Well, I pulled the trigger..

[super66]

go with the 18's.....you don't want a 17! I have the 18 box s wheels on my 05' I'll post a url to the pic.....btw, I will eventually upgrade to 19" classics....

[super66]

http://986forum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3770

[C5150]

Congrats on the new ride! I can't imagine how hard it will be to wait 'till March. Welcome to the Porsche fam!

- C5150

[Perfectlap]

17" wheels will dent as easily as 18" wheels, both are cast alloys and well...they dent that's what they do in NYC. On ride quality its more to do with weight.
18" Carrera five spokes are 21 pounds nearly 10 pounds lighter at each corner than the stock 18" wheels. 40 pounds of moving weight changes ride quality for sure. But even more pivotal is the weight of the tire. There is more of a diff. with a light tire and heavy wheel than with a light wheel and heavy tire.

Green and Black sounds very nice. I saw a nice 911 in that scheme with polished mesh wheels. Real head turner.
I'm not as crazy abot green and tan, elegant vs. sport I guess.
Green and red would be interesting, saw a Lotus Elise like that once, I think.
p.s.
How much more in this neck of the woods is the 3.4 option?

p.s.s.
ALL P-Cars should have front and rear badges its blasphemy to do othewise.
I think it would be cool if you became the first guy to have a 987 badge on your
Boxster. On dark green I think a silver or gun metal badge would look nice and a silver hood crest up front. Bumperplugs.com sells that stuff and some cool interior mods too. Maybe you could get a green and black thing going like they did with this yellow/black:

[Chills]

Congratulations. Good color choice. Post some pictures when you get it.

[edevlin]

I have wondered about putting a light weight tire on my 18" aftermarket Carrera wheels. Does anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight tire? BTW, my stock 17" wheels with Michellins weigh in at 48 lbs for the rear, my aftermarket Carrera wheels with Falken 512 tires weigh in at 51 lbs.

Ed

[MartinJ]

Nice choices.

I ended up with 19s on my car. It was not my first choice but everthing else on the car was just what I wanted so I bought it.

With the 19s I have found the ride to be firm but not a huge difference from the 18s.

I did run into a pot hole a few weeks ago and lost a tire (expensive for 19s and my reasone for prefering the 18s initially) I was not going fast but it felt like the car had taken a 1 foot drop!. I expected to loose a rim and a tire but I only lost a tire. When I took the wheel off I carefully loooked over the rim and could see no damage I was surprised, I took another look when the new tire was fitted (I don't like to fool around with bad tires or rims) and all was okay, the tire shop could not see any problems either.

So the moral here is as follows:
1. The car looks better with bigger rims!
2. The rims are surprisingly tough so go with what looks good to you.

[SD987]

As a former owner of a 987 base with the OEM 17s, I highly recommend keeping the 18s with your order. Not only are the 17s some of the most aesthetically challenged rims I've ever seen, they're a pain to keep clean, and the ride with the 18s is no worse and arguably better.

Upgrading to the OEM 18s after delivery is also much more expensive then buying them as original equipment. The 18s are very much in demand from other 17 buyers looking to upgrade. In case you were curious, the trade-in value of the 17s is @$100.00, which pretty much illustrates the collective opinion of them. The weights for the two size rims are as follows, and the rotating mass isn't nearly as much as the 19s would be:

Standard 987 17" wheels are 18 - 6 (18lbs 6 oz) on the front, 19 - 13 on the rear.

Standard 987 18" S wheels are 21 - 11 and 22 - 14.