johnarpy

The S/T is a smaller lithium battery from the one I had in my 2024 Carrera T. The dealership got mine in so my car was delivered today. Here is a picture of the new battery before it went in.

mooty

haha, I could have told you thqat
I alway run the biggest dry cell battery.
no lithium for me
most ppl are too fat and heavy to worry about 20lbs. of battery saving, just saying.

Spyerx

Why isn’t anyone driving these cars? Stop worrying about stupid **** and go put some miles on them. This isn’t a Ferrari board.

disden

my S/T gets driven almost every day. Taking it to local track tomorrow.

johnarpy

I plan on driving mine but I immediately had to take it to get full PPF so I won't be able to begin for 2 weeks.

PTS

Try reading what he said before jumping on him. His car was delivered with a dead battery

WernerE

+1. The first time the lithium battery dies on my ST, I plan to replace it with a regular battery. Note to 997 owners - Costco sells a larger battery than the one it came with and fits with a bit of finagling.

Also, the lithium battery arrived DOA on a new ST at my dealership, so it doesn't appear to be an isolated matter.

Daft Chief

Maybe it's because the cars are sitting around the factory for 2+ months after being fully assembled before sitting on a boat for another month. No other car I've ordered in the last 4 years has taken more than a week to go from assembly to the boat.

MattDFW

Eagle has landed

Antigravity

Hey JohnArpy thanks so much, if you have a picture of the top sort of close up that would also be great but no prob is you don't.

Also if your interested I can send you our latest Battery Tracker for FREE since you helped us out. It will allow you to keep track of you battery voltage via your cell phone and does a couple other really cool things and will send you alerts to your phone if your Battery is low. It a simple to attach does not interfer with your system whatsoever and takes about 2 minutes to attach to your battery posts. It use only 1milliamp so won't have any effect on the battery drain. You can reach out to the email in the signature if you want it, and I'll have our staff send you one. We appreciate you taking the time to get that, so THANKS!

We know that battery, it the 40 Ah version of the A123 Systems Battery, so it has lower amp Hours, but hopefully they figured out the wierd lockout problem they had with the 60Ah version. 40Ah is less Capacity than the 60Ah so keep it on a maintainer. I had a 40Ah in my 2016 GT3RS and it really didn't have much of a drain, but I know nothing about the S/T and if they have any extra parasitic draw... the older GT3s really don't have much parasitic draw at al so hopefully the S/Ts are like that.

johnarpy

So here's a problem I never expected. When I purchased (leased) the S/T I wasn't allowed to buy wheel and tire protection. When the dealer put in the VIN, it brings up GT3 RS which isn't eligible for any protection since it's a track car. Then my insurance said that the car was a GT3 RS. Then I wanted to replace the amber front marker lights and the dealership insisted they were the GT3 RS lights, which they are not. I had to buy Rennline markers. It is currently at the PPF shop, but I'm sure there will be more problems.

unotaz

There are no wheel and tire warranty on the ST because it comes with magnesium wheels.

johnarpy

That makes sense but it doesn't explain why it is coded as a RS so accessories and parts are listed as RS. Even though they are magnesium wheels, they still have tires and finishes that need to be dealt with. My insurance company has my car listed as a GT3 RS. The dealership wanted to sell me GT3 RS front marker lights, and they don't fit.

Daft Chief

https://rennlist.com/forums/992-gt3-...l#post19538003

A couple hundred 991.2 GT3 Touring cars were also coded as 2019 GT3 RS but I have never heard of issues with finding parts for the car.

cosmos

You have an RS VIN, it’s literally in your VIN number.