Porsche 996 Turbo

[jimPH]

I fitted 997 GT3 seats. But I'd like to add heating. Is it possible?

[Adam B]

Theone8181 said:

I believe the sports seats could be had with or without memory, my turbo had sports seats with heating but not memory. The sports ones iirc have sort of a bolster around the shoulder area.

I just checked in the brochure / option price lists.

You could get heating on standard and sport seats
Standard was multi electric with memory
Sports - no memory and only backrest back/fwd was electric.

As an exclusive special order you could full electric sports seats but no memory - so very rare. I found one of the maybe 50 I researched when I was in the market

Edited by Adam B on Thursday 3rd January 11:34

[neutral 3]

Found one that for me, has an interior I really like ( the wood is naff though ) very reasonable mileage as well, but just realised it's an auto.

[neutral 3]

A pal had a 2002 C2 in black, with a very similar tan interior in 2006.

[Adam B]

So savannah, wood trim and tiptronic?

Bargain hard and I mean hard!!

[neutral 3]

If it's as good as it looks, then this metallic gold 2002 model Turbo, is a Hell of a lot of car @ circa £29,000.
Assuming one could live with LHD of course. Such a shame it's an auto.
I've never seen a 996 in this body colour, scarce option I guess.

[Theone8181]

neutral 3 said:

Have you a photo of the interior of your one ?

I'll see what pics I have living around of it.

[neutral 3]

Theone8181 said:

neutral 3 said:

Have you a photo of the interior of your one ?

I'll see what pics I have living around of it.

Thanks

[Adam B]

neutral 3 said:

If it's as good as it looks, then this 2002 model Turbo, is a Hell of a lot of car @ circa £29,000.
Assuming one could live with LHD of course. Such a shame it's an auto.
I've never seen a 996 in this body colour, scarce option I guess.

Great if you like it but you get why that is priced the way it is right?

What mileage and is it C16 as that looks like er... European tastes.

[Theone8181]

This is the best i've got, shows the wings at the top.

https://ekl8ga.dm.files.1drv.com/y4mpWkRn3mLslouLy...

Edit; thats a picture on my onedrive account, i couldn't see a way of directly inserting a picture without having to upload it.

[neutral 3]

Theone8181 said:

This is the best i've got, shows the wings at the top.

https://ekl8ga.dm.files.1drv.com/y4mpWkRn3mLslouLy...

Edit; thats a picture on my onedrive account, i couldn't see a way of directly inserting a picture without having to upload it.

Those seats look lovely!

[Theone8181]

They were pretty comfy, although after a couple of hours they got a bit uncomfortable, but that may be as the car had been driven for 107,000 miles.

[neutral 3]

Yes, after 107,000 miles, the drivers seat foam would have sagged.

Another take on Savannah trim ( which I personally like, as a black trim makes a car so gloomy for me ) This one is circa £27,000, auto though but it has only covered 122,000 Kms.

Edited by neutral 3 on Thursday 3rd January 13:39

[Adam B]

my god - where are you searching to find these LHD cars with resale disaster specs? Somewhere abroad?

for same money and if you don't mind tiptronic this is what I would look at
https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

slate grey is lovely

or if you can afford the extra 5k for a manual I'd be looking at something like this:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

albeit with an immediate drive to a wheel refurber to get them back to standard alloy

Edited by Adam B on Thursday 3rd January 13:59

[Theone8181]

While my turbo was silver with black interior, my previous car was a 996 c2 with Savannah interior and ocean blue exterior. I quite liked the Savannah as it was nice to not have a boring colour.

[neutral 3]

Theone8181 said:

While my turbo was silver with black interior, my previous car was a 996 c2 with Savannah interior and ocean blue exterior. I quite liked the Savannah as it was nice to not have a boring colour.

Agreed! I have always liked a lighter interior colour. Before I had even bought my E46 M3, i bought a red interior for it, as I knew that I would be searching for ever for one in Carbon black red trim / manual box / and a face lift model.

[neutral 3]

Adam B said:

my god - where are you searching to find these LHD cars with resale disaster specs? Somewhere abroad?

for same money and if you don't mind tiptronic this is what I would look at
https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

slate grey is lovely

or if you can afford the extra 5k for a manual I'd be looking at something like this:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

albeit with an immediate drive to a wheel refurber to get them back to standard alloy

Edited by Adam B on Thursday 3rd January 13:59

The silver manual one looks good, it's not the colour combo for me however.

[Adam B]

I didn’t think it would be but it’s what the market generally wants, so as I said make sure you buy at a considerable discount for cars with the interiors/exteriors you like as they will be trickier to sell on

Enjoy the hunt and post up what you buy - I am enjoying your taste

[Zarco]

That silver manual one is lovely. Right up my street!

[neutral 3]

Thanks Adam ! I am drawn to a car from Europe, as I have bought a fair few other makes back in the past and generally they have far less corrosion and in the case of German market cars, have been very well maintained, due to their fairly strict TUV test. They also seem to keep an intact paper work trail.
As I said before though, LHD is certainly not for everyone.