craigjam

The Mr12Volt? It needs switched power and the orange fibre optic cable attached, so I think most people either put it under the driver's seat where the phone module goes, or in the frunk where the CD changer & satnav are.

Mr12Volt pretends to be the CD multichanger, so I don't believe you can have both working.

But you can put an SD card in the Mr12Volt and this appears as 5 of the CDs with the last CD changing modes between Bluetooth/USB/AUX - I can't see why you'd still want to use the CD multichanger, and the dash slot still works if you're a nostalgist (like I am).

Highly recommended!

Great stuff although you duplicated some of the photos!

It was pretty easy - I tried to cover the whole roof before it dried out where I started, using a medium sized paintbrush. Sounds very similar to the Protex stuff in that it's very light and inky and soaks right into the roof material.

I also used the Renovo cleaner and waterproofer and I don't think these are any better than the Autoglym I'd been using previously.

Pictures below of before; after 1 coat; after 2 coats - I think it was much brighter for the bottom middle photo so that's misleadingly blue!

I did my blue top with Renovo almost a year ago, it's definitely worth doing and I didn't find it significantly changed the colour.

I'd give you an opinion on how it's held up a year later but feels like the roof has been wet for the last 2 weeks...

1 hour ago, Del_tl1000r said:

New puddle lights fitted.

 

 

Nice! Where from please?

Fitted two new gas struts to the frunk, after getting tired of being bonked on the head every time I opened it.

Wow didn't realise how worn out mine were!

I've just had mine changed at 110,000 miles - drove fine before although reversing uphill was getting painful but wow does the clutch feel different afterwards!

mine's a 987.1 but neither the boot light nor the alarm on leaving things open work.

I stopped worrying about this a while ago, it's a lot easier solution

New clutch at over 110,000 miles - OMG what a difference, I thought the pedal was disconnected afterwards!

I had something similar, the top mount was split.

Is the rubbing wheel still centered in the arch? (or just matching the other side)

Mine were not but I had not noticed!

It's clearly the season for it, I've just done mine with the Renovo set - cleaner, two coats of dark blue reviver and one coat of  "ultra proofer" just gone on.

It's a much richer blue colour now and the round marks have nearly gone.

Doesn't this not kick in until January next year? Just this week I got a quote 70 quid cheaper as a new customer than a renewal...

indeed, the main beam gives higher illumination but it's definitely no brighter than the nighteyes!

it's really hard to evaluate unless you just change 1 bulb, I was actually pretty impressed with the 987 lights - they're much better than my Giulietta and I don't drive much at night.

I just thought I'd try  LED bulbs as they're so easy to change but immediately after changing I was driving in heavy rain and they were terrible, I thought I'd fitted the bulbs incorrectly!

fwiw I passed my MOT last month with Nighteye H7 LED bulbs

short journeys do sound like they could be a problem - the previous owner was doing 8k a year, but I've done 10k in 3 years, with an increasing amount of that being 4 miles to the supermarket and 4 miles back, although mixed in with some much longer drives.

I'm not changing my holiday plans, its just which car to take - and it's my Alfa Giulietta's turn for a service on Monday!

nah I am joking, my friends own zero porsches 😁

It's my first Porsche/flat 6 so the racket the engine makes is hard to quantify - my friends: "that sounds broken" 😁

Picked the car up yesterday.... large bill

What they said was the oil in the sump was "sludgy" and on inspection had metal fragments in it - but when they checked the oil filter (and fuel filter?) there was no metal.

The previous oil change & minor service 2 years ago was done at a different specialist and I don't know how thorough they are.

They suggest to carry on driving (I don't track it or anything like that) and take a closer look next year when I planned to get the clutch changed.

Sooo... road trip to the South of France or not?

I think they said it was fragments, need to get some more info next week.

I guess I'm cheered a bit by the fact that no one has said it's an inevitable write-off (so far) but my drive down to Italy over the summer looks like it's going to be in a different car now. ☹️

The bright side is it passed the MOT with no advisories?

It's always been serviced to the schedule, but no more than that - OPC for the first 12 years and then specialists.

oh, too easy!

61689282, which should be the later larger bearing, and unlikely to be the problem?

Took my 987 in for the major service and MOT today not expecting any problems - drives great, doesn't use any oil, clutch is still fine.

However, the garage, who are Porsche specialists, called back to tell me that amongst a load of other standard maintenance stuff they'd found some metal in the oil - was last changed in 2019 about 8,000 miles ago.

This was a bit of a shock -  it's a 2006 2.7, and already on 106,000 miles which I thought was going to be a pretty safe bet given all the known problems (although I don't know the engine number). I haven't had a chance to speak to them in detail yet, but they were suggesting that given there don't seem to be any engine problems I shouldn't do anything immediately - drive it a bit and check the oil again I guess?

Any thoughts on what this might be and the best way to move forward?

that looks good!

but which model is it, because it doesn't seem to match any of the online pictures?

They all have the two ugly card slots in the top right, but yours does not!

987 is completely different!

Lots of videos on YouTube (like below), but they all make the step of separating the door card clips a lot easier than I found it!