Anyone for ‘T’

[gregd]

Fred42 said:

Collecting on Saturday.

Looks briliant,enjoy! Getting excited for my Silver one too.

[Fred42]

Grey T stitching

bennno said:

jackwood said:

Anyone specced and received a car with the green interior yet?

havent seen one with the green or grey striped interior, all pics of landed cars seem to be with the standard sportex - some with deviated stitching.

[bennno]

Fred42 said:

The question im struggling with is whether that is that worth the £1400 extra over sportex?

[Fred42]

I agree, I seem to remember it gets you the leather dash, not sure if I’m misremembering that though. Ideally it would be good to see a T and non T interior in the flesh. Would I spec it again…..not sure!

bennno said:

Fred42 said:

The question im struggling with is whether that is that worth the £1400 extra over sportex?

[bennno]

Fred42 said:

I agree, I seem to remember it gets you the leather dash, not sure if I’m misremembering that though. Ideally it would be good to see a T and non T interior in the flesh. Would I spec it again…..not sure!

bennno said:

Fred42 said:

The question im struggling with is whether that is that worth the £1400 extra over sportex?

nope, leather dash standard, its those stripes, grey belts, some grey stitch

[TheDeadPrussian]

I've gone with it as it's a T.

I would have had buckets as per my 991.2 T if they had been available.

[bennno]

I prefer the leather seat centres option, but you then lose the 911 on the headrests....

Porsche bit awkward with spec on these cars

[Fred42]

I agree, I seem to remember it gets you the leather dash, not sure if I’m misremembering that though. Ideally it would be good to see a T and non T interior in the flesh. Would I spec it again…..not sure!

bennno said:

Fred42 said:

The question im struggling with is whether that is that worth the £1400 extra over sportex?

[alscar]

killysprint said:

My T should be here in 6 weeks or so with a bit of luck

As I'll be doing less than 3000 miles a year in it, and as the T has a smaller (lithium?) battery, I'm expecting to have the car on a trickle charger.

Any advice on which one to get? do Porsche sell a similar one (and put the appropriate Porsche tax on?)

Thanks in advance

CTEK do a lithium charger / conditioner and probably supply the one for Porsche anyway.
Or Optimate also do one.

[IREvans]

Fred42 said:

Those are very similar cloth seat centres to what I had in a 991 Carrera T, and it’s really nice. Much preferred it to full leather, and has a nicer feel than alcantara (or sport tex as Porsche now call it)

[shaneb1975]

I have had mine for a several days now and whilst I haven’t gone too far (pending PPF), I have to say I absolutely love it! I go as far as saying I prefer it to the Carrera 4 GTS it has replaced!
All the options I went for I’m delighted with, but I have now found myself wondering if I should have stretched to the Burmester! I hadn’t imagined I would get quite so attached to it, but I have! Oh well!

Edited by shaneb1975 on Friday 24th March 23:20

[Nuttcase]

killysprint said:

My T should be here in 6 weeks or so with a bit of luck

As I'll be doing less than 3000 miles a year in it, and as the T has a smaller (lithium?) battery, I'm expecting to have the car on a trickle charger.

Any advice on which one to get? do Porsche sell a similar one (and put the appropriate Porsche tax on?)

Thanks in advance

Buy one which specifically states suitable for LiFePO₄

I bought a CTEK CS ONE from smartchargers but not tried it yet as I just picked up my car today. You could probably buy a Porsche branded charger from your OPC but it won't have all the functionality of the ONE.

https://www.smarterchargers.co.uk/products/ctek-40...

[Pivo]

Nuttcase said:

killysprint said:

My T should be here in 6 weeks or so with a bit of luck

As I'll be doing less than 3000 miles a year in it, and as the T has a smaller (lithium?) battery, I'm expecting to have the car on a trickle charger.

Any advice on which one to get? do Porsche sell a similar one (and put the appropriate Porsche tax on?)

Thanks in advance

Buy one which specifically states suitable for LiFePO?

I bought a CTEK CS ONE from smartchargers but not tried it yet as I just picked up my car today. You could probably buy a Porsche branded charger from your OPC but it won't have all the functionality of the ONE.

https://www.smarterchargers.co.uk/products/ctek-40...

Ctek one looks good! Please let us know how well it works with the 992 T battery.

[IREvans]

Pivo said:

Ctek one looks good! Please let us know how well it works with the 992 T battery.

Does a modern car need to be on a battery conditioner, especially one with a lithium battery which is designed to hold full charge for longer..? I had a 992 GT3 and 992 GTS, both of which had lithium batteries, were left locked for weeks at a time and never struggled to start…

996 and 997 a different story, they’ll go flat in a week..!

[Pivo]

IREvans said:

Does a modern car need to be on a battery conditioner, especially one with a lithium battery which is designed to hold full charge for longer..? I had a 992 GT3 and 992 GTS, both of which had lithium batteries, were left locked for weeks at a time and never struggled to start…

996 and 997 a different story, they’ll go flat in a week..!

It depends on the usage and mileage… if you use it daily with a decent distance then probably not.

[jackwood]

If you listen to The Smoking Tyre podcast, Matt Farrah who runs a car storage facility says they have had a LOT of issues with the cars on LiPos losing charge if not kept on a charger. At which point the car is dead and the battery needs to be replaced.
For the sake of a few quid for the charger I wouldn’t run the risk of you plan on having the car layed up for any period of time.

[IREvans]

jackwood said:

If you listen to The Smoking Tyre podcast, Matt Farrah who runs a car storage facility says they have had a LOT of issues with the cars on LiPos losing charge if not kept on a charger. At which point the car is dead and the battery needs to be replaced.
For the sake of a few quid for the charger I wouldn’t run the risk of you plan on having the car layed up for any period of time.

Sensible advice….

[DC1960]

Check out the $ cost for a 992 GT3 lithium battery towards the end of this Mat Armstrong video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUL2s9xsqO8

Whether you would pay under warranty would be down to Porsche - hopefully they would not cite that you had not kept it charged through lack of use or connection to an official Porsche charger. My Dad's 8 year old Yaris (8,000 miles) always has a flat battery because of limited use. This year he had a new Toyota dealer one fitted, but this also went kaput due to the same factors, but Toyota replaced it with a new one as it was under warranty.

Edited by DC1960 on Sunday 26th March 12:15

[GT4P]

Never had a problem leaving cars long lengths of time without a trickle charger. Just returned from 8 weeks away and our 5 year old mini jcw (original battery) started no problems and it’s been a cold period.My cars are always used and even ones that weren’t used much always had decent runs in between use and never had a problem with battery’s

[Joscal]

New to me.

https://youtu.be/ODvQBHynuoc