My first 24hrs with my 996 - Page 1 - Porsche General - PistonHeads UK

Seriously they get better,,I didn't appreciate mine fully until after a couple of months...I was running mine in from new,but was also running myself in even after previous 911 experience...Congratulations and enjoy your car,,you will not beleive the wet weather performance.

Congrats on the new car. I've had one for over a year now, and still discovering its latent charms. I walked into a BMW dealer yesterday to enquire about the M3 CSL. Driving home I realised there was nothing quite like the chattery steering and raspy sound of a 911. Have fun.

I nearly went for the new M3 but found them very expensive, compared to my new car. I bought mine from Lancasters at Colchester and found the whole buying experience to be a pleasure with polite and attentive staff, compared to the staff at some other manafactures and dare i say lesser marques.

Why not make your first 24Hours even more memorable and join 147 of as at Le Mans 24hours this weekend! (probably a little too late to organise it now!) leavingTomorrow >> Edited by DustyC on Thursday 12th June 09:32

With a little more planning on my part i would love to, but only bought the car last Friday and collected it on Tuesday so ive never had time on my side!. Many thanks for the invite though. If any more runs come up please let me know especially in the SE areaid love to join you all.

PistonFest is at the end of the month. Gonna be a lot of PHers there. There I go advertising it for Ted again and I can t even go! (but only cos I have weekend tickets to the European Touring cars and FIA GT racing at Donnington!)

As you can see by my first thread ive had my 996 for 6 weeks now, and i still love it to bits. It was used for a short break to the Cotswolds/Wales earlier in the week, and it behaved flawlessly on Motorways and single track mountain roads in the pouring rain. It took mine and the chicks ample luggage and did 600 miles on £100 worth of super unleaded. Mega piece of kit! Anyway does anyone run a 996tt and is it worth the extra £35000 to change up?!?

try one to see what you think,,,i did..I prefer the 2wd 911 experience.The TT is faster,but to me you loose certain aspects of driving it.Also much less fun at lower speeds .I never thought it was worth the extra money personally.there are others out there who have made the swap and are very happy..Depends on what you want out of a car.

Glad you are enjoying your 996, it is a slippery slope, I started with a s/h 996 then a new facelift & now TT. I can understand where clubsport is coming from... is it worth an extra 35k...probably not in honesty.... but it's the law of diminishing returns at the top end of the car market. For example is a 996 worth 25k more than an M3 is an M3 worth 18k more than a Impreza, the 360 is 25k than the TT for the same performance & the Lambo is 60k more & isn't faster than a TT X50, etc etc. All I can say is handling, performance & braking are a big step up from the standard Carerra (which is a great car) all weathers all roads it is DEVASTATING & bloody good fun to boot,as Car magazine said in voting it N01 in their top 100 guide "one of the best cars in the world" !! Anyway I kept my first 996 for nearly three years & loved it, so 6 weeks is just warming up, enjoy your car !!

The only niggle i have is that ive never known a car to pick up so many stone chips so quickly, mine is black metallic, and its going in for a front bumper respray already! The tt will almost certainly be Seal Grey.

Don't worry about the stone chips,drive it. I am not trying to give it the big one,but get the front end done when you come to sell.I had my 996 done a month or so before i sold it,therefore i had a few chips..If you go to a decent spray shop,you can get a black based primer which will show stone chips less in future. Grant is a great ambassador for moving on to the TT and i understand he couldn't be happier. On the other hand I went to a 993RS (via 968 CS).To be honest right now my old C2 was probably a quicker car.This is mainly due to me needing to master the RS which for me makes it so much fun..I could get a TT and drive it like Schumacher..well ok Ralph...at the nd of the day in my tiny mind for quite a bit of effort i will get to master the 911 experience...humour me if you must! >> Edited by clubsport on Friday 25th July 20:36

Too many stonechips? Don't drive so close to the guy in front!!! Melv

I have to say, having just come back from an abysmally water logged Silverstone PCGB track day, the 996C4 was demonstrating to me at least, the awesome capability of the latest Porsche design's overall control and stability. Obviously, driver ability plays a huge part (I have none) but I know how insanely fast I can do things in the dry with my previously thought 'indominatable' 993TT but frankly, me and the uber beetle were outclassed - spanked into submission and then some. If I'd really known just how superior the 996s were to the 993s (in the wet, I must stress) then I doubt I would have bought my car 3 years ago... As it is, I've spent far too much money modifying the little bastard to contemplate ditching it but the rather painful reality is that technology has moved on massively since the mid-90s and as I've said, whilst in the dry, it's a different ball game, in the wet, the old mechanical systems are no match for Stuttgart's finest computer programmers. PSM is king, it really is. (Unless of course you can really drive in which case the new GT3 seems to offer quite an unrivalled supremacy for anyone this side of the SR3/full racer side of things...)

I collected my 1999 996 C4 at 3pm yesterday from my local main agent. Is it just me being over excited with my new car or are these things really mega in the long term too??