The 991.1 GTS went into Paragon for a service, MOT and an investigation of some minor issues. The driver’s seat belt clip needed two new felt pads on the rear adjacent to the central console, which also required the sticky residue deposited by the old pads to be removed.
I also had a clicking sound from the central console when Start Stop was disengaged, and the parking sensor was going off every now and then when I changed gears using the PDK lever. Paragon investigated the issues, but couldn’t find any faults. Strangely, the car has behaved ever since!
I took the GTS on European Driving Tours’ Italian Lakes and Mountains 13-day trip covering 1,937 (s)miles. We had 14 cars on the tour: 13 Porsche and one Ferrari. The tour kicked off in Laon in France, followed by Offenburg in Germany, then Feldkirch in Austria visiting the Zeppelin Museum on the edge of Lake Constance. We then made our way across to Lake Garda (Desenzano del Garda) for three nights via the Flüela Pass, Lake Como (Gravedona ed Uniti) for two nights and Lake Maggiore (Stresa) for a further two nights. This gave us the opportunity to visit the Mille Miglia Musuem and explore each of the lakes by boat, visiting other nearby towns like Sirmione and The Borromean Islands. We also enjoyed the San Marco Pass before moving on to several Swiss passes including the Simplon, Nufenen, Gotthard, Furka (reenacting the scenes from Goldfinger), Grimsel, Brünig and Glaubenbielen, all of which were spectacular fun.
On our penultimate evening we stayed at the Meilenstein Hotel in Langenthal, Switzerland owned by a former F1 driver, which had a fantastic display of F1 cars, classic cars and motorbikes. Our final evening was spent in Laon again, looking back on another epic adventure!
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