Okay, I bought a tire repair kit since the 997 has no tire. Then I thought...how about a small scissors jack. The dealer wanted $$$$$$, even the Porsche junk yard wanted $250. Jacks at PepBoys....too big and not low enough. Then at NAPA for $39 they had a small perfect jack (okay not perfect, made in China) that goes as low as 4.5". light, no bigger than a foot long, fits perfecty in the trunk for emergency use...its even red to match the car! Sooooooo, if you are looking for a small portable jack for those who might have repair the flat tire and want to take the tire off for ease of repair...try NAPA.
abe

 

Abe - haven't you learned your lesson about taking shots at the Chinese. I'm gonna PM LeChef.

 

One thing to remember is will the jack fit under the chassis when the car is sitting on a flat tire - luckily you can jack up one whole side from either the front or rear jack point - still will be a hassle if your off on a dirt shoulder somewhere. As much as I dislike runflats (too heavy) you do see them on Vettes and I think the GT-R will have them too.

 

Pictures, please! Model numbers...source(s)...

 

Napa Lifting Equiptment 520-1002 comes is blue box 13"x5"x4". It is 2ton jack lift range 4 1/2" to 13", the load saddle measures 5"x 1 7/8"..not ideal but in an emergency it will do. I think the clearance for my Porsche is 5 1/2"...bring a couple of 2x4 to roll the car on or "Lift, honey, lift"..you decide.
Sorry, no picture...but go check it out a NAPA. I really looked around and this is the best I could do for an emergency situation in the middle of the desert/ or mountains with no phone reception or Porsche telling you it will be 3hrs.
Dan, I took your advice and went to a Union station off cheseboro in Agoura Hills. Put in about 6gals of 100 octane... after a little while I thought the car had better performance. At $6/gal I wont be doing that often, but was fun to try it out.....besides it may all be psychological.
Oh, one more thing while in the parking lot at NAPA this nice looking woman driving a convertible Massarati starts talking to me, you know the usual small talk "nice looking car..how big are those tires, blablabla" .....boy never had that happen when I drove my E420. If I only knew then what I know now. At almost 50 and happily married for 1/4 of a century, I cut the conversation short and got my fat little butt into the car ASAP.
abe

 

I would have done the same thing!

 

Don't usually associate babes and NAPA

 

When I bought my 4-post lift, the one thing that I heard over and over was "don't lift something heavy/valuable with something made in China". I would suspect that the same is true (albeit less dangerous than with a lift) here. Lifting something that costs almost $100K and weighs north of 3,000 lbs is not somewhere to economize.