Cayman R Chat

[Porsche911R]

Dan911 said:

Hopefully not!

or I'll wait to get mine fitted with new brakes at the same time.

I'll go with 9e and say don't fit it myself. but that is imho and I did not fit it having 1st done good pads, fluid and Bleeding the system often.

you will get a brake paddle with less travel, which leads to 2 things, mismatched heights on Brake and accelerator, and a having a shorter throw a pedal which is harder to bleed off for threshold braking.

Even the PCCB larger set up MC is not as big as the GT3 one and sits in between sizes, I find it much harder to H&T in a car with PCCB MC let a lone a GT3 one !
The R H&T is so seemless and easy with oem unit as once pressed the pedals are very level.

way too much hype on GT3 MC fix it all fitment.

[Dan911]

Porsche911R said:

Dan911 said:

Hopefully not!

or I'll wait to get mine fitted with new brakes at the same time.

I'll go with 9e and say don't fit it myself. but that is imho and I did not fit it having 1st done good pads, fluid and Bleeding the system often.

you will get a brake paddle with less travel, which leads to 2 things, mismatched heights on Brake and accelerator, and a having a shorter throw a pedal which is harder to bleed off for threshold braking.

Even the PCCB larger set up MC is not as big as the GT3 one and sits in between sizes, I find it much harder to H&T in a car with PCCB MC let a lone a GT3 one !
The R H&T is so seemless and easy with oem unit as once pressed the pedals are very level.

way too much hype on GT3 MC fix it all fitment.

I'll have a new set of pads put in at the same time. Just for peace of mind.

It only a shorter throw pedal I'm after.

[ZP]

Peridot - is there an issue with colour match between the metal panels and plastic bumpers?

[ajondyh]

ZP said:

Peridot - is there an issue with colour match between the metal panels and plastic bumpers?

Not when new but certainly a difficult colour to match if repainting panels. I nearly bought a peridot car from a London OPC about 3 years ago but it looked like Joseph's coat which changed my mind

[ZP]

That'll be it then.
One at Notts OPC has a different coloured front bumper, which I assume has been painted (devoid of any stone chips) but the rear also looked different.

To be honest, it looked absolute cack.

[PaulD86]

ZP said:

That'll be it then.
One at Notts OPC has a different coloured front bumper, which I assume has been painted (devoid of any stone chips) but the rear also looked different.

To be honest, it looked absolute cack.

When I bought my peridot car it had the front bumper and bonnet freshly painted to remove stone chips. The colour match is perfect. In strong sunlight if you look really closely and are actively trying to nit pick, so to speak, you can see a slight 'depth' difference in the flake of the metallic paint (if that makes sense?) but having detailed the car after getting it I think you'd be hard pressed to say which panels have and haven't seen paint. No idea who did the paint work but the car came from OPC Glasgow.

[jayxx83]

To the trained eye, you can spot whether it's been painted very easily.

[ajondyh]

This one didn't need a trained eye

[ORD]

That's awful! Repainted on the cheap. Gotta love those OPCs and their exacting standards. Shameful.

[jayxx83]

Looks like only a full body spray will do on that one. Peridot is such an amazing colour when detailed. Even the cayennes look mega in it.

[ZP]

The one at Notts is just like that.

[V800MJH]

Nice to meet two fellow CR owners yesterday. At the Piston Heads Sunday Service.

Very unusual to see a couple of them together..

[HokumPokum]

Mr D,

The MC change would benefit guys going on track more than it would road users. totally agree with you that on the road, the std MC is easier for H&T.

But on track, the long travel is distracting and less confidence inspiring. Gt3 H&T only work well on track and when u r on it. That's really a do u track a lot point.

I do like your 6 GT3 caliper / hub swap idea.

that's the route to go for sure.

me? I am leaning towards PDK, heavy wheels with sofas... luckily no one seems to want them
anyone looking to sell a 40k miles car in peridot with all the non enthusiast bits?

[PaulD86]

jayxx83 said:

To the trained eye, you can spot whether it's been painted very easily.

Quite so. Bare metal and plastic sticks out like a sore thumb...

[boxsey]

HokumPokum said:

me? I am leaning towards PDK, heavy wheels with sofas... luckily no one seems to want them
anyone looking to sell a 40k miles car in peridot with all the non enthusiast bits?

Not so sure about that. It seems there are lots of buyers and very few sellers. I put up wanted adverts on a number of forums and never received a reply. I got really lucky when mine came up on Autotrader, phoned up immediately and paid a deposit over the phone there and then before even seeing it. The seller took the advert down within a day but still got half a dozen calls about it.

There were seven cars of varying spec in the OPC network the last time I looked. I guess they're not shifting because of the asking prices being on the high side. The GR car at Colchester OPC would have suited me (PDK and buckets) but was a bit too much at £46K IMO.

[fridaypassion]

This is a good buy

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

Correct spec and if you can beat the traders to it its a 45k car IMO.

I would have had a crack at this but too busy to be quick enough to it at the moment.

[Porsche911R]

for 34k miles it seems the right price to me with just about no warranty.

I was offered a 7k mile mint 1 owner car from an OPC 3 weeks ago for £43k with 2 years warranty !

you are way off this Porsche market !!!

I would say the seller has already had trade bids on the car and hence priced it a bit higher for a private sale.

The high priced OPC R's for sale atm are just that FOR SALE STILL and growing in numbers now !!! bit like saying GT4 are £115k or in your eyes will be £150k lol

if you think it's a great buy to resell at £45k you have the time as a trader to make a 30 seconds phone call !!!

Edited by Porsche911R on Monday 21st March 23:44

[fridaypassion]

You'd be surprised. There's are only 2 of us here and we have 8 cars in prep that are sold ready to go and 4 lined up to come in. I don't have time for it as I said. Every one of my statements on this forum is precise and correct as you should know by now.

I know the market very well as I proved on the down swing last year also as you know. There's 5k in that car before negotiation. It will be at rpm by the weekend. Spec on the one you were imaginarily offered? If it was crap spec it could be 43 or 39k and nobody would want it.

[Porsche911R]

fridaypassion said:

You'd be surprised. There's are only 2 of us here and we have 8 cars in prep that are sold ready to go and 4 lined up to come in. I don't have time for it as I said. Every one of my statements on this forum is precise and correct as you should know by now.

I know the market very well as I proved on the down swing last year also as you know. There's 5k in that car before negotiation. It will be at rpm by the weekend. Spec on the one you were imaginarily offered? If it was crap spec it could be 43 or 39k and nobody would want it.

finding right spec cars, at the right price as a trader is the hardest thing, you would buy it if you thought it was right.

if you have 8 going out and only 4 coming in, you NEED to be in buying mode other wise you run out of cars !!!

[fridaypassion]

I think I know what I'm doing ta