Some bad news: Yesterday, when I wanted to drive with my family to a restaurant, the tire pressure monitoring system (oh I love it) showed a 0.6 bar pressure drop in the driver side rear tire. I couldn't see a thing, so I drove to the next fuel station and indeed, the tire pressure was 0.4 bar under the tire pressure of the other tires. So I rolled my PTS back and forth until I found the culprit: A thick metal pin was sticking out of the tire, unfortunately not in the tread pattern section but where there is no tread pattern, the weakest spot for such damage on a tire.
Since it was Saturday afternoon, I wasn't able to contact my dealer and/or any tire shop, which leaves the PTS in the garage this weekend, bummer.
Tomorrow (Monday), I need to get a new Pirelli PZero 295/35 ZR 20 105Y N0 tire and I don't have a clue where I can find it. The first choice would be my dealer but the guy responsible for acquiring parts, messed up things twice lately, when I ordered a black Panamera Turbo S lettering for the rear two(!) weeks ago and two Porsche trolleys last Monday and none of these items, despite his(parts guy) assurances, showed up yet. Dammit.
There are a couple of online shops for tires available in Germany and some even the tire in stock but it takes them 1-3 days to deliver (no express service, which is quite idiotic because tires are usually needed urgently) and I need the tire latest Tuesday 12 pm for various reasons.
So tomorrow will be a very "interesting" (in a very negative sense) day for me because I need to find that tire somewhere and I have to pick it up personally to make sure I get it in time. I'm already looking forward (not really) to drive to Zuffenhausen (Porsche should have the tire available...somewhere ), a 5 hour drive (both ways) because I can't drive too fast because of the punctured tire. Or I just pick it up with my other car but it would save me a lot of time if they could already mount it at the spot.
I just realized that this is one of the weakest points of the whole Porsche (and other manufacturers too) service chain in Germany: Tire availability and emergency mounting. There is a 24h/7 days a week service in Munich, they charge an additional 150 EUR for this service but not surprising at all, they don't have this particular tire in stock.
Somehow I get the feeling that tomorrow and Tuesday will be very exciting days for me, I already switched to battle/achievement mode.
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Porsche Panamera Turbo S, BMW X5M, Mercedes C63 AMG Coupe PP/DP, Mini Cooper S Countryman All4