peanut

For me it has to be all the idiots on the motoway that just have to pass me whatever the cost.

I can be cruzin along steady at 80mph and a succession of 1100cc hatchbacks and white vans scream past revving the boll**** off their cars and cut in across my bonnet. Then they slow back down to 70mph !*wtf/....

They just have to get past like its some kind of achievement. maybe when they get to the office they tell eveyone " hey guys I blew the doors off a Porsche today coming in to work "

I have had my 944 7 years and you would think I would have got used to this by now wouldn't you ! I mean who do they think they are kidding?

Sometimes when I am overtaking someone comes right up behind me on my bumper with their lights blazing saying " get the f*** out of my way"
and occasionaly (I just can't help myself ). Yes I floor it to 100mph+ and in just 4-5 seconds leave them so far behind that I can hardly see their lights.

When they eventually pass they don't look over and you can see on their face they have been severly humiliated hee heh

Mark sP

Thats not annoying! LOL

I find it quite SAD.

Scouser

Just did Liverpool to London (east end). 75Mph all the way. There was the odd idiot
but in all I had a good trip. The thing is to just enjoy the ride. Forget your in a porker. Just drive it and enjoy it as an automobile. Then yoiu find you coudn't give a toss what others
think or do to annoy you.

My main concern is not the idiots, its the car. I fear that something will blow and end up costing me a mortgage to fix.

Helen

the insurance costs

robmug

My broken roof

C2MED

salt in the winter, flies in the summer

Tito

1. where to park - so (a) its still there (b) it hasn't been knocked/banged/scraped/rodgered in any way, when I get back.

2. leather scratches by enthusiastic 'friends' that insist on wearing studs etc ...aaarrrrgghhhh !

3. Coming up with immaginative and effective excuses when I get pulled over (only joking - 75mph all the way your Honour).

K8 MAL

My 996 sits in the garage most of the time and I keep thinking I should sell it and the A4 TDI that I use most of the time and buy one car....the anoying thing is that as soon as take it out for a spin I soon change my mind!

Here is a funny story....the last time I took it out, my wife and I went to a restaurant....I came out and started driving home...as I pulled away I noticed some writing. Written very carefully and inversley so that I could read it from the drivers seat...

"call me on 07956 xxxxx"

Now even my wife says the car has to go

Brian King

K8 MAL
And I thought it was just me..............!!
I recently sold the 3.6 Turbo and am now exepriencing a Boxster 2.7 awaiting a new Boxster S. Sold the 'spare' car, an MX5, bought a Jeep Cherokee for a runaround.
Yes I do miss the Turbo but it did sit in the garage and, as you say, each time you drive it you change your mind about selling it. What did it for me was the broken oil pipe which meant I missed a track day and the PCGB weekend celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 911. Not to mention the dent in my finances.
Happy motoring in the New Year.
Regards Brian

pjc

I can't take it to bed! Love it so much I just go out and look at it in the garage, sit in it and think how lucky I am to be able to have one.

PJC

UKKid35

That I haven't driven it in two months
That the engine is mainly in the boot
That it will take me another two months to put it back together
That the MOT will run out before then
That I have to renew the insurance for a car I can't drive
That I have to walk half a mile to work on the car
That it's so damn cold my fingers freeze and I drop tools in to the sump
That it rains whenever I try to work on it
That my hallway is full of heads, valve trains, tools, cardboard and newspaper

But - I own a 170mph supercar that cost less that the cheapest new car you can buy, and it gave me two virtually trouble free years

K8 MAL

I think that you will find that only the 911 variant is designed to have its engine in the back

Tito

ouch!

peanut

Thats what makes it all worthwhile though.
Keep going, set yourself a task a day and it will get done. When it gets too much just sit in the drivers seat close your eyes and remember what it was like to drive it Good luck

willisit

Erm.... it's got to be running costs. I love my car but it hates my bank account.

Also, the front end is stone chipped to hell and someone dinged the driver's door leave a ping pong ball type dent... that will cost to fix.

Other than that, I love it to bits!