I BOUGHT a PORSCHE 911 992 CARRERA S and it's NOT PERFECT...

If you had to choose one car for the rest of your life, one car that you would drive until you die, which one would it be? I think I found mine. I'm so happy to say that this is my 2019 Porsche 911 992.1 Carrera S. It came with quite some sacrifice because I had to sell my M340i and my M3 E92 in to purchase this, but I just had a craving for a 911 for such a long time. As you might know, we've been doing a lot of BMW parts lately, the last two, three years. I really enjoy that part of the business now and I want to expand to Porsche, which is the second reason why I bought this car. But the primary reason, of course, is for me to have fun with it. This is the car I've wanted and I was looking for quite a specific one. I was looking for the right moment to purchase it because, as you might know, this is quite an expensive car. But the appreciation of Porsches is quite unique. They don't really appreciate all that fast and hard. In that sense, they're quite affordable because when you buy it at the right time, you can actually make it sort of affordable. Let's call it that. So I contacted a four-wheel trader, a fantastic YouTube channel. He really analyzes and monitors car values of specials like a 911. And I saw that the curve with the 992.1, I asked him to make one for me. It's not really all that bad. I mean, the depreciation of the 992.1 was like four and a half percent per year annually. So that's really quite good. So for me, the timing was quite specific. I had to go for 2019 one in order for it to be as cheap as possible for me because that's the first year the 992 came out. I was also looking for quite a specific spec. A spec that rarely gets chosen by initial buyers by Porsche. So I wanted to have silver wheels, non-black exterior, non-black interior, preferably silver window trim and no privacy glass. Good luck finding one. And then I came across this one. It met every single demand I had. And it was just a match made in heaven. And it was at a Porsche center in the Netherlands. So I didn't have to import it. So everything and everyone was telling me, just do it. So I did. So a big thanks to Colin Hart. They are a BMW specialist, but they also do quite a lot of Porsches. And they made sure I got a really good price for the M3 Porsche i and for the M3 E92. And they bought it from the Porsche center. And I then traded in my cars with them. But big thanks to Sander especially. He really pulled through and really helped me out. So let's just do a little quick lap around the car. So Aventurine Green, which is sort of a gray green. It might look great to you right now. When the sun hits it, it becomes green. It's a really, really cool color. As I said, no privacy glass, just clear glass, silver exhaust tips. It doesn't have the Carrera S badge on the rear, which I really like. Just 911 with the classic 911 logo, really, really like that. With the 992, you always get the wide body. So you don't have to go for the 4S anymore to get the wide body. This is with every model, even the Carrera. So underneath here, we have the three liter boxer six by turbo engine. So it's a Carrera S, so you get larger turbos. With the Carrera, you get smaller turbos, 450 horsepower. But of course, you can also watch Max's review on this car, on the 2019 992 Carrera S, and you get to know all about it and see what it does. See all the numbers because it's actually really impressive what it does with only 450 horsepower. Little spoiler alert, this doesn't have 450 horsepower. Well, when I bought it, it didn't have 450 horsepower, but I'll explain to you later. So what also enhances that classic feel, I wanted a modern 911, but with a classic feel to it, which is why I went for this spec. The Fuchs wheels really help. It's a 20 inch in the front with a 245 section tire, 21s at the rear with a 305 section tire, so really wide, large tire. I think comfort wise and driving dynamics wise, a 19 and a 20 set would be a little better, but I really like the look of this classic Fuchs wheel and I am keeping them. On the interior, we also have grandpa spec. Well, there's our X5 45e, also a new car, which is also completely grandpa. We really are getting old and you can see it by the taste in our cars. So it's black leather at the top and at the end of the dashboard, combined with Iceland green stitching, wooden trim, aluminium, and then an Iceland green leather interior. The guys at the Porsche center told me that the interior options are €25,000. That's completely bonkers to me, but I think the first owner had the same taste in cars as I do. He's probably 75 years old, but if he's not, contact me. Well, if you are 75 years old, also contact me because I would love to hear the story how you spec this car and how you experienced it and why you sold it. What I don't like about the 992 interior is the sound system. So there's three levels. You have the bass sound system, you have the Bose sound system, and then there's another more expensive one. I have the Bose audio, so the first upgrade. Well, let me tell you, it's not really all that good. I drove home from when I picked it up at Kallenhardt and I thought, well, I'm in my new car, let's enjoy it with a little music. And I came from my M340i and I was so disappointed. I was so disappointed with the audio quality. It's really, really bad. So I contacted a few acquaintances of mine who also own Porsches. For instance, you have Wouter Karse from Autoblog and I know that he has been doing upgrades audio-wise with Klunk audio and they specialize in 911s, specifically the 992, to do like a fourth version, an even better upgrade aftermarket, but with unmatched expertise. So they do all these adaptations to what kind of interior you have. Do you have Alcantara? Do you have leather? What is your seating position even to angle the speakers? It's really, really dedicated. I've seen some of their work and I'm planning to go there to have some stuff done to my little baby right here. Second thing I don't like is the cup holders. So 911s have always had two cup holders, you know, that you could click out of the right side of the interior of the dashboard. So one for the driver, one for the passenger. Now though, with the 992, you get this little insert that you, first you have to get this little cubby out and then you have to insert a cup holder. It seems like something Skoda would have done, you know, with all these little clever accessories. But first of all, where do you leave the stupid thing that you eject? Well, in the glove box and then that's completely full. And what I also don't like is the piano black stuff in the center console. And there's no option to upgrade that. I would have loved that to be wooden as well, but it's always piano black. Whether you have a carbonic interior, whether you have a GT3, a Turbo S, whatever, whatever kind of special edition, it's always stupid, cheap, piano black. What I do really like is the spaciousness of the 992. So I have two kids and a dog and I can take all three of them with me at the same time. So I just put my passenger seat a little forward and then they're two little girls, five and six years old. And they sit really, really comfortably in the 911, which to me really is a dream. And that's why this is such a unique car. It is a sports car. It is a beautiful car. It is a special car, but it's a very, very daily drivable car and actually quite practical. So you might consider this a downside, but mine doesn't have the sports chrono package, which means you don't have the little clock in the dashboard and you don't have a sport plus mode and you don't have the drive mode selector on the steering wheel. You do with a little button on the dashboard, you can enter sport and you can change the suspension, but there's no push to pause button and there's no drive selector. Oh, by the way, did I tell that the interior color is Iceland green? It's a green interior on a green car. It might not look green. It might look a bit beige, but it's actually green. So when I got this, it had done about 77,000 kilometers. I've done 2000 already with it within one month. So the story starts at 76,658 kilometers. I am absolutely over the moon with this. So we wanted to test how does it perform on the Autobahn after having done 77,000 kilometers in six years. Well, it should do 7.9 seconds, 100 to 200, and this is a test I normally typically do when I test second-hand cars to see if they perform as they should. But I already had bought it and then we tested it on the Autobahn and I always had the sense that I could hear the turbo a little too well. And then when we tested it on the Autobahn, it didn't do 7.9, it did like an 8.6. And then I had Max drive the car and he said, no, no, no, that turbo sound is way too loud. You're right. Have it checked. So I phoned up Porsche Center Gelderland, which is the biggest Porsche dealership in the Netherlands and they are quite famous because they have a Porsche Classic Center, they have a Porsche Sonderwunsch or exclusive dealership and they have the Normals dealership. They do a lot of stuff with Porsches. So I phoned them up, I explained like, okay, you should do a 7.9 and it's now doing an 8.6. And I thought they would never take me seriously because the Porsche Center that sold me this car said, yes, it's been Porsche approved. We've checked it on, I don't know how many different levels, but I said, even though there wasn't a check engine light, it is not running the way it should run. And I can hear something. So together with like their technical expert at Porsche Center Gelderland, I did a little test drive. I said, okay, this is what I'm hearing and measuring. What do you think? And within a week they scheduled me in and they had the engine checked. And there actually was a loose clamp from the intercooler to the intake manifold of the car, which is why it had a loss of power, a loss in turbo pressure going into the intake manifold. So I was really happy about that, that was just a minor, minor issue. We are going to do a second test on the Autobahn when we have time, so it should be running well now. We're also going to do modifications on the car, of course, as I said, that's the second reason why I got it. So I already have the Akrapovic black box here, which is the next thing I'm going to do. And as I said, thinking about doing the audio upgrade, but I'll also update you on that. That's also going to be quite special, I think. And when I was at Porsche Centre Gelderland, I already saw a few Porsches that also had the KLANK audio upgrade. So apparently they are also quite familiar with KLANK, so that's going to be really cool. And when I have done those things, the exhaust with new valve controllers to make it as loud as possible without losing warranty and without having any check engine lights and the audio system, I am going to use this as a demo car. So if you own a 992 and you want either one of these upgrades, or maybe the both of them, you can come visit us here at our shop and test drive the car with me. Could you hear that stupid beeping all the time? Hope not. But you can come to the shop if you have a 992 to experience the exhaust, to experience the sound system, see how you like it, and we can do everything for you. Here. One stop shop. That's what it's going to be. So it's going to be an interesting journey. As I said in my intro, I intend to keep it for the rest of my life, really. I think it's just a dream for me, this car, really. It's everything I've always wanted. I mean, I've owned three Ferraris, they didn't really do it for me, and this to me seems like something I will enjoy the rest of my life. Thanks guys. See you at the next video.