Our 1st Carrera, a 2000 Cabriolet

[kts]

Hello, we just found this forum, we just purchased our 1st Carrera Saturday evening.

It is a Black Cabriolet with Savanna Beige leather interior, 6 speed manual, stability management, hifi sound package, power seat package, 18" Sport Classic wheels, I assume those are stock wheels not an option package.

It had 60k miles on it, it has had a open air box done on it and a spoiler put on it, out side of that, I am pretty sure it is all stock, I actually bought this car from a Porsche dealership here. My wife is really happy with it even though she "let" me drive it most all Sunday, I think the keys are now gone for good though <g>, she has said she may want to take it to the track and do a track day of some sort. Nothing serious, just to have some light fun once in a great while. She has done a couple car and motorcycle before

I have a couple questions about a couple things on the car, so I came here to find the answers,

one is to see if I can add the electric hood release to it, this has a manual lever on the door sill, which works fine, but the key fob does have a button marked to open it, I only assume this was an option for 2000 as when you push the button on the fob, the alarm light on the dash will flash. So I am wondering if this can be retro fitted? It would be nice for her to be able to open the trunk so she can put her work computer into it without have to open the car up first, just a convenience thing.

We will also need to do something about the lighter, the lighter will not hold a charging plug, I also noticed the radio has a whine to it when it is running, a pretty good one, it made me wonder if there is a filter that is bad? I may possibly find and put a closed air box back on it, a CAI that has the air filter open inside the engine compartment seems to defeat the purpose of a cold air intake.

I'm going to dig around the forums for a while and get used to the place, just thought I would say hello mention the new to us Porsche

Tom

Edited November 12, 2012 by kts

[Dharn55]

The electric hood and trunk release was not available in 2000 (or at least not stock). A previous owner probably replaced the remote key head with one from a later year that had two functions.

There is a lighter retrofit kit available that changes the lighter from the European size to the IS size, about $20.

Oh, and did I say that no one will believe you have the car without some pictures!

Enjoy!!!

[kts]

The electric hood and trunk release was not available in 2000 (or at least not stock). A previous owner probably replaced the remote key head with one from a later year that had two functions.

There is a lighter retrofit kit available that changes the lighter from the European size to the IS size, about $20.

Oh, and did I say that no one will believe you have the car without some pictures!

Enjoy!!!

Thank you, I'll have to add a couple pictures from the dealer photos where we bought it, we only have one of it we took so far and that was the night we bought, never took the time to take pics yyesterday, had to drive it ya know <grin> the pic in our avatar is one of our car with the spoiler on it the previous owner had added, I’m trying to figure out how to upload a picture now.

Tom

[roadsession]

gorgeous!

[kts]

gorgeous!

thank you, it is at the dealer now, we are having protective film put on it.

Edited November 13, 2012 by kts

[phillipj]

Congrats.. That's a beauty..You are correct about the airbox...

[schmucklefutz]

Congratulations on your purchase-- that is a GREAT looking car.

I hope to be posting a similar thread in the not-too-distant future.

[kts]

Congratulations on your purchase-- that is a GREAT looking car.

I hope to be posting a similar thread in the not-too-distant future.

good luck on your search, and thanks, we really were planning on buying around an '07 '08 and trading her 2011 GT convertible in, but this one was really nice at a dealership here

[jamesanderson84]

The car looks great.

I have a 2000 C4 Cab myself - also my first Porsche.

The 996 does not have such a great rep among Porscheophiles - but as an owner I am very happy with it - reliable, fast, and the parts prices are surprisingly affordable. If you do your own work you can run these "supercars" for less than an everyday car that you take to the dealer for service. The key to being able to do this is Renntech. So you're already at the right place.

Have fun and enjoy it!

[kts]

our 1st road trip in it

we took a trip to fl for some turkey and to see family and friends, about 1500 miles RT. this car was more comfortable than I thought it would be!, some of the roads were aq bit rough in S GA. but the seats were very comfy, and it was not a rough ride like i expected, the seating position was better than our '11 mustang GT we have,

on one tank we hit 22.8 mpg, the lowest we got was 18.7 and that tank was running around Daytona for the turkey rod run, visiting some friends, andfamily, but mostly all highway speeds were 80-85, I can say, highway this car gets 21+mpg, which im pretty happy with!

my grandson thought this car was awesome!~ loves grandma's new car better than her red one (the Mustang GT convertible) it has to be the spoiler as he is only 6, still I got a kick out of it when he saw it!, all in all, i enjoyed the trip in this car, and my wife really enjoyed it and let me do most all the driving (and no I did not get a speeding ticket! woo hoo!!) on the trip the windo started acting up, so I dugg arouund and after asking a question about it, I took the door panel off yuesterday and found a bbroken plastic piece on one of the window regulator cables, my wife ppicked pone up at the dealer on the way home from work last night and I will have ot back together this am, I was pretty impressed they had a part in stock for a 2000 model

the good thing about the window issue is, I get the car today as soon as I get it back together <grin>

I think we are going to enjoy this car, it is fun to drive and overall a very comfortable car for a sports car!

heck might as well add a newer pic <g>

Edited November 27, 2012 by kts