My first Porsche, 06 Cayman S

[v9col]

My first Porsche bought a few weeks ago, I've come very close to buying one on a number of occasions but was always put off by the IMS, Bore scoring stories and chickened out.
My wife recently bought herself a little Evoque so I sold the family wagon a BMW 5 series and decided now is the time to take the plunge and fingers crossed not get burned!
I searched for a while and lined up a couple of test drives but had a final trawl on Auto Trader and this had just been listed an hour beforehand, the right colour, spec, mileage etc so after a long chat a deposit was paid and I jumped on a train to Blackpool.
A complete Porsche nut had it and cherished it but he had just bought a 997 Turbo and also had a mint 964 Turbo sitting in his garage! Very knowledgeable and a pleasure to deal with which was great being a private sale.

Only 57k miles and a few owners, 
Sports Chrono, 
19" sport design wheels, 
Xenon's, 
Heated hardback sport seats,
Painted centre console,
BOSE,
Quickshift gearbox,

In the first week I added LED spars to the front which does away with the horrible foglights, wheel spacers to fill the arches out a little and an AWE Tuning exhaust which makes a lovely flat 6 wail!
it will be getting more extensively modified, tastefully though and always reversible! I have a 3rd radiator kit sitting waiting to get fitted along with a low temp thermostat as i intend to do a few trackdays. It desperately needs lowered, then maybe a wheel change etc etc!

 

 

 

 

It drives beautifully, everything is very tight and rattle free. The gearbox is really nice with a very short throw and the handling is superb its very hard to unsettle. It is very responsive but a little flat low down on power but when you hit around 5k revs it takes off and thats where the exhaust really lets itself be known

I'm now looking forward to some long summer drives as I am not far from the best driving roads in the country.

Edited April 19, 2017 by v9col

[Beanoir™]

very nice indeed! congrats! 

 

Third rad can be a good idea, but you have to be driving your car REALLY hard to get the water temp up in the UK in my experience.  I've only ever moved the needle when driving these cars bloody hard, up the side of a mountain in 40c heat, never seen it move on track.  

 

I'd recommend an oil cooler though and t'stat is a good move too

 

 

[Bushman]

Hi V9col. nice buy mate. welcome aboard. is the red centre console standard?

[v9col]

22 hours ago, Bushman said:

Hi V9col. nice buy mate. welcome aboard. is the red centre console standard?

Thanks, yeah it was an optional extra, my friend has a white 58 plate with a painted one too.

[Woodhouse]

Nice car, in the best colour!

 

If you are planning to do track days you might want to consider some oiling system mods as the Gen 1 can be prone to oil starvation and big end failure if driven hard, especially with sticky tyres.   Check out Planet9.com if you haven't already.

[scoobytc]

Looks good, where did you get the LED Spars from out of interest, they look really good

[Andy L]

You can get the Spars from Ebay (link below). I fitted them to my car in February and I'm delighted with the results. Took about 40 minutes in all and in completely reversible. Joe who sells them is a really nice guy and is very helpful. Mine took around 10 days to turn up.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230840969403?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT