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1 hour ago, nelmo said:
As such, it will age, it will eventually not be able to accept the latest Android OS and you will get apps that start failing
This is what puts me off, I’d be really irritated to spend that money then have to buy a new one in 4-5 years and start again.
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Consider something with hard volume buttons at the very least. Changing using on screen sliders is very difficult while keeping eyes on the road.
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5 minutes ago, RedBarediver said:
clean the roof to get rid of some green mold which has started to grow at the bottom
Milton tablets? I don’t know what they are but people mention them.
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23 minutes ago, iborguk said:
if they turn out to be the same part of part of the same family of part numbers
Partly.
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I like the way you lean on that. "You did it for them, and paid for it, why not for me?"
Don't hesitate also to go to journalists. Companies will often refuse until the story is visible in the national press, then they decide to make an exception from goodwill [sneer].
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Wait, and you're thinking of selling the Boxster for something "a bit more practical"? When you have a Touring and an X5?
Does Not Compute.
Admit it, you're just bored, and want to be talked out of it.
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And ask them for the feasibility and price of swapping an entire unit.
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9 hours ago, Arl30 said:
a bit more practical than the Boxster but every time I go out in the Boxster it gets back under my skin , what else will give me the thrills for the money ?
This place went through a spate of Minis about 2010-2015, lots of people thinking they were a fun hatch. Can probably pick an old one up for a couple of grand now?
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Second car, old Yaris or similar.
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2 minutes ago, Daboy3000 said:
Maybe it will need to be swapped with a whole new(used) unit.
Might be simpler and possibly not too costly.
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@Nobbie do you (still) have this part on yours?
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3 hours ago, Daboy3000 said:
One thing I have noticed about owning a very early car (1996) is they have changed lots of parts, even just a few months in. Eg, Door actuators, roof motor and mechanism, door pull cables and handles. I'm sure there are many more too.
with yours being such an early car, do you have that part, and does it have the same part number?
Long shot - If it is such an early car, would an equivalent 993 part exist?
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9k for more money, 7k for a fast sale. New engine and front suspension is good.
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17 hours ago, BS62 said:
But I haven't spoken to anyone who has done a new for new comparison, interested in hearing if anyone has that experience too.
Various tyre tests available on the web, all will be new for new comparisons. Here you get what they won’t give you; what are they like after 3 years.
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And Danncus suggested looking on ebay for VAG crimp repair terminals 000979227E for a tidy connection to the fusebox.
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OK please can we leave this thread now? I've tried to put relevant info all in one thread here, please continue it there?
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So on the thread about 987 seats linked above, we learned that PIWIS shows the cabin temp sensor has a role to play at least in the 987; it will switch the seat heating off if it thinks cabin temp is over 40degC (!). Cabin temp sensor is part of the aircon unit...
Two stage heating appears to be controlled by pulsing the 4 heating pads, rather than applying to two different sets of pads with different resistance
The 987 handbook (I think? Screenshot posted) actually describes how they work, with limited heating up periods on Level 1 and Level 2 lasting up to 9 and 11 minutes respectively, then the control unit switches to "continuous" phase and drops L2 power to 40% and L1 power to 14%.
Meanwhile @DorsetWurzel posted in a 986 thread how he had retrofitted his:
make sure you get the switches with the plugs and some loom and seats with the plugs to connect onto the seats and part of the wiring loom, 9 apart were brilliant and stripped the drivers side back to the fusebox, I had to make up some of the loom, but the was it.
as for fitting, rake out you old seats, I depinned the red/violet power wire and the 3yellows and one ground from the supplied vehicle seat plug and populated the plug already on my car, you have to remove locking tabs (blue) on the plugs to do this and slide an end cap off to remove the smaller multi plug for the 3 yellow and one brown go to go in.
once you have populated the seat plug you need to run the 3 wires to the switches, you do not have to follow the factory route! This will save you a ton of time. I went literally from under the seat up the side of the tunnel to where the switches are, less than a metre.
you will have two wires left on the switches to connect, blue grey with red dots and a brown, you can connect both your ground and blue grey to the same colour wires in the electric window switches, this will save you a ton of time also. The blue grey is a 1.5v wire, so don’t try and wire it to a 12v supply!
the thin brown that you connected with the yellows, just needs to go to ground. Earth points are under each seat.
this leaves you the red violet, run this down the sill, to the fusebox, and on the top row is an unpopulated fuse space connect your wire there and fit a 25a fuse. Plug everything in and jobs jobbed..
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On 4/21/2024 at 12:29 PM, scorpio63 said:
Can I have some suggestions for replacement rear tyres on my 986 please..
While we all have our opinions about the nuances of different tyre brands, and N ratings etc, remember that various test results will probably be barely relevant on 80 000+ mile suspension components
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20 hours ago, ATM said:
Considering most had suggested you needed a new PDK box, that bill is extremely reasonable.
Hope Happy Days finds someone similar.
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36 minutes ago, M12MTR said:
I've read they changed the manual gearbox from spring 2017..
where did you read that, how reliable is the info?
Could be crucial news that they knew about the problem and fixed it. Or could be internet rumour?!
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If you are 6’2” or over, sit in one first. Some can’t (some can).
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6 minutes ago, DorsetWurzel said:
wired in factory heated seats
Can you post a thread in Technical explaining how you did this? Topic comes up sometimes, few here understand the details. It would be really useful.
Console delete, am I missing something.
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I'm looking at that, and your double USB socket, and wondering if the bottom flat part could have a wireless charger on it, to avoid cables hanging down the dash. Not perfect, you might want to see the phone screen, but I feel it could be used somehow.