New 996T owner from UK

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12-01-2015, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay.

Don't have too many plans immediately (aka I'm now broke) but really want to get a carbon interior, some flappy paddles and darken the wheels a tad.

Jay.

If you want to try out darker wheels on a budget and still be able to return them to stock silver easily, then get some Plasti-Dip. Not sure they sell it in England under the same name, but I can't imagine it would be hard to get. Cost is minimal and if you don't like it, you can just peel it off. FWIW, I like the stock silver wheels on the seal gray cars rather than darker colors generally.

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12-01-2015, 08:10 PM

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I've heard of that problem with UK documents before; the car's full designation 'turbo Tiptronic S' gets turned into 'Turbo S'

That answers that! Seems very plausible. Can't say I'm hugely disappointed as I'm still confident I got the car for a great price, regardless of the fact it's the normal 996t.

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Originally Posted by kcattorney

We have that over here, although typically it tends to leave a pretty bad finish that doesn't stick very well?

Maybe I should order the official stuff and get it shipped over, it's still pretty cheap - could do all the wheels for about $50.. At least it'll give me an idea if I like it

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Originally Posted by 996TT02

Hello Jay very nice, very clean looking, I don't want to have to put a dampener on things, but if you are broke now don't go splurging on the unnecessary right now, build up a maintenance fund first as stuff does go wrong and needs fixing. If you are handy with a spanner you can eventually save £££, a wealth of information on here.

Yeh that's basically where I'm stalling - I want to get a relatively safe amount stashed away in case the 'worst' happens - most of my plans are pretty cheap anyway in comparison for that reason. Will try to do most of the spanner work myself, so fingers crossed nothing crazy happens.

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Originally Posted by Dock

Jay - Are you current or previous RAF?

I'm still serving