TXshaggy

Larry,

Thanks for the confirmation -- gives me additional faith on my sales associate. Besides the interior Roll Bars are still under investigation and doubtful they'll the standard $640 cost.

Regardless, I dumped the PTS nonsense and took an immediate Nov Build allocation at the same dealership. Racing Yellow with all leather deviated stitching available -- it's going to be epic.

Cheers

Shaggy

Larry Cable

you're welcome, apparently my contact at Exclusiv said that they were initially led to believe that the interior was part of the PTS but when queried PAG clarified that it was not in fact so.

I am now in a quandary, do I keep PTS, and spec a different trim, or do I paint the interior and the center console and leave the door trim ... I dont think that will look right ...

funny, before I decided to go with PTS, I had also specced racing yellow etc ... I agree it will be epic!

enjoy!

JPMD

Keep PTS and order with dark aluminum or leather interior that will go with any exterior/interior color or other trim/stitching etc
Then later date decide on any changes
just my opinon/advice
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Larry Cable

yes I will definitely keep the PTS, and the interior pkg with (yellow) dev stitching - not sure what to do about the trim at this point, maybe CF or the blk alu... I might paint the ctr console and perhaps the shoulder belt tunnels on the LWBS and the air vent surrounds...

JPMD

Any of those combos would be great,
I went simple Oslo PTS, leather with silver stitch, dark aluminum. I had leather trim previous PTS Targa which looked great and clean and STD dark aluminum that came with touring which I also liked broke up the leather and gave some texture.
CF also great choice for your build with LWB.

Larry Cable

agreed - esp since I also specced the CF door sills... shame though that PAG are nickle and diming their PTS customers like this - which was not really the case with the GT3 where you ticked the "paint the interior" box and everything got painted to PTS (well not the ctr console or the climate control - but the dash and doors did)

halfmonkey

HI JPMD. Not sure if you saw my thread but I'm trying to build a PTS database for all to view and commiserate together until we get our PTS cars. Do you mind if I add you the list for Oslo?

Here is a link to the thread. https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...errerid=243681

JPMD

ooh yes I will PM you as much info as I have to add to the list

Selo

They picked up my order today, sent an email to dealer stating the issue re interior painted trim not being included, and gave me a couple hours to give them my final specs before the entire order locked. As far as I know, it locked at the end of business today. I went with leather trim. Originally I'd wanted to spec the painted trim, since I was going to the expense of PTS, but I had concerns it would be busy - Platinum stitching and PTS trim. This took the decision making out of it. No busy interior. Gulf Blue outside. Black and platinum inside.

Larry Cable

So I just spoke with Exclusiv, the reason for the price of the door panels is because the trim strip is glued on by the panel OEM and thus it makes them *really* hard to CXX...

I decided to go with PTS, interior trim and center console painted, and I selected the leather interior trim pkg which will cover the door trim in leather, but CXX can still remove and paint the interior trim and center console... fyi

Selo

Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't previously fully understood. I'm a little bummed it wasn't explained to me fully before I decided, but I'm good with my choice. I had brushed aluminum with Platinum in a GT4 and it was ok, kind of busy. Now I have the silver plastic with classic Spyder interior in a 981, and it's just ok too. The all leather trim will look clean and classy, I think.

Larry Cable

+1!

bbs993tt

Interesting timing because I just heard back from the dealer with the same "can't be done" apparently without going through cxx. Like others, I'm trying to figure out what to do next because like I said when I started this thread, the interior pieces in pts color was a favorite option for sure.

Does anyone know the cost of buying and painting the trim pieces that can be swapped out? I think that would be the dash trim pieces and center console surround. Also, as long as you have the paint code, can any body shop get the color to match the factory paint? Thanks.

iliveoncaffiene

I think the cost/hassle of that compared to $2640 + $540 = $3190 is not really worth it (if you're already splurging on PTS).
Thinking of all the interior trim you'd need to tear apart to get those out, painted professionally, and then put back in.... to me is not worth tearing apart the interior.

evilfij

Larry, seems like a great plan.

As far as removing the dash trim and console it is a very easy job. Like minutes to do. Nothing to tear apart door panels are another story, but apparently it is possible to remove the plastic welded rivets to replace the spears but not for the faint of heart.

As far as buying the parts, used silver ones to repaint should be cheap. I don’t know if there are primer ones, so you would need to repaint a painted set if you wanted to buy new. It would cost much less than CXX and you would still have the original ones (leather, aluminium etc would command a good price on the used market as take offs or keep and store to put back to stock).