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We carry this type of kit in all our cars and have used it twice over the last five years with great success to repair nail/screw straight through the tread slow punctures. Mine also contains a tube of "rubber solution" similar to a bike puncture repair kit. They are only supposed to get you home but...

16 hours ago, iborguk said:

Friendlier on the passenger, as long as you don't aim it at them.

Probably also needs a low profile scissor jack in play to be able to get access/purchase depending where the issue is on the tyre.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/wlw-XtremeAuto-TRIKE-PUNCTURE-REPAIR/dp/B07FW34M8Z/ref=sr_1_7?crid=K1BBXJ5UKSZ6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PxvXwH8RR7_qQOun25CG0qOBcO7MX9MvqHATYX1A4hA511XKj_Xihq9icC3AaKV8J2lGuFHSOVqOrojfkX3xJIEIsTwBtR3_IY01Q5fSMNKMT3BztcNWS0rz5cuzPYL8nWMdWHXiumuXruoEHzhpSHUzkWzWNuoencoxzhC-n2CIzSC2w5u2QGUZxTvqWGFyaVl86Ilk1R3DjxomwU48KoOuexAdpUfVdmOTbwyA4AUja7solgBn4Ul0kEcYo6_cyoURUvNgkX50U_jW5sskWMFXEEaiKPW1CjWn7hzjfoU.syqVOuSGVDXrKH5o9BFCiTn_LcIMuPbjBiXcTk9GXjw&dib_tag=se&keywords=tyre%2Brepair&qid=1709753502&sprefix=tyre%2Brepair%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-7&th=1

You need to try and feel a gen2 2.9 and 3.4 to see what you will be happy driving but your gut has already told you which one to buy. After 220bhp turbo power in a lightweight MX5 you may be frustrated with the lack of torque in the 2.9. (I owned a 2.7 for over two years and it was always a frustration for me). If you buy private a decent gen2 3.4 should just about be in reach with your £18k budget.

As far as lights are concerned, you can buy a 55W Xenon dipped beam conversion kit from HIDs 4 U for £90 that will provide all the nice bright white light you'll ever need. Technically they are illegal but I've had no MOT issues and never been "flashed" when using them. Extras are nice and a "loaded" car of this age not that much more expensive than a basic car. Reversing sensors and wind deflector a must for me but both an easy and relatively cheap retrofit, and what do you really need to enhance the driving experience?

DIY - it's just a car. Access not always great but they are well screwed together and a pleasure to work on. 

987.1 sold last year because although it was a great car, it always felt underpowered and I'd had enough of the blue interior. Swapped to a 987.2S on finding one in great condition, right colour/trim/spec half the milage, quiet engine. Looked at equivalent 981S cars which were all at least 50% more expensive which I didn't think was worth the extra cash for a car that doesn't feel as nimble. 

Very happy with the change but would think again if a Dino 246 GT came up at the right price.

It's a typical 20 year old car with 150k on the clock. It's been used, probably abused and enjoyed. Someone has had their money's worth out of that car.

Nothing special about old Porches to stop them deteriorating and wearing out. Unless of course you park them in a heated garage, don't drive them and spend £3k a year on maintenance to keep them "properly". If this had all been done, the car would only have been worth an extra £5k today if you were lucky. 

But that's just my man maths on car ownership.

On 10/28/2023 at 12:35 PM, Dubdubz said:

My man maths is my well specced 2.7 987.1 (gt silver, cruise, full leather, heated seats PSE, Lobsters, 73K, bose -pioneer Carplay) is worth around £10-11k so another £10k ish should get me a nice 987.2 ie £20k {ish 😉}

I do want a 3.4 and PDK,

Having just done a similar change myself, I can confirm the change is worth it. 

I believe you'd be very lucky though to sell a 73k 987.1 2.7 privately for as much as £10k or find a nice fully loaded nice 987.2 3.4S with reasonable milage or without an odd colour combinaton for as little as £20k.

11 hours ago, TV8 said:

Apart from that, you loved it?

The best two days of TVR ownership was the day I bought it and the day I sold it.

Replaced with a Stag that I still have and love 20 years later - and that sounds even better than the TVR.

1 hour ago, TV8 said:

TVRs are brilliant. They are not unreliable, they are not wobbly and they handle very well if maintained properly. 10 happy years and many many thousands of miles across the UK and Europe and never let me down once. Had two at the same time for a while and sold the blue one. Mistake.

The 350i I owned always had more than a whiff of contact adhesive inside, the driver's seatbelt smelled of petrol that transferred to your clothes for the rest of the day. A howling gale blew through the holes in the bottom of the driver's door and the inevitable RV8 valley gasket oil leak that ran around the bell housing and dripped straight onto the centrally mounted exhaust. If you hit a pothole, the steering wheel moved so far sideways with the scuttle it could have been knocked out or your hand. Fortunately mine wasn't an early car where TVR thought it a good idea to use all black wiring in their harnesses with marker ferrules on the ends that corroded and dropped off after about five years.

They didn't become really unreliable until TVR "engineers" had a go at designing their own engines and the massive warranty claims to keep them running put TVR out of business.

I sold mine over twenty years ago and still don't see it through rose tinted glasses.

It did sound nice though.

8 minutes ago, Porschevirgin1968 said:

Wow, this has ended up being some thread, lol. Do none of you guys work lol. Some interesting info, I always wanted a TVR. The guy opposite where I live had a yellow TVR Cerbera, he sold it and now has the awful sounding suped up Honda 2000. As a kid it was always a Capri 2.8 Injection or a mk2 escort.

I had a TVR. It was the most wobbly poorly built, poorly engineered shed imaginable. The RV8 sounded nice but wasn't great to drive. I would never buy another plastic car.

Personally I'd rather buy privately then from an Arthur Daley type with no interest other than applying a machine polish and £3k to the price you could have bought the car for a week earlier.

Again with service history, far mor important to me how it has been looked after for the last three years and had regular use than whether someone has shelled out a fortune to have someone change the belt and pollen filter. 

If you don't know what you are looking at, you could always spend a couple of hundred on an independant inspection for a bit of peace of mind.

22 hours ago, ricof said:

Have you got any links to the uprated cover and organic plate please?

 

Here's a link to RTS but they don't list any clutches for Porsche. May be worth a call, they were more than willing to discuss my requirements and gave me a discounted price.

https://rtsperformance.co.uk/featured-products/performance-clutch-kits/

https://rtsperformance.co.uk/product/clutch-kit-rts-6006-smf/

I had this dilemma last time I uprated a clutch to deal with more torque. 

ICEs don't provide a constant torque, they pulse with every ignition. The flywheel smooths out the pulses to some extent and the DMF de-couples the clutch/gearbox side from the crankshaft with long springs to provide a more constant rotational speed clutch side. Result is the pulses don't transfer into the gearbox and cause backlash in the spinning gears at idle (making it sound like a bag of spanners).

The clutch manufacturer I spoke to advocated one of their SMFs for "feel and response" and a twin friction clutch plate using larger softer springs to partially compensate. Also stating DMFs had no place in performance cars.

I stuck with a DMF and an uprated cover with organic plate to avoid judder that sintered clutches can be prone to. Any gearbox chatter at idle would drive me mad.

On 10/5/2023 at 3:30 PM, wasz said:

Theres loads of boxsters go through copart very cheap.

Lots of unrecorded ones, mot failures / laid up cars / whatever you can check that easily.

I'd pick one of those up. I was planning to but mine came up.

The key to "making money" or "not losing money" is to buy it cheap in the first place.

These cars have usually been left to rot , sorry "laid up without an MOT" because they failed the MOT or were knackered. Either way, uneconomic to repair.

You can tart them up, scrape them though an MOT, then flip them to make a few quid, but I certainly wouldn't want to run one long term.

If you have the room, can be bothered and have time to do it, the easiest way to make money from "desirable" wrecks is to dismantle them and sell the bits on eBay/FB.  

Then buy a decent car, keep on top of the maintenance and enjoy it.

8 hours ago, mat1 said:

To be fair it is a bit annoying but recently it seems to be OK!

Droop did seem temperature demendant. Definitely firmer and less of an issue in the winter.

1 hour ago, daz05 said:

No I think you are exaggerating personally.

Just checked the WBAC price on my car. It's at 42% of what they were quoting just over two years ago. I've not seen one fit for the road for sale anywhere their price though.

1 minute ago, skoosh1970 said:

....no need to remove I don't think, just loosen if memory serves me right..?

You could just put a slit in the elastic and loop it over a loosened scre but I removed and poked it through. The elastic then stops the screw falling. You may need to experiment by moving the point the screw goes through the elastic to get the tension just right to pull the hood bead into the channel every time.

And buy a set of those stubby screwdrivers that have a coulple of small Torx drivers from the pound shop. Ideal for taking out the torx screw that holds the bottom end of the elastic.

Don't think DaveyP even had a stapler. He only got as far as buying the elastic.😁 

As always, eBay and FB is the place to advertise if you are desperate and eBay "sold" listings a good barometer of how much someone is willing to pay for any particular model.   

If the actual price of a car hasn't fallen in the last year, inflation has still effectively dropped its value by 10%.

15 hours ago, Boxer boy said:

4 WD , AWD , 4 s , “ Quattro “ ruins the handling ,steering  involvement .You end up a passenger beholding to electrotwackery nannies   .

How old are you btw ? If you don’t mind me asking .

Don't know that Quattro "ruins the handling". The S3's ability to grip and steer is incredible, (even with the "inferior" Haldex system) no doubt it does a lot of the thinking and certainly flatters my actual driving ability and 58 year-old reactions. The electric steering provides noticably less feedback that my 987, but it certainly feels sharper and turns in better than most euroboxes.

If I want to get from A-B quickly and overtake safely in the real world, 50% more power and 70% more torque puts my S3 in a different league to my 2007 2.7 Boxster.

If I want an enjoyable drive, listen to the engine howl and experience a bit of twisty road old fashioned fun then I take the Boxster.

Apples and Oranges.

I haven't experienced a set of discs last longer than the pads in the last 25 years. (and that includes OEM) If the discs don't deteriorate/rust at the back they wear to below minimum thickness due to the aggressive pad material used these days.

Personally, I fitted the cheapest coated discs I could source (my opinion discs is discs) with Textar pads. They feel and perform a whole lot better than the rusty Brembo kit they replaced and At £100 an axle for discs and pads, could replace them twice over and some for the price of Brembo. 

Autodoc seems to beat anyone else hands down on price unless you want to track down and risk NOS from Ebay.

For a quick wipe over, a damp microfiber towel heated in the microwave brings hand lard off the steering wheel but won't shift jean dye off your seats.

In my experience, the Glipsons cleaning stuff smells nice and leathery but it takes a lot of work to do a second rate job on light coloured leather. If you use Glipsons sealant, muck sticks to it like **** to a blanket and it looks grubby in no time.

Lovely looking interior BTW the black dash, door cappings and steering wheel set the light leather off nicely.

9 hours ago, iborguk said:

Genuinely interested in recommendations beyond maybe using the Porsche recommended leather cleaner

 

I have light grey leather in my S3

Dodo Juice Supernatural Leather Cleaner then Sealant is the best stuff I've used.

Very good cleaner with minimal effort (spray on, use a soft nail brush then wipe off with a damp microfibre towel) and will remove jeans dye stain etc. It will also remove any "dealer touch-up" products though. Sealant is non-sticky and leaves a matt finish. 

Dodo Juice Supernatural Leather Cleaner & Leather Sealant Kit | eBay

On 8/30/2023 at 9:11 AM, ½cwt said:

When I was down at Silverstone OPC last week there must have been a dozen Taycans on the forecourt and a couple of sale guys were saying over a coffee with me how good CPC deals are at the moment on cars that are now £75-£80k not £100k...  Not sure of the real facts but discounted Porsches!?!

Here's a owner's rant about how much his car has cost him. Eyewatering.

10 hours ago, brillomaster said:

i understand one solution is simply to disassemble, and wrap something like some plumbers tape round the spindle so its got a slightly larger diameter and thus a bit more friction to stop the droop.

 

This is the solution I applied (PTFE tape) and can confirm it works. I don't think the pin is really designed to pull out though.

3 hours ago, Topbox said:

Going from a 986 2.7 to a 987.2 2.9 the clutch on the 987.2 was very heavy when purchased at 55000 miles three years and 20000 miles the clutch was still heavy but still working perfectly when I sold the car.

I watched (yet another!) youtube review last night on a Cayman 987.2S and again, a heavy clutch was mentioned. 

I think "accept it's heavy and live with it until it goes wrong" will be the way forwards. Thanks for the replies and advice, all much appreciated.

20 hours ago, Menoporsche said:

Don't worry Davey, he's selling it to buy a Cayman.

I was originally considering a new Cayman 718 two and a half years ago to replace my S3 so only really bought Davey's Boxster to get to know Porsches and avoid making an expensive mistake.

I have been itching for a change this year and if I could have brought myself to part with a totally ridiculous amount of money for a 13 year old car, it could have been a 997.2 Targa.

Decision made, deal done and my new loaded 987.2S is being prepped. The clutch has probably seen better days but still works fine so can't really insist the dealer replaces it. Looking at this car as a keeper.