comfort access mode 3"lift - standard on new model?

[Fun TC Driving]

Are you sure of this? The AR gives it an increase of 3” (2.2” in the CT).

Have you measured the same point on your seat height without AR activating, then next with AR auto-activated, and finally compared those two measurements with the absolute max seat height at full no matter what you done in combination of max lift AND AR?

Would you please as yours has AR, take those three seat height measurements and post them below so we too can learn? Thank you.

Or maybe quicker/easier would be to set your chassis height to normal, open your door measure seat hieght with you in the car, then using the PCM set chassis heiught to Lfit” and measure that increase difference amount. Again thank you.

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[ze_shark]

I measured my CT4S at a repeatable point (rear side of front wheels).
Taking the low setting as zero reference (absolute delta)
Low: +0
Lowered: +0.6cm
Standard: +2.0cm
Lift: +4.6cm
AR comfort entry: +6.9cm

Setting Active Ride comfort entry and opening the door from the lift level very obviously raises the car by another 2.3cm. Just a smidge less than an inch.

It may or may not matter for the use case (I have come to leave comfort entry off because i have found that it looks sort of show-offy dumb and i like the exercize of getting out from Low, but if one cares or needs the assist due to mobility issues.

Low:

Active Ride Comfort Entry:

 

[Dee]

The best work around is to raise the car just before parking and turn off the power in raised mode. When you get in, the car will still be raised. I have a steep short ramp from the street to my driveway, so I always raise the car before entering the driveway to avoid bottoming. The difference in height is not dramatic, but it does make it easier to get into the car.

I did that once but when I came back to the car it looked so silly.
My car is lowered to give it a more aggressive stance but raised it looks like a normal car, lol.

On the low setting I can get out no problem whatsoever.
Actually I use a special technic.
Press the elbow of your left arm on the B-pillar and simultaneously your right hand on the steering wheel.
When you apply leverage to both arms you'll "throw" yourself out.
It's pretty handy, a Porsche mechanic told me that.
When you're getting older you must find ways to make it look more effortless to get out of the car or you will look like this guy.

 

[anonymouse]

When you apply leverage to both arms you'll "throw" yourself out.
It's pretty handy, a Porsche mechanic told me that.

Haha, that's similar to what I used to do with my J1 Taycan - use both elbows on the pillar and frame....
Not needed now with the Active Ride leaping up!

 

[Crazymind]

Clearly Porsche has in mind elderly and wealthy

 

[Fun TC Driving]

Intersting comments yesterday from my Master SA about AR. He is retiring before I order my next Porsche so has no skin in the game but said to me yesterday, “active ride is the single best option you can order,” adding, “if for budget reasons you need to cut out the interior leather, all carbon fiber, fancy wheels, and similar visual upgrades, cut them all if needed to get AR.”

More perspective to his comments is that he does not ever take his Porsche onto the track.

 

[anonymouse]

“active ride is the single best option you can order,”

I have heard similar from my OPC and from the instructor at a Porsche Experience day.

 

[Fun TC Driving]

Today I built my first configuration with AR. Does bankruptcy loom (not just for Porsche)?

My wife of 56 years says my new, second wife is now the configurator; bet I have built over 100 different ones. Damn good thing Porsche does not even charge $1 per build or my Porsche savings account would be going backwards.

 

[GREATST]

I don’t see the need for that, unless you have mobility problems.

The car is very low. It's a handy feature.

 

[Crazymind]

Never heard of a Ferrari owner wishing their car was sitting higher to get in easier.

 

[69Mach390]

Never heard of a Ferrari owner wishing their car was sitting higher to get in easier.

Never heard of a Ferrari owner daily driving their car.

 

[Crazymind]

If you didn’t…your loss…plenty of Ferrari with over 100k miles..
If you want to stay in the same house… never heard of a 911 owner wishing their car was sitting higher to get in…

 

[prj]

Never heard of a Ferrari owner wishing their car was sitting higher to get in easier.

The AR lift does not become really useful until you're above 1m80 tall, and at 1m75 or less it's actually more comfortable to have it off.
I have a CT with the offroad package and even with that it's noticeably easier to get in and out (I'm 1m87).

That said, the AR lift is just an extra bonus. That's not why you get AR. The handling and comfort of the car is completely transformed. The difference between PASM and PAR is like going from a steel suspension with non-adjustable dampers to PASM. It's another 100% (if not more) better.

It is the single most important option on the facelift car, and one you're using 100% of the time you are driving the car, and it has a huge effect on the driving dynamics. Everything else is optional. I say this as someone who had a fully optioned J1.1 Turbo S with PDCC - it's not even close.

 

[69Mach390]

If you didn’t…your loss…plenty of Ferrari with over 100k miles..

Fact check: no there aren’t.

Just did a nationwide search on car gurus for used Ferraris in the US.

There are currently 1,670 for sale.

Guess how many are over 100,000 miles?

ZERO.

Over 70,000 miles? THREE. And one of those is a 1972. https://www.cargurus.com/search?sou...tion=ASC&sortType=BEST_MATCH&minMileage=70000

I stand by my prior comment.

 

[Crazymind]

Who knows, knows. Maybe I am the only one.

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