Advice please!
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Thank you all for the kind advice! I feel much better about driving the car home with its current summer time set up. Which now leaves me with only one other concern, the PPF. I'm having that done local to me, not at the dealer.
Thank you! As I just mentioned above your quote, do you see this one hour a major concern without PPF? Will be driven on the turnpike and there is likely to be a decent amount of stones. This wasn't my initial concern but seems to be now.
Thank you! As I just mentioned above your quote, do you see this one hour a major concern without PPF? Will be driven on the turnpike and there is likely to be a decent amount of stones. This wasn't my initial concern but seems to be now.
If you're concerned about driving before your PPF install and have still have a few days yet, have you looked into Xpel's Trac Wrap (temporary DIY PPF)? I've seen it mentioned in quite a few other RL threads as an option. My vote would be, drive her home!
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I picked up my car on a Friday and drove it for the weekend before taking it into the detailer for PPF/Ceramic. It was no big deal. I made sure to leave lots more space than usual in front of me to avoid rocks/debris kicked up from other cars, but it wasn't nerve wracking or anything.
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First of all, congrats!
If you don't have a PPF on and you are planning to get it later, I would not drive it for one hour without it.
If you are concerned with summer performance tires in cold temperatures, it should be fine as long as there are no ice/snow on the road.
If you don't have a PPF on and you are planning to get it later, I would not drive it for one hour without it.
If you are concerned with summer performance tires in cold temperatures, it should be fine as long as there are no ice/snow on the road.
Come on.
We took delivery in Atlanta PEC, and drove to Boston. Car still looks great.
The way winter is going so far here in the East Coast, there's not a lot of salt on the road, at least right now.
I'd drive it before the weather changes and they put salt out.
Last edited by garthg; Jan 31, 2023 at 01:36 PM.
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Never bothered with a PPF, not sure how long it would last up here in summer with 22 hours of daylight. Probably 3 years before it yellows. No need to rise to defend PPF, personally of no interest. It's a car, it gets driven, it gets dirty and the rain washes it off other than perhaps a once a year laser bath.
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Never bothered with a PPF, not sure how long it would last up here in summer with 22 hours of daylight. Probably 3 years before it yellows. No need to rise to defend PPF, personally of no interest. It's a car, it gets driven, it gets dirty and the rain washes it off other than perhaps a once a year laser bath.
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When I go for drives, of course. Have some long club and other drives in store this summer as well as the previous summer. Just made sure I had some bug-off to clean off the State Bird by the hundreds impacted in the front which removed with no problem.
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LOL...damn birds. 😂
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I just looked at RI forecast...snow on Thursday and Friday, and temperatures WELL below freezing on Friday and Saturday. No way I'd drive on summer tires in those conditions; just plain asking for trouble.
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It doesn't matter if it's below freezing! I hope that those who have a 911 don't feel that our cars can't operate in cold temperatures. Yes, I would not be tracking it on summer tires at 100MPH but the OP is going to just drive it home...no snow..no rain...cold dry road! Drive it!
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Thank you all for the kind advice, what I've gathered from most of you is not to stress the PPF, which I won't. I plan on driving her home, unfortunately we woke up to some snow on the ground here in New Jersey, though the car still shows port processing. Im hoping the timing will allow me a nice day when I'm given the call to pick her up.
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The factory will set tire pressures extremely high to prevent flat spotting during shipping. Dealers are supposed to lower pressures to the ones listed on the door jamb (Full Load) but sometimes don't. I recommend making sure that the dealer sets them to Partial Load (33/38 for coupe, 33/39 for cab) before you drive off. Makes a big difference.
