Best way to exercise your Porsche during lockdown

[Lumply]

The 996 is holed up in the garage with a full tank of petrol. It gets an outing of a few metres on to the driveway when I need access to garden bits, twice weekly. This is obviously not ideal. Short shopping trips once a week are undertaken in the Aygo. How do you guys manage legally and keep your Porker happy?

[Porsche911R]

Don’t move the car about on the drive it will rot from the inside out due to condensation build up in the exhaust.

[Juno]

I waited for over 4 years to get my RS and it's now SORN along with all my other cars

Anyway there are far more serious issues than not being able to use our cars

Stay Safe Everyone

[arcamalpha]

Lumply said:

The 996 is holed up in the garage with a full tank of petrol. It gets an outing of a few metres on to the driveway when I need access to garden bits, twice weekly. This is obviously not ideal. Short shopping trips once a week are undertaken in the Aygo. How do you guys manage legally and keep your Porker happy?

Can you roll the car out instead of starting the engine? As others have said short starts won't help especially when it's cold like it is now.

[TDT]

Just use the 996 for the trip to the shops? If you order a click and collect you don’t have to leave the car unattended so won’t have to worry about some one taking out their frustration on your car.
Can take a slightly extended round trip to make sure you get everything up to temp?

Life’s too short?

[Lumply]

Thanks. Firstly I agree that there is far more important stuff to think about at the mo. than the welfare of a lump of metal parked in the garage! But we all care. Can’t push the care out so the Ctech will keep the battery in order and to use the car on a circuitous route basis at least once a week.

Keep safe everyone

[Chlorothalonil]

Porsche911R said:

Don’t move the car about on the drive it will rot from the inside out due to condensation build up in the exhaust.

Letting it get to full temp presumably negates this?

[Voldemort]

Lumply said:

Thanks. Firstly I agree that there is far more important stuff to think about at the mo.

If this were true, then you wouldn't say

Lumply said:

and to use the car on a circuitous route basis at least once a week.

but you've got a Porsche and the rules don't apply to you, do they?

Lumply said:

Keep safe everyone

We're trying to. But with selfish twunts ignoring the rules, it's harder than it ought to be.

[PM3]

Juno said:

I waited for over 4 years to get my RS and it's now SORN along with all my other cars

Stay Safe Everyone

At the risk of sounding stupid ....what is the point of SORN in the 1st year of new car ownership ? the road-fund is paid.for year 1 and that is done....?
EDIT : so , I gather even that is refundable on any month car is off the road officially . Is this correct ? If no now I struggle with the matter of a fairly low sum for one such car ( a I don't have an impressive fleet of super cars like some on here ) and still able to give the Porsche a supermarket run every other week .....( a legit run, not like the pretenders around here who clearly don't give a """" and are driving their bloated selves and their bloated prodgeny around like nothing happened or does not apply to them .

Edited by PM3 on Monday 30th March 17:00

[Porsche911R]

Chlorothalonil said:

Porsche911R said:

Don’t move the car about on the drive it will rot from the inside out due to condensation build up in the exhaust.

Letting it get to full temp presumably negates this?

As it will take 20 mintues the wear is excessively bad over driving the car. It’s not advised.

[Lumply]

Managed a legitimate 30 minute run to the farm shop today for supplies....fun
Hospital appt. cancelled next week so pharmacy pick up instead. Legit and easy to please!

[Escy]

We aren't in a proper lock down, you can take it out if you want. If you get stopped say you are on your way to Tesco. If you're out by yourself for a drive and don't make any needless stops there is no harm done.

[ellroy]

Overzealous police enforcement of the actual law to some extent it would appear.

New guidance being issued.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/30/uk...

Make your own decision as to if it’s advisable to go out presently and of course take it extra steady. Now clearly is not the time to be putting extra pressures on the emergency services.

[thebraketester]

Porsche911R said:

Chlorothalonil said:

Porsche911R said:

Don’t move the car about on the drive it will rot from the inside out due to condensation build up in the exhaust.

Letting it get to full temp presumably negates this?

As it will take 20 mintues the wear is excessively bad over driving the car. It’s not advised.

Great excuse to buy a stainless exhaust system

[Racer26]

People are dying, the world is in crisis - how can we even be thinking of how we can justify to the authorities, or even ourselves, how to "beat the system", so that we can take out our sports car, to maintain it, or even for a bit of relief from this torment?
We all need to drive from time to time, to buy food, collect medicines and such like. This is not an excuse to get the GT Porsche out for a blast, or even a gentle run.
Most of us have some sort of everyday car, at whatever level. Get in that, drive to the shops as carefully as possible, and get home - the last thing our NHS needs, is dispatching an ambulance to some nerd, who has planted the Porsche in a hedge, or worse still into someone else.
The Porsche will stand months of sitting in the garage - as they do in dealers compounds,and showrooms
Time to grow up.

[m444ttb]

We used my 996 for the supermarket trip, something I wouldn't usually do for a host of reasons. Took a route that's a couple of miles longer by looping round the outskirts of the town rather than going straight through as it allowed the car have a cleaner run. Suspect we passed fewer other cars too. I think we'll use my wife's Focus for it now as the 996 had a good 20 min run (in each direction) so it'll be fine until the end of the current lockdown period.

[Lumply]

Makes sense. Take care

[jh001]

Juno said:

I waited for over 4 years to get my RS and it's now SORN along with all my other cars

Anyway there are far more serious issues than not being able to use our cars

Stay Safe Everyone

Long time no hear Baz, hope you are keeping safe and well.

No seen many posts recently?

Edited by jh001 on Tuesday 31st March 11:41

[Lumply]

Quite agree with your OTT sentiments.

Since starting the thread I was seeking constructive opinions which most people, bar a couple, have sensibly provided. At no time was it being suggested that the guidelines should be broken just by taking the long way round to the supermarket. As an ex pilot, procedures, rules, safety, discipline, continuing education etc. are drummed in to us until they become lifelong second nature.
Anyway thanks for (most) useful and relevant comments as to how best to keep a largely holed up Porsche in good health during the current crisis. Take care all.
Lumply, (surviver of MERS SARS plus two Gulf wars and now Corona virus)

[heebeegeetee]

anonymous said:

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I totally agree. My Boxster's got plenty of room for shopping. What possible difference could the car you use for shopping make?

My wife still works, I take her to work, between work and the shopping we can make use of the three cars we have at home.

With the supermarket car parks being empty there's a good chance of parking well away from the hordes and not getting the doors bashed too.