3rdpedal

My garage is not attached to my home.
My 992 is not what I would leave at the airport.
My state gives you two copies of your registration. One for your records and one for the glovebox. The glovebox copy does not have your address.
Let's be honest. Any thief savvy enough can get into your house if you truly are someone who is worth their techspertise. And any car thief savvy enough to steal a 992 likely isn't going to your house with it to steal your stuff.

That's my take.

ipse dixit

Why not just carry a digital copy (i.e. photo) of your insurance card on your phone?

My daily driver doesn't even have a glove box ...

Autobacs

Good points 3rdpedal and slwong23.

I too lock the door going into the house from the garage. I think what they do is they open the garage door, come with a van, pull into the garage and then close the garage door. Then they have all the time they need to break into the house with the garage door closed. This is why I also have a camera in my garage. True, if they really want to get to your stuff they will.....it's just when you drive a 911, they may take higher levels of risk knowing that if you can afford a 911, you probably have multiple Rolex's etc. and lots of cash in a safe.

With the van and garage closed, they take their time and clean you out.

I think I'm going to blank out my address on my registration now. California has this displayed in your car version.

Finally, with just the Homelink on a diamond button, it's not obvious to a non Porsche owner what that button is for.

CodyBigdog

Priceless.

CodyBigdog

Most newer garage door openers now have a feature where you can disable the remote/wireless link that opens the garage door. I disable when away on a trip/vacation, and when I arrive home, I punch in my code on the keypad to open the door. Problem solved….although it does mean that the few times I open my garage door using the keypad, I actually have to get out of the car. But I manage. 🥸

But IMO, the scenario you describe is very unlikely…and a good alarm system will help calm those fears. A bigger concern would be those extra cars one has that are parked in the driveway, or on the street…. that still use the garage door opener supplied by the manufacturer. Most older cars rely on the opener,…and my neighbor found out the hard way when someone broke into his (older) car and opened his garage door using the opener on the driver visor.

ohniner

I've always had my garage doors wired on its own circuit to with a simple on/off switch which I turn off whenever leaving for a trip.

3rdpedal

You could always plug the garage door openers into a smart switch and power them on and off via that/smartphone. Once you turned the switch back on and they reconnected, the homelink would work again.

CodyBigdog

Curious…if you turn the power off to the garage door opener, I assume you have to get into your house through another door, and then turn on the switch to provide power to the opener to get into the garage? While that works, it seems like a burden?

The newer garage door openers provide the option to disable remote opening, but still allow the owner to access the garage by putting in the 4-digit pin on the remote keypad. For those that still don’t trust the pad access method (like my 100 yo dad), you can ether remove the keypad or remove the battery?

lucycan

LOVE IT

Tupper

Yesterday it was sunny, nearly 70 degrees, and with my staying with summer tires I'm milking every bit of > 40 F weather that I can this season.

Went for a very spirited joyride with the top down and enjoyed every second of it, I love the howl of the flat six and the high speeds that come with it.

Took my son afterward to the park and shot this pic while he was playing, yeah it's low quality but what the heck:



I'm just under 7800 miles. My thoughts are: When can I take this out again for a another run?

CodyBigdog

My thoughts, exactly.

Has your local PCA chapter done any Fall Tours? I’ve been on two this year and they have been fabulous. Nothing like driving “briskly” through the country side with a group of 30-40 other Porsche’s of various make and vintage. Love the reaction from the people along the way, and in small towns…waving and honking at us as we streak by. If you haven’t tried, highly recommend you do.

icanthelpit

Really are you serious?

Tupper

^ Great question. I have thought a lot about doing this. My biggest issue with the PCA chapter tours is that many of them are multi day tours, which I would LOVE to do. However, with kids at home I (and my wife) just aren't in a position to go on such excursions.

When I look at pics of the people on such tours for the local chapter, majority of them look like they are much older and I can't help but wonder if many of them either don't have kids or their kids are already grown up and out of the house.

Autobacs

#8 there is a thread here that talks about the gas tank in the frunk just behind the dash being loose and when the tank isn’t quite full it knocks

CodyBigdog

I can’t speak to your local chapter, but I will say in the first tour I went on, I would guess the average age of attendees was older than in the 2nd tour. But on a average, you are correct, it is an older, probably retired, or nearing retirement crowd….with a few 40-50’s corporate execs thrown in. With but a few exceptions, everyone in both tours had been Porsche owners for decades…so they knew how to drive fast (regardless of their age) and they knew their Porsche’s. For me, it was great fun to meet up with a bunch of like minded individuals…and was a learning exercise.

As far as your local tours…there is nothing that prohibits you from leaving the tour early, if you need to leave after say, one day? In fact, and depending on the difficulty of the rout taken, one day is more than enough for most people. My first tour was in the hilly, back roads of W. Virginia. That started at 10AM and concluded around 4pm. I was thoroughly spent by the end of the day, and my wife decided to go shopping at a cute little town at the half way point (she had enough of getting thrown around in the car, haha). Leave the kids with a relative or baby sitter, and you and the Mrs (or a buddy) opt to go for just one day. If you love driving your new Porsche, you won’t be disappointed.

Oh, one final note - If I had been driving any of these roads by myself, it would have been at much slower speeds…but being part of a “pack”, you will find yourself driving more aggressively than you might drive on your own.