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On 6/22/2023 at 11:58 AM, BenM said:

Anyone fitted the Recaro Pole Position seat to their 986 ? How have you found them ?

Also, how did you attach them ?

My research indicates you can use a Planted floor mount, with Recaro sliders and a Recaro side mounts.

Ideally I want to keep the slide function and ability to use existing 3 point seat belts (With potential for harnesses)

 

All experiences and ideas gratefully received !

 

Cheers

Ben 

 

Ben,

I did this during the winter. Very straightforward, I also had heated pads fitted and wired those in.

I went directly to the UK importer, tried the seat at their HQ, brought one, and 996/986 specific fitting kit, fitted it myself. Reasonably straight forward, instructions were a bit difficult to follow, getting certain bits the correct way up (fore/aft bits) but only took a few hours. Then when I decided I liked it, brought the passenger one and did that, much quicker to do obviously. Then spent a few days staring at the wiring looms and working out what did what and then had a go at that. Took me about a day to re wire both and build a small piece to hide the heating controls in the centre armrest/cubby.  Brought both new, cost me more than I paid for the car 7 years ago......but worth it, I love them. I also paid them to remove the white 'RECARO' from the headrest and just have it in recessed black font. I had hard back sports seats in before. Took those out and put in my 996, which had comforts, those now much more comfortable as the can go back a few more inches than they can in a 986.

Next week driving to southern Spain in it, brought them almost specifically for that reason, the others were to uncomfortable to contemplate such a trip.

AaS

I answered in your members rides thread.

Very easy to put the mounts together incorrectly. I think yours are back to front.

I used Recaro mounts and have had no problems (6'0", 32" inside leg).

6 hours ago, edc said:

If you have a facelift car it should have cupholder at the top of the frame section. I'm not aware of any cupholders that fit the cubby holes. The lower one for a start is angled. 

You can buy aftermarket cupholders that fit a single DIN space. Don't. They look cheap and rubbish, avoid. Think I threw in the bin straight from the packaging....

Love the humps!

Welcome aboard.

If anyones got a set (ATM?), in Guards Red, they want rid of, let me know!

Just now, anthonysjb said:

Avoid the M1 back like the plague, M40 a much nicer drive if a little longer!

Thanks, I will, originally from Birmingham and still have family there so go back fairly regularly, ended up coming back on the M1 at Easter after they closed the M40...reminded me to 'avoid'. 

22 minutes ago, Menoporsche said:

Put this in the Meets section.  If you can get up at 5.30 am I'm sure a couple of regulars here will show you some nice roads, back by lunchtime?

...though when you park up back at your meeting hotel / Auntie Mabel's, check there is no plastic phallus stuck to the back of your car before you walk away.

Is this a 'standard Yorkshire greeting'?

Next week I've got a couple of days in Halifax. I will be driving up from Birmingham, staying over and then returning to Surrey. I've probably got quite a bit of spare time for both journeys and time in hand over the two days I'm there.....so a question for those who live in that part of the country or know it well....are there any bits of road, routes that you'd seek out to drive? Is its worth a trip into the Peak District on the way north? Is there a loop into the countryside around Halifax worth going out of my way for? At some stage I'll also go across to Leeds, is there a special way I should go? Most of the journeys will be done during the week/not especially early/late. Will I just get clogged up by traffic and wish I was back on the motorway!! 

Thanks in advance.

On 4/2/2022 at 7:11 PM, Castaway said:

I looked at a few of this type of thing but like you had reservations about hydraulic systems with no manual locks. My hydraulic motorcycle lift (which is pretty basic)  has a steel bar that physically stops it lowering once at height and I’d want a similar failsafe on a car system

It does have mechanical locks, which prevent the car lowering if the hydraulics fail.

I've got a QuickJack, had it since Aug '21 and been hugely impressed.

I was worried about the safety, but it does have mechanical interlocks and I always put axel stands under before I work on the car (belt and braces).  It looks well made and was very simple to put together.  Takes 10 mins, on my own, from being propped up against the wall in the garage, to having the car lifted. Very simple and straight forward. Takes up much less space than the various scissor lifts, which I looked at and were incredibly heavy, think many say they are mobile but, I wasn't sure that they would be in the confines of the garage (I've got a 3 bay and still thought they'd take a whole bay permanently and make the floor space unusable for anything else. Although I have seen others have set them in the floor successfully, which looked good and worked well).

I've also just watched the video, he does things that I never would. I always stand well back, with an escape route if it fails and not somewhere that I could get 'pinned' against by the car, watching how level the car is as it raises.  I always go to the half way point, secure it on the mechanical interlocks, check all-round and check stability and 'the hydraulic system - to test for leaks', I then lift to the top and do the same. I never go straight to the top and never stop in 'no mans land' just holding it on the hydraulics. I'd need to check, but I seem to remember that the instalation manual said not to raise and lower without 'weight' on the system ie a car. Which he talks of doing.

14 hours ago, ½cwt said:

Arctic Silver 92U

Thank you.

I've just ordered a very tired looking salvage boot release mechanism, that I'm aiming to strip for the catches, so that I can repaint them and then retro fit into my 996; any recommendations as to the best match silver paint colour? I have a feint recollection that last time this was mentioned some sort of Mercedes silver was reckoned to be the closest match.

Thanks in advance.

AaS

1 hour ago, Menoporsche said:

Trying to remember who - antjrice? - has done a cost comparison thread for his C4. The 996 cost twice as much but a lot was optional expenditure. 

My 986S cost me £2700 (2016), then the first bill was over £4700, the PPI report (6 weeks after I'd already brought it...) on the C4 is suggesting a bill quite a bit north of that, but that's having 'everything' they mention done, which clearly all won't need doing at the first pass. Suspension refresh will be the most expensive and of course will give the most obvious benefit a lot of the rest will be 'discretionary spend'.  But I went in with my eyes open and wanted a car that I'd had refreshed and I knew exactly what and when it had been done.

I've just been across to the VW website. A new Golf starts at £23,860 (in my mind this figure was going to be £15K!!).  If I can get my C4 finished for less than that, it's a bargain and I get to drive around in a 996. And, with a fair wind and following seas, it'll be many thousands cheaper than that. 

6 minutes ago, the baron said:

Nice, and which do you prefer?

Both! And both very different

I'd had a C2 facelift about 10 years ago, sold it as the horror stories of IMS failure etc finally got to me, then 5 years later brought the 986 (a wreck at the time, which I've nursed back to life, now pretty perfect) which I use for occasional blasts. I'd seen a C4 being used locally as a station car and kept thinking, that'd be good, so picked this one up. Again, lots wrong, needs love, clearly had originally been loved, then I think, fell from grace. 

Intend using as my daily run about and will take a while to set up properly, but, like you, I have a couple of ideas.....

Interestingly I was drawn to a C4 and a Tip, based in Surrey, so driving often a chore, but so far love it! 986 is a manual so I've got that covered.

Great Minds.....did the same about 6-7 weeks ago....

Good luck!

Will look forward to your progress. I kinda started out like that, but then couldn't bring myself to tear it apart and ended up adding it to the stable instead and trying to get it as nice as possible!

As you go it would be great to know the weight of everything you remove- just incase I change my mind, again.

Like your daily. Very smart.

AaS

1 hour ago, ½cwt said:

Did I get the right impression that you DIY sprayed it?  If so what was your process in terms of prep, prime, colour coat(s) and lacquer (if any)?

Shipmate,

Try this, its very possible to do it yourself, but in truth may be cheaper to ask someone else to do it!

Happy to answer any questions.

AaS

13 hours ago, myfirstboxster said:

Orange stitching to match the interior and a mixture of smooth and perforated black leather

Brilliant, thank you and about £150?

59 minutes ago, myfirstboxster said:

Fitted my Royal steering wheel , very pleased with the quality and no big drama to fit it

Before

After

 

Looks good and this is on my list to do.

Can I ask what colours these are, is that black and red? 

Thank you.

Drove it to the sea on my commute instead of my DD, indicated outside air temp as 29-30 deg on the way back; perfect.

Now needs a clean.

AaS

1 hour ago, oVerboost said:

Thank you

Wheels are 911 Carrera 2 lightweight wheels 8x18 ET50 fronts and 10x18 rears ET65 (18mm rear spacers fitted to clear shock/caliper).

Thank you, really does look superb.

AaS

3 hours ago, oVerboost said:

Went out for an early Sunday morning drive to do a photo shoot of a friend's Peugeot 206 for a feature, then decided to stop on the way home and grab one of mine with the new wheels fitted and refurbed in dark anthracite... 

Scrubs up well for an 18 year old car! 

 

This looks fantastic!

Can I ask what wheel, tyre and spacers (if any) sizes you are running, it just looks 'right'.

Thank you.

AaS

DA polished the headlights with compound, then polished and waxed.

Fabsil'd the hood - looks like new again.

When will it get warm enough to paint........I've got a couple of paint jobs and despite having the car garaged I'm not convinced the paint applies or drys correctly until it gets to a steady 12-13 deg. 

AaS

On 07/01/2018 at 7:30 PM, jimbob2911 said:

Where are the pictures ?

Bit rubbish, but you get the idea....

Shut line mismatch is because I always leave the bonnet open on the latch with the trickle charger power lead coming out.

AaS

Father Christmas very kindly left me a DA polisher (thanks Santa for using the link I sent you...), so yesterday (after post Christmas Amazon purchasing - clay bar, hex pads etcetcetc) had a go at cleaning it properly - my first time, well other than old fashioned by hand - I had never 'clayed' before.

Cleaned, clayed, paint restoration stuff, polished and then waxed. Finished at about 1330 today, weather looked good, so took it out and admired all my good work in the mirrors on a circuitous route of A roads around Guildford....

Put it back in the garage, uncovered, until I can clean it again....

clean, drive, repeat......

Think this cleaning lark could get very expensive in 'products' (as if my 'tool buying' habit wasn't expensive enough......)

AaS

22 hours ago, jonogt6 said:

Thanks Stephen and all others who replied, I think I'll remove the bumper over the winter and see if I can get them sorted.

I did mine a few weeks ago. Bumper off, took the grills out, undercoat, 3 top coats of matt black, looks great. Mine an 'S' and the centre grill doesn't seem to come out, so I also had to wrap/mask the whole bumper to do the middle one.

Just one word of warning; it does make them 'disappear' a bit. The car is red and I think it looks better than the grey that they were, but they do somewhat disappear now. 

Great opportunity to clean out the condensers and radiators as well.