Tony Daniel

My fiend has a PPF business and does the work for 2 local OPC's, he PPF's headlights without any problems. I wish mine had been done from new as they have a few marks on now, my new windscreen is being PPF'd wednesday.

Even if your mates all set off whilst you are faffing with the roof, you'd soon catch up 🤣.

I picked up 2 rear Pagid discs on offer at Halfords last month for £30 a piece! So far they have done 2 track days without any problem apart from going blue.

Front discs & pads and rear pads are again Pagid from Euro car parts. One of the ECP rear wear sensor melted but I've had that with the Porsche ones

My 987 screen was replaced by Autoglass. The first time they turned up the replacement was damaged but the second one was fitted without a problem. 

Just had a crack appear in the screen on the 981GTS so about to do the whole process again. I'm actually looking forward to a nice clean screen as its always had a slight chip right in my line of sight since I bought the car

I have a V3 but can't tell you what advantages it has over the V2.

I have used it so far to calibrate the electronic handbrake after changing the rear discs on my 981 and also bleed the ABS

First thing I did when I retired was buy a GTS 😃.

Put a few pics up and GLWTS.

No that chart was more to show the weight gains to adding aftermarket speakers and it just happened to also include the impendences. 

@Patt In the 991/981 the Bose speakers are not all 4 ohms, the Woofers are only 1 ohm and the Mids are 2 ohm.

I bought one for a 987, worked perfectly.

1 hour ago, JurassicBGTS said:

 

Very nice! Congratulations Rob👍

3 hours ago, ½cwt said:

Unless you have cruise control may be? The car will always think the clutch is depresses so will cancel CC. I might be wrong....

Hmmm, the cruise worked ok but I suppose you could have the problem of the engine revs increasing if you depressed the clutch without braking or switching of cruise. I ran like that for years and never had any issues.

I was stuck 100 miles away from home with this problem so bypassed the switch by joining the two wires together....I never replaced the switch, it's really not needed.

44 minutes ago, daz05 said:

@Tony Danieldid the first one, tested....hmmm not much sound coming from here probably not going to make much difference.

 

How wrong was I, my music sounds so much better ! I think upgrading the centre speaker will be even better, any suggestions?

Usually people disconnect the centre channel speaker, but so far I have not touched it or even looked at it, I think it's a 4" speaker like the door mids but not sure what depth. Adding sound proofing to the doors would be a good step.

A friend of mine has just had his delivered and it is a beast. To much for the road...you really do need earplugs, but he will be tracking it regularly

8 minutes ago, bally4563 said:

Fitted Numeric gear cables

Chatting with somebody with a manual 718 Spyder and he was stuck in France last month with a detached cable, you would have thought they would have sorted it by now

I thought you had the Isudar unit @Patt

9 minutes ago, hopz121 said:

What's the deal with the warranty?

He can sell the car with the warranty, it is transferable to the new owner and will save the purchaser paying for the 111 point check.

I would advise selling the winter wheels separately though.

If they had put the Spyder styling on the GTS 4.0 I don't think many people would have gone for a Spyder in the UK, but there would be a very long queue for a GTS 4.0

On certain roads the Macan's drivers door would rattle and vibrate. We mentioned it to dealer when it went in for warranty work on the PCM unit but was given the usual brush off that rattles are not covered under warranty.

I have just had the Boxster in pieces replacing the door speakers and adding sound proofing so I thought I would have a go at the Macan. Once the door panel is off its easy to see the problem, there is a large hard plastic panel in the door (seen on the left hand side of the pic I found on the internet) that resonates when you tap it. I took this out and greased the edges but it still rattled so using some dynomat sound proofing I had left over from the Boxster I covered the panel.

So far no rattle. 

If all else fails there is a second hand one for sale on the forum

Yes added some to the membrane and door card, avoiding the area at the top due to the air bag.

The vibration is gone except for at ear splitting levels.

5 hours ago, daz05 said:

Yes but is it any good?

The Porsche Ask speakers used for the sound package plus system are pretty poor, but maybe used for there lightness.

Replacing the dash speakers really made a big difference, the mids not so much, the subs give a much much deeper bass.

Sound proofing to the door is a must, the whole thing reverberated before and this caused the door handle to rattle, so I used around 45cmx60cm of Dynamat extreme on each door skin. I would have liked to have got more up around the door handle but didn't fancy taking all the air curtain off to get the inner panel off fully.

After the success of the dash speakers I have decided to go ahead and replace the 2 in each door as well so this lot turned up today.

Audison 4" Mid range and Audison 8" Sub woofers. Both of these are 4 Ohms which are a direct replacement to the ones in my car with the Sound package plus fitted. I believe its a little more difficult with Bose as usual because the subs are only 1 ohm.

Fitment required speaker adapters and connecters for the Porsche wiring loom, both of these were sourced from a company based in Yorkshire called SCR

On 2/2/2023 at 3:10 PM, bandit_287 said:

If the pad sensors haven’t been tripped then they can be re-used but they’re pretty cheap so yes it’s best practice to change them too. As long as the car is as Porsche intended it doesn’t matter who’s fitted the parts to keep the warranty integrity. Unfortunately i’ll have to buy the parts from the OPC not ECP as they’ll probably notice the non OEM parts during the service in October and reject the warranty renewal. 

I didn't manage to save any of the wear sensors on my last pad change they all were very well bonded in. I replaced pads, discs and sensors all bought from ECP and then had a full service at an OPC followed by warranty renewal. The money I saved paid for 2 years Porsche assist👍.

I replaced my fob battery and a week later had the low battery warning come up. Just figured it was a faulty battery.