Dutchie in NC

Well, yesterday I picked up the 2007 997 S that I have been posting about. I live in Denver and I bought this car from Porsche of San Diego. Following find pics and some details re the last couple of days:

I spent Wednesday through Friday early afternoon at Pebble Beach, playing golf with customers (yes, I had a pretty good week).

Third green amd 4th fairway on Spyglass;



A couple of pictures from Pebble Beach... First on eis the 18th hole at daybreak and the second one is from the teebox of the 18th hole:





On Friday afternoon, I flew from San Jose to San Diego to pick up the car. I bought the car from Porsche of San Diego. My sales manager was Chris Huck, he picked me up from the airport and I have nothing but good to say about him... class act... would HIGHLY recommend doing business with him.

We arrived at the delaership at about 6PM... first time I saw the car in person:



Car looked great; the whole sales/checkout process went quickly and around 639PM local time I drove off for my 1,000 mile trip to Vail, CO (we live in Denver but have a place in the Vail area, so that's where I was going to see my family):



I had booked a hotel in Las Vegas to spend the night... 325 miles from San Diego. I arrived after about 4 1/2 hours... sorry for the bad pic... best I could do;



I had a great night sleep, woke up at 630 and after breakfast I wrapped the car up in some heavy duty saran wrap for the second part of the trip... 650 miles from Las Vegas, to Vail, CO:



I started off with a leisurely drive down the Las Vegas Strip:







After that I made my way out... after Nevada, hit Arizona:



Some stunning scenery in the short stretch that I was in Arizona;





Utah up next:



Some nice open roads (overall I did stick much closer to the speed limit than what this pic would suggest);



Here a number of pictures from various places in Utah:





















Overall, the Utah part of the drive was absolutely stunning... unbelievable scenery.

Ok, by now I am reaching the Colorado state line and we are into the home stretch:





The Colorado river in the front, with mountain ranges behind it;





Almost there... this is Mount of the Holy Cross in the background, one of the 53 14ers (14,000+ ft mountains) in Colorado... Mount of the Holy Cross is 14,009 ft... barely makes the list:



And here we are home:



Overall, observations/thoughts/facts:

LOVE the car... drives awesome, I'm happy as a kid in the candy store!!

The overall drive was about 1,000 miles (I have another 100 miles tomorrow to Denver, but won't post any pics... sorry). Driving time was about 13 hours, my average speed on the trip computer showed 74 miles/hr... I think I was a bit faster, by accident I reset the trip computer a couple of times (trying to figure out all the buttons...).

Gas mileage pretty darn good... north of 22 miles to the gallon.

If you haven't done the drive from Vegas to Colorado, please add it to your bucket list... it is an unbelievable beautiful drive... I really, really enjoyed it. I wish I could have done San Diego to Vegas during daylight, but couldn't make that work.

Hope you enjoy the pics... I am very happy to have another P-car in the garage!

Vancouver-BC

Beautiful car, great pics, thanks for sharing.

smokestack20

Dutchie,

Outstanding! We only go around once in life..... your doing it right!!!

Ken

gota911

Wouter,

Great pics! It sounds like it was a great week, capped off by getting your Black Beauty! Glad you are back in a Porsche...... there is no substitute!

jhbrennan

Great write-up...and beautiful car. I've made the drive (Denver to LA and return) many times but never in the Porsche. I was worried when I saw 122 mph and the tire pressure warning but in later pictures it looks like TPC was not working - what's up with that?

NaviRyan

It's a rough life you lead Dutchie...haha Golf, Porsches, ski house in Vail and a beautiful drive in between. I would know I live in Northglenn. Keep livin the dream brotha.

PasPar2

great post! glw/the new car!

Is that the "Carpet Runner" stuff on the front end? looks a bit like you put a surgical mask on the car?

Dutchie in NC

Yes, had a warning light that TPC is Inactive... need to study the manual to see if I can fix it, but probably means first trip to the local dealer... thanks for CPO

Dutchie in NC

Yes, carpet runner saran wrap from the Lowes... seems to work well

Dutchie in NC

The last week was rather exceptional... back to the grind starting tomorrow.

RollingArt

Congrats Dutchie. You done good.

Enjoy your new ride.

I could be wrong, but I'm thinking you're on your own for the TPMS. The batteries inside the tires are 4 years old now, and probably the cause of the problem. I doubt the batteries are covered under CPO. You'll need 4 new sensors ($400), and all the tires dismounted, new sensors installed, then all the tires remounted and balanced ($100).

Looks like the first 1000 miles cost $500 in maintenance, or 50 cents per mile. That's about right for these cars.

Good luck, hope I'm wrong and Dr. Porsche covers the repairs.

SC2993

Golf in Pebble Beach, p/u 997 in San Diego, spend night in Las Vegas, drive on beautiful roads to Vail in your 997. Sounds like a great weekend, do you think that work is getting in the way of your lifestyle now?

Thanks for sharing your adventure!

chinole

You weren't kidding with the blue tape, huh. It's good as you save a couple of g's...

Any alerts from the passport?

Congrats on your new car and thanks for sharing your story.

BTW, are there any openings at your work? Seems like a nice company to work in....

Dutchie in NC

I need work to pay for my lifestyle... guess I should have married smarter

Dutchie in NC

Hopefully iy will be covered... else, the dealer in San Diego told me that would take care of it. Hopefully they will keep their word.