Hi all,
I ordered my Cayman S in February and it sailed the seas over May and June, landing in San Diego June 18th or so. It arrived at the dealer the night of July 3, and I took a Lyft there the next morning to pick it up. Before I signed anything or handed over the check, I first took it for a quick test drive. Something seemed off, and when I let go of the wheel on a straight road, the car veered strongly to the left while the steering wheel was clocked to the right. Ack! I told them I'm not going to take it until it is correct working order; the sales dude tried to get me to pay for it and schedule a service to get it fixed, but I refused. Since I was going out of town the following day for a week, I had to schedule the next attempt at a pick up for the next weekend, and then I had Lyft back home. When I returned, the car was properly aligned; it seemed 3 of the wheels were out of spec, perhaps the result of being tied down too tightly on the truck from San Diego to here. The dealer hypothesized that the skeleton crew on July 4th did not do a test drive inspection that would have found the error. Looks like Porsche needs a more thorough receipt-at-dealer inspection check list.
The car is a manual Cayman S in Rhodium Silver with a Graphite Blue full leather interior. I added SPASM, PTV, PSE, navigation, Bose, auto climate, power seats, standard wheels, painted side intakes, footwell net, & smoking package.
I haven't had the chance to drive it much, so as of this morning it had only 215 miles. Keeping it under 4000 rpm for 2000 miles is terribly frustrating (my salesman said that Porsche runs the engines in prior to installation so there's no need to baby it, but I've never heard that, and the manual says there is a break-in period, which is what I'm following). I really impressed by the PASM suspension - it is quite smooth on highways, but gets tightened down when the suspension or Sport buttons are pressed.
Just this morning I took it to get 3M film put on the rockers and about mid-way up the side intakes. This is a weekend car that will primarily get used driving up in the mountains. It will supplant my 2008 Miata (which I still have with just 31k miles on it). The Miata has pitting along the rockers from pebbles kicked up by the tires. Since the Cayman will not see many highway miles, I opted not to cover the front. I will be ceramic coating the car myself this weekend.
I will be getting a front license plate mount that fits in the tow hook hole, and probably that T-Design memory module that remembers the settings for the auto start/stop, sport mode, and PSE.
I'm looking forward to driving the mountain roads with a more torquey car (though the Miata was/is still quite a good handling car, especially with aftermarket suspension bits).
I ordered my Cayman S in February and it sailed the seas over May and June, landing in San Diego June 18th or so. It arrived at the dealer the night of July 3, and I took a Lyft there the next morning to pick it up. Before I signed anything or handed over the check, I first took it for a quick test drive. Something seemed off, and when I let go of the wheel on a straight road, the car veered strongly to the left while the steering wheel was clocked to the right. Ack! I told them I'm not going to take it until it is correct working order; the sales dude tried to get me to pay for it and schedule a service to get it fixed, but I refused. Since I was going out of town the following day for a week, I had to schedule the next attempt at a pick up for the next weekend, and then I had Lyft back home. When I returned, the car was properly aligned; it seemed 3 of the wheels were out of spec, perhaps the result of being tied down too tightly on the truck from San Diego to here. The dealer hypothesized that the skeleton crew on July 4th did not do a test drive inspection that would have found the error. Looks like Porsche needs a more thorough receipt-at-dealer inspection check list.
The car is a manual Cayman S in Rhodium Silver with a Graphite Blue full leather interior. I added SPASM, PTV, PSE, navigation, Bose, auto climate, power seats, standard wheels, painted side intakes, footwell net, & smoking package.
I haven't had the chance to drive it much, so as of this morning it had only 215 miles. Keeping it under 4000 rpm for 2000 miles is terribly frustrating (my salesman said that Porsche runs the engines in prior to installation so there's no need to baby it, but I've never heard that, and the manual says there is a break-in period, which is what I'm following). I really impressed by the PASM suspension - it is quite smooth on highways, but gets tightened down when the suspension or Sport buttons are pressed.
Just this morning I took it to get 3M film put on the rockers and about mid-way up the side intakes. This is a weekend car that will primarily get used driving up in the mountains. It will supplant my 2008 Miata (which I still have with just 31k miles on it). The Miata has pitting along the rockers from pebbles kicked up by the tires. Since the Cayman will not see many highway miles, I opted not to cover the front. I will be ceramic coating the car myself this weekend.
I will be getting a front license plate mount that fits in the tow hook hole, and probably that T-Design memory module that remembers the settings for the auto start/stop, sport mode, and PSE.
I'm looking forward to driving the mountain roads with a more torquey car (though the Miata was/is still quite a good handling car, especially with aftermarket suspension bits).
And congratulations on your new 718 Cayman S. Have fun with that lovely car...
