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Old 10-11-2014, 03:58 PM
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Just out of curiosity, who daily drives their 996TT? If not, what is your daily driver?

I'll start, I just got my 996TT but have no plans to DD it. My DD is (don't laugh at me) a 2006 Honda Accord four banger. Sometimes I'll drive my F250 to work, but that's mainly for towing my bike trailer to Chuckwalla.

What about everyone else?
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Rotate daily driver duty between my Jeep Cherokee, Turbo and occasionally the 356.
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I largely use mine as a driving-season daily driver, except for very short(cold engine) trips or when going to places where you don't want to leave it, for that I use my winter/parking-lot beater (currently an old 5-series)...this year, just over 9k since April.
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I drive the 996TT until the snow falls and then it is the Mercedes ML 320.
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Daily driver here on good weather days, which in S. Cali is probably 95% of the days. Bad weather days calls on the Land Cruiser tank.

The turbo even serves daily drop off duties for my 4 yr old daughter and will serve double duty once my son turns 18mths in Jan and can attend pre-school.

Perfect family mans sports car without compromise. If it didn't have those back seats, I'd never get to drive it because the 'weekend car' in my case is my wife's RAV4EV to haul the whole family around. Nice that her car is my personal carbon offset program since I like to burn dinosaurs.
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Retired so no daily drive but use one of my Audis or F350 for running around, but first choice is my wife's Rav4= good mileage room for whatever I need/buy.
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TT goes out everyday to the gym etc. In Rain too.
Except on ice/snow/salt covered roads
In NJ.

BMW E39 M-Sport wagon (modified is for family duties etc)

Rich

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i have other modes of motorized transport but drive this thing daily for fun and to keep my tire costs above 3k per annum lol
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E39 BMW 540i, 30,000 miles in the last 12 mths... great for NYC traffic and idiots who open taxi doors into parked cars.... in London I have an old M5..

if I stop blowing up MAFs and clutches on my TTS I will daily drive it when on Long Island
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by far my greatest running cost outside of fuel, is tires... 3months/6k km's (street-used) til the cord's yesterday

+E39 on the beater, love mine ('00 528i Sport, manual) .
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I use the TT as my DD for the summer months and a lifted jeep for the winter. Two extremes.
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I alternate DD duties between the TT and 335D. Both have gobs of torque, both have laser diffusers and radar detectors, both have snow tires. Choice of the day is determined by mood and which one has a full tank.
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Originally Posted by RDS928S
TT goes out everyday to the gym etc. In Rain too.
Except on ice/snow/salt covered roads
In NJ.

BMW E39 M-Sport wagon (modified is for family duties etc)

Rich
neighbor of mine has a fairly new ( 12/13/14?? ) version of that wagon and it is ungodly fast, and low! he's always egging me on, and i have to pretend i'm the one with the kid hauler lol

great cars.
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Originally Posted by 993GT
by far my greatest running cost outside of fuel, is tires... 3months/6k km's (street-used) til the cord's yesterday

+E39 on the beater, love mine ('00 528i Sport, manual) .
tires! our cars achilles heel(s) lol. i don't know what you run but if you run michi's? i just switched my fronts from ps2 to PSS 235/40 with the 315/30 ps2's rear and they are perfect. i am also rwd so that eliminates all that rolling diameter insanity
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^haha, currently on Yohohama Advan Sports(got a great deal), surprising sticky tire for the street but a bit soft in sidewall/tread support, was on Falken RT615K before which wore way nicer(read: even) and had proper feedback/support through the carcass, not the best tire for street use as you needed to build heat in them to get similar grip of the Yokohama's...

Would love to give the Michelin PS2's a go as I've had them on other cars, but hard to justify $600 a rear tire...considering my current tires barely made 4k miles/6k km with only hard street mileage is painful lol

Running factory GT2 235/40-18, 315/30-18 sizes ATM

I actually just listed my OE GT2 8.5"x18", 12"x18" wheels for sale, will probably go with a set of OZ and BFG Rivals, from Tirerack, to replace...245/30-18, 315/30-18

Oh, and this winter's project is full suspension, monoballs/heim-joints should help any 'active' toe-related wear too


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