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Old 05-21-2018 | 11:09 PM
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Just stumbled across this 991.2 GT3 on @alekshop_com Instagram story....

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Old 05-21-2018 | 11:14 PM
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Old 05-21-2018 | 11:25 PM
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Again?
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Old 05-21-2018 | 11:46 PM
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Nail a curb or something?
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Old 05-21-2018 | 11:56 PM
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Has to be a story behind that.......come on out with it.
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Ive only seen that on GT4's so far.
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Old 05-22-2018 | 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by TRAKCAR
Ive only seen that on GT4's so far.
Check the GT4 forum.
There is a photo of an GT3 RS with the same issue
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Old 05-22-2018 | 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by TRAKCAR
Ive only seen that on GT4's so far.
Not just GT4. My dealer had 991.1 RS in with same issue.
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Crap, not the GT3 as well
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Old 05-22-2018 | 06:11 PM
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Can't call that driver a poser.
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Old 05-22-2018 | 06:17 PM
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Yeah, there has to have been something that happened that was out of the ordinary. No way this was a routine failure. So, c'mon, what happened?
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Old 05-22-2018 | 06:20 PM
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I’m praying that he hit a NYC pot hole at VMax.....
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Old 05-22-2018 | 06:23 PM
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So are these repairable? I assume they are but I would believe it would be very costly.
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So are these repairable? I assume they are but I would believe it would be very costly.
Yes. And yes.
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Old 05-22-2018 | 06:29 PM
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JB weld is not expensive. C'mon
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