Porsche 911 991.2 one year ownership update 

I feel exactly the same about my 991.2 Carrera and, like you, I drive it every single day.........1000 miles per month! I’ve been driving Porsches for close to 40 years and they have always been my everyday driver........just how they were meant to be. I don’t collect cars, I get my enjoyment by being behind the wheel. I think Dr. Porsche would agree, as well. Great video, Nick.

I really like your configuration Nick, it’s just a beautiful car.

I have to say your choice of wheels is spot on. Wasn't a fan at first, but certainly grew on me. They look excellent.

This is hot. I adore update vids. I screamed when I saw the notification.

Another great clip, thanks Nick. It always boggles my mind when people rave about PDK being faster as being the reason to eschew the joy that comes from manual shifting and doing your own rev matching and heel toe braking. The 911 is all about the driving experience. PDK is for racing (because, yes, it's faster), for daily driving in heavy city traffic, and for those who can't stick shift. And grannies. For the driver, it's manual. Every single time! And hi from NZ - it's warm and sunny here, but with another ex-tropical cyclone bearing down on us!

Hi Nick, a fellow Kiwi “down under” in Auckland. I have just discovered your channel and love it! It’s great to see a Kiwi producing good car content; keep it up mate.

This is so weird, just the other day I was searching for a 1 year video review of your car and now here it is! Glad to hear the car is holding up well and I think it's great that you drive it all year round and not afraid to play it in the snow, sleet and rain. Please continue to review this beautiful car.

Gives advice on how to avoid wearing the bolsters, travels with the dogs in it LOL. Thanks for the update Nick glad this one has been a positive experience :)

Passionate about the 911. Love it.

Aggressive slide at the end, you are a real child, keep it up and glad you are enjoying it.

I promise not to make fun of your accent Nick. I'll wait "thirdeen" months before I do it again.

Nice car especially such a down to earth chap who loves his dogs. Thanks for sharing mate.

Long live the manual. I had the PDK in my 991, and made sure my next 911 was a manual 100%. I do most of my driving on fun B roads, so there was only one option for me.

I will never get over how scared I was for your car when it started rolling down your driveway on its own. Just crazy. Stuff of nightmares

The rear wiper DOES NOT add 25 horse power! It adds 24.

I gave my wife a wonderbra and I am also happy with it Nick, nice you made a video again, missed you. Still the most symphatic guy on youtube! Greetz

I really enjoy the fact that you let your dogs in your car, and actually use it like it were a camry...good stuff.

Always great to watch a video made by a down to earth guy who loves so much his car and shares his opinions in an easy way to understand.

Great video, great build on that car. , A note on the 4 ways. I had them in my 2016 911 GTS and they were the reason I traded in. I should have sampled before ordering. I could not get my knees supported enough, back pain did me in. Im 6'1 and wish I would have ordered the 14s or 18s.

Love the dark blue. I can’t afford new Porsche so i get what I can when I can. So my Porsche are: a 2016 maroon Cayenne (the first one that led me to eventually owning 3 Porsche), a 2008 blue Boxster, and. a 2013 white 911. Always got comments about the color of the Cayenne, I don’t see many of this color. The white is nice and clean but, absolutely love the triple blues Boxster, blue exterior, blue top, and blue interior.

I just purchased a 2018 Targa 4 GTS so I will be looking for the turbo thing... great idea regarding the seat covers. I have two Frenchies who are eager to go for a ride and I've been a bit worried about them stepping on stuff and leaving scuff marks.

Nick thanks for this insightful and clear review. You’re being ever more concise as a presenter, which means more value for the viewer!

Your Canon G7X needs a haircut asap

I've got a 10 year old BMW 650 that still runs great, but every time I see your Porsche I want one.

There's never enough power! Kidding - but love the channel. I have a 991.2 Carreras Base I just got tuned and absolutely love it! Kepe up the good work, sir!

Nick- you sound a lot better. Love the car the way it's configured.

Nick, I enjoy your videos very much. My Night Blue 2018 4S with the manual is almost identical to yours except that I have the full leather in chalk and do not have rear wheel steer. Agree with everything you say about these lovely cars.Your comments on the various 911 variants (in your other video) was spot on. My car is 6 months old and like yours, trouble free. Keep up with the very informative and funny videos.

So refreshing seeing such a classy spec for a modern 911. Good job Nick!

Nick: the reason the seats in your previous 911 were stiff was the ventilation, if you see the seat without the seat covers, the foam involved with the ventilation mechanism is much stiffer to support the air channels. I had a ventilated 14 way seat in a 718 Boxster S, which a professional upholstery shop converted to non ventilated with new foam: stiffness problem solved. My current 2017 911 C4 has 14 way non ventilated seats and they are very comfortable. The 18 way seats are great because they are more supportive and adjustable, but are stiff if ventilated. I choose to experience consistent seating comfort rather than persistent discomfort with the opportunity for occasional ventilation.

Love the look of your chosen alloys when they start to spin quickly!

I sure miss this beauty... No not you Nick the 911..

It's been only an year since you bought the 991.2? It feels like three years to me! I really enjoy watching your videos and love the options you chose for the 911. Please keep up the good work.

time flies, can't believe that's been a year already. Great car and spec

Nick. I enjoy your channel. I've watched many of your videos and I've learned lots from them.I enjoy owning a '14 C4S and will keep watching. Thanks for the effort and keep up the great work.

“Touch wood”?! @ 01.02’: That’s a steering wheel you still have to order, Nick haha! Great video, again. Grrrreetings from The Netherlands, Irwin

@Nick Finally, after a couple of years watching your videos I am now a Porsche owner (a gorgeous 997 C4S). However despite your many reminders it was only after getting my new car home that I realised it was missing the most crucial option: the rear wiper. I live in the UK. ARSE!

My heart stopped, with the runaway 911 bit. LOL This was a great update. Fully agree on enjoying it as a daily driver. Great vid. Totally subscribing.

Also love the rear wiper. Picked up mine CPO and found exactly every option I wanted but that.

Funny, I thought you had the car longer than a year (longer than 13 months). I love seeing it in the snow. Sooooo hot! Heidi

Love cloth seats! So much more comfortable than leather.

Wtf.... I’m driving the GTS today, I will give you an update ASAP. I like to drive it hard but over 6.000 rpm is not very common. We’ll see how it handles today at 6k rpm. I am very surprised to hear about the issue. Thanks nick!

Good video, Nick! BTW, I wound up buying the 2019 Carmine 718 GTS. Only problem, there’s a halt on releasing 718’s....I got the call yesterday from the dealer. Porsche said there are two updates to do...1) Radio software update, and 2) Front end crossmembers needs strengthening, probably more rivets. Apparently the front end is needing this in case of frontal impact. But, I traded my 2002 996 TT X50, and my 2016 Mercedes S-550, and they cut me a check for $3K in return. I wasn’t driving the big ole Merc anyway.

Always a great watch, thanks for the videos Nick

Happy coincidence...was wearing my "Solid 5/10" shirt and about 11 mins in listening to Nick talk about options on his car that cost more than my entire Porsche, I noticed we had same shirt on. This must be a sign, I'll be famous soon.

YES! I am a rear wiper fellow myself. Touche.

Manual Tran RULES!!!! FUN, is always number 1, Good for you!! Convertible (MX5 owner) is also king for me, but I'm in CA so year round blue sky's is also nice!

I copied your color combo in a base carrera. Also with a stick. Great so far. My after market mods so far are a short shifter from Porsche (great change.) Also changed break pads to ceramic pads. Ordered from Breakworld. Breaking is great without break dust. Thanks for the inspiration.

Awesome, Thank you for sharing. You forgot to mention that insane hood dent you got. Was glad to see the clear bra saved you some trouble there as well. Love the options you chose as well. looking forward to you losing more races in the year to come.

I just bought a 991.2 Carrera S and it is also my daily driver, I have fun driving to and from work. I am however tuning it to well over 500hp. Had an18 wheeler run into me on my second week of ownership, minor damage but still sucked because the car was perfect and only had 17k miles. Any new 911 owners drop me a line !

Hi Nick great easy watching video.. Hasn’t time passed quickly. Mine is now 26 months old manual Carrera love it.. Only concern I’ve had is smoke on start up,dealer has replaced the oil separator recently ps only 9125 miles.. It happened again yesterday 😩.. Quite a bit as well.. Going to leave for a week may be two as we to are have snow here in the 🇬🇧.. Porsche by the way have been great.. Keep them videos coming Nick

That was an enjoyable video to watch Nick. That was a fast 13 months. I think if I had to pick my favorite feature of your car is the light blue interior color. It's unique and very striking. I'm surprised more Porsche owners don't have this spec. black on black is so popular but black on black has a tendency to be boring on boring. lol.......stay warm out there in CT. (Mike in Ohio)

Not my cup of tea, but I am glad to see that you drive it all the time and not treat it like a fragile egg. Props for getting the manual, too! The only way to go.

Oooh, I completely took out a neighbors mail box once doing a similar maneuver in my brand new, one week old, 911SC many years ago. I also took out the passenger-side rear fender... But of course there was no such thing as a C4S back then. LOL

Hello Nick... Like your Porsche videos... so much so I’ve ordered a Porsche like yours, well similar, mines got a soft top which makes it loads better! Keep up the Porsche vids.

I don’t get the point of having a manual gear box that does auto rev matching. To me it should be either PDK or full manual, otherwise the auto rev matching spoils the fun of manually matching revs and honestly to me it sounds like cheating a bit... I used to be a manual gear box guy but after trying the PDK I changed my mind and my last Porsche has got a PDK. But hey, luckily not everyone has my taste, otherwise there would be too many people around my girl... Beside, that’s a fantastic 911 and you are a great guy, I never miss one of your videos! Please keep us smiling Nick, you are doing a great job! :-)

Great looking interior. Good to see you use it as a daily.

Awesome choice, Nick. Your car looks great!

Yuk, snow. No chance of that in Oz at present. Way hot. Have you seen the movie Pork Pie. It's from NZ. Three people drive a turbo mini from the north island to Invercargill in the South. Chased by Police. Two stars of shorty st, make an appearance. Funny.

How comfortable do you find the 911 991.2 for longer distance cross country driving? Have you or would you feel good about doing a 2000 road trip in the car at maybe 400 miles a day for 5 days straight? Would the 18 way seats make all the difference for that or would the 4 way or 14 way you mention in various vids be just as comfortable say for average sized drivers? Thanks. Love the videos.

I have the 18-way power seats in my Porsche Cayenne; my only complaint is that they don't have a massage function. So I had to buy a massaging pad separately--it's essential for long drives.

you have 2 dogs?

Love your C4S and channel - great update

Got a GTS on order - will know soon I suppose what the turbo issue is about - thanks for pointing out Nick

And of course the passenger-seat dog option. Looking good. Drive like a Kiwi!

Don't worry about the ventilated seats nick, they don't work. At least in my '17 C300 😐

I've got a 2018 GTS - no issues thus far (only had it for 2 months/4500km). I'll keep an eye on it though..

Love the roar away at the end

Another great video Nick.Keep them coming.x

Hey Nick great video I would kind of like to see you do a video comparing some pros and cons of your 911 compared to your M4 thanks man keep up the good work

Nick, car looks and drives amazing, love your config. It will certainly hold up while under warranty, thats no surprise. Once it is out of warranty? Faahhhgetaboutit. These new cars use so much plastic and one time use pieces it is sickening. I sell at a small Porsche dealer and get to see what my tech is working on, on a daily basis. Porsche in 2018 is not the Porsche of yesteryear and when I see an air cooled 911 next to a 996 and newer, it reminds me for better and for worse how far the company has changed. Dont get me wrong, I probably wouldnt have a job if they still built them the way they used to, but it still saddens me they dont have the vault-like build quality of once upon a time. Just opening the door on the 993 Turbo in the shop the other day (which Rennlist'ers claim has Toyota influenced interior quality compared to G series) gave me chills, and the smell of the rich, real leather...

Let's hope they fix the GTS Turbo issues cause it will likely be the next 992 Carrera S engine .

Coming back watching this laughing at Nick saying "trouble free"!

I'm in the "manual" transmission camp. Unless its my daily car, I always opt for a manual for my sports car if available.

Like for the manual transmission ! Excellent video!

I still have dreams.about nick running to save his car

I love your channel and your videos Nick, but why God why do let your dogs have the run of your car?! They look like lovely dogs but they're DOGS! Claws + dog slobber + leather = my eyes are bleeding. Cringe.

You have my favorite spec 991.2. If and when you prepare to move on to another, I hope I can be in the running to purchase yours. :)

The placement of that voice command button is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Seriously that should be on the steering wheel.

I have been watching you videos and decided I wanted to drive a Porsche 911 to see if this is even in the ball game of cars that I’d buy. I’m usually an all American muscle car kind of guy. I will say after driving the 911 it seemed to be rather impressive. But I was not blown away. I decided to go with a GT4 which I just purchased without test driving. I pretty much bought it based on such good reviews. I guess my question is do u think I will regret this. Btw I’m coming out of a 2017 Roush stage3 which is too fast for me as I am a back swirly road type of guy. I hope I didn’t make a mistake!

Love your dogs, such baby dolls.

I wouldn't recommend putting rubber mats in a car, because in rainy or snowy weather, water will get in your car from your shoes etc. and get under the rubber mat, and then it can't dry off and evaporate because of the rubber, and than you know what happens... You should get carpet mats.

HA HA, the video of Tui running after you while you are running after you car will never get old.

Nick, I really dig your sisters, and sometimes, your content however don't you think it's kinda "sad" that we are here celebrating the fact that a $100k car survived for one year and did 13k miles without a hiccup? What world do we live on where we expect more modest 10, 20, 30k dollar cars to last 10 years and 200k miles and celebrate the fact that much more expensive vehicles lasted double digit miles without problems? Thanks for reading and have a good day.

Dash cams should be in new cars these days with all the tech available, 911 Carrera is the way to go! GT3 and GT2 RS are just too much. I wanna see what the chalk colour is like in person.

I like your spec so much that I copied it and specified my C2 just like yours

Great video as always. Is that you playing the violin, Nick? Man of many talents.

That b roll footage is bomb!

I was just listening to a podcast yesterday with Seinfeld and he was basically saying to take advantage of someone else's stupidity that didn't drive their car, buy it with their low mileage, and go enjoy it and drive the shit out of it. So I think you're doing it right Nick, and more importantly so does Jerry :)

So glad you're just driving the piss outta it.

Hello Nick, I just took delivery of my 2018 991.2 GTS on Friday and will be on the lookout for that turbos issue you mentioned after the break-in period. Thanks for the heads up! By the way, my GTS is as you called it in one of your videos, Darth Vader's car Black on Black on Black... :)

Great channel Nick 👍👍

There’s a sick part of me that wants to see you buy a used MX-5 and compare.

So Nick, the 18 way memory function memorises where the steering wheel is. Us English people don't need such fancy gizmo's because we know it's right in front of us when sitting in the driving seat! ;)

Quirky and great information. Thanks for the effort.

The Chef’s Table into is making me hungry, hungry for some Nick

Nick, If you had an M4 you would not be losing those drag races :) Love the videos

Hi Nick, I always enjoy your videos. Regarding the cloth seats I too prefer their comfort over leather, but getting dog (and other) hairs off of them is so much work. The short needle like dog's hair really get stuck in the fabric. I went back to leather for this main reason. Maybe there are cloth seats out there than don't have this issue but I haven't found them.

Your videos aren't coming up in my subscriptions but I get the notifications.

Great video as always. The dark blue matches your jeans...jacket...tshirt... you're a man who loves his blue!! hehe New camera? I've tested a Sony Alpha 6500 and it still buzzed with an external mic while driving. Is that the case with this camera too? Which one is it exactly. I just purchase a GoPro 4 for driving videos - the only one that doesn't buzz...crazy