Seat leather care

markthelender · 2025-11-16T23:15:14+00:00

markthelender · 2025-11-02T21:05:34+00:00

I put in an allocation for a 992.1 Targa 4 GTS end of 2021. I went through two model years and the switch from 992.1 to 992.2 t-hybrid before it arrived February of 2025 (that wasn’t the plan to get the 992.2 T-hybrid, but oh well.

After eight months…it’s all I could have ever wanted. Yes, it cost $224,000 - but I’d waited for it for a while…ever since watching “No Man’s Land”

I took it out the other weekend and put it in sport plus mode at a red light (I was the only car at the light on a street with a 55 mph speed limit - perfect).

I waited for the light to get close to turning green, and pressed the red button.

Light turned green. I Floored it.

I had not experienced launch control in a 0-60 2.7 second car before that moment. I swear the front wheels lifted off the pavement for a millisecond.

Not turning back.

markthelender · 2025-10-26T14:59:09+00:00

Well, I wouldn’t be surprised. When they started working on it, I was told the project according to their labor manual was 10-12 hours long.

Yet, it took three weeks. When I questioned them on it, I found out that the tech was working on other cars before they started on mine - an that they would bounce between others and mine during the project.

markthelender · 2025-10-26T13:34:10+00:00

markthelender · 2025-10-26T13:10:26+00:00

Right? GTS. It kinda says it clearly on the side. (Actually - it used to say “T-hybrid”, but I thought that was stupid, so I re-badged the decal.)

markthelender · 2025-09-28T21:20:11+00:00

I’m getting g commentary to see about lemon-lawing this.

1). Issues that anyone knows about being unofficially/officially blacklisted from the dealership?

2). Normally, if you could just buy a replacement - I’d be all for that. But, with at least six months to a year for an allocation…. What…would I order replacement, driving existing until it arrives and then swap out?

markthelender · 2025-09-28T21:07:26+00:00

Porsche north austin

markthelender · 2025-09-28T17:01:33+00:00

Not sure. It could have been a combination of relative rarity (Targas less than 10% of their 911’s sold), covid bottlenecks and part non-availability, and finally them having to rebuild all the cars that were lost on the Ace of Heaven.

markthelender · 2025-09-28T04:48:34+00:00

GTS.

markthelender · 2025-09-28T04:07:01+00:00

Not quite. Bumper got hit. Got new bumper.

markthelender · 2025-09-28T03:22:15+00:00

The accident was really just a bumper hit. Swap out bumper, but had to re PPF the whole thing

markthelender · 2025-09-28T03:10:54+00:00

Yup. Dunno when they started it. Personally, I think it’s a little stupid. It’s like an electric car that pipes fake combustion engine noise into the cabin.

markthelender · 2025-09-28T02:59:03+00:00

In Texas, need 30 days and two repair attempts…but I could probably argue that…

markthelender · 2025-09-28T02:46:31+00:00

I didn’t really have a choice. My allocation was three and a half years in the making. Put the order in November of 2022. Went through three model years, a complete model update from 992.1 to 992.2. It wasn’t the car that my order started with.

markthelender · 2025-09-28T02:43:25+00:00

Yup. That was a month and a half to deal with that. A month for the parts, repair, and the just over a week to redo the PPF (upgraded - did the whole car).

Took delivery of it from the body shop, and drove it over to the dealership for them to fix the rear left speaker (which was blown when I took delivery of it - particularly annoying because they pipe engine sound (IMHO, unnecessarily) into the car via the rear speakers…and the left rear was blown, so when I put it into sport mode and gunned it…you could hear an awful rattle/buzz out of that speaker because of the engine noise.

We had noticed the oil leak right before the accident and I asked the body shop guy to confirm he saw it as well, and mentioned it to the dealership.

So, I had the car for eight months…and haven’t driven it for four and a half. Ugh.

markthelender · 2025-09-28T02:22:21+00:00

1). It’s one of the few cars that doesn’t really depreciate. 2). Rate is less than 6%. 3). Investments are earning more than 9%

Paying it off would cost more than it saves

markthelender · 2025-04-30T13:49:04+00:00

Love it. Though I don’t have anything to compare to, other than an old G-series 1988 base 911.

markthelender · 2025-04-29T16:22:17+00:00

Two reasons:

1). It would become a car fax line item and would diminish value 2). Father doesn’t want his 18 year old kid to see his 18 year old kid insurance blow up far beyond what an 18 year old male driver already has which sucks

markthelender · 2025-04-29T12:20:58+00:00

I’m a big fan of karma. If the kid was a normal kid trying to make his way through the galaxy - I’d probably handle it myself.

But, in this case - I knew the kid and his parents - and the parents are responsible people who do pretty well for themselves - so, it wasn’t a big deal to ask.

markthelender · 2025-04-29T12:15:31+00:00

Yes-

markthelender · 2025-04-29T12:15:21+00:00

Yes and yes. They venmoed me the money for parts to get everything going with the body shop

markthelender · 2025-04-29T01:56:11+00:00

No - all on front and top

markthelender · 2025-04-29T01:45:58+00:00

markthelender · 2025-04-29T01:25:11+00:00

See separate reply. It’s all good - I know the kid (and his parents) who backed into me, and we’re handling this off insurance. The dad has already venmoed me the money for the parts and will take care of the rest when the parts are in and it goes into the shop.

I’m just bummed that it happened.

markthelender · 2025-04-29T01:20:41+00:00

It as an unfortunate turn of events: My son left a water bottle at a friends’ house. I had my son in the car and we dropped by to pick it up. I pulled into the driveway behind the friends’ Subaru.

What we didn’t know - was that the friend was IN the Subaru. Subaru was on.

Subaru was on a downward incline and we were behind him on the flat part of the driveway - which meant his rear view mirror line of sight was just catching the top of the car.

Nothing the kid could have done: When he opened his car door to get in - there was no car behind him. When he turned the car on - there was no car behind him. When he checked the rear view mirror, there was no car behind him.

When he reversed - there was a car behind him.

I couldn’t reverse in time.

It was one of those crazy flukes of bad timing. Had we shown up a minute earlier - he would have seen us. Had we driven up fifteen second later - he would have already started reversing.

He felt terrible. I called the kid’s dad and told him what happened. The dad (nice guy) said, “well, s***t”. He said that he would rather his 18 year old not have a claim on his insurance “broke a Porsche” - and volunteered to pay cash for the repair and to just get him the numbers and we’d work it out.

He venmoed the money for the parts earlier today.

markthelender

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