Front Lip Color

The aluminum look front lip should not be the standard configuration, or there should be a factory option to paint it the body color or black. It looks completely out of place on my Cayman Red, IMO.At least it is nottoo prominent.During delivery, my salesman and I discussed the possibility of bringing it back to have it painted to match the body color. I believe that it is a separate piece, hopefully it can be removed and painted separately from the front end. Don't get me wrong, I love the car in every respect so far. This little item just seems to me to be a design miscue.

Yeah, I agree it looks out of place on some colors. It looks fine on silver variants, but especially on red it doesn't look right.

KMan-Went, I sure do agree with you. I feel the same way about it on my cobalt. I think it looks just fine on all the grays and even the yellow doesn't look bad, but on some of the metalics it doesn't belong. You would think for the extra 3K we paid that it would match the car color? Russ

Unbelievably, with a Croc arriving next week, and regularly reading this forum - I've only just noticed this. It's not on the printed options list that my dealer gave me, though I can now see it on the web configurator. It seems insane not to have the car all the same colour as standard! How close to Seal Grey is the Aluminium look? Am I going to have my car repainted before I even receive it? Or is this not such a big issue?

Squirrel, It will sure look better on your car than ours! I will see what I think once I get the car, but I don't like it in photos. Russ

I have looked into this and ordered an extra set of the front lips ($150). I plan on painting mine. There are three screws in each that hold it to the front bumper.

skup, (et.al) We may be able to save the $150 and the painting cost if we just generatesome controversyabout this. I plan on leaning on my dealer to get this corrected. If we all do, then perhaps we can gain a little leverage on Porsche to paint it at no charge. If anyone from Porsche reads this message, I hope that you can understand our perspective. If not, please help us understand yours----> Why on earth would you paint the front lip aluminum/silver (whatever)on any vehicle with an incompatible color? What is the logic?

I doubt you will ever get Porsche to admit that there are 'incompatible colors', their position will be that you should have known the lip was in silver before you chose the color of your car and that by choosing th color you did you accepted that color combined with a silver lip. Porsche will paint it another color from the factory for a price, but it seems you've found a cheaper alternative post-purchase. If it bothers you that much by all means do something about it, but I'd be very surprised if Porsche admitted to any wrong-doing or wrong colors, etc. Your local dealership may value you as a customer and do it for a reduced price or free just because they want to make you happy, not because PCNA has told them so.

I'll be asking my dealer to repaint it at his cost if the match isn't 99% perfect. I don't know about you Yanks, but us Brits like our cars in just the one colour /fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/MWPX/wink_smile.gif [/quote]

The lip is a lighter silver than the arctic silver of my Cayman. JHellow

I think it looks pretty good on my Basalt Black. It matches the trim around the exhaust at the rear!!! Do you guys not want that in body-colour also? I find it strange that you mind the front lip, but never mention the matching exhaust cut-out trim. Jack

I've ordered mine with it colour coded to Olive as I did not like the silver look.

>>the matching exhaust cut-out trim Oh nadgers. I guess I'll take a good look at the whole thing before I decide to kick up a fuss or not. It's annoying not having something so seemingly important mentioned to me during the sales process though.

I tried ordering it but it was not an option from Porsche.

Yes it's one of the x-coded options that was not available for early cars. Squirrel, it was on the spec list for the car and it has been on most of the photos and on display cars. I would wait to see it on your colour car before you dismiss it. Jack

I think the original idea was that the side vents would also be this titanium colour. It seems Porsche chickened out on that one...

john, Actually Porsche didn't chicken out, Porsche heard feedback from 987S owners that they wanted body colored vents so for the Cayman Porsche offered that as the default. Think about it, no matter what they offered someone else would want it differently. Go to Chevy and ask them for something different on a Z06 and watch them laugh... /fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/MWPX/regular_smile.gifat least Porsche gives us options.

I have wondered if the side vents on the darker colors would look better black? I can hardly see the vents on my cobalt blue compared to mpollards speed yellow. Russ

The trim around the tailpipe is easily associated with the metal of the pipe, so that doesn't present an aesthetic problem IMO. Looking at the front lip, I have to force a color association with the trim on the headlamps and the wheels. Its a stretch. Regardless of whether Porsche will ever own up to a design miscue, I would still like to understand the design choice because it just doesn't make sense to me.

squirrel I have seal grey take a look, you can barely notice the difference.

CraigNYC - Nice looking car! I'm tempted to try it on with the dealer anyway. I'll report back.

Great photo Craig, I think it matches the wheel color well and looks good!

I wondered about this when I placed the order at the beginning of January 06. I ordered my car in almost the identical spec as Craig (I went for the 19in Carrera S wheels in body colour). In the end I went for Seal instead of Arctic Silver, and as Craigs shot shows, you can't tell. Here's hoping for an April delivery.

I love my seal grey color and the aluminum look blends right in. It also looks great on the seat backs (sport seat) and center console.

i think the lip won't be an issue on seal grey at all so don't worry. i'm thinking about a basalt black car and will definately have the lip painted black also. i think the aluminium coloured side vents on the new boxster looks so tacky almost toy like, does anyone else think so, really put me off going for the boxster

The aluminum color front lip looks great with my GT Silver car, it lookslike it is already bodycolor coded to match. On the Artic Silver the lipis a darker color.