Serious Issues With GT4!!

[jackwood]

I've just got back from 4 days with the GT4 and GTS in the far North West of Scotland.

The car under steered everywhere and the hearing made it barely drivable! As for the boring GT Silver.. Well that was a huge letdown as well as it clashed horribly with the scenery. The whole car is a sham and was a dire letdown. I can't believe I wasted my money on it....


Obviously that is all complete ste. Had an absolutely mega mega time up there and the car was just massively impressive. Everyone who rode in it or followed it (or tried to) commented on just how well it went down the road. The roads up in the far north west can be very challenging, and even alarming in places. The GT4 was mighty though. The grip levels it was generating were unreal. In fact we were having to manage tyre pressures as we would on track as we were getting that much heat in them.

The car is completely stock. And still can't see the need to change anything on it.

Well, I would actually like to put the lump out of the GTS in it. Not just because it feels like a cleaner-revving, freer engine. But because the the GT4 was doing a third of a tank to every quarter tank in the GTS.... Very strange...

Anyway. Thread's worth nought without some pics...

And Colin, great to meet you. See you soon.

Edited by jackwood on Monday 23 May 20:10

[jackwood]

Amazingly the GT4 didn't ground once! I was following both a 997.1 GT3RS and a 997.2 GT3 and I could hear and see them constantly grounding the splitter.

Edit: correction. The splitter did get caught once. At Glenshee (we went up via the Old Military road) ski station someone parked up and forgot to put on the stupid electronic handbrake. It rolled forward into the curb...

Edited by jackwood on Monday 23 May 20:06

[jackwood]

Maybe some come off the line a bit crap? Still can't fault ours.

[jackwood]

Boss Hogg said:

jackwood said:

Amazingly the GT4 didn't ground once! I was following both a 997.1 GT3RS and a 997.2 GT3 and I could hear and see them constantly grounding the splitter.

Edit: correction. The splitter did get caught once. At Glenshee (we went up via the Old Military road) ski station someone parked up and forgot to put on the stupid electronic handbrake. It rolled forward into the curb...

Edited by jackwood on Monday 23 May 20:06

NC500? Did you do the bealach na bá over to Applecross, any issue on the hairpins? I'm heading up that way in the GT4 in a couple of weeks, can't wait .

We didn't do the run over to Applecross this time. Done it several times before. There are far far better roads in the area so we didn't waste our time over there. But if you've not been before, you have.m to do it and have lunch or dinner at the Inn.

Having said all that, I've been over there in the 996 GT3. I can't comment on the splitter cleavage though as it got ripped off in Loch Garry. About 100 miles before we got to Applecross Pass....

But no grounding issues on any other hairpins of dips.

And we do our own route. Having some locals in the group means we have a good idea where the best roads are. Haven't been disappointed yet. You'll love it.

[jackwood]

v8ksn said:

Car looks gorgeous, scenery looks epic!

There is nothing better than driving out on beautiful roads with the sun shining in the company of good friends with some great cars

Wishing you many many more happy miles

Indeed! Nothing better!

Thanks. 5500 miles and counting.

[jackwood]

ChrisW. said:

That looks like a lot of fun

Just turned 5000 miles in mine and 'loving it !

It's the worlds biggest race track. You'd love it!

[jackwood]

All the way up to Durness. Tried to do a loop round to Tongue and Lairg back to Kylesku (overnight stop) but a biker had had an accident on one of the single tracks between Durness and Tongue so we just turned round and went back the way we came. Still absolutely stunning. Biker was ok, by the way. But was lying in the middle of the road waiting for ambulance. Just some broken ribs and concussion.

[jackwood]

WindyM said:

Great photos Jack. (I followed yours and pawnsacrifice's progress on Twitter.)

My son and I drove up through Wales on Friday, then did the PCGB track day at Anglesey on Saturday. There were 4 or 5 GT4s all being ragged around. They were sublime! I really don't know where Porsche goes next. And I always enjoy the Caymans my OPC loans me whenever mine is in - I'm very reluctant to give them back!

Is the 997.2 GT3 owner on PH?

Paul

The white one? Yes. That's Colin. See a couple of posts above yours.

[jackwood]

anonymous said:

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There were a lot of us, but we never all travelled together. It's impossible with that number of cars with drivers of different abilities/confidence/comfort levels. So the convoy normally finds itself split up into 3 or 4 smaller groups and spread out down the road.

The North West is quite different to most other places I've ever driven. The roads are generally very well sighted, and if you pick the right time of year, sparsely populated. For example, the run from Kylesku to pretty-much Loch Carron on the way home on Monday I think we saw maybe 4 other vehicles, only one going in our direction that we had to overtake. Obviously it's not always like that, but you get the gist.

Generally there was an even split between fist shakers and fist pumpers. The main thing is obviously to respect the locals and respect the village and town speed limits. The only police we saw were in villages. Normally stopping the "45mph Brigade". You know, the ones who do 45 in a NSL, 60, 50, 40 or 30 zone....

It's just about common sense really. I know there seems a distinct lack of that around in this day and age, but if you use it, you shouldn't go wrong.

[jackwood]

I'd rather go to Scotland than the Alps, to be honest.

The highlands are full of locals that pedal their Mondeos, Passats and LandCruisers at ferocious pace. Like I said, as long as you respects the village and town limits, the locals seem pretty sound. You can't legislate for everyone, but they seem as car-friendly as anywhere else up there. Maybe more-so. I'm not sure "visitors" or tourists would really be arsed wasting their holiday calling police to report cars. Well to start with, they'd really struggle as there's no real phone signal up there! The real issue is that with all the publicity of the NC500 it is getting busy up there in peak season. You really need to pick your time to get nice clear runs that were the norm even 3 years ago.

[jackwood]

stuart b said:

jackwood said:

All the way up to Durness. Tried to do a loop round to Tongue and Lairg back to Kylesku (overnight stop) but a biker had had an accident on one of the single tracks between Durness and Tongue so we just turned round and went back the way we came. Still absolutely stunning. Biker was ok, by the way. But was lying in the middle of the road waiting for ambulance. Just some broken ribs and concussion.

I was riding the bike that let you all by just before we came across the accident. I'm still trying to find out if he was definitely OK, but he did not seem to be deteriorating (likely ribs/possible collar bone). A fourth doctor arrived (not sure if he was called or just passing) who had meds with him and gave pain relief (this is about 40 mins after the accident). Ambulance arrived shortly after that and then we found a place for the air ambulance to land a few minutes later.

I left after that as there was no more we could do and we were just going to be getting in the way. Hopefully he's all right. It's beautiful up there, but not a great place to have an incident.

Stuart

There was quite a crowd gathering. The guy wouldn't let James examine him at all. He certainly seemed stable. Just quite a lot of pain.

Had a nice run back down that road, apart from two Belgian bikers on massive Honda things that refused to move over and let us past. They just rode straight past the crash while we were all parked up.

That's the only issue with some of the more popular/traversed single track. Some people are great and use the passing points that are ever 20 meters to let you past. Others just sit in the road doing 25mph holding up 10+ cars.