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I have narrowed my search for my next car down to a 718 Spyder and a 992.1 Carrera T. 99% of my driving is on roads 80-20 split between uk and Europe, both cars would be manual the T has the added benefit of the rear seats so I could drop a car from my garage to keep costs down (not a priority) but the Spyder is in my opinion the best looking convertible.
I am going to look at spyder tomorrow, has any bought a spyder and found living with it a pain due to the roof? I will be using it to go to work twice per week a 30 mile round trip.
https://finder.porsche.com/gb/en-GB/details/porsch...
I am going to look at spyder tomorrow, has any bought a spyder and found living with it a pain due to the roof? I will be using it to go to work twice per week a 30 mile round trip.
https://finder.porsche.com/gb/en-GB/details/porsch...
The roof's fine. Thinner than a Boxster's but fits well and looks great when up
I can take mine down or up in about 45 seconds I think. Anything more and it'd irritate me
The splitter's OK. I also live in London and take things slow - and try to do ramps at an angle. It occasionally scrapes the bottom surface if I'm hasty, but all looks fine from above
Enjoy your search. I love mine
I can take mine down or up in about 45 seconds I think. Anything more and it'd irritate me
The splitter's OK. I also live in London and take things slow - and try to do ramps at an angle. It occasionally scrapes the bottom surface if I'm hasty, but all looks fine from above
Enjoy your search. I love mine
You can do a lot of the roof mechanism off the key.
To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
Quickmoose said:
You can do a lot of the roof mechanism off the key.
To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
When closing you don't need to lift the side cover bits - you just lift the roof (deck open) and the roof lifts the side cover bits. Know I'm being pedantic but that's just saved you one trip around the car each timeTo open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
First Sea Lord said:
When closing you don't need to lift the side cover bits - you just lift the roof (deck open) and the roof lifts the side cover bits. Know I'm being pedantic but that's just saved you one trip around the car each time
Yeah you can do this, but I've had one break on me from some sort of material fatigue, relying on on that method. I now do that bit by hand.Quickmoose said:
You can do a lot of the roof mechanism off the key.
To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
Good to know about off key, have you done any european road trips? if so how does it perform on a 8 hour motorway trip, my F-type was a great cruiser. To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
J77wck said:
Quickmoose said:
You can do a lot of the roof mechanism off the key.
To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
Good to know about off key, have you done any european road trips? if so how does it perform on a 8 hour motorway trip, my F-type was a great cruiser. To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
Zero issues.
Mind you that's coming from someone who did 13hrs in an S2000 to Monaco and felt ok... the LWB is a great seat.
My only real comment is why 8hrs on a motorway? you need to be getting off that thing waay sooner
Quickmoose said:
First Sea Lord said:
When closing you don't need to lift the side cover bits - you just lift the roof (deck open) and the roof lifts the side cover bits. Know I'm being pedantic but that's just saved you one trip around the car each time
Yeah you can do this, but I've had one break on me from some sort of material fatigue, relying on on that method. I now do that bit by hand.J77wck said:
Quickmoose said:
You can do a lot of the roof mechanism off the key.
To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
Good to know about off key, have you done any european road trips? if so how does it perform on a 8 hour motorway trip, my F-type was a great cruiser. To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
Wife didn't find it uncomfortable at all. We did a mixture of roof up / down on motorways, mainly to get some shade when it was very hot
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Generally I would agree with most of the roof is not that bad posts. However the thing that used to irritate me was that to use the rear boot properly for weekend bags etc you had to pop the roof open a bit to open the boot. That is a PITA when it’s dark and raining and you just want your bags out of the bloody boot.
However in my opinion it’s a small price to pay for one of the best Porsche cars ever made.
Both of mine used to have a hissy fit occasionally if I used the key method to close the roof and I gave up in the end. Probably me but not the most reliable method.
For long trips they are sublime roof down, slightly less so roof up although that is very speed dependent. Up to 75/80mph it’s fine much over that and the wind noise from the hood ears gets quite intrusive. I drove one of mine to the Sweden and back in early February, 3000 miles in 5 days and it was a great trip, I loved every mile of it.
Hood down to the ring and back in July was brilliant. Happy days.
However in my opinion it’s a small price to pay for one of the best Porsche cars ever made.
Both of mine used to have a hissy fit occasionally if I used the key method to close the roof and I gave up in the end. Probably me but not the most reliable method.
For long trips they are sublime roof down, slightly less so roof up although that is very speed dependent. Up to 75/80mph it’s fine much over that and the wind noise from the hood ears gets quite intrusive. I drove one of mine to the Sweden and back in early February, 3000 miles in 5 days and it was a great trip, I loved every mile of it.
Hood down to the ring and back in July was brilliant. Happy days.
Quickmoose said:
J77wck said:
Quickmoose said:
You can do a lot of the roof mechanism off the key.
To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
Good to know about off key, have you done any european road trips? if so how does it perform on a 8 hour motorway trip, my F-type was a great cruiser. To open hold down the unlock button an it detaches from the windscreen and pops the rear deck.
(detach roof 'ears', lift deck, throw roof back, pop the side cover bits down and press the deck down)
To close, pop trunk on key, lift the side cover bits, lift the deck, lift the roof up and over, press deck back down)
press and hold lock and the roof locates and locks in to the windscreen - and closes windows
All the above fuss, means you don't have to unlock, get in put the key in the dash, and start pressing stuff from inside. As with all tings, time and repetition makes it smoother and easier.
I consider the front splitter an annual or bi-annual consumable, £150 and you can replace and refresh it - I have the GT4 version. It's longer and actually rarely scrapes on anything aside form my own ruddy drive way...
Zero issues.
Mind you that's coming from someone who did 13hrs in an S2000 to Monaco and felt ok... the LWB is a great seat.
My only real comment is why 8hrs on a motorway? you need to be getting off that thing waay sooner
J77wck said:
I have narrowed my search for my next car down to a 718 Spyder and a 992.1 Carrera T. 99% of my driving is on roads 80-20 split between uk and Europe, both cars would be manual the T has the added benefit of the rear seats so I could drop a car from my garage to keep costs down (not a priority) but the Spyder is in my opinion the best looking convertible.
I am going to look at spyder tomorrow, has any bought a spyder and found living with it a pain due to the roof? I will be using it to go to work twice per week a 30 mile round trip.
https://finder.porsche.com/gb/en-GB/details/porsch...
So, did you buy it? Looks like a well specced example, and I think the red looks greatI am going to look at spyder tomorrow, has any bought a spyder and found living with it a pain due to the roof? I will be using it to go to work twice per week a 30 mile round trip.
https://finder.porsche.com/gb/en-GB/details/porsch...
First Sea Lord said:
J77wck said:
I have narrowed my search for my next car down to a 718 Spyder and a 992.1 Carrera T. 99% of my driving is on roads 80-20 split between uk and Europe, both cars would be manual the T has the added benefit of the rear seats so I could drop a car from my garage to keep costs down (not a priority) but the Spyder is in my opinion the best looking convertible.
I am going to look at spyder tomorrow, has any bought a spyder and found living with it a pain due to the roof? I will be using it to go to work twice per week a 30 mile round trip.
https://finder.porsche.com/gb/en-GB/details/porsch...
So, did you buy it? Looks like a well specced example, and I think the red looks greatI am going to look at spyder tomorrow, has any bought a spyder and found living with it a pain due to the roof? I will be using it to go to work twice per week a 30 mile round trip.
https://finder.porsche.com/gb/en-GB/details/porsch...
Manual, extended leather, 18 way seat and leather wheel (I hate Alcantara wheels and shifters) are a must for me.
My only concern is I will put it in the garage until april, in which case I would wait till next year.
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