Front Axle Lift Question
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I use the front axle lift every single day on my C4S w/SPASM. The parking garage at work and my favorite gas station are both guaranteed to scrape if I forget (ask me how I know), so I'm fairly well trained at this point to use the front axle lift all around town.
My wife, however, is terrified that she'll forget to push the lift button so she never chooses to drive my car. If you are considering ordering front axle lift on your new 911, then this is probably the best reason I can give you to forego the front axle lift option.
My wife, however, is terrified that she'll forget to push the lift button so she never chooses to drive my car. If you are considering ordering front axle lift on your new 911, then this is probably the best reason I can give you to forego the front axle lift option.
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10-15 years from now, what's the repair bill for a broken FAL?
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Just got my GTS and even though the incline on my driveway is very shallow, when my 17 year old daughter backed it out, she went straight out and didn’t turn to take the junction at a diagonal and she let off the brake a little too quickly. There was a pop noise as contact was made - thankfully no damage. She now activates FAL each time she reverses the GTS. FAL has also proven useful to me entering/exiting sloped entrances to strip malls and gas stations. I wouldn’t be without this feature for a car with SPASM.
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There are lots of opinions on FAL. I've read Posters say, and rightly so, that pay for a new lip 5x for the cost of FAL.
But to me there is the psychological aspect of listening to your 100k plus car crunch on pavement. Also I have crazy underground garage situation in which even when angling car you will scrape every time. So in addition you are driving around with chewed up front spoiler and have hassle of replacing at which time it will inevitably happen again. (Sorry for rant).
I went with FAL and have had my car for several weeks and I'm very pleased with it.
But to me there is the psychological aspect of listening to your 100k plus car crunch on pavement. Also I have crazy underground garage situation in which even when angling car you will scrape every time. So in addition you are driving around with chewed up front spoiler and have hassle of replacing at which time it will inevitably happen again. (Sorry for rant).
I went with FAL and have had my car for several weeks and I'm very pleased with it.
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I got the FAL and use it fairly often, but you have to manually push the button to raise it. I have been leaving it parked with the FAL still engaged. Guess I should read the manual! Will lower the car from now on. I also got PDK so my wife could drive the car and after a year she sill has not driven it. Still, PDK is nice in traffic jams so I am happy with it.
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My driveway has to be one of the worst in Texas. It has a very steep incline at a funny angle that makes almost every car scrape even my Suburban. Amazingly, I can get my .2C2S up and down every time without issue. Our cars were engineered with a “feature” to handle these situations.
When you approach an incline, make sure that you pull the car parallel – for me, this means that I’m at an angle to my driveway so I’m parallel to the nasty incline and stop. Now turn the wheel all the way into the incline until it locks. No need to crank it hard, just gently turn in one full revolution until you feel it stop. When you begin to move forward and up the incline, it will lift up the nose and the outside wheel will lift off of the ground. This is just as effective when I'm backing out.
As I said, it works so well that I have no need for the front axle lift. I guess if you are scraping when you hit speed bumps head-on that’s a different story - my car makes it over as long as I slow down. Prior to my 911 I had an M4 that scraped every time no matter how well I hit the angle. Thoughts?
When you approach an incline, make sure that you pull the car parallel – for me, this means that I’m at an angle to my driveway so I’m parallel to the nasty incline and stop. Now turn the wheel all the way into the incline until it locks. No need to crank it hard, just gently turn in one full revolution until you feel it stop. When you begin to move forward and up the incline, it will lift up the nose and the outside wheel will lift off of the ground. This is just as effective when I'm backing out.
As I said, it works so well that I have no need for the front axle lift. I guess if you are scraping when you hit speed bumps head-on that’s a different story - my car makes it over as long as I slow down. Prior to my 911 I had an M4 that scraped every time no matter how well I hit the angle. Thoughts?