991.2 GT3 - Colours. Spec. Q+A. etc etc..

[Fokker]

Struggling to decide on the lights for a jet black metallic car. With the LED's in black will it look too dark as against the PDLS Xenons that have a lighter grey ring around the outside?

Xenons



LED in black

[Fokker]

Or do I go for GT silver instead?!

[RSVP911]

Fokker said:

Or do I go for GT silver instead?!

IMHO this looks better - have you had your allocation confirmed ?

[Fokker]

RSVP911 said:

IMHO this looks better - have you had your allocation confirmed ?

I've got GT silver now so just wanted a change and I do like black. Decisions decision.
I've not been told yet but no news is good news

Edited by Fokker on Wednesday 29th March 20:43

[Taffy66]

Fokker said:

Struggling to decide on the lights for a jet black metallic car. With the LED's in black will it look too dark as against the PDLS Xenons that have a lighter grey ring around the outside?

Xenons



LED in black

I sat in a jet black 991.1GT3 at my OPC about two years ago and we commented at the time how awesome it looked if you like the mean stealth look..!.However if i'm given an allocation i personally would not choose black as i've had a few black Porsches on the trot and i'm sick of the maintenance.There is a good thread over on Rennlist showing a colour poll which you need to study imo. Have you tried silver wheels on jet black ?.
Gt silver along with Guards would be my choices but after seeing a photo of Graphite blue with black wheels in sunlight which i quite like.Nobody should get too concerned about spec imo in case they don't get a build slot as the pain of rejection will be even more acute...

[breadvan]

Do painted sills get battered with stone chips?

I ppf'ed both my McLaren and Spyder but the McLaren still suffered quite badly.

Cheers

[RSVP911]

Fokker said:

I've got GT silver now so just wanted a change and I do like black. Decisions decision.
I've not been told yet but no news is good news

Edited by Fokker on Wednesday 29th March 20:43

Best of luck

[Bieldside]

Black is mean
My GT3 is black and everyone comments on how good it looks
If you are lucky I'd go there

[av185]

breadvan said:

Do painted sills get battered with stone chips?

I ppf'ed both my McLaren and Spyder but the McLaren still suffered quite badly.

Cheers

They can do on a 911 and imo make the car too slab sided especially if a light colour.

Talking of stone chips, I find both the GT3 and GT4 rear wheels (basically similar design) fairly prone to stone chips which is more evident the darker the wheel colour (mine titanium).

Presumably stone chips will be less evident on the standard light alloy finish of the 991.2.

[Cheib]

Taffy66 said:

Nobody should get too concerned about spec imo in case they don't get a build slot as the pain of rejection will be even more acute...

Those are very wise words!

That said...get LED's! They're brilliant (quite literally).

Edited by Cheib on Wednesday 29th March 21:50

[JiggyJaggy]

It's started already...just been offered a LHD GT3 for £25k premium over the MSRP...

[Fokker]

breadvan said:

Do painted sills get battered with stone chips?

I ppf'ed both my McLaren and Spyder but the McLaren still suffered quite badly.

Cheers

My GTS came with painted sills in GT silver and after 12k miles they were well road rashed. Either the prev owner was a rally driver or they are prone to stones. As AV185 says, the coloured ones give the car a fatter midriff. I changed to new black plastic ones. Personal choice but I'd not colour code.

[breadvan]

Thank you chaps.

[GT3cs]

[GT3cs]

It's a great game people spotting these different Spec GT3's dotted around Europe , but maybe would have been easier if Porsche just took a picture of each one before as they left the factory . I'm assuming these can't be customer cars yet so must be the test fleet getting a few miles in before the journo's get a hold of them in a few weeks time ?

[RSVP911]

GT3cs said:

In two minds about Crayon - was dead set on it day one - not so sure now - wheels on this car don't help IMHO

[Cheib]

RSVP911 said:

GT3cs said:

In two minds about Crayon - was dead set on it day one - not so sure now - wheels on this car don't help IMHO

My thoughts precisely! Needs black wheels and lights IMHO.

[tuffer]

Cheib said:

RSVP911 said:

GT3cs said:

In two minds about Crayon - was dead set on it day one - not so sure now - wheels on this car don't help IMHO

My thoughts precisely! Needs black wheels and lights IMHO.

I like Crayon but would have preferred a darker shade such as Fashion Grey, that said I could be tempted with it matched with Platinum wheels.

[tuffer]

To be fair, if they offered me a car in an old British Leyland dogst Brown colour I would take it.

[Tony 1234]

Fokker said:

Or do I go for GT silver instead?!

Same as my spec but with gloss black handles and part gloss black mirrors, I'm not sure if to spec PCCB's

Oh and July build date

Edited by Tony 1234 on Thursday 30th March 09:38