987.2 Spyder - No Sport Button?
 

I’m potentially in the market for a 987.2 Boxster Spyder (6MT) & have been looking for a few months now. I’d like something a little more engaging than my Base 981 Cayman with the PDK.

One question, I found one for sale that I like, but it doesn’t appear to have the “sport” button. I thought they would all have the “sport” button at a minimum, but only those with sports chrono would have “sport plus.”

Any thoughts here? Just wondering if this car has some option missing that I don’t realize.

Thanks!

I think you need the sports chrono to get a "sport" button on the manual cars. PDK came with sports plus if it had the sports chrono package.
But I am not 100% sure on that.

I have a 2011 Spyder with sports chrono that I am selling.
PM me if you want more details.

You can have the dealer add sport chrono, my 987.2 cayman s pdk did not have a sport button, I had it added and now have sport and sport+ with launch control.

Thanks for the help here! I was under the impression that all cars had the sport button & sport chrono added the sport plus. Guess that’s just on the 981.

Also, on a manual car - this is such a minor difference that I'd say it doesn't even matter.

I have a chrono/sport button on my car and for the life of me I can hardly tell the difference when it's on/off. It's nothing like what most people make it out to be,

I think I'd even prefer a cleaner dash to it and just have the car re-tuned.

I can tell zero difference.

No way, I can never drive it without sport button on.

Having driven a spyder for 30,000 miles with sport chrono .. I can say that there is certainly a noticeable difference. Whether that matters to some and if the trade off with the aesthetics of not having a clean dash could be debated. But the repsonse is sharper with sport mode on.

Sport button changes throttle response on a manual Spyder, nothing else changes. I wouldn’t consider it a must have option. Options like LWB, PSE, short shift are far more desireable IMHO. Personally I had to have the full leather too but that’s strictly personal preference and only minor weight savings.

I always believed it would also influence the electronic nannys, providing some more room to play....

never really tested it though

Apologies for the thread resurection.



Are you saying you can add the actual Sport Chronometer to the center of the dash? I'm looking at a manual 987.2 Spyder and the only thing missing is the Sport Chrono. I really don't need it but really wanted it.

I need to make a correction to my earlier post, apparently the throttle response isn’t the only difference with the Sport Chrono @A432 had corrected me earlier this year and noted that Sport Chrono also widens the PSM and ABS ranges before they intervene. It also switches the limiter to a hard limiter vs. soft. I can see the value in changing the PSM/ABS intervention, especially in the canyons on tighter corners.

I have the Sport button on mine.

Rev matching with it off suits me better around town. Rev matching with it on is better when I take it to the twisties.