718 Boxster Sports PASM

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[JayK12]

Have a 981 GTS with X73 -20mm drop. No problems.

[bcr5784]

JayK12 said:

Have a 981 GTS with X73 -20mm drop. No problems.

You'll find a fair number of others who have a different experience. I had a 981S (whose nose is appreciably shorter and less prone to ground) and PASM (only 10mm lower) and that grounded on occasion. Personally I wouldn't want anything lower than I had - but it depends on the slope of the drives you go up, the sleeping policeman you encounter, and whether you regard the underside as sacrificial plastic.

[curley]

I have a 981 BGTS with X73 -20MM and it does ground occasionally ( mainly the soft rubber air dam thingy that runs across the car at the front of the bumper ) .
I do have a couple of scrapes in the underside but i dont think its a show stopper . The -20mm gives the car a great look and the handing with the X73 is very "flat ", i guess the PASM sport is similar .

[Oil Trash]

Not a GTS owner but my 718 S has sports Pasm -20mm and I did have an oh xxxx moment first time I took it to work and remember about the fairly large speed bumps outside the office, it going over slowly cleared ok

[Oso]

Hey RR - I have a 718 Cayman GTS with the 20mm drop

I scrape it everywhere, more than my GT4 scraped LOL. Scrapes three times on way out the street, going into car parks, speed bumps etc.

The splitter seems to cope fine with it, I had a good look under the car when I put on the winter wheels and it's fine, only the splitter which is scraped and on the underside so no cosmetic issue really.

I drove the car with and without the drop and much preferred the handling of the lowered car. It's a special chassis.

Manual and buckets on mine too Happy Oso (and engine is great although I do miss the noise of the six).

[jbaddeley]

My 981 on pASM was catching on downhill hairpins on recent euro tour.

[Pinball]

I’ve not noticed much difference in propensity to scrape the front in either a PASM car or SPASM car with the Sports Design package. I’ve only ever scraped the underside of the plastic lip in both. I was under the impression this was a relatively cheap thing to replace if need be. I prefer the lower stance and steering feel of SPASM so would go with that, even if meant replacing the plastic strip if I had a bad scrape.

Edited by Pinball on Monday 31st December 11:27

[JayK12]

bcr5784 said:

JayK12 said:

Have a 981 GTS with X73 -20mm drop. No problems.

You'll find a fair number of others who have a different experience. I had a 981S (whose nose is appreciably shorter and less prone to ground) and PASM (only 10mm lower) and that grounded on occasion. Personally I wouldn't want anything lower than I had - but it depends on the slope of the drives you go up, the sleeping policeman you encounter, and whether you regard the underside as sacrificial plastic.

OP as about sleeping policemen and car parks, getting on ferries. No problems had. When driving hard and compressing still very little issues, the only thing that's caught is the archliner extensions at the front, they sit a further 20mm and catch.

[woodysnr]

Different model 981 Spyder is pretty low ..the front spoiler does get scraped but its the air intakes either side that seem to take most off the scrapes they side far lover than the spoiler ..when mine was delivered off the transporter noticed how close it was to the ground so inspected it and the whole front spoiler underneath was scraped ,got a new one supplied by the OPC never fitted it as no one sees the underside of the car will pass on whenever I sell the car .Just got the watch when parking nose in for high pavements that will do real damage to the face as opposed to the underside .

[crystalmethod]

Please forgive the thread resurrection.

Am looking at 718 Boxster GTS’s. Some have SPASM. I like the look, and can risk scrapes on speed bumps. But can anyone tell me if a SPASM car will ride more harshly in Normal vs a PASM counterpart?

Thanks.