Have to give final spec on Boxster GTS

Have to give final spec on Boxster GTS

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Cyb1967

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64 posts

150 months

Friday 27th November 2015
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Going for the Carmine Red Colour Coded trim to replace the Silver, good call at £500 with the red belts should lift the interior.
Also looking like platinum wheels is the choice.

dreamcar

1,067 posts

110 months

Saturday 28th November 2015
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Your car will look amazing! Carmine red beautiful, when I specced mine I narrowed the colours down to carmine or Carrara white metallic. Ended up choosing the latter due to the spiralling cost having decided on PCCB! I would definitely gone for the gloss black finish wheels to match the gloss black GTS exterior pack though.....

dreamcar

1,067 posts

110 months

Saturday 28th November 2015
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Your car will look amazing! Carmine red beautiful, when I specced mine I narrowed the colours down to carmine or Carrara white metallic. Ended up choosing the latter due to the spiralling cost having decided on PCCB! I would definitely gone for the gloss black finish wheels to match the gloss black GTS exterior pack though., maybe more critical with the purely black and white theme of my car. Than your carmine red. Whatever, your car will look magnificent, of that I have no doubt!

Edited by dreamcar on Saturday 28th November 11:17

Cyb1967

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64 posts

150 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Final Order soon, thank you for all your advice Porsche code here and interior shot

Cyb1967

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Monday 30th November 2015
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Cyb1967

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woodysnr

1,023 posts

227 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Nice car all the health to enjoy it and a great colour .Every one has their own preferences .Not sure about the silver seat backs, and would delete centre consul painted but keep the dash and side trim painted and go for the external hoops painted. Again all personnel choices.

PhilLL

1,123 posts

199 months

Tuesday 1st December 2015
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Congratulations, that spec will look awesome cool

Cyb1967

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64 posts

150 months

Friday 4th December 2015
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After a second PEC Day....slight change on the spec here it is finall!

Porsch Code PGGSJJS6

woodysnr

1,023 posts

227 months

Friday 4th December 2015
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Like the dash layout much nicer and looks expensive .The other one cheapened it a bit IMO

Optom

2 posts

146 months

Friday 4th December 2015
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Carmine red paint is "soft" just taken delivery of mine in jet black looks fab and sounds fab. Enjoy

DJMC

3,431 posts

102 months

Friday 4th December 2015
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Optom said:
Carmine red paint is "soft" just taken delivery of mine in jet black looks fab and sounds fab. Enjoy
Jet black looks mean on a Boxster. It was on the first 981 I drove, a base Boxster PDK with Turbo wheels. But black does lose some of the detailing of the body.

Gorsh

329 posts

104 months

Friday 4th December 2015
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It's all personal choice isn't it?

I chose Guards Red which is one of those colours that looks incredible in the flesh but photographs poorly, it was also no cost compared to the Carmine which is expensive for a solid colour. I wasn't keen on the red trim interior - with mine I have the standard GTS interior and added the carbon interior trim, looks classy IMO and all the better for not having the red stitching and centre dial. Only other thing is for some reason adding the carbon trim forces you to have a leather steering wheel, and it adds the carbon/aluminium gear lever too which is very classy.

Edited by Gorsh on Friday 4th December 23:12

Cyb1967

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64 posts

150 months

Sunday 6th December 2015
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Right chaps last thoughts is it worth having GTS exterior Pack?
And then would you have satin grey wheels or partial black wheels on the standard wheels that come with the car

dreamcar

1,067 posts

110 months

Sunday 6th December 2015
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[quote=Cyb1967]Right chaps last thoughts is it worth having GTS exterior Pack?
And then would you have satin grey wheels or partial black wheels on the standard wheels that come with the car[/quote

For me (and what we chose on our Boxster GTS) I'd have the exterior pack that gives gloss black on front spoiler, side air intakes, base of door mirrors, roll bars and rear under tray and match it with the standard Carrera S wheels painted in gloss black (partial). For the interior if you don't like the interior pack painted go for either brushed aluminium or carbon trim. The standard metal look plastic trim strips cheapen the otherwise quality interior IMO.

Boggle73

235 posts

104 months

Sunday 6th December 2015
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Cyb1967 said:
Right chaps last thoughts is it worth having GTS exterior Pack?
And then would you have satin grey wheels or partial black wheels on the standard wheels that come with the car
We went GTS exterior and Partial gloss black wheels, left the rollover hoops in gloss black too.
What exterior colour are go going with?
We had the chance to view both exterior finishes in showroom at Leeds, the gloss black finish just looked so good. Mine will be more of a weekend car though, can imagine it would look hammered if doing plenty of motorway miles on daily basis. I went to view a second hand Carrara White with GTS exterior at Kendal OPC. They had painted both front intakes and splitter after 6000 miles.
Suppose it's all down to what you are doing on a daily basis, but all cars need TLC at some point.

Jay.

TB303

1,040 posts

193 months

Monday 7th December 2015
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AndyCGTS said:
It was in both modes but it was more pronounced in Sports mode which is to be expected, as for me personally the X73 seems a half-way house between Sports and normal mode in terms of suspension firmness but the damping was miles better. It just seem to ride the road a lot better and we tested it on the track and on the roads in and around Silverstone PEC.

However, one minor thing which I did find a small surprise when back to backing the suspension the PASM felt numb in comparison the X73 just felt more alive.
Completely agree. PASM numbs the car out - good description. The passive suspension setup Porsche offer with X73 is brilliant. I don't miss PASM which was specced in my 987.

Cyb1967

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64 posts

150 months

Tuesday 8th December 2015
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Today was the final day and after all your advice and help I finished up with this spec car due UK 12/2/16 delivery 1/3/2016

Boxster GTS
Carmine Red
Black Hood
Black Leather with Alcantara
Park Assist Front and Rear
PDK
20 Inch Carrera S Wheels in Satin Platinum
2 Zone Climate
Heated Seats
Smoking Package
Leather Sports Design Wheel
PCM
Sound Package Plus
Telephone Module
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