nmurray22

A few tips I am sure new 911 owners will find useful, I know I wished I knew these when I got my first 911. Also a clip of me chasing my own car because I forgot the park brake like the idiot I am.

Thanks for watching friends.


Nick

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CSK 911 C4S

What a close call......

I could just see that beautiful car scrape against the garage door while it was backing itself out of the garage.

I wonder how many folks did just what you did but would not admit it.

rccarlton

Nick, great video as always. The Porsche approved process for opening the frunk in case you have a dead battery is a little crazy.

AlBinVA

Nick,

Thanks for this. I find all of your videos helpful and amusing.

Al

crossroads

I agree the electric parking brake is a little confusing. However, it is consistent with most other non-electric parking brakes where the release lever is located under the dashboard and you engage the parking brake with a pedal to the left of the brake pedal. For these, you pull down to release the parking brake. So I can see the thought process.

Porsche_nuts

Great shot of you running after your rogue car!

kayjh

I've never owned a manual that I didn't leave in gear when I parked it. Good save Nick.

Needsdecaf

This is how I think of it as well.

Keep up the good work Nick.

R_Rated

I never thought about what I would do to jump the car. Would watch again.

Keadog

Enjoyable as always. I was on your Youtube channel over the weekend. Two things:
1. Becky is adorable.
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PM me with details if you're making any to sell.

Hurricane

Nice video!

I actually find the emergency brake to be intuitive. Push to turn on, pull to release (just like if it had been a cable mechanism versus electronic).

To have to use a spare battery connected to the fuse box to open the frunk is crazy. They really should have added an emergency release cable or something. (I have used a 991 to jump start another car and it worked fine but thankfully never needed a jump myself!)

I fit my MIL and SIL in the back seat all the time when I don't have my kids in there. They are both on the short side, though LOL!

The video of the car rolling back cracked me up....

pvr

Great video

Having had a battery failure soon after I had the new car, and stuck on a petrol forecourt, it has always worried me since how I would be able to start the car as on a manual car, the handbrake auto engages in case of power failure so you can't even push the car out of the way!

NoGaBiker

Been that way on 911s since at least 2002 (earliest water pumper I owned.) I've had to do it a couple of times before when battery ran dead. Jump the trunk lid with the fuse box, then jump the car.

Incidentally, I could roll start my Boxster (986S) the one time it died, but my 2002 Turbo wouldn't start. I had a long, perfect hill for roll (bump) starting, long enough that I got three goes at it. Simply wouldn't start. And I'm an accomplished veteran of the art. I had an old 76 Mercury Capri II in college; I was always broke and I once went over two months without replacing a battery that was too dead to start the car. It quickly got to be second nature to never turn the car off until I had lined up my rolling takeoff for when I came back. Fortunately the Ga. Tech campus is pretty hilly.

MJBird993

I'm confused. Nick bought another new 911? Or was that covered in video series #571?

The man must be some kind of masochist.

911seeker

Funny enough, I test drove Nick's "original" 991.1 at an Offleaseonly location in Fl a while ago! Luckily enough, I was not too quick to pull the trigger despite the great price and took some time to investigate on line, when I realized it was "the one"!