Originally Posted by Robert Linton

P. S. To the second to last person who posted, I have had cars that were 100% OE and cars that were not, but for those that were not, everything that I changed was better than OE.

Originally Posted by Robert Linton

In fairness to the vendor, at the price you paid, inferior is all you could have gotten unless the vendor was prepared to take a loss. For the vendor to make an adequate return and provide an OE quality product, including the upfront costs, the retail price would need to have tripled.

Originally Posted by Robert Linton

For what I am about to write, you will probably stone me, or at least ban me from this forum. The 991 Turbo is a great car, in engineering, in performance and in looks -- I have one. To put anything less than a perfect part on it, particularly on its exterior, is, in my opinion, not only a mistake but cheapens the car. In small quantities (i.e., less than 100 sets), the cost of these vents, including as reasonable 20% margin, should be between $1200 and $1400 each, i.e., $2400 - $2800 a set. Additionally, to do the measuring, design, engineering, make the mold tools, etc., without which you cannot produce excellent parts, is likely an upfront investment of $12,000 - $15,000. The vendor in this case is attempting to buy its way into a market, gambling, candidly, correctly, that most customers do not know the difference between first class quality and what, in reality, is poor -- it is more than just a poor fit, e.g., looks like resin rich pockets, bad cloth layup, etc. To be sure, you or they can, possibly, jury rig the fit, but it will never be a good part. Indeed, if an engineer handed me one of those vents, I'd take a hammer to it. I'd much rather have the black plastic vents than poorly fitting and poorly looking carbon fiber versions. If you really want a proper part, buy the Porsche vents. As to these Carbonlution things, I'd put them in the circular file.

P.S. For years people ask me why I have never sold parts to retail customers? The answer is simple, most customers do not know the difference between outstanding and, if they are lucky, barely OK, and therefore are unwilling to pay for the former. Further, as my mother said, people's (i.e., Porsche owners) eyes are often bigger than their stomachs. Guys if you willing to spend significant funds on car as wonderful as a Porsche Turbo, this is not the time to become parsimonious, especially when a relatively small amount would buy glory.

Originally Posted by rodsky

P.P.P.P.S.. Mr. Linton, you’re still here. Did your account get hacked? In fairness to your security software, it must be freeware. Because if you peruse 3 posts up, you said you were out. Yet you’re still here. Although, it’s obviously not you as you indicated otherwise. If you pm me, I can suggest software that’s authentic and OEM that will protect you from future hacking attacks. But it will cost you. In fairness to the freeware, you could not have expected protection at such a low price when they are evil villains willing to exploit your exposed account.

on the bright side our vents are 375 grams lighter than plastic OEM ones. I’m told that (Despite the driver side gap), this will reduce my N ring time by up to a 3/4 of a second.

Originally Posted by Agentorange

this made my day hahaha!

Originally Posted by Carbonlution

We are group of car enthusiast (especially Porsche) just like many of you, we create these parts partially out of passion and it makes us happy to see our customers put our products on their car and happy with what they buy, but if there are any issues we will also try our best to make it right. We accept any criticisms as much as we appreciate good words because there is always room for improvement. We understand a lot of you are worried about the gap issue on the driver side and we are currently fixing this issue so the next batch won't have the same issue as some might have experienced and even with guys who have received the vents if you have the same issue please let us know we will take care of that for you as well as we mentioned in the previous reply.