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Cayman/Boxster Luggage Sets

Markjp

Markjp

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Has anyone purchased fitted luggage sets for their Cayman or Boxster from Car-Bags.com?

I have been looking at these: https://www.car-bags.com/en/shop/porsche/cayman-boxster/porsche-cayman-boxster-type-718-16-travel-bag-set-detail.html

https://www.car-bags.com/en/shop/porsche/cayman-boxster/porsche-cayman-trolley-bag-wxhxl-33-x-23-x-75-cm-for-rear-trunk-detail.html

They seem a reasonable price and quality.

I have a Cayman on order hopefully to be delivered early May and I have already booked a road trip to the Highlands of Scotland in June, so trying to get prepared.

Mark
 
Specialised luggage sets will always attract a premium and some times aren't the only answer.

We tour in our Boxster with two suitcases (1 in the front and the other in the rear) and then we top this up with a soft bag on top of the suitcase in the front. I guess we could have both cases in the front but I prefer to try to "balance" the load. Plenty of room for clothes to last a 2-3 week trip around Europe and even longer if you use the hotels cleaning services. We even have room to spare around the cases for the smaller items.

The cases are quite light but with trolley wheels but certainly aren't airline quality as they wouldn't stand up to being thrown around by ground staff but study enough for our purposes. We chose them by size rather than style after measuring the front and rear aperture voids. From memory we paid around £30-40 for each case and after 4 years, so far so good!

Look around after measuring the spaces you have and I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised at what is available at you local luggage shop. Our cases are packed away now but if I get a chance I'll try to remember to list the sizes we bought.

 
GrahamW said:
Specialised luggage sets will always attract a premium and some times aren't the only answer.

We tour in our Boxster with two suitcases (1 in the front and the other in the rear) and then we top this up with a soft bag on top of the suitcase in the front. I guess we could have both cases in the front but I prefer to try to "balance" the load. Plenty of room for clothes to last a 2-3 week trip around Europe and even longer if you use the hotels cleaning services. We even have room to spare around the cases for the smaller items.

The cases are quite light but with trolley wheels but certainly aren't airline quality as they wouldn't stand up to being thrown around by ground staff but study enough for our purposes. We chose them by size rather than style after measuring the front and rear aperture voids. From memory we paid around £30-40 for each case and after 4 years, so far so good!

Look around after measuring the spaces you have and I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised at what is available at you local luggage shop. Our cases are packed away now but if I get a chance I'll try to remember to list the sizes we bought.
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GrahamW said:
Specialised luggage sets will always attract a premium and some times aren't the only answer.

We tour in our Boxster with two suitcases (1 in the front and the other in the rear) and then we top this up with a soft bag on top of the suitcase in the front. I guess we could have both cases in the front but I prefer to try to "balance" the load. Plenty of room for clothes to last a 2-3 week trip around Europe and even longer if you use the hotels cleaning services. We even have room to spare around the cases for the smaller items.

The cases are quite light but with trolley wheels but certainly aren't airline quality as they wouldn't stand up to being thrown around by ground staff but study enough for our purposes. We chose them by size rather than style after measuring the front and rear aperture voids. From memory we paid around £30-40 for each case and after 4 years, so far so good!

Look around after measuring the spaces you have and I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised at what is available at you local luggage shop. Our cases are packed away now but if I get a chance I'll try to remember to list the sizes we bought.
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I would concur with Graham. I did very much the same thing when I looked around for luggage. Fitted luggage is at very much a premium whereas cabin luggage is quite different when it comes to cost. Measure up your spaces and do a plan.

Ray

 
Same here we spent 3 weeks in Europe in a 981 Cayman with no problems at all, I did consider fitted luggage but in the end just used what we had which was a large expanding wheeled suitcase in the front made by it which fill most of the front with a couple of small soft bags laptop etc on top plus extra shoes and odd bits in the gaps, in the rear we had a cabin size trolley and a holdall plus camera and small items and a suit carrier on the engine cover, plus you have the two small covered bins beside the engine cover for odds and ends first aid kit etc

 
Agree with the above, there's lots of options without spending big money on a fitted set of luggage. I don't usually use a case at all as soft bags/holdalls come in all shapes and sizes, and we leave spare shoes, boots and coats loose to pack in the spaces around the holdalls. I learned early on not to keep spare bottles of water in the rear as it gets warm from the engine! There's even room left for a few small purchases while away - it's amazing what can be packed in! When we unloaded last time and just put everything in the kitchen I couldn't believe how much stuff the car was capable of carrying!

 
We use Eastpak Transverz bags. The medium is a great fit in the front of a 981. You could fit two, but have one medium and one small, leaving room for other smaller bags. They're very practical as they unzip through the midlle and open up butterfly style, making them easier to pack/find stuff.

 
I have a large wheeled bag designed for skiiers which happens to fit into the front boot perfectly and allows smaller bags or coats to be put on top. Apart for the bottom it's not rigid and therefore can adjust to the space available. It's easily large enough to hold clothing for a 2 week summer holiday.

 
Just as a little aside to the thread which may or may not be of use to people is: I use for storage in my barn and garage plastic boxes. These come in differing sizes with many which fit the front and rear compartments. I use them in the car for carrying plants and DIY bits when I have been to the garden centre or B&Q. You dont want a pot of paint or liquid spilling in the car. I also use one if I have gone out for the day on a walk and they take muddy boots and wet gear.

Ray

 
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I think I will wait until I get my Cayman in early May and then work out what will fit.

Hopefully I will have about 6 weeks till my first road trip to sort out what to purchase.

Mark

 
GrahamW said:
Our cases are packed away now but if I get a chance I'll try to remember to list the sizes we bought.
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Just measured the cases, dimensions are : L64cmxW41cmxD22cm. They each both fit flat in both the front and rear trunks. As previously mentioned the front trunk will also take a large soft bag on top of the case. Hope this helps.

After your trip to the Highlands why not try some sunnier and equally superb empty roads in Spain. Great tarmac (I think the EC entire road funds were spent here laying fresh and grippy tarmac) wide sweeping bends and welcoming people. Stay away from the tourist beach areas and I guarantee you'll have a great time.

 
one thing I love about our 981 is the boots space ….

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we use two samsonite cabin-size bags - both fit in the front trunk comfortably, with room to spare and back free for what we need along the way or small bags. had them for years and years and just keep on going - and they are cabin size.

like grahamw says above, you can travel for weeks on those bags if you use hotel cleaning service - I've been all around the far east on business for a month with the one cabin size bag no problem.

 
I’ll add to the comments about fitted luggage...i was following another forums thread about custom made luggage for both the front & rear boots....provided all the measurements and got prices...then realised that luggage that used every scrap of space was useless if I actually wanted to use it as carry on luggage as it was up be wrong shape and would too big.

I ended up going with the carry on sized soft bags from https://www.montrosebag.com/product/cabin-bag/ The have enough colours to match most cars (although I’m boring and went for good old black) they fit well with some space left over and are surprisingly roomy and practical.

If you are looking for custom bags, Montrose will also produce bespoke luggage if you provide them the measurements.

 
To add my tuppence worth. The Cayman has a surprisingly large amount of storage space and you can get 2 cabin bag size cases in the front and one in the rear plus have room for small laptop bags and handbags and coats/jackets

The 3 cases will give you 30kg worth of baggage which is more than enough for 2 weeks away even by my wife's standards!!!!

UPDATE: 20th March

Coincidentally my wife bought a new case today and it fits perfectly in the front, dimensions as in the attached

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This is a rather late addition to an existing thread. I have newly acquired 2014 Boxster S and my thoughts are turning to doing some touring. With that in mind I need some luggage so my plan was to get a bag/s that best fitted into the 'frunk' to maximise the usable space. I also wanted to get some decent quality bags that were akin to Porsche quality. Did a fair bit of looking around on the 'net' and finally clicked the buy button.

Today I received a Samsonite Paradiver light Duffel bag (61cm) which drops into place perfectly. If you don't fill this bag to the max you can probably drop 2 in to fill the space nicely. Nice quality bag with good features.

I would add that I have no financial interest in Samsonite!

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We have never been able to travel light. Our other car is a LR Discovery 4 and we’ve managed to fill that going away for a week. Just the two of us. But we have also been away many times in a Boxster and have found that the combination of two large soft bags together with two smaller bags (old style airline bags) which just fit into the front boot. This works very well, clothes in the large bag (one each) and then toiletries, chargers, and other heavy things in the small bags. the rear boot can take hiking boots, rucksacks, swimming gear, camera gear and all the other stuff you might need touring Scotland or elsewhere. Big coats go behind the seats. When you get where you are staying the bags in the front go into the hotel. Rest of the stuff stays in the rear for day trips.

 
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