½cwt

2 minutes ago, Alison said:

So didn’t take seats out, as I don’t have the special wrench...typical of Porsche to be different!

You can use an ordinary 12 point socket on these seat fixing bolts, just don't be too forceful.

42 minutes ago, the baron said:

It always surprises me when the OPC is cheaper and invariably it always is.🤔

The non-smoking ashtray replacement is about £55 and the rubber mat that sits in it is about £6.50 (both incl VAT, beware Design 911 list prices without VAT) from an OPC based on what I paid last year..  You could argue that the salvaged item also has free 'age patina' included as the new item stands out a little in my original 20 year old centre console..

5 hours ago, Deano37 said:

Just got back from picking up newly refurbished wheels. Very pleased with results and all for £140 at City Wheel Refurbishment Birmingham.

Price includes, tyres off, refurbish, chemical strip, shot bast, powder coat with choice of colour, tyres back on and balanced.

Just watch out for uneven paint on the face where the wheel meets the hub.  Needs to be flat or can cause a vibration like a wheel out of balance.

@Ken wight where are you in the country?  Someone with a reader locally might be able to help out.  Go to http://www.BoXa.net/forum/forum/8-technical-questions-amp-answers/ and there is a list of Durametric owners at the top of the postings who are willing to helpout.

Indicating some sort of error code @Richard Hamilton ?

@Menoporsche - FYI 😉

13 hours ago, thanatoid said:

Probably the same people that go to the bank of the Thames as it's nice and natural, then take their musak to share with everyone, disposable BBQ - that happily I see seems to smoke the users mostly... oh what else - oh masses of them with so much furniture they seem to have come in a van....

 

Common sense is not as common as it sounds.  General awareness is not as general as it sounds....

Drove 230 mile round trip to BoXa meet organised by @CAZ in Wiltshire. Fun on the road is in both directions 😁

8 hours ago, Berni29 said:

 

Hello!

Im thinking of ordering some of these. Wonder how hard it would be to wire into the CDR23?

Thanks

Berni

Pretty much the same as they CDR22 I would imagine as they are on standard ICE connectors, one for speakers and one for power etc.  Also make it easy swapping to a different head unit if you ever want to.  I did a head unit then a few months later added the rear speakers.  The main thin is to add an accessible connector in the rear speaker wires so you can still easily remove the storage unit to get to the engine bay.

There are some posts on here of the different speakers that will fit.  Also worth changing the dash speakers but as they have to be small, the choices are limited.  I used 2 different Alpines.

17 hours ago, Cheddar Bob said:

Watch out for the cameras as you enter blighty....UK littered with them. 

Not much difference in France, except warnings on satnavs have to give a 'zone' no the specific position.  Also they are not painted yellow, just grey, black and hidden behind fences in once case I noted!

Loaded it up ready to drive back home from France 🙁

3 hours ago, Buzzlt said:

Really useful to know. One of mine needs doing and I was looking at it and thinking...I wonder !

Glad to know it can be done without removing the whole strut to use spring compressors.

Thanks

Forgot to mention disconnect the roll bar drop link from the roll bar, unless you are in the very lucky minority that the drop link just taps out of the upright nicely.....

19 hours ago, beaks said:

what's the easy way to do it chap?

i need to do mine at some point...

If like the 986, slacken the top nut. Undo the 3 top mount retaining nut, marking your camber position.  Jack up and after removing wheel and slackening the inboard bolt on the bottom coffin arm the whole assembly should drop enough to come out clear of the wheel arch, if not use the spring compressor at this point.  Use spring compressor to take the tension off, finish removing the top nut and hey presto top mount and bump stop all come off.  Reassemble in reverse and particularly remember to torque up the coffin arm inboard bolt with the load on the suspension (either in the air with a jack supporting all the weight of the suspension enough to take the weight off an axle stand or on the ground if you can get underneath OK.) And line up the top mounts with the marks you made with your camber setting.

It is worth stripping and re-greasing the top bearing whilst you are in there at the front and also changing the front top mount, Sachs (OE supplier) are about £50 a pair on eBay without Porsche part numbers (you can see where they have been removed before the final plating process in the factory) on them or £150 each from an OPC.

Re roof protection, it wasn't until my third attempt, over 12 months, with the Autoglym kit that I have got the result I expected. So sealing hoods takes a bit of practice. The fabric (blue) certainly looks a shade or two darker, which it didn't the previous times, and the areas that wear a bit where the hood chaffs when it folds, look less obvious too.

As a tip I did it this time at the same time as washing the whole car making it easier to rings the cleaner and the sealer off the windows and bodywork. 

38 minutes ago, JonSta said:

Please don't propagate the drivel fed to you by your idiotic government and the equally stupid media. Spain is still far safer than the UK.

So a significant part of Europe is ganging up on Spain but not on the UK?  That must be a first! Either that or we spend more money in the rest of Europe the the Spanish and the rest of Europe thinks its worth the risk...

Seems to be we're heading to hell in a hand cart whatever the specific decisions are.

37 minutes ago, JonSta said:

I knew a guy that had a chain of shops and he bought an expensive set of custom graphics for his race car. He got he guy that did the graphics on his shop windows to come and put them on. There's a world of difference between putting vinyl on a flat shop window to putting them it on an Alfa Romeo. Oh dear - what a mess...

Vinyl graphic application on compound curve surfaces is a definite skill and very different from flat surfaces. Easy enough for a DIYer to fekkit up on the flat.

Driven a lap of the full Le Mans circuit, or as close as you can get. Clipped the curbs perfectly on the run from Mulsanne to Indianapolis.

51 minutes ago, Patt said:

Remember to keep your receipt for the tyres.

I think this offer runs until end of August and enables you to get £25 per tyre cash back:

https://car-offers.michelin.co.uk/uk/june-2020

I took a picture of the invoice, added to the site and they are transferring £100 (4x tyres) in the next two week.

 

Had I known this 2 weeks ago..... Make the difference in price between the Michelin premium and the other mainstream brands.

11 hours ago, Mr96er said:

Just stay away from Spain 😬

No problem, well north in the Loire Valley, also away from France's hot spots in Brittany and the north east.... but as they say in these parts, 'Que sera, sera.'

150 miles of exquisite French N and D road driving today 😁

5 hours ago, Berni29 said:

Hi

I think the best matching ones come from the VDO range. I think the 5 bar versions are most appropriate. I wanted to do this but have done the console delete. I would like to find somewhere else to put the oil pressure. 

All the best

Berni

996 dash replacement seems to be your answer. (See 101 projects and threads on various forums), you get voltage and oil pressure gauges at the extremes of the dash that are blanked out on the 986.  You'd need a good friend with PRS 2, PRS3 or PIWIS to reset mileage if the donor wasn't close to your mileage, programme in OBC, cruise etc. as applicable.  With this you don't have to find anywhere to put them.

13 hours ago, John2000 said:

Looking good have a good week I'll miss driving in France this year.

Nice surprise is that they have already rescinded the blanket 80km/h limit change on all roads that were previously 90km/h and raised the limit again on a lot of sections so makes N and D road driving more enjoyable again.  Although I noted that The Netherlands is going down the 90 to 80km/h route later this year.

On 7/25/2020 at 11:14 AM, ½cwt said:

Packed it full and headed to France for a week! 

And unpacked again at this rather nice gite in the north Loire near Le Mans that we've been visiting for a few years now.  Cracking run down the old N138 from Rouen for those Le Mans veterans out there who remember the days before the autoroute was built.

Packed it full and headed to France for a week! 

8 minutes ago, PaulQ said:

Yes..... it was the fuse. 

Knock out! Spot on, new fuse in already and works when tested.

Off to France via mother-in-law's in Kent tomorrow so did a full wash and leather off, brushed, vac'd and used Auto Glym cabrio cleaner and protector on the roof.  Vac'd the interior, checked tyre pressures and took it for a Geocare check at KF as I fitted my new wheels and new tyres in the week.  Also put together my emergency toolkit (see another thread on this) that I will hopefully just unpack again in10 days time.

Have found one fault, the electric adjust on the driver's seat back seems to have failed.  Anyone else experienced this?