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Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Mon May 20, 2013 9:35 am

douglasgdmw wrote:
Gareth wrote:Thoughts on N rated tyres?
Does it matter?
As Iain says, 'N' rated does not matter. All it means is that Porsche have worked in partnership with the tyre supplier to develop the tyres and optimise for their vehicles and go through testing: http://www.porschemag.com/render.cfm?so ... %20Ratings

Don't know whether your Porsche is new/old but the older it gets the less relevant it is.

George

It's a 2003 C4S

douglasgdmw · Post by **douglasgdmw** » Mon May 20, 2013 9:42 am

Gareth wrote:
douglasgdmw wrote:
Gareth wrote:Thoughts on N rated tyres?
Does it matter?
As Iain says, 'N' rated does not matter. All it means is that Porsche have worked in partnership with the tyre supplier to develop the tyres and optimise for their vehicles and go through testing: http://www.porschemag.com/render.cfm?so ... %20Ratings

Don't know whether your Porsche is new/old but the older it gets the less relevant it is.

George
It's a 2003 C4S

Yep - Porsche will be testing with the 991 (possibly 997) so the N rating is pretty much irrelevant. Have exactly the same with the 964 as there is no way Porsche will be testing tyres for an old vehicle like ours.

George

H8OAG · Post by **H8OAG** » Mon May 20, 2013 12:03 pm

It will understeer like fook.....................irrespective of the tyres you put on it!

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Mon May 20, 2013 12:07 pm

H8OAG wrote:It will understeer like fook.....................irrespective of the tyres you put on it!

....very first bend...

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Mon May 20, 2013 12:07 pm

I think my porsche must be broken.

Did over 800 miles in it this weekend on super fun twisty roads and it just kept going round corners brilliantly without a hint of understeer... Weird.

woody · Post by **woody** » Mon May 20, 2013 12:14 pm

DDtB wrote:I think my porsche must be broken.

Did over 800 miles in it this weekend on super fun twisty roads and it just kept going round corners brilliantly without a hint of understeer... Weird.

As per Facers; you had a pram-wheeled bridgestone shod VX ahead top test the corners for you.

Modena Scotland · Post by **Modena Scotland** » Mon May 20, 2013 12:50 pm

Dave, were you driving fast

I use the Federal trackday tires which are cheap and better than the 888 on the road.

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Mon May 20, 2013 12:58 pm

woody wrote:
DDtB wrote:I think my porsche must be broken.

Did over 800 miles in it this weekend on super fun twisty roads and it just kept going round corners brilliantly without a hint of understeer... Weird.

As per Facers; you had a pram-wheeled bridgestone shod VX ahead top test the corners for you.

Nup, he was leading for a good while too. From my seat the porker did very well this weekend.

Edin430 · Post by **Edin430** » Mon May 20, 2013 6:10 pm

I bought a Cayman 3.4s last year to use as my daily driver and the engine had the dreaded failure noted above. Spotted it almost immediately after buying it. Long story short it was sent back to the purchasing dealer who had it repaired (£8k bill) and then got the Finance company to take it back under DSR's.

That experience along puts me off Porsche's. Spoke to Hartech and Porsche Edinburgh, along with many specialists and it turns out that the failure is actually extremely common.

a4drk · Post by **a4drk** » Wed May 22, 2013 9:55 pm

Cheap Cayenne for sale in the classifieds ........£5250 !

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Wed May 22, 2013 11:47 pm

DDtB wrote:I think my porsche must be broken.

Did over 800 miles in it this weekend on super fun twisty roads and it just kept going round corners brilliantly without a hint of understeer... Weird.

Try going faster

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Thu May 23, 2013 3:18 pm

996 annoyance which I believe is TADTS.
Petrol tank. If empty, put £20 in...doesn't register on gauge or trip.
I have to fill right up for it to work.
Apparently once you use 1/3 of a tank, remaining fuel is an estimate.

H8OAG · Post by **H8OAG** » Thu May 23, 2013 3:39 pm

Gareth wrote:996 annoyance which I believe is TADTS.
Petrol tank. If empty, put £20 in...doesn't register on gauge or trip.
I have to fill right up for it to work.
Apparently once you use 1/3 of a tank, remaining fuel is an estimate.

G

I would replace sender unit
It's an easy job and not to expensive from memory
There is some accuracy issue around the shape of the fuel tank, but it should work more accurately than you are describing

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Thu May 23, 2013 4:13 pm

Gareth wrote:996 annoyance which I believe is TADTS.
Petrol tank. If empty, put £20 in...doesn't register on gauge or trip.
I have to fill right up for it to work.
Apparently once you use 1/3 of a tank, remaining fuel is an estimate.

Apparently that's what's known as a Torry or Weegie fill

It's a saddle shaped tank so needs to be more than half full to register. It's all in the manual btw.

Porsche owners always have their man servant brim it don't you know!!

H8OAG · Post by **H8OAG** » Thu May 23, 2013 5:28 pm

Porsche owners always have their man servant rimming it don't you know!!

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