Where In The World is Sam Pelligrino?
04-08-2018, 09:15 AM
#50
Rennlist Member
Awesome! I noticed your ED plate is from Stuttgart. They must have just opened up Zuffenhausen for ED pick up. It's been closed for about 18 months for Mission E expansion. I also noticed that they are now placing (looks like taping) the front plate in the center instead of using the tow hook. Makes for much better pics.
When you get back, post your trip report in the ED forum. Many of us would love to read it.
Enjoy your trip of a lifetime.
When you get back, post your trip report in the ED forum. Many of us would love to read it.
Enjoy your trip of a lifetime.
04-08-2018, 09:48 AM
#51
Congrats Sam! Keep sending pics.
The road from Eze that winds down to Eze Sur Mer is epic. Plenty of parking and a sleepy little beach town where you can lunch. (Maybe run into Bono his home is right there)
PS I love the photo of your silver GT3 filling up at the petrol station with the mountains in the background.
Enjoy your trip.
The road from Eze that winds down to Eze Sur Mer is epic. Plenty of parking and a sleepy little beach town where you can lunch. (Maybe run into Bono his home is right there)
PS I love the photo of your silver GT3 filling up at the petrol station with the mountains in the background.
Enjoy your trip.
04-10-2018, 08:37 AM
#54
Originally Posted by Perimeter
No update today ... where is our hero today ?
Perimeter I am not letting you twist my arm again LOL, trip will be winding down and done April 17
I will write up an epic recap to this epic trip and let you guys come along for the ride, I think we will all enjoy that vs the next ADM or allocation thread (once i settle back into work) and I also am learning some very helpful tips that should be useful for anyone considering doing euro delivery (if on the fence as everyone else says, DO IT)I will say car is 7 days old and already 1600 miles
Right now I am en route to Como (Tremezzo from Florence), we had our first little issue of the trip which has otherwise been flawless and I cannot complain, been the best trip of my life so far. This morning when starting the car, PCM system just completely dead and **** the bed. All other components of the car is working great, AC, TFT display in cluster, voltage showing between 13-14.8v, but no PCM. No radio/Navi, etc screen won't turn on at all. Checked fuse box everything in ok. Turned car off waited 5 min no dice, won't come on.
My guess is that the insanely hellish roads of Florence, and I mean hellish, must have knocked something loose in the car and disconnected power somehow to specifically the PCM. Seriously the worst roads I've ever driven on and had to carry some speed into bumps due to some drivers tailing me there.
All good though, I am going to Porsche Center in Milan to hopefully diagnose this issue quickly before Como otherwise will wait until I return to Stuttgart/Zuffenhausen for the final 4 days and hopefully it can get resolved by the delivery center there (if they can't fix it WTF lol)
04-10-2018, 08:42 AM
#55
Rennlist Member
Enjoy the ride.
im sure you tried but have you turned off the car and locked it?
might need a couple of those.
if you do go to Zuffenhausen they will hand over another car, so not much more then a pit stop worst case. They will do the same in Milan but Italy..
better break it all there and have the factory fix it :-)
ask me how I know ;-)
im sure you tried but have you turned off the car and locked it?
might need a couple of those.
if you do go to Zuffenhausen they will hand over another car, so not much more then a pit stop worst case. They will do the same in Milan but Italy..
better break it all there and have the factory fix it :-)
ask me how I know ;-)
04-12-2018, 09:39 PM
#57
Rennlist Member
Thread Starter
Did you try a Master reset?
Don't forget to make it to Sienna!
Firenze ...ahhhh the bread there is so perfect@
Don't forget to make it to Sienna!
Firenze ...ahhhh the bread there is so perfect@
Thanks again fellas for the nice words and compliments, seriously all I can say is wow what a trip and what a car. So far knock on wood my itinerary has been nothing short of brilliant and same goes for the GT3
Perimeter I am not letting you twist my arm again LOL, trip will be winding down and done April 17 I will write up an epic recap to this epic trip and let you guys come along for the ride, I think we will all enjoy that vs the next ADM or allocation thread (once i settle back into work) and I also am learning some very helpful tips that should be useful for anyone considering doing euro delivery (if on the fence as everyone else says, DO IT)
I will say car is 7 days old and already 1600 miles
Right now I am en route to Como (Tremezzo from Florence), we had our first little issue of the trip which has otherwise been flawless and I cannot complain, been the best trip of my life so far. This morning when starting the car, PCM system just completely dead and **** the bed. All other components of the car is working great, AC, TFT display in cluster, voltage showing between 13-14.8v, but no PCM. No radio/Navi, etc screen won't turn on at all. Checked fuse box everything in ok. Turned car off waited 5 min no dice, won't come on.
My guess is that the insanely hellish roads of Florence, and I mean hellish, must have knocked something loose in the car and disconnected power somehow to specifically the PCM. Seriously the worst roads I've ever driven on and had to carry some speed into bumps due to some drivers tailing me there.
All good though, I am going to Porsche Center in Milan to hopefully diagnose this issue quickly before Como otherwise will wait until I return to Stuttgart/Zuffenhausen for the final 4 days and hopefully it can get resolved by the delivery center there (if they can't fix it WTF lol)
Perimeter I am not letting you twist my arm again LOL, trip will be winding down and done April 17
I will write up an epic recap to this epic trip and let you guys come along for the ride, I think we will all enjoy that vs the next ADM or allocation thread (once i settle back into work) and I also am learning some very helpful tips that should be useful for anyone considering doing euro delivery (if on the fence as everyone else says, DO IT)I will say car is 7 days old and already 1600 miles
Right now I am en route to Como (Tremezzo from Florence), we had our first little issue of the trip which has otherwise been flawless and I cannot complain, been the best trip of my life so far. This morning when starting the car, PCM system just completely dead and **** the bed. All other components of the car is working great, AC, TFT display in cluster, voltage showing between 13-14.8v, but no PCM. No radio/Navi, etc screen won't turn on at all. Checked fuse box everything in ok. Turned car off waited 5 min no dice, won't come on.
My guess is that the insanely hellish roads of Florence, and I mean hellish, must have knocked something loose in the car and disconnected power somehow to specifically the PCM. Seriously the worst roads I've ever driven on and had to carry some speed into bumps due to some drivers tailing me there.
All good though, I am going to Porsche Center in Milan to hopefully diagnose this issue quickly before Como otherwise will wait until I return to Stuttgart/Zuffenhausen for the final 4 days and hopefully it can get resolved by the delivery center there (if they can't fix it WTF lol)
04-14-2018, 11:32 AM
#58
So the PCM issue was interesting (was completely dead while all other systems perfect)
Took it to Porsche Center Milan and they told me they can't help me after trying system reset
Took it to Porsche Center Zurich and they check it, system shows cable decoupled or power issue not reaching the PCM, but they are busy and cannot help me
Getting fed up I call delivery center to help me, they tell me to come to Zuffenhausen if I can
Go to the dealership in Zuffenhausen and they are confused as hell why I'm there (lol), call again and delivery center wants the car specifically at the center site
Get in the car from Zuffenhausen dealership across the street to take car to delivery center.... the PCM f*^%#%^ reboots and turns on and I see this because I have my beautiful backup camera again... WTF lol
So no PCM at all for 4 days then poof its back online and they run PIWIS and system checks and all shows good.... hmmm....
Anyways... back in Zuffenhausen/Stuttgart for the final 4 days
2100 miles on odo and counting, not bad for 11 days old
I might actually hit 3000 miles by the end of the trip depending on if I go to Nuremberg (for some WW2 history stuff) or Munich (no idea why but to check out the city) as well as the Ring on Monday. I don't know yet if I'll drive it because this car is scary to drive fast (what I learned today under WOT > 5K RPM) and I'm afraid I'll get carried away/hard to drive slow. Also don't know about weather/wet conditions. Traumatized with the Dunlop tires in 34 degree weather and snow all over the ground and piling on my car through the Swiss alps (maybe one of the scariest experience of my life). But I'll go to Ring for sure for pictures and watch the track from a corner, try to get that steak on a rock thing.
Today did Black Forest drives and for a second thought Jesus took the wheel. My eyes were "sweating" a bit and I couldn't stop laughing and smiling. Moments of pure happiness. Ok Ok maybe I teared up a little bit with how perfect the roads/scenery/car was, too good to be true... *sniff* Roads I could eat dinner off of, better than Angeles Crest and Skyline put together..
Pics will come in the recap thread but I'll leave some teasers here..
This car is like a drug, I just want to keep driving... feel like an addict at this point... Mooty was right coke would have been cheaper but my God what a weapon
Also the windshield has a bad crack in it so it will need to be replaced on arrival at CJ's dealership lol, a rock decided to acquaint itself with the windshield on an unrestricted part of the autobahn going north of 220km/hr. Like they say "smoke if you got em", if you own this car... drive it...
Edit - ignore clock and times in last TFT pic, my time has not been syncing since delivery day. No idea why and tried everything short of manually setting it rather than auto sync which I don't want to do but once it gets re-PDI'd in the US hopefully it will get sorted.
Took it to Porsche Center Milan and they told me they can't help me after trying system reset
Took it to Porsche Center Zurich and they check it, system shows cable decoupled or power issue not reaching the PCM, but they are busy and cannot help me
Getting fed up I call delivery center to help me, they tell me to come to Zuffenhausen if I can
Go to the dealership in Zuffenhausen and they are confused as hell why I'm there (lol), call again and delivery center wants the car specifically at the center site
Get in the car from Zuffenhausen dealership across the street to take car to delivery center.... the PCM f*^%#%^ reboots and turns on and I see this because I have my beautiful backup camera again... WTF lol
So no PCM at all for 4 days then poof its back online and they run PIWIS and system checks and all shows good.... hmmm....
Anyways... back in Zuffenhausen/Stuttgart for the final 4 days
2100 miles on odo and counting, not bad for 11 days old
I might actually hit 3000 miles by the end of the trip depending on if I go to Nuremberg (for some WW2 history stuff) or Munich (no idea why but to check out the city) as well as the Ring on Monday. I don't know yet if I'll drive it because this car is scary to drive fast (what I learned today under WOT > 5K RPM) and I'm afraid I'll get carried away/hard to drive slow. Also don't know about weather/wet conditions. Traumatized with the Dunlop tires in 34 degree weather and snow all over the ground and piling on my car through the Swiss alps (maybe one of the scariest experience of my life). But I'll go to Ring for sure for pictures and watch the track from a corner, try to get that steak on a rock thing.
Today did Black Forest drives and for a second thought Jesus took the wheel. My eyes were "sweating" a bit and I couldn't stop laughing and smiling. Moments of pure happiness. Ok Ok maybe I teared up a little bit with how perfect the roads/scenery/car was, too good to be true... *sniff* Roads I could eat dinner off of, better than Angeles Crest and Skyline put together..
Pics will come in the recap thread but I'll leave some teasers here..
This car is like a drug, I just want to keep driving... feel like an addict at this point... Mooty was right coke would have been cheaper but my God what a weapon
Also the windshield has a bad crack in it so it will need to be replaced on arrival at CJ's dealership lol, a rock decided to acquaint itself with the windshield on an unrestricted part of the autobahn going north of 220km/hr. Like they say "smoke if you got em", if you own this car... drive it...
Edit - ignore clock and times in last TFT pic, my time has not been syncing since delivery day. No idea why and tried everything short of manually setting it rather than auto sync which I don't want to do but once it gets re-PDI'd in the US hopefully it will get sorted.
04-14-2018, 11:56 AM
#60
Originally Posted by R.Deacon
such adventure , thanks for sharing here with mere mortals 
not best for P there to replace windscreen or not there department ?
not best for P there to replace windscreen or not there department ?Not complaining though and very thankful my issues have been relatively minor/not getting in the way of enjoying this truly amazing trip