Been trying to post photos but my newborn has deservedly had 100% of my attention - both him and my car arrived the same day and I've only had the chance to drive the car once. In any case, here you go. Lava/Lava with extra options. You'll notice the vents have black stitching instead of lava - that is not how it was supposed to come. Someone somewhere made a mistake and my dealer is working with Porsche to remedy the issue - it could easily take months to resolve this I'm sure. Maybe I'll get a PTS slot for my 3RS over this haha.

Wow stunning lava... sorry to hear about your troubles though.

It's a bit convoluted. Feel free to PM me. I may end up putting together a thread on this...

That's frustrating. I will say, though, it works well with the black stitching around the Lava vents...

Thank you and thank you. It will eventually get resolved but not counting on anything happening quick. I’m actually meeting with my Area Exclusive Manufaktur Manager tomorrow to go over the 3RS. I’ll see if he can push some buttons.

I don’t disagree and I’ve contemplated leaving it as-is, but my OCD sees black and orange stitching together and It looks out of place when there’s no other black stitching in the car.

This sucks and I hate it happened. I’m OCD also. My car is due in Nov with a lot of deviated stitching including the vents. I am worried that even though I have pestered the ever loving crap out of my SA, there might still be issues with stitching not matching.

I have tried my best to hammer this home to the dealer (who evidently has never spec’ed a car to this level). I even had to walk through their configurator at the dealership to ensure they had it right. Still not sure.

Why Porsche does not allow Porsche codes to include notes from the consumer configurator is beyond me. It creates an error and they don’t transfer over so even if you know, dealer has to code it in.

They will show on the dealer build sheet so you should always ask for a copy and check that.

Anyway, good luck to those with issues and that they get resolved. If I get a speedster allocation (fingers cross I am high on the list), I am going all in on the interior because to be it is either maxed out leather to sample with natural leather or give me the rubber dash.

The alcantara visors (and belt outlet trims) were added later to the configurator for touring builds. I don’t think there was a time where you really could not get them, it was just a matter of putting the right notes in the dealer configurator.

The stitiching errors is a separate issue. Any additional leather with stitching the dealer must put a note in saying what color it is supposed to be or it defaults to the standard color interior stitiching for that model. It could have been even worse, as in a non-touring, the standard stitching is grey and people have gotten Grey stitching parts mixed in with their deviated stitching wing cars.

Frankly, the entire system is asinine. It is both underinusive (insofar as there are things you can get via CXX which are regular options on other models and the cost is the same e.g. vents and slats in leather) and overly complicated (why is the default not that the stitching is universal throughout the car — I get someone might want black on a vent of steering column — but that would be a minority choice). On the plus side, the descriptions on the configurator have gotten much more accurate and there are a lot less configurator errors than before.