Accidentally bought a comfort spec GT3

[cowboyengineer]

Worst case of spec creep ever!

Meant to buy a manual 997 c2, ended up with a 991 GT3, no buckets or cage because I didn't want them.

2 owners and 18months old and only 1100 miles. Shocking really!!! Can't believe it's not be driven it makes me sad.

Anyway 17 days until pick up!

http://locator.porsche.com/ipl-customer/ipl/detail...

[cowboyengineer]

Whilst I don't plan any track days, I've never done one before so this is probably the wrong car to try it out, I managed to put 3000 miles on my gts in the 5 weeks I've used it. I shall not imagine it will have 1100 miles on it for long......

[cowboyengineer]

Zanderman said:

Hell of a jump from a 997 C2 to a 991 GT3!!! Would have loved to hear the conversation you had with yourself to justify that jump!

Awesome looking car though!

Edited by Zanderman on Wednesday 4th May 08:31

Well I noticed it at the 718 launch,and had a nice look, thought nothing of it at the time.

Then I was driving to the dealership on the Friday to buy a 911 and I had a brainwave.....

The conversation went something like this....

"I should, shouldn't I?"

"Yes, yes you should!"

In terms of mileage, the current plan is pick it up from the dealer and take it for a 2700 mile hoon through Portugal, Spain, and France, thought that is not 100% confirmed.

Edited by cowboyengineer on Wednesday 4th May 11:47

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Porsche911R said:

" Accidentally "

I find that odd, people don't " Accidentally " spend £140k unless it was a very good sales man charging a 8.5% PCP and you got suckered in.
I guess you have a cooling off period !

I actually think it's around 7.6%

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Porsche911R said:

scary ! so about £20k in interest !

Which is less then I would lose if I paid cash

[cowboyengineer]

Porsche911R said:

Man maths is great for buying cars Accidentally :-)

Indeed and cash flow is more important to my business, then losing 7% a year

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iantr said:

Was that a conversation with yourself or with your significant other? I find that the two sometimes lead to different conclusions....

Myself obviously, who would ask someone who might not think that this is 100% a good idea

It happened so quickly I went down and had another look today.....

It's so nice, i took some more photos

v 991 GT3 Front

991 gt3 back

911 gt3 side

Porsche911R said:

Man maths is great for buying cars Accidentally :-)

Yes, yes it is, I justify to myself by telling myself over my time with the car it's going to cost less then my Boxster is going to cost me.......

Shiverman said:

Are you going to get it detailed? Exclusive car care do a great job and are relatively local. They have detailed my last two cars and they looked stunning and have been a lot easier to maintain.

Yes, he did my Golf _ECC7305

However I was thinking of getting ppf on this one, and I'm not sure if he does it......

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037 said:

Stunning motor.
Post up some pics of it dirty on your travels !

I had crystal syrum applied to it, and despite not washing it, it never gets that dirty. Not compared to my other cars. I actually think it's well worth it.

This is usually how i treat my cars Dirty pork by Ian Pinder, on Flickr

but the golf never gets that bad!

Edited by cowboyengineer on Wednesday 4th May 23:11

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anniesdad said:

Nice Nicolai.



Great man maths BTW!

The blue, the green or the black one. There is also a raw one coming to join them.

[cowboyengineer]

So I took it for another drive today. I think it's live. Definitely didn't want buckets because they are a bit tight on me and as stated before, I'm not big in to track days.

2 weeks today I pick it up! And the countdown begins

[cowboyengineer]

Overall I'm very happy with them.

I don't know who you've been dealing with there, but all of my dealings have been with Chris and Dave.

Chris has been excellent to me, I originally came in as a tyre kicker not really wanting to buy anything, but a few plans for 6-8 months time. But he spent time with me building a relationship (I know that this is their job) even took me over to the Ferrari dealership across the road because he knew they had a ariel nomad in and I expressed an interest in thoses.

I came in with a work colleague 3 weeks later as he bought a cayenne, and saw a boxster gts they had. Came in the next day and bought it. The transaction was as harmless as it could be and they gave me £2000 more for my px then another garage did.

When I was driving to pick up my other car I decided I wanted to keep the px and they had no issues redoing the deal in the morning including Hong back to the finance and sorting it out with them.


About 2 weeks later I started looking at an additional 911 and I'm not sure they took me seriously to begin with because they dragged their feet on a few cars. But when I started looking at other dealership cars they got their act together and actually bought a car of another customer for me early because it was the right spec and price, and we're OK when I saw the gt3 when I came to the 718 launch and bought that instead of the c2s they bought for me.

I would of liked to drive the GT3, before they applied for the finance but they would only let me once they knew I could actually buy it - but imho I think that's fair enough because it's in a different league to anything I had discussed with them before and over double my next most expensive car. If it was a demonstrator then I would expect them to let me drive it, but a used gt3 then ok not to. I could have still pulled out after the test drive if I didn't like it.

All and all very good so far, though not dealt with them for anything other than car purchases and so far they have jumped through every hoop I have asked them too, including rearranging test drive times, pick up times at last minute......

So so far so good