Finbox Posted August 13, 2021 Report Share Posted August 13, 2021 I got a new PCM 3.0 installed by the local OPC. I would not have bothered if I'd had to pay for this, but the previous owner had purchased a new PCM 3.0 which failed during the parts warranty (2 years). So this one was installed free of charge, but took like three months to arrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptspaulding Posted August 13, 2021 Report Share Posted August 13, 2021 On 8/7/2021 at 5:30 PM, Paul P said: Replaced a “suicide plastic” bracket that was the cause of a bit of movement in the frunk lining. Dafuq? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul P Posted August 13, 2021 Report Share Posted August 13, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, cptspaulding said: Dafuq? It’s a kind of elongated hexagonal Lego brick with a prong and tag on the back. They use them for “non exact” locations. Specially in this case the frunk lining - the bit that has the brake fluid reservoir and the cubby holes. half a dozen screws around the edge. All into these kind of brackets where “any hole is a goal”. Bottom ones on both sides were loose on mine and the lining moved a bit. One side just tightened ok the other was just waving in the wind. On inspection found half of it behind the toolbox abs the other half still in the bracket it mounts to. £2.60 and 10 mins. All is good again. Edited August 13, 2021 by Paul P 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoryD Posted August 13, 2021 Report Share Posted August 13, 2021 On 6/4/2021 at 4:05 PM, nixster said: While waiting for the parts to fix the roof I have done some leather work (ooer) to the drivers bolster and handbrake, inspired by @iborguk handbrake before during after Bolster after Colour lock kit seems to give good results? Looking to try this, did you have to mask the pale stitching? Cheers Rory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptspaulding Posted August 14, 2021 Report Share Posted August 14, 2021 Swapped the wheels out for comfy Cayman S 17" wheels with Conti rubber. Hoovered. Finally got around to getting behind the head unit to re-earth the handbrake sensor cable from the head unit. Android Auto (or whatever it's called) restored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sa utah Posted August 15, 2021 Report Share Posted August 15, 2021 Climate control buttons sorted. Ali express parts. Dead easy job so no excuse for not doing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Caped Crusader Posted August 15, 2021 Report Share Posted August 15, 2021 13 minutes ago, sa utah said: Climate control buttons sorted. Ali express parts. Dead easy job so no excuse for not doing it Did you watch any specific videos on YouTube showing how to change them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Caped Crusader Posted August 15, 2021 Report Share Posted August 15, 2021 13 minutes ago, sa utah said: Climate control buttons sorted. Ali express parts. Dead easy job so no excuse for not doing it Also, what's the illumination like compared to the originals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sa utah Posted August 15, 2021 Report Share Posted August 15, 2021 4 minutes ago, The Caped Crusader said: Did you watch any specific videos on YouTube showing how to change them? No. I just pulled it apart. No fear of such things. Never looked at them in the dark yet but rarely drive at night anyways. Sure they’ll be fine. There are 6 screws on the outside holding the thing together and 9 holding the circuit board in place Super easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatonks Posted August 15, 2021 Report Share Posted August 15, 2021 Busy one for me today. Decided i was gonna just try and tackle the Air con radiators & dessicator in one day. Was pretty easy tbf! N/S looks like it's been replaced before but the O/S looks leaky, big oily stain. Had some issues with the thread stripping on one of the condensers but soon realised it was silly of me using their provided bolts as they only reach about half way along the threads anyway (as we have those blocks to accomodate for too), so i went back to OEM bolts and the remainded of the surviving threads were absolutely fine and now all seems well. While I had it stripped i went around wire brushing anything that needed it, washing some bits, then a bit of hydrate- 80 and some Dinitrol 4941 on some bits that were a bit worse for wear. First time geting the car in the air - so easy to jack and get stands up! Love how it has proper jacking points and how solid it all is. Very different to the mx5! Getting the wheels off though i found something horrible... A huge, pretty deep, scoring of the inner face of the wheel. what the hell?!?!?! So weird and horrible to find.. Only thing I can think of is a piece of gravel from my driveway being picked up and dropped against the suspension strut? It's a pretty tight gap and I do think I could see this happening... Not that I at any point heard anything! surely that wouldn't made a horrid noise. Very annoying. Don't think it's enough to be dangerous or anythign, just unsightly, annoying, and i'll have to keep an eye on corrosion development. Then onto the next 'small job'. Pop in my new Xenon bulbs, and the new h11 main beams as both are pretty poor at the moment, my LED h4 bulbs on the mx5 are better atm! So this simple job went pretty disastrous. The h11 was a bugger to get out for some reason. Really fiddly and needed more force than i'd expected...Turns out it left the rubber seal on the mount, which i didn't realise. Upon trying to fit the new one (an upgraded LED h11) the entire bloody dome/mount snapped! completely bloody loose. Snapped right under the screws. I was being slightly forceful maybe, but nowhere near enough that should break it... Are these things super brittle or something? is this a 'thing'? SO annoying how the difficult jobs go well but the silly trivial things can turn into a nightmare.. It's currently taped up with some gorilla glue drying on it... I'm not 100% sure it's perfectly back in place but i'm not sure full-beam matters too much with regard to alignment with MOTs etc... As long as it's at least fixed! If the gorilla glue doesn't hold then i'm probably gonna have to buy an entire new xenon headlight unit which, from a glance on ebay, is a lot of bloody money for a poorly supported & brittle reflector/mount. I've tried disassembling all the stuff in the photo to get better access for better gluing/fixing but i'm not 100% sure i should - some parts look smarter than me haha.... but if the glue doesn't work then i'll definitely try a full disassamble as there's nothig to lose at that point! Luckily it's only full beam so no majorr rush but extremely annoying nonetheless. On a more positive end to the day I had a test of my 3D printed Bose>6.5" speaker adapter plate and it fits almost perfectly. Just need to widen the screw holes slightly, reduce the diameter of the inner hole a little bit, as i'm not comfortable atm with how much there is to grab for the speaker screws... and maybe put screw holes for the actual speaker screws to use too - but a pilot drill on a speaker by speaker basis is probably fine anyway. Christ, what a day. Fingers crossed for my headlight. Still makes me grrr... and the wheel! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul P Posted August 16, 2021 Report Share Posted August 16, 2021 Bad luck with the headlight Welcome to the world of Porsche suicide plastic. I also find anything plastic on the car to be brittle and prone so falling apart at the slightest provocation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatonks Posted August 16, 2021 Report Share Posted August 16, 2021 (edited) 15 hours ago, Paul P said: Bad luck with the headlight Welcome to the world of Porsche suicide plastic. I also find anything plastic on the car to be brittle and prone so falling apart at the slightest provocation. Yeah i couldn't believe it. Installed the new bulbs into the other headlight today and the exact same thing happened - the red/orange seal on the bulb stayed stuck onto the mount and I had to wiggle off the bulb through it! nightmare. Didn't break it this time though as i knew exactly what was going on. PSA: the H11 bulbs have seals and will likely get stuck onto the mount if they've been on a very long time. Be patient and wiggle wiggle wiggle. The glueing worked. It's not perfectly back into place, which can be seen closely comparing the 2, but it'll do for now. I do notice it with the high-beam projection though, it's a fair bit lower than the right-side... It's also not making the click/clunk noise that it should make when flashing full-beam - the solenoid isn't making any noise at all and the headlight, I guess, also isn't adjusting (although it's difficult to actually see anything changing when that click happens anyway even on the working light, while looking at the light or looking at the projection). Can anyone confirm whether the passenger side full beam is supposed to be lower and more concentratred than the driver's side, and also whether the passenger side headlight unit is also supposed to have the solenoid clunky noise? Either my glue's got something stuck, somehow... i was pretty careful, or the solenoid's dead - i'll have to figure out how to test the solenoid! Edited August 16, 2021 by Megatonks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terryg Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 @Megatonks With regard to the inner surface of your wheel, my sister in law has two concrete wheel tracks as a driveway, on Saturday I came off the passenger side track and heard a graunching sound, I know when that wheel comes off I will have something similar but it will only be superficial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatonks Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 4 hours ago, Terryg said: @Megatonks With regard to the inner surface of your wheel, my sister in law has two concrete wheel tracks as a driveway, on Saturday I came off the passenger side track and heard a graunching sound, I know when that wheel comes off I will have something similar but it will only be superficial. Ouch, that sounds grim! I don't have anything like that on my driveway, and I'm unsure that would happen as my tyre bulges outwards past the lips a fair bit - but you never know I guess.. Maybe it happened before I bought the car - i'm 99% sure i'd have heard something making that kind of horrible gouge. Might have a go at filling/sealing it myself as it doesn't really matter cosmetically. I have lots of filler and paints and laquer and stuff. Just to protect the raw alloy more than anything. Corrosion beginning along the entire circumference could murder the wheel pretty quick I guess! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygo Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 4 hours ago, Megatonks said: Ouch, that sounds grim! I don't have anything like that on my driveway, and I'm unsure that would happen as my tyre bulges outwards past the lips a fair bit - but you never know I guess.. Maybe it happened before I bought the car - i'm 99% sure i'd have heard something making that kind of horrible gouge. Might have a go at filling/sealing it myself as it doesn't really matter cosmetically. I have lots of filler and paints and laquer and stuff. Just to protect the raw alloy more than anything. Corrosion beginning along the entire circumference could murder the wheel pretty quick I guess! Not sure I'd put filler on the wheel, would possibly upset the wheel balancing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzlt Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 My spare Cayman wheels are still in the Classified I think. The backs are mint ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penrhos Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 Restored headlights with Quixx System kit from Amazon. Easy job and very pleased with results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixster Posted August 17, 2021 Report Share Posted August 17, 2021 On 8/13/2021 at 9:12 PM, RoryD said: Looking to try this, did you have to mask the pale stitching? Cheers Rory Yes I did on the handbrake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenbo1000 Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 Decided to change the AOS (cheaper from Porsche) as it’s about due a change. Went to disconnect the three way pipe the goes from the aos to the plenum, as soon as I disconnected the aos end and went to move it slightly out of the way…..snap. Yes it snapped in two places heyho £61 from local opc with some serious discount, aos change not to bad a job but be careful with the pipes they seem to be made of tissue. We went to Sports cars in the Park near Ripon and met some nice people of like mindedness. Followed a couple of Lambo’s out of the event and went for it as did everyone, got about 200 meters when car started sounding like a tractor and went into limp home mode (eeeek the fear) turns out that a couple of coil packs had given up and were suffering heat soak problems. I decided because of my arthritis in my hands flaring up that I would take it to Alan at AHRS (local Indy) cost of Beru packs £275 ish and also had him change my PDK fluid and give her a once over. So with wallet somewhat lighter I now have my baby back and running as she should. Alan’s once over only revealed that my exhaust connection studs are rotten and will need changing these are the ones after the manifold 3 per side. So a huge thanks to Alan for his help and advice he is a really good bloke and worth a call if your in County Durham. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001pt Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Gave the rear lights some TLC with Auto Glym’s headlight restorer kit. They weren’t bad to start with so didn’t take too much effort/time. Pretty happy with the results which are better than the picture suggests. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_ian Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Decided not to sell it! I'd planned to sell the Boxster now, then buy a Cayman S in the spring. Phoning WBAC to cancel my appointment this morning. Their initial estimate was ~1,300 more than a couple of used Porsche specialists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iborguk Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 Drove it on some windys and drove it on some motorways @Stuart21UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001pt Posted August 31, 2021 Report Share Posted August 31, 2021 Not today, but over the last week have spent quite a bit of time with the Boxster, either enjoying it or giving her some TLC, so in order: 1 - 1/2 day Porsche Experience day at Silverstone - small write up on this thread 2 - All 4 wheels fully cleaned, 10yrs of balancing weight adhesive removed & wheel arches fully cleaned/treated 3 - Spacers fitted 15mm ream / 7mm front. Purchased these about a year ago & never fitted them, so nearly stuck them up for sale but they really do make a difference to the look of the car 4 - Polytrol treatment to the windscreen lower plastic trim - huge improvement - thanks for the recommendations 5 - Gummi Pflege to rubber seals - not so impressed by this, just seems to make them squeak when going over rough tarmac! 6 - Hood cleaned & treated with Autoglym kit 7 - Full inside & out clean & basic detail 8 - Attended the PCGB Cotswolds Rally, here's a couple of pics https://imgur.com/EptWxdAhttps://imgur.com/EptWxdAhttps://imgur.com/EptWxdA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart21UK Posted August 31, 2021 Report Share Posted August 31, 2021 13 hours ago, iborguk said: Drove it on some windys and drove it on some motorways @Stuart21UK I lay on the sofa doing nothing all day, could've had a mini-meet! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAZ Posted August 31, 2021 Report Share Posted August 31, 2021 4 hours ago, 2001pt said: Not today, but over the last week have spent quite a bit of time with the Boxster, either enjoying it or giving her some TLC, so in order: 1 - 1/2 day Porsche Experience day at Silverstone - small write up on this thread 2 - All 4 wheels fully cleaned, 10yrs of balancing weight adhesive removed & wheel arches fully cleaned/treated 3 - Spacers fitted 15mm ream / 7mm front. Purchased these about a year ago & never fitted them, so nearly stuck them up for sale but they really do make a difference to the look of the car 4 - Polytrol treatment to the windscreen lower plastic trim - huge improvement - thanks for the recommendations 5 - Gummi Pflege to rubber seals - not so impressed by this, just seems to make them squeak when going over rough tarmac! 6 - Hood cleaned & treated with Autoglym kit 7 - Full inside & out clean & basic detail 8 - Attended the PCGB Cotswolds Rally, here's a couple of pics https://imgur.com/EptWxdAhttps://imgur.com/EptWxdAhttps://imgur.com/EptWxdA Was there as well! Didn't see you! Didn't get there until after 2pm mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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