mike597

 If I was a gambling man I'd guess abs sensor failure. I'm not so I'd want to get a durametric on it though to be sure. 

2 hours ago, scaramanga said:

Out of interest, which LEDs are people using for the dipped beams ?

I’ve heard good things about the Philips Ultinon Pro 9000

 

I've used the Philips and concur they are good. Pricey but quality is good. 

14 minutes ago, EXY said:

As long as you are able to cover it for driving through Belfast that would work a treat 😀 

Am making the assumption your wife (is female and) is considerably more attractive than you, that can't hurt

It's a fair assumption.  I've found being actually fluent rather than stumbling by helps regardless of the gender of the person you're speaking to in France.

I can contrast this with my experiences in the Middle East as I also speak some Arabic. There, you get consistently helped by the locals when they see you're trying to converse in their language.  In France I find the opposite. They either speed up their responses or thet just switch to English.  In the middle east I've found people slow down and almost speak to you like you're a child still learning.  Maybe it's just a cultural difference. 

Anyway off topic as usual. 

2 hours ago, Etienne.sf said:

Being French myself I spend 2 weeks in France every summer. I don’t have a sticker and no GB plate. Never been stopped 😊

I have a feeling, if you were stopped, you'd be able to negotiate. 

My wife is a fluent French speaker (colonial thing).  My French isn't terrible but the more positive response she gets compared to what I get is marked.  

I suppose easiest way to be sure is to whip one off and take a look at the part number stamped on the inside. 

986 wheels 

Never got more than two years out of a, set of falkens so can't say how well they age but have used them for some years on different cars. They seem quite soft to me and wear relatively quickly more so that goodyears but not as quick as hankook... 

Just now, BBB said:

I know you said you wanted to wire behind the fuses, but an alternative thought is simply to push one of these into the empty fuse space from the front. On the 987 the fuse board is hidden by a panel, so the additional wiring is completely hidden. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373244722753

I've used these and they are good and make the job very quick and simple. 

1 hour ago, letsmile said:

Thanks for that - probably me being a little dim, but I thought it was necessary to have two wires (positive and negative) to be able to connect to an RCA plug. In my mind I was thinking I would need to somehow add an RCA plug onto the end of the head unit subwoofer out single wire???? So I was struggling to see how I could do that, or am I missing the point entirely???

The rca connector has both. Its a mono signal carrier. The male pin is the positive and the outer circle is the negative, just like a coaxial cable. 

You should have a loom that connects to the socket c1 and provides you with rca outputs. That is the standard lineout connector. 

Normally sub woofers either take a combined feed (both stereo channels combined to a single subwoofer channel) or separate feeds from both stereo channels to combine them itself. Looks like the head unit is offering a single sub output so combining it for you so you should be able to just use the single line out feed to one of the rca inputs and it will be fine.  Alternatively there are line level outputs for rear and front speakers so you could probably use these instead but that will pass a, full range signal to the subwoofer and it will need to apply the low range filtering.  I'd experiment and see which sounds better. 

3 minutes ago, Daboy3000 said:

They start 20 minutes apart, plenty of time to get home and collect the other. 

That reads like you left one kid alone at home for best part of an hour whilst you were out hooning. Sure that wasn't the case though 😉

Sounds like the window regulator has gone. It's a fairly easy job to swap it out about 1.25 hours at an indy. Use a genuine part if you can. Should be some posts on here if you want to DIY. 

On 3/14/2022 at 8:15 AM, NICTRY said:

Yes I am aware of the temperature’change’ - the new lights are white not blue which is why I went for these ones (from the reviews) but finding anything other than LED that are between 4000 and 5000 (white range) seems to be impossible?

There are halogens advertised as 5000k even 6000k but they basically just use a blue filter so the light output is cr*p.

43 minutes ago, ½cwt said:

If it is registered December 2000, it will be a 2001 model year car.  To double check, the interior light and motion sensor changed from a light that just rocked to switch into 3 positions (Off, door operation and no) to a light with a press switch and included background down lighting.  I changed my 2000 to a 2001 version with no issues other than having to change the plug in connector (cut one off splice on new one and the three wires do not go into the same holes on the plug, two cross over but the loom colours tell you this...) but if yours is a 2001 car this shouldn't be a problem, direct swap.

Up to 2000 version:

Porsche Boxster Interior Roof Light Map Light & Microwave Sensor Mk1 Style. | eBay

2001 onwards:

Porsche Boxster Interior Light & Microwave Sensor MKII MK2 With Single Microswit | eBay

mine was registered march 2000 and has the former, just fyi

nah, can't see that 

1 hour ago, EXY said:

What is still confusing me is how was a 16 year old with no money able to hire what is I assume to be an expensive bike. 

Things maybe work differently on the mainland to over there. I checked the Lime app and you can connect up google pay (or presumably apple pay if you're an iSheep), a credit card or paypal.  Certainly if you're over 13 you can have a google pay account.  Both my kids (12 + 14) have got bank accounts with cards that can be connected up to google pay and my eldest uses it all the time via her phone as it's a darn sign more secure than carrying cash or a card. 

So it's perfectly reasonable to believe a 16 year old in London will have a means to sign up.

15 minutes ago, EXY said:

As I said yesterday, I'm sorry to see this.

However I can see where the company is coming from.

They hired/rented an individual one of their bikes with presumably T&C's presented and accepted.

And here is where the problems start, can a 16 year old accept the hire without leaving a valid Ccard etc. What happens if the bike suffers a total loss, who pays, presumably the last renter? What happens if the hirer causes an Road Trafic Infringement (sorry fek knows what they call fekwittery nowadays) , who's responsible etc.

LIME rented the bike in good faith and the renter left it lying at their ar*e, I am struggling to see how that is the responsibility of LIME and not the renter.

I suspect your best chance of recovery is by pursuing the person responsible for the damage which is the renter/16 year old who walked off and heard it hit your car but kept walking. Is it possible he did it on purpose (fek yer man with the sw*nky Porsche stylee) with the plethora of other bikes falling over. Considering where the bike was abandoned is it safe to assume they live nearby?

I really am sorry to see your car was damaged through absolutely no fault of yours, I hope you get it sorted and it doesn't prevent your enjoyment of it.

I suppose the other way to look at it is to take lime out of the equation entirely.  Imagine a 16 year old riding a his/her bike (or even a borrowed bike for that matter!) hit your car.  Who's responsible for rectifying the damage?  Is it the owner of the bike or the person in charge of it at the time?

In effect the bike is borrowed property so I guess the argument is it's difficult to blame the owner for the actions of the borrower.  This opens up the whole problem with bikes and now electric scooters - the people riding them are very often not insured.

54 minutes ago, Menoporsche said:

I think using all this to destroy their "ethical" reputation on Twitter will be as effective as anything else.  It seems most companies concerned for their reputation monitor Twitter very quickly. #LimeHiding or similar could be a fun trend (#WheresLime even funnier, given it looks like We'reSlime and thus makes everyone giggle at them - stains their brand).  People like green companies but no-one like those who hide and refuse to pay up.

maybe we need a BoXa collective twitter onslaught to start it trending?

2 minutes ago, dpg123 said:

I understand that that is for their operations in Europe, mainly Germany. I sent a pre-action letter to them by email and also forwarded to this address. 

Thanks for the info though!!

It certainly appears that they are doing their level best to hide.  I would definitely flag your concerns as you have suggested to as many political players as you can.  My fear though is that someone further up in the political ladder is getting a regular brown envelope stuffed with cash and will suppress any concerns.

7 hours ago, dpg123 said:

The company is based in US and has no publicly available contact details at all in the UK to submit a small claim to. They have plenty of UK based employees (on LinkedIn) but no way of contact here. Any email goes to the US, zero emails/addresses/phone numbers in the Uk at all. 

Tried 

UK: +44 800 808 5223

? 

7 hours ago, dpg123 said:

The company is based in US and has no publicly available contact details at all in the UK to submit a small claim to. They have plenty of UK based employees (on LinkedIn) but no way of contact here. Any email goes to the US, zero emails/addresses/phone numbers in the Uk at all. 

We generally require that all legal documents be served at the following address: 6^th Floor, South Bank House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, D04 TR29, Ireland.

I would send a formal letter before action.  That gives a fixed time frame for a response.  No response then lodge with small claims court for them to decide.  If sounds like the evidence is pretty clear cut. You can lodge it all online it's pretty simple. 

Of course even if they rule in your favour it doesn't mean they will pay. 

Other option is claim on your insurance and let them persue lime for recovery. However they might not bother and it may go as a, claim against you. 

4 hours ago, Menoporsche said:

"Touring" - and just what the hell does that mean, too?!

2-door shorter Panamera/Taycan with sensible hatch and loadspace, that's what I want to see. 928 for the 21st century. There have been enough renders around.

Taycan cross turismo?  Not 2 door but aiming more at the practical end of the buying spectrum

Incidentally I'm quite partial to a Srixon golf ball which happens to be made by the same firm that makes Falkens

Never used Falkens on the boxster but have used FK510 and FK453 and Eurowinters on the daily for some years and I've found them to be very good all rounders. If you're someone that wants to match all 4 corners, I don't think there's much wrong with a set of Falkens.