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2 hours ago, ATM said:

I saw one one on Ebay recently. How hard can it be to change?

4 hours labour suggests it's relatively involved, rather than just support engine and swap mount. Suspect a fair bit of dismantling is involved to get sufficient access.

After two years of the door trim around side mirror dropping off every handful of door shuts, I've finally ordered a new one from the OPC. They don't make it easy, how many variations of that one part🤔 At least mine is just plain black/grey and costs £7 rather than the £40+ for the leather covered version😳

In my experience, $310 shipped will end up north of £300 once duty, VAT, parcelforce fees and exchange costs are taken into account.

Thanks for the update. Good to know that you can run one of these beasts for not very much money. If my drive wasn't full, I'd be tempted😎

4 minutes ago, Christopher2110 said:

Drained the coolant. Unfortunately missed the poorly placed bucket underneath! 

Doh! ?

Could be worse, could have been 9 litres of dirty engine oil?

1 hour ago, Eddy555 said:

Changed the drivers side windows regulator and it now drops the correct amount when opening the door (Hallelujah) and finally changed the fuel filter. To me it looked to be the original item, so that was worth doing and not too tricky to change thankfully.

Then took her for a razz around the local country lanes to give her a bit of exercise.

Good work, hope you avoided the petrol shower?

5 minutes ago, Monsterlime said:

Yeah, I got the tensioner one done fine and thats how I got the belt off.

That was why I was being cautious and not just hitting it with MOAR POWAR since everything else I'd read said it should be relatively easy to loosen.  I should be able to try (carefully) the impact driver just to loosen it a bit, this afternoon.

The other approach is to use a big power bar to steadily increase the force until it gives rather than yanking it. If the shock treatment of the impact driver has no effect, this should work. Have you been able to reach the nut at the other end of the bolt to apply WD40?

3 hours ago, Monsterlime said:

Thanks!  That is helpful to know!

Anyone got any tips on how to loosen the idler pulley bolt?  I mean, just get it to start loosening.  It will not move at all.  I even put a spanner on it and banged it with a hammer, nothing.  For now, I have left it over night with some WD40 on it to see if it loosen just a bit (I'm not even at the tapping it stage to release the nut etc).

Impact driver? Is there any chance it tightens the wrong way? 

1 hour ago, Shazbot said:

Fitted an indicator relay with audible 'beep' as I kept leaving the indicators on as I couldn't hear it working or properly see the dash tell tale due to driving position and bright light.

Required a small wiring correction using a wired relay socket as the new relay was a CF13 and standard is CF14. Needs the earth and switch feeds swapping over.

Total cost £4.98

Hopefully fewer cars pulling out on me or flashing me from now on ?

I need to do this, the number of times I overtake and then leave the flasher on?. Have you got a link to the new relay?

Took mine for an MOT yesterday and it failed? Corroded exhaust clamps have led to a blowing exhaust which has thrown the Lamda out. Looks like a week of grubbing around under my Boxster getting covered in rust and skinning my knuckles. Oh well, at least the weather is nice?

5 minutes ago, JohnnyUK said:

Swapped out the 16 yr old, 126000 mile rear control arms. Sharp bump rattle has gone! The bolt holding the passenger side to the coffin arm was alarmingly easy to unscrew!

Need to do mine after 142k! Where did you get yours from? We're the old ones obviously perished when you took them off?

1 hour ago, boxtaboy said:

Thanks guys. The closely placed letters started to really bother me after seeing how Porsche spaces them on their newer cars (I put my original set on before they started adding the letters to the 981 Boxster/Cayman). I still think the placement is too wide and too high up on the 981 from the factory, so I copied the spacing and curvature from the first gen Panamera, and put the letters 2" up from the trunk lid which is where the original Boxster emblem was. I thinks it looks well proportioned to the 986 trunk lid.

Looks much better, how much was the 'PORSCHE' lettering?

17 hours ago, Lonewolfgjp said:

Fitted some new ARB bushes today!

Followed the video on here and overall it is quite straightforward but it is a lot more awkward to slide the old bushes towards the wheel than it shows on the video!

Its amazingly tight on space and I was struggling against the cooling duct on the lower arm but I did manage to do it!

I wouldn't say don't change them yourself but allow yourself a bit of time for fliddling about but if you're car is going in for other work I would get them to fit them.

It may of been easier if you had a decent set of drive on ramps, I was on axle stands and would of preferred a bit more height.

I changed the rear ARB bushes last weekend and they are a lot easier to change although I find it hard to believe you can change them without raising the car....

Where did you get the ARB bushes from? Are they standard? How much? I think my rear ones need replacing, but the only ones I can find on EBay are the uprated ones.