Van

Doh - I'm late to the party... It looks like Pete's pic turned into a test of the national broadcast system. (I can just hear Marc "beeepping" in the background.)

laxaholic33

I flew 2000 miles to pick up my car. Got a PPI from the 'biggest porsche dealer in the world' and had the water pump fail 150 miles into my drive home. Was stuck on the side of I95 in a horrendous rainstorm...inching my way to the nearest exit...then had my car towed back down to the Porsche dealer only to be hit with a $900 bill the next day. 2 months later...only an oil change, and about 1,000 ear-to-ear grins when i step outside of the building to get into the most amazing thing i have ever purchased. It gets better.

Barn996

Glad you too overcame an initial hurdle. Good attitude to have, now you can enjoy your Porsche.

Sneaky Pete

And I thought it was tasteful...

ivangene

Sadly the flavor has run dry



We are turning into old men

MiamiC70

Yea, I "almost" flew to pick it up too. I thought it might be a nice summer drive and a lot of fun to do with a freind. Then the thought of a breakdown and the subsequent disaster hit me

dailydriverC4s

Thankfully, the batttery is right up front where the Autozone guys would expect it to be...

ivangene

haha....

the other day I was under a 944 turbo and shootin the breeze.... said here I will show you (something on the motor - thinking 911) looked up and went.... WTF? where's the motor??? Got confused for a couple microseconds

mooty

once batt fully discharged, it's history.
get new one.
posrche is not a car, it's a religion, seriously.
this is JUST your first frustration... there will be more, a LOT MORE.
you know, it's like women. nag nag nag, full of it... but when you get it right..... ah!!!!

drive the thing and u will understand in spades.

Steve2112

Nice car - I have # 1083. Got it last year with 12,000 miles on it, and a 2 year CPO from the dealer.

Steve

qirex

5 pages and still no pics....

nice car too. x51, 40 jarhe

MiamiC70

Pics on other post

GVA-SFO

Well, 26 years of 911 non stop, but still, if I would meet the *ç£+?&@ "engineer" that put the 996 battery in a truck that has only an electric switch to open it, I would ....

Funny that nobody posted that, ..after you RTFM, you will know that you have to open the fuse box, push on the metal contacts to let them popout, connect your quick charger to those two just poped out "metal connectors", then, use the switch to pop the trunck. Then you can remove the quick charger, push back in the two contacts, close the fuse door, and go in the truck (standing up in the trunck is I think the best place to not wound 2 or 3 disks (of your back, not the ones in the CD changer near by) ..to change the battery.

Ah, about this location: would it be a place higher up (may be under the roof ??), to have this weight better positionned ???
OK, I know, now, with the P-light cars, you can get (for a $.$$$ option) a very light Li-Ion battery, ..easy to understand. May be this a very cheap option, compared to the chiropractician costs you will need to rehab your back after this DYI !

It really looks like they had a Po(r).. ..lish ** "engineer" that took care of the battery location & design in this car.
It is a (very bad) joke, and I have to agree big time with MiamiC70 !

** In my country, we call this kind of story "Une histoire Belge" (Poland is probably too far !)