Drifting

Does anyone have a picture of the extended dashboard trim option in leather, particularly with red stitching? I just searched for an hour but couldn't find it.

I remember someone posted a picture of it on this forum during the winter, possibly Eduardo?

bills742

Nick

It's pricy but worth the money. Get it.

0Q991

I wish I got it. Would do it if I could order again.

NateOZ

Do you think its still worth it with platinum stitching?

Lodi

Unless you are going for a stripper I think the leather dash has to be a serious consideration. It really completes the look of the dash. I would add the steering column as well since its right in front of you. The platinum stitching will look great. Its bright enough that it pops a bit. Go for it!

irish guitar

I just saw a Sapphire Blue Cayman GTS with the platinum stitching on the dash. Looked really good.

Vivian.

rwcsn1

I personally think it's a bit much. To each his own. I like the stripper look, wish I could do pleather though, dont like alcantera all too much

Mike in CA

Subjective, of course, but I tend to agree. The extra leather is okay, but I'm not sure all of the extra deviated stitching is a plus. I made a conscious choice to keep the price of the car to a reasonable level and given that, felt that certain performance options were more important than dress up, but TEHO.

CAlexio

Leads to the question of what is a reasonably optioned gt3... Just for reference, dealer told me that lease allows for up to fully amortized car up to $151k, can't option above that. I've been using that as a reference and trying to keep my build to that target even though I'm not leasing the car. Very tough price target once buckets come into play, especially because carbon backed buckets make you want to add carbon trim to match, which means you've clearly added leather interior already.... ....and if you've added leather interior the steering column is a no brainer and so how can you not get the extended dash... Argh!

Mike in CA

I appreciate your situation, Alex. Even though I didn't know about the lease limit, and had no intention of leasing either, my original goal was to option the car to no more than $150K. Once I decided on PCCB's that made it tough; if the sport buckets had been available I would have been "forced" to really blow up my budget. As it was I went to $153K....

NateOZ

That's the situation I'm in, but I didn't set a specific budget, just trying to go with what I think makes a car I'll be happy with. The must haves for me at the lift, Buckets and PCCBs - which pushes you to $149k just there.

Mine's spec'd to $165k at the moment, which I'm fine with - just can't decide if I like the look better with the extended dash or not...I'm ok with $15k of fluff.

Drifting

Thanks for the pic bills742!

If you or Nick has a few more pictures of the extended dash leather with a couple different camera angles, I'd greatly appreciate it.

rockitman

I'm still trying to understand the pccb benefit cost issue. If you track, steel is cheaper to maintain and if you do it a lot, you may want to change out to a more rigorous race/steel setup like stop tech. Am I wrong ? That route is cheaper than the stock pccb from the start. Are pccb truly dust free on the wheels ? I can se how that would be of appeal for the non or occasional tracker.

NateOZ

Just to give my 2 cents on PCCB vs Steel (and that's probably the value of my opinion). As you've said, neither setup is ideal for heavy tracking and I would be changing the rotors whichever way I went to something slotted on steel and with better life on carbon. Steel is going to be the cheaper option.

I went with PCCB as I won't track my GT3 too much as I have a 3.8L 2014 Cayman track car being built. I don't know if I would still go PCCB if I wasn't having this car being built, but I am a massive fan of getting unsprung weight as low as possible. The benefits of this are worth the cost to replace for me, but I've not looked into aftermarket rotors for it and it would need to be something carbon to maintain that advantage vs the smaller rotor on the steel setup.