Araf

Love the new car colour combo of Midnight and Sand (I think) but the red calipers clash with the orange discs.

9 hours ago, Carmine said:

And pigs will fly in 2025?

8 hours ago, martyn said:

I Hope you’re correct,🙏 

I hope not.  Seagulls make a right old mess of your paintwork.  Imagine pigs vacuating their bowels at 200ft.  

2 hours ago, RBD914 v2 said:

The 911 was more like a GT than a sports car, too big, wide and heavy for the roads I drive.

But an itch I needed to scratch.

The Fezza is smaller, more agile,but too fragile...I don't know?   

Are you sure?

458 Italia   L 4527,  W 1937, Wheelbase 2650

992 L 4519-4535,  W 1852-1900, Wheelbase 2450

I think you'll find the power makes the 458 feel as wide as a 911.

You got out of the 911 quick enough.  Are they too much for the road?  How will a Fezza be on the same roads?

On 8/26/2021 at 7:19 AM, rowbos said:

Sometimes it seems the Seagulls around here take exception to our cars and I come out to find what looks like a deliberate cr*p attack all over the cars.   Sometimes it looks like a flock of Ostriches were involved rather than Seagulls looking at the quantity of mess... 🤬

You're lucky if it's seagulls.  Don't you have Great Bustards flying around down your way?  Being the heaviest of flying birds I would think that just one of them having a bowel movement would completely change the colour of a car.

1 hour ago, map said:

.....- he was was clear that I should use steel not Ti or Stainless....

Correct.  Generally titanium snaps, stainless stretches (then snaps).  You need high tensile steel.

10 hours ago, Menoporsche said:

Tried quickly and I can’t either, but my attempt was cursory. Apparently you have 400 posts but I can only see these and one more. Tried going to your profile top right and Activity: Content I Started?

If not, the site has been reshuffled a few times. @Araf any idea?

Now archived so I can't see that new posts can be added and I can't un-archive it.
 

If you tell me where your build thread was, I'll see what I can find.  It's not in 'my ride'  

On 8/6/2021 at 9:01 PM, plynchy said:

...and stated ‘it’s a GT4, they can be a bit noisy’.

They always say that, while it's under warranty.

On 7/26/2021 at 7:31 PM, spice said:

Hi all , so , I cancelled a GTS 4.0 last spring had better things to do with my cash at the time , however still wanting to get another Boxster I bagged a very neat manual RS60, having had one new in 2008 I knew what a peach they were , then maybe a 992 GTS to go with it , I have since ruled it out as they are speccing up at £120k plus , more than I wanted to tie up , then along comes the Emira , looks great , probably £85k ish , so £2k down on launch day to join the priority queue  , that’s me sorted then , hard top and soft top sports cars , but oh no , Friday morning get a call from OPC , got you that Boxster 25 you wanted , October build , need an answer now , hmmmmm , ok then I will have it , £5k down , and replicated the RS60 spec with a few other options , even requested the same build number .So will end up with two special edition Boxster , same colour scheme , 13 years apart , will make for some good pictures , and the Emira hopefully arriving spring 2022 , grab em while ya can .

 

Mike Brewer's got nothing on you.
 

4 hours ago, T911UK said:

Anything out there thats cheaper by more than 10 % max wont be Genuine

Not sure of the difference, the badge I was quoting for is 99755921102

The underlay is the same part number at £3.96 and the nut part numbers are different.

I've never had non-genuine parts from De Roure.

4 minutes ago, Shippers01 said:

Hi araf, is that opc price??

De Roure which are genuine parts and slightly below OPC.  If you speak with your OPC parts dept and mention the prices, they will usually match.  I'd give you the part numbers but I only have 987 numbers and I'm not sure if there were any changes.

£59 for the badge, £4 for the rubber pad and £3 for a pair of tapping nuts should be the rough price of the parts.

2 hours ago, edc said:

It would make a nice under the radar fun summer commuter but then you'd dent the pricing. 

I don't see that.  You buy that and run it for a few years and you'll scrub £10k off the value.  Buy a year old Boxster (with 5k on the clock) and see how much that costs in depreciation over 4 years.

2 hours ago, Menoporsche said:

I've said on various occasions, once I went on a ski trip and afterwards decided to add up all the costs.  It absolutely ruined the holiday for me. I have never done it again, and always operate on that "enjoy + afford" principle.

One year, I managed £6.5k on half a dozen long weekends at the Nurburgring.  Another, it worked out at close to £5k just at my local track.   

If I hadn't spent it doing that, I would have only wasted it so I wasn't bothered.   

Isn't the battery just under a cover in the front boot?  If so, I always hard wire a connector to the battery and leave the connector outside of the replaced cover.

Just now, Jonttt said:

If you have a proper punch that is the correct width and use a lump hammer they do shift 😉

Not after 5 years of use in all weathers they don't.  When a club hammer and drift didn't budge the first, I decided that having the callipers taken off and the pins drilled out was a cheaper option than breaking a suspension arm.

New brakes fitted all round.  I was supposed to do them myself, last weekend but the pins had welded themselves in the calipers.

Sounds like The Wheel Specialists have been using the Wheel Restorer's book of customer care.  What do you think, @r1flyguy?  

10 hours ago, Jonttt said:

#850 has come back up for sale on autotrader ......very low miles 20k ......£30k

That's taking the p!ss.  That's too close to Spyder territory.

8 hours ago, Menoporsche said:

I maintain that this is a practical and reliable F355.

All Porsches are practical and reliable (bar Cheddar Bob's one apparently).

BTW, lovely car. 

Nearly got T boned today  and totally my fault.  I pulled in to apologise to the guy I cut in front of but he drove past shaking a loosely clenched fist in my direction.

Totally justifiable, my mind was elsewhere.  

Winters now fitted.  Cue the unseasonally high temperatures now.   

Just washed the car.  It was filthier than @John K's mind as it hadn't been touched for a couple of months (lockdown closed my local hand wash).

There was a bit of hail, as I was finishing but needs must.

11 minutes ago, PaulQ said:

Yup. 

Fitting will cost me 20 quid per tyre (I know) ,and the PS4 is just over a ton fitted. 

That answers my earlier question - I'm looking in the wrong place for Michelins.

5 hours ago, charlieboy2608 said:

And lets not forget if we all had money we would be driving their latest offering.........;-)

Noooo.