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1 hour ago, Davey P said:
Er... am I missing something...? You've used the Boxster once a fortnight, and you will need a car for work once a fortnight.... So, why not keep the Boxster? Simple "man-maths" mate, use 'em to your advantage!
Whatever happens, your car looks like a beauty, so if you do end up selling it I predict it will sell within a couple of days.
Man maths, but its still 3 cars and a motorbike all vying for use once every two weeks sadly.
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Well that was an eventful weekend, with the news that I will only ever be returning to work in the office for half a day every 10-15 days and post August only, so with three cars and a motorbike I am face a realistic consequence of serious downsizing my available transport options, having thought all weekend about the least used at once every fourteen days on average over the last 12 months means sadly the Boxster has to go.....
Pricing (as cabs appear very seasonal is proving elusive for me) its got the sport design kit, a very good spec, some nice upgrades several of which are under 6 months old (new carnewal exhaust, two new rear pzeros, apple car play and plenty of other extras (which i know im not getting back the full value of), plus a whole ton of servic history and bills on her, just over 82k miles, ims, clutch and air condensers done 20k miles ago. FSH with main dealer and specalist.
Trying to find somthing comparable to price against is proving tricky....
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1 hour ago, beaks said:
may I ask the part number for your GT3 master cylinder?
what is the improvement? firmer pedal?
cheers,
Ian B
MUCH firmer pedal, did not need the shove it once did.
PMN166 TRW 99735591030 is what i ordered, 80 euros from Germany, but they no longer ship to the uk, so i had a friend receive it in Germany and post it over as its about £170 here!
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So a better day today (well ish), car finished at the indie, they swallowed the extra bleeding costs etc.
But with fitting quick shift (ebay), bmc filter, gt3 ducts, gt3 master cylinder (pedal is sooooooooo much better), bleeding brakes (1 hour charged only) a faulty roof rod, oil change, new filter and sump gasket, aux belt change, oil etc i didnt get much change from 1100 quid.
The quick shift i have not noticed that much difference... but the gt3 master cylinder was a MASSIVE difference to braking feel.
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1 hour ago, Paul P said:
Sounds odd - wonder if they have got air into the ABS unit and need some diags of some flavour to make the car cycle the ABS valves to allow bleeding - sounds like they have generated a problem to me - and as such - the labour to resolve should be down to them
I am hoping they subscribe to the "we introduced this" thought when it came in fine and had two mcs to use...
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So not the best updates, I dropped the car into my preferred indie specialist just for a yearly check kast Thursday, change plugs, oil, air filter, aux belt and what i thought would be an easy upgrade of changing the MC to the GT3 item.
They called Thursday afternoon to say the new TRW mc must be faulty as they cant bleed the brakes so i need to return it (i purchased it seperately). So asked them to put the std one back on.
Friday comes, the std one is also not bleeding so something wrong with the brakes.. erm they were fine when it came in and you have two mc's to chose from so surely the fault is elsewhere chaps?
Monday came and went, nothing, Tuesdays update is they still cant bleed, so are currently trying to "free off the valves" which are stuck - i have no idea what this means. so were into day 5 tomorrow, not looking forward to this bill! I did also have to point out that they changed the brake fluid last March so presumably had no such issues bleeding the brakes only 350 miles ago.....
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On 4/13/2021 at 9:34 AM, mneil said:
When fitting mine I first used making tape to measure and mark, then using lots of water from and old spray bottle to apply the sticky plate applied to both the bumper and the back of the plate. When totally happy with the placement then work gently from the center outwards whilst holding the plate in position.
Good luck, I think they improve the look/lines of the front no end rather than that after thought of a plate holder😃.
Iwasnt sure if wetting a very sticky plate would work....
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Collected the car from some work. -
refurbished headlights, sanded, relacquered and polished (lacquer was flaking off), also fitted the marcos de snork.
I made a complete ass of fitting the stick on plate, tried so many times to get it straight it no longer wants to stick, have ordered a new one oopsie.
What have YOU done to your 987 today
in 987
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I should have given a bit more info really as you may revise your valuations based on age/miles.
its a 2005 3.2s with Porsche sport design body kit.
82k miles, 6 owners full porsche and indy service history. A whole host of "improvements" and a decent std spec -
Full heated electric leather (on recline not the base)
xenon headlights (recently fully refurbished and re-lacqured)
electric windows and remote locking - with two keys and the little black thing
PASM
PSM
6 speed manual
sport chrono
Air con
19" lobsters on fresh P zero rubber on the rears (lots of life in the fronts)
Had ims, clutch and both air condensers done at 62k miles. (lots of other bills, but felt these were important).
The interesting bits -
Sport design bodykit
upgraded design 911 rear led lights
Porsche GT3 brake master cylinder (bought brand new and fitted at last service 2 months ago - along with aux belt)
Porsche GT3 brake vents
Quick shift kit
Zunsport grills with led dlrs
BMC air filter fitted 2 months ago
Porsche Cad de snorkle
Clear side indicators
Upgraded LED interior lights
Porsche 997.1 wheel retrimmed in stone grey leather (same as interior)
Pioneer apple car play touch screen with reversing camera
upgraded speakers, amp and subwoofer (all expensive items, bills for over a grand worth of audio)
Carnewal GT exhaust (on a 6000 mile exhaust i bought and had fitted in August 2020
Porsche sport twin tail pipes