Araf

3 hours ago, PaulQ said:

I want 235/45/17

£62.50 each + delivery & fitting.

https://www.camskill.co.uk/m54b0s312p188145/Uniroyal_Tyres_Car_Uniroyal_RainSport_5_-_235_45_R17_94Y_FR_TL_Fuel_Eff_%3A_C_Wet_Grip%3A_A_NoiseClass%3A_2_Noise%3A_71dB

4 hours ago, PaulQ said:

Yeah, but they are not far off the price of the PS4 

   I was looking at fronts last night (235/40-18) and they were around £75 each compared to £175 each for PS4, from Camskill.

Either I'm looking in the wrong place for Michelins or you are, for Uniroyals.

2 hours ago, PaulQ said:

I'm still trying to decide between the PS4 at around 200 quid (can't believe you paid 280) and the Apollo Aspire XP (they are made by Vredestein so not Chinese for around £130

There is a Chinese contender as well, but they won't work out any cheaper then the Apollo once fitted. 

70 quid is a lot of money to some, including me. 

Your probably thinking I shouldn't really have a Porsche if I'm not willing to pay an extra 70 pounds for a pair of tyres no doubt 

 

Have you thought of fitting Uniroyal Rainsports?

1 hour ago, ½cwt said:

What absolute filth!  Fantastic engineering p0rn,

Tell me about it.  I've got to pay someone $1200 in bitcoins due to my computer webcam being hacked, while I was looking at those pictures.  

4 hours ago, alank said:

Yes i understand peoples negative views of warranties, but as Topradio says, it can give some people a little peace of mind.  The way i see it is my starter motor could pack up , then my £790 warranty would probably have  been a good buy. Hopefully i never need to find out, Ha,Ha!

Lofi,  i have PM you the chaps details, speak to him direct . cheers   Alan

Probably?  I think it's a given. 

I looked up the price of a starter motor from Porsche a few days ago and it was Over £500 - without labour.  An Alternator is over £1000!

1 minute ago, alank said:

They say in schedule that they pay for investigative work. And you can take car where you want. My local OPC is £195 Inc/HR, so would probably use a local indy.

Only if they deem the necessary repair a warranty claim.  If not, you take it on the chin.

17 minutes ago, Nobbie said:

They sound very slippery. Sales pitch is good, but actual claim experience less so based on that. Seems some companies focus most of their efforts on working out clever ways of avoiding ever paying out on a claim by making the claim process difficult.

Yes, they give you a headline rate of £144 per hour labour then limit you to where you can take it, or make you get investigative work done at your own expense before sanctioning a repair.

I found this to be a good read.  There's plenty of them.  

"Taken out a warranty with Motoreasy and now car has developed a fault. Told me to take the car to one of their network garages. Diagnosed as fault in automatic gearbox. Garage said they can't repair it as they don't do automatic gearboxes. (!) Neither the garage or Motoreasy bothered to phone me to say I could collect the car so I had to leave it at the garage overnight.
They have now booked it into another garage 20 miles away and garage has told me it could take 4 hours to diagnose the problem when they actually get to look at the car. What do they expect me to do, wait around all day? Phoned Motoreasy and they were no help. I suggested I take the car to the local dealer for my car (3 miles away) but they said I would have to pay for the diagnosis and they would not necessarily accept their diagnosis. Waiting to see if they can find a garage closer to me to diagnose the problem. I'm 70 years old and do not need this sort of hassle. This will be updated.
UPDATE
Received an email telling me that I had to take the car for diagnosis to a garage 22 miles away! It said the appointment was was for 9am and that I would need to leave the car for half a day. I went to the garage on the day I was told to and arrived about 8:30. I waited until 9:15 and then phoned the garage mobile number. I was told that the garage does not open until 10am. An employee arrived about 9:40.
After taking the car for a short drive and putting it on a ramp to inspect the car, the employee said that the gearbox had several faults and would need to be stripped down and inspected by an engineer sent by Motoreasy. I said that there had never been a problem with the gearbox. It changes ok and never misses a gearchange. I said that the problem was a noise from the front nearside.The garage kept me waiting saying that they had tried ten times to contact Motoreasy and were waiting for a reply to an email they had sent. I then phoned Motoreasy and asked them to ring the garage. I asked the employee what error codes their error diagnostic tool had found and he replied none were found. Error codes would appear on the LCD screen in the car if any were present. I then took the car and went home.
I phoned Motoreasy and was told that I would have to pay for the gearbox to be stripped down. It would then be inspected by a Motoreasy engineer to see if the fault would be covered. (In the event that the faults were not covered then I assume I would have to pay for the cost of their engineer) If the faults were not covered then I would then have to pay the bill for the garage stripping the box ( I had already paid £72 for the diagnosis) I would then have to pay for all the repairs to the gearbox or pay for a replacement box.
I phoned Motoreasy and again told them that there were no problems with the gearbox. I was then given advice not to get the box stripped but to wait until the noise got worse or an error appeared on the car LCD display. I then took the car to a local automatic gearbox garage who have been trading for 30 years. They took the car for a test drive and said they could find nothing wrong with the box.
I then took it to another garage and they said the same.
My MOT was now due so I took it to a local MOT station and it passed with no advisories . While my car was on the ramp I mentioned the noise to the tester. He had a look at everything for me and said everything seemed ok . He suggested that although the car had past the brake test 100% and although the discs and pads were OK , there was a possibility that the noise could be from the nearside brake disc.
I decided to ring my local Peugeot dealer and they said they were doing a special offer on front discs and pad replacement. I decided to get both front discs and pads replaced.
Collected the car from the dealer the next day and guess what ? - the noise was gone!.
This weekend I travelled to a distance of 824 miles in one day. My car had no problems or error codes.
That you Motoreasy, I am now £72 out of pocket for a diagnosis I didn't need. You decide that the first garage who had diagnosed the problem as the auto gearbox, were correct even though they don't repair auto boxes and would probably not know a lot about auto boxes. The second garage you sent me too has cost me £72 and a days travel and attending the garage.
I have the Plan A warranty cover which says it covers everything including wear and tear. It says that the whole gearbox is covered so what could not be covered?
The car is 3 and half years old and has only covered 20,000 miles so it would be unlikely the gearbox would go already. Completely fed up with these people now and still have 6 months warranty left."

7 minutes ago, wolverinemac said:

That’s low miles.  I guess the prices have dropped as 2014 981s can now be had for 26+
 

the black editions will hold their value due to the low numbers 

They'll sit above an S with similar mileage but that's about it IMHO, I'm afraid.

7 hours ago, EVO Chris said:

Went for an MOT today, passed with a 'that's the shiniest Porsche I have seen underneath comment'. All the winter garage tinkering paid off  

Mine went in yesterday.  All I got was "This has put up with the miles well.  I'm really starting to see the point of Porsches." 

4 hours ago, ½cwt said:

@Araf, @Menoporsche should this be put in How To???

Yes, probably so now moved. 🙂

3 hours ago, Southy said:

@Araf could we get this pinned in the 'how to' section

Done and done. 🙂

4 minutes ago, Malcolm E Box said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-spottedykywt/porsche-boxster-spyder--987----spotted/42348

As JohnSyn said about the later 981 Spyder, the roof is the problem.  Even more of a faff on the 987.2

34 minutes ago, zagamuffin said:

Sent the S away

 

 

Is it wrong, to like the look with those wheels?  

Well done.  

So what's the wax on there for then?

1 hour ago, Mr96er said:

Go my winters on, feels groovy already! 

Love those wheels.  Is the car better, going up to 17s?  

22 hours ago, ATM said:

I'm even starting to think now about if I should leave it black or change it.

Wrap it orange, so Menoporsche isn't the only one in our village.  

You're quite right.  Two on the front, one on the rear.

On 10/11/2019 at 11:40 AM, Liberty said:

The wind blew my boot shut yesterday so I ordered new struts.Opened the boot today and noticed it only has one..Doh

I'm sure my boots have two each.  

On 9/4/2019 at 6:37 PM, Tony Daniel said:

There are a couple of thousand posts in the 'What have you done to your 986 today' so I thought I'd start one for 987's 😀.

My car had started making the tell tale noises over rough roads of worn rear suspension arms, just to be on the safe side I ended up ordering front and rear arms. I Had the car lowered by 30mm last year with a set of Eibach springs, these had made the rear camber off due to the suspension not having enough adjustment to dial it out during alignment. This has caused a bit of uneven tyre wear on the rear on the inside edges,  so I also purchased some rear adjustable toe links. 

I've managed to fit everything today and its already for its 4 wheel alignment tomorrow.

I've just realised, I could have started this thread last year, but Porsche fitted mine as part of my warranty (at over 85,000 miles too).    They had been knocking since before Reims in the March (I think) but I left them until the car was in for service (December).

8 hours ago, entdgc said:

@Araf how about cutting and pasting the text above and making it a sticky? Great explanation...

Anyone too lazy to google the explanation won't be bothered to read it all.

1 hour ago, JHamshaw said:

Hi - new here, my first post and I'm wondering if anyone's sorted this yet?

2009 987.2 Non-Xenon - wanting to use the diode hack to have just the LED strips below the fog lights (and the rear lights if they're on the same sidelight/parking light circuit) on when the light switch is in the "Home" position - ar alternatively a wiring diagram? I'm hoping it's just a different pin to use in the light switch connector.....

I bought some diodes and that's as far as I've got, so far.  Was it really two years ago.  

Welcome to the forum.

13 minutes ago, Lonewolfgjp said:

Just out of interest which PCM have you got? I m not sure if mine hold multiple cds but it is the unit with the nav and phone etc.

If you can just post cds in then it is a single changer.  If you have to press a button first, it should be a 6-CD

17 hours ago, Lonewolfgjp said:

Those maps may well work but our head units need a main dealer only update before you could try them 👍

No, the seller has a hack for that on PCM3.1 butnot forPCM 3.0.  Many (with 3.1) have already updated their head units and loaded the new maps.

For the PCM 3.0 on the 987.2, @Richard Hamilton has the equipment to do the dealer upgrade and load the new maps for you.  It takes a couple of hours and he basically charges beer money plus the cost of the licence he needs for your car - a hell of a lot less than an OPC.

Richard upgraded mine and it's much better with full post code search and also much newer maps.