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Old 01-15-2006, 06:56 PM
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The aluminum look front lip should not be the standard configuration, or there should be a factory option to paint it the body color or black. It looks completely out of place on my Cayman Red, IMO.At least it is nottoo prominent.During delivery, my salesman and I discussed the possibility of bringing it back to have it painted to match the body color. I believe that it is a separate piece, hopefully it can be removed and painted separately from the front end.


Don't get me wrong, I love the car in every respect so far. This little item just seems to me to be a design miscue.
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Old 01-15-2006, 08:26 PM
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Yeah, I agree it looks out of place on some colors. It looks fine on silver variants, but especially on red it doesn't look right.
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Old 01-15-2006, 08:34 PM
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I sure do agree with you. I feel the same way about it on my cobalt. I think it looks just fine on all the grays and even the yellow doesn't look bad, but on some of the metalics it doesn't belong. You would think for the extra 3K we paid that it would match the car color?


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Old 01-15-2006, 10:35 PM
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Unbelievably, with a Croc arriving next week, and regularly reading this forum - I've only just noticed this. It's not on the printed options list that my dealer gave me, though I can now see it on the web configurator.

It seems insane not to have the car all the same colour as standard!

How close to Seal Grey is the Aluminium look? Am I going to have my car repainted before I even receive it? Or is this not such a big issue?
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Old 01-15-2006, 11:16 PM
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It will sure look better on your car than ours! I will see what I think once I get the car, but I don't like it in photos.


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Old 01-16-2006, 02:15 AM
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I have looked into this and ordered an extra set of the front lips ($150). I plan on painting mine. There are three screws in each that hold it to the front bumper.
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We may be able to save the $150 and the painting cost if we just generatesome controversyabout this. I plan on leaning on my dealer to get this corrected. If we all do, then perhaps we can gain a little leverage on Porsche to paint it at no charge.


If anyone from Porsche reads this message, I hope that you can understand our perspective. If not, please help us understand yours----> Why on earth would you paint the front lip aluminum/silver (whatever)on any vehicle with an incompatible color? What is the logic?
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We may be able to save the $150 and the painting cost if we just generatesome controversyabout this. I plan on leaning on my dealer to get this corrected. If we all do, then perhaps we can gain a little leverage on Porsche to paint it at no charge.


If anyone from Porsche reads this message, I hope that you can understand our perspective. If not, please help us understand yours----> Why on earth would you paint the front lip aluminum/silver (whatever)on any vehicle with an incompatible color? What is the logic?


I doubt you will ever get Porsche to admit that there are 'incompatible colors', their position will be that you should have known the lip was in silver before you chose the color of your car and that by choosing th color you did you accepted that color combined with a silver lip. Porsche will paint it another color from the factory for a price, but it seems you've found a cheaper alternative post-purchase. If it bothers you that much by all means do something about it, but I'd be very surprised if Porsche admitted to any wrong-doing or wrong colors, etc. Your local dealership may value you as a customer and do it for a reduced price or free just because they want to make you happy, not because PCNA has told them so.


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Old 01-16-2006, 05:00 AM
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I'll be asking my dealer to repaint it at his cost if the match isn't 99% perfect.

I don't know about you Yanks, but us Brits like our cars in just the one colour [img]/fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/MWPX/wink_smile.gif[/img]
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Old 01-16-2006, 05:43 AM
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The lip is a lighter silver than the arctic silver of my Cayman.

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Old 01-16-2006, 06:31 AM
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I think it looks pretty good on my Basalt Black. It matches the trim around the exhaust at the rear!!!

Do you guys not want that in body-colour also? I find it strange that you mind the front lip, but never mention the matching exhaust cut-out trim.

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Old 01-16-2006, 10:04 AM
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I've ordered mine with it colour coded to Olive as I did not like the silver look.
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Old 01-16-2006, 11:33 AM
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>>the matching exhaust cut-out trim

Oh nadgers.

I guess I'll take a good look at the whole thing before I decide to kick up a fuss or not. It's annoying not having something so seemingly important mentioned to me during the sales process though.
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Old 01-16-2006, 11:36 AM
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I tried ordering it but it was not an option from Porsche.
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Old 01-16-2006, 12:47 PM
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