Too good to use...

[cornershop]

P50 said:

Here you go. Green leather faced seats with red piping.

that would be GreyGreen leather, or GrauGrun (Code 5JX i believe)

Yours is a lovely example and reminds me what mine looked like when i bought it back in 2006. Mine is also Granite Green, and had the same seats as yours until i went 'rogue' and swapped them out for some retrimmed Recaro Furious.

I think you should sell - you've had several IB's, lots more cars and marques out there to own!

[P50]

cornershop said:

P50 said:

Here you go. Green leather faced seats with red piping.

that would be GreyGreen leather, or GrauGrun (Code 5JX i believe)

Yours is a lovely example and reminds me what mine looked like when i bought it back in 2006. Mine is also Granite Green, and had the same seats as yours until i went 'rogue' and swapped them out for some retrimmed Recaro Furious.

I think you should sell - you've had several IB's, lots more cars and marques out there to own!

When I first saw the car I thought it was grey, When I was told there was green in the colour I noticed it. The colour as you are aware is granite green L699.

The leather however is very green! Can't detect any grey in it at all??

i've just lost my garaging at home and the car is now in professional safe storage for the grim season. I have couple of cars up for sale. For the immediate future I can keep the 3.2 but it all depends on what position I'm in, in a few months storage wise.

[cornershop]

I see some grey in mine (genuine Porsche vinyl on door cards and leather on seat outers)



Maybe best to see how you feel after the winter, however some associate 'lack of use' with 'should be sold'

[Mondrian]

How many miles?

[harleywilma]

I Had until recently a bunch of concourse classic bikes in my man cave that I had collected and restored over the years,then it dawned on me that there was really no point at all in not being able to use them, I finally relented and sold nearly all but 4,So of I went and found a very low mileage 911,not a classic but a low mileage massive spec c4s, I know if I never used it and kept it for years and years it would eventually appreciate as historically all 911's do as is the case of the 996c4s which are now gathering pace, But I see now that there is no real point at all in doing that and driving them is so much better than staring at them.This is obviously not the case for all as I know full well how obsession creeps in but I know what does it for me,Life is too short so just drive them....

[aceparts]

The title should really read 'not good enough to use' because if it was truly great one would be able to use it worry fre throughout the year!
I was recently at a charity event down the road in my 'too good not to use' 993 and people kept asking if I was ok driving it on wet or salted roads....... When it was new I'm sure it was used in the rain without permanent damage so I'm definitely going to continue to use it in all conditons. Life is short

[boxsey]

aceparts said:

The title should really read 'not good enough to use' because if it was truly great one would be able to use it worry fre throughout the year!

I was thinking that it should have been 'Too good to use....so it's for sale'.

[Mondrian]

Mondrian said:

How many miles?

We need miles man, if not low miles then no need to worry about driving it!

[roygarth]

petej said:

Enjoy her as she was meant to be enjoyed

3 Hoon early Sunday mornings before the Honda Jazz owners set off for the bottle bank

Problem solved

Citroen Picasso owners are the worst.

[EJH]

mollytherocker said:

Absolutely. Its not like they suddenly disintegrate when you drive them!

Drive, enjoy and properly maintain. Its not rocket science.

I have to agree with this. The day I stop using my car is the day I sell it; I even use it for the odd B&Q run – you can fit enough potting compost in the boot and if I’m in the mood to use that car I may as well!

I’m the second owner of mine and I try to keep it on the button and enjoy using it; mileage is ~96,000 so I hardly have to worry about keeping the mileage low! They don’t much like not being used; the first owner of mine bought a 996 to replace it in 1999 and between then and selling it to me in 2006, the car did 3,000km. I think I changed all 6 of the air & ac related blowers in the first 6 months I owned the car, aside from a variety of other niggles from lack of use. Since those 6 months the car has been faultless, aside from routine maintenance and improvements.

I do agree with the points about extended leather. Mine has it and whilst I enjoy the stitching on the door handles (I jest), the dash-top has been pulled out of shape by the contraction of the leather. It’s on my to-do list once I eventually get around to it…and steel myself for the moderately hideous bill.