Sorry you broke down Pedro. Breaking down miles & miles from home is no fun. I was lucky to have

... I've been in Orlando for the past 3 days attending the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Tradeshow.
When I arrived on Wednesday the car developed a weird noise which I thought could be the water pump.
Since I had some tools with me I decided to open the firewall to see if I could pinpoint the noise.
But, by the time I got the firewall access panel off the noise had quieted down.
I checked for signs of coolant leakage but found everything dry.
I assembled everything, went to the last day of the show and at 3:00 PM decided to go home.
About 20 minutes into the trip I saw the coolant light start to blink and l knew the pump had finally failed.
I called my Insurance company and was told that my Roadside Assistance paid for the first 60 miles.
I was about 260 miles from home, so at $5.50/mile ... You do the math.
Then I remembered that my buddy Mike from TuneRS would b returning back from the show later in the day.
He has a Mercedes Benz cargo van and had picked up some euipment a the show.
So I called him and he agreed to first swing by a U-Haul rental place and pick up a car trailer.
Then he picked me and my car up and we are now driving back to SoFla.
As you can clearly see from the length of this post, I have nothing else to do.
So the puddle I left by the side of the Turnpike, although not as expensive as it first appeared it'll still set me back some.
It could have been worse.
I know Carlos knows the feeling
Happy Boxstering
Pedro

Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)

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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna




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But, glad that you managed to hitch a ride to reduce you cost. At least it didn't happen on some NC mountain road like to some ex-royalty.
And, even better, you're on really good terms with an excellent mechanic in SoFlo. You probably have his number.

Minus 40 degrees... Is that Fahrenheit or Celsius?
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About that puddle you left...I hope you made sure it drained off the road so no poor fool drove through it and tore up the underside of his car

fellow BRBSers to comfort us which was priceless

WOW....bad luck but a decent recovery.

Didn't I leave you some Porsche coolant?

"A mile of highway will take you one mile. A mile of runway will take you anywhere."

... I use Water Wetter for three reasons:
1.- It cools the car better than coolant
2.- We don't get hard freezes in SoFla so no antifreeze is needed
3.- Some track events do not allow coolant to be used in the cooling system


Happy Boxstering,
Pedro

Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)

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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna

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Pedro (Weston, FL)
... I use Water Wetter for three reasons:
1.- It cools the car better than coolant
2.- We don't get hard freezes in SoFla so no antifreeze is needed
3.- Some track events do not allow coolant to be used in the cooling system


Happy Boxstering,
Pedro

4.- It's a lot cheaper than Porsche coolant

"A mile of highway will take you one mile. A mile of runway will take you anywhere."

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Gary in SoFL



4.- It's a lot cheaper than Porsche coolant

You have dry water in Florida? Then you have to add this stuff to make the water wetter? Wow! I wonder how much of this stuff it took to create all those wet water lakes in Florida.

Pedro
How long have you been using water wetter? Any adverse effects like scaling, reduced water pump life?

I've been using it for several years.
Water Wetter is actually a coolant without antifreeze (ethelyne glycol).
There's no scaling or anything adverse internally because I use distilled water a the main agent.
Happy Boxstering
Pedro

Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)

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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna

...because I traded in my 06 Boxster for a 1995 Carrera 4.

No IMS either.

is that you have friends like Mike that will help you like he did. Thanks Mike

John in Denver
99 3xBlack