DetroitStyle
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...don't make it home from the dealership
From another forum that I read... posted on 7/17:
thought that was the end of his problems... then he posted this the next day:
and this morning:
pictured next to his other car... Porsche 993
From another forum that I read... posted on 7/17:
Went out for a Porsche GT3 RS....Then realized I couldn't afford one so I bought the closest thing I could find under $50,000. I had been waiting for a Boss Laguna Seca since February as I put a deposit down on one at a local dealership.
CJPA's dealership happened to have one that the previous buyer couldn't manage to secure financing for so he nicely forwarded it to me. Since my patience with cars runs thin, a day later, I had a deposit on the car and two tickets to Phoenix, AZ, picking up #234 of 750 Laguna Secas being built this year.
So here are the pics:
The evening I picked her up!
We headed out towards Flagstaff which was a beautiful drive. Lots of elevation changes and gorgeous scenery.
We headed on through New Mexico and ended up sleeping in Amarillo, TX. I think some of these photographs got mixed up and once you get in the desert outside of Flagstaff, it all looked very similar until you hit TX. I began to forgot what green looked like.
Once we hit Oklahoma City, I was noticing some strange cutting out of the stereo for a second or two at a time but disregarded it. We had hit some rough road and all of a sudden, the car loses ALL POWER for 5 seconds. I start to pull over and then it lurches back to life. I'm shaking and confused.
We continue on, probably stupidly, and it happens 4 more times. We are in the middle of literally NOWHERE between OKC and Tulsa. Fiancee calls a local dealership who squeezes us in at the end of the day.
We make it to the parking lot, go in, they ask me to pull the car into the shop. I start it up, runs for 4 seconds, and the car dies totally. Talk about lucky.
Turns out I had a bad cell in the battery from the factory. Alternator checked out clean but the battery failed. New battery in and we carry on, albeit still shaken. We were 1000 miles into a 2400 mile trip in a brand new car and were starting to wonder how the hell we would get it home if it were something worse.
We stopped in Rolla, MO the second night and ended up getting some room with a huge hot tub in the corner of the room by the bed.
**edited out a whole bunch of boring details about the rest of the ride home**
blah blah blah
thought that was the end of his problems... then he posted this the next day:
and this morning:
pictured next to his other car... Porsche 993
