Atkinson on the phone from OPC Newcastle with a car thats coming in on Thursday this week.
If interested get hold of him on 0191 295 1234 before it gets advertised.

I am not sure of miles, but he said quite low and it would be for sale in the low 90's.
Spec is really nice apart from lack of leather dash but lots of carbon might make up for that.

Spec:
Sapphire Blue
Standard interior with alcantara
Carbon interior pack
Parking front & Rear
Sport design pack (Ducktail)
Sill skirts painted
Carbon Door sill guards
Centre console in Carbon
PDK selector in carbon
Power steering plus
Rear apron painted
Sport design steering wheel
Bose
Telephone
Floor mats
Heated seats
Cruise
PDK
PASM -20

Pics are from the 1st time they sold it, has had 2 owners.

Hope it helps one someone?

Edited by Fokker on Tuesday 20th September 15:39

[Fokker]

• *Top Tip***

As a result of my calling about last week, I have had Dan Atkinson on the phone from OPC Newcastle with a car thats coming in on Thursday this week.
If interested get hold of him on 0191 295 1234 before it gets advertised.

I am not sure of miles, but he said quite low and it would be for sale in the low 90's.
Spec is really nice apart from lack of leather dash but lots of carbon might make up for that.

Spec:
Sapphire Blue
Standard interior with alcantara
Carbon interior pack
Parking front & Rear
Sport design pack (Ducktail)
Sill skirts painted
Carbon Door sill guards
Centre console in Carbon
PDK selector in carbon
Power steering plus
Rear apron painted
Sport design steering wheel
Bose
Telephone
Floor mats
Heated seats
Cruise
PDK
PASM -20

Pics are from the 1st time they sold it, has had 2 owners.

Hope it helps one someone?

Edited by Fokker on Tuesday 20th September 15:41

[I Like cars]

Today I was mostly driving this

[Shiverman]

I Like cars said:

Today I was mostly driving this

Not even going to ask how your day was! Congratulations and a stunning looking car.

[I Like cars]

Shiverman said:

Not even going to ask how your day was! Congratulations and a stunning looking car.

I went to work this morning in London, then my son got the train to Victora and we got the train to Porsche Guildford to collect it and drive it home with a very happy 16 year old son and a 44 year old dad !

[porkgts]

I Like cars said:

Today I was mostly driving this

Congrats, looks epic!

[Not Ideal]

Looks absolutely awesome - many congrats.