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QuoteTino Thank you all for the good wishes and comments. From time to time, I'll keep you posted on how it goes with the car. Believe it or not, we've had a couple of rainy days here in the California desert, so not much driving since I started the thread, but I'm already planning some tours up and down the mountains around here and along the coast. Flash if you happen to see me! Thank YOU forby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
it is, and October 8th and 9th, that weekend is the winner. Firm commitments are coming in...enough of a trend to make this a definite getaway... I will update those who have shown an interest, provided an e-mail has been provided! ( After things are relatively settled here, I may post on 986forum.com for those who are "local" to the tri-state/Upstate/Montreal region. If you have any suggestiby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
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The absence of that yellowing/cracked window when the "new" top is in place will have you thinking you just got a new Box. It had that effect on me when I replaced my original, slashed plastic windowed top with a new canvas and vinyl window strip down. Keep up the good work! Regards, Maurice.by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
IIRC, the top motor will energize even with the wrong double relay (depending on where in the open/close cycle the top is at the time that you try it). I know that it will not work correctly all the way through the cycle, for obvious reasons, as stated in my earlier post, here: In a pinch, IIRC you can pop in your B Version relay just to see if the top STARTS to move. It's not "compatible" beby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
out and off the surface, where they get embedded into the clay bar, etc... You can actually FEEL and HEAR the little impurities when they are still on the surface as the the clay bar (with a little squirt of the lubrication/spray) is pulled along over the surface you are trying to clay... Try it, you'll like it. Regards, Maurice.by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
Quotedghii Maurice, Thanks for the information on the top. I've spent the last day or two searching the posts about tops seen your numerous posts in the past helping folks tsort out their top issues. I've been fortunate with my 2000 in that other than the parking brake switch going bad (I bypassed it anyway), I've had no top problems. I'm sure I'll have some questions in dealing with the 98...by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
Sounds like a fun deal. Make it more fun by fixing the top: Before springing for a new double module (a/k/a top relay), first verify that 1) the V-levers haven't "over-rotated" so that they have effectively "pretzeled" themselves, and 2) Test the electric motor that is just forward of the third brake light by a) applying 12V directly to it, and b) smacking it sharply with a small, dense mby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
Regards, Maurice. P.S. p.p.s The first or second weekend in October is/are looking like possibilities. Best approach is for the boys and girls to commit to one of those weekends tentatively for now, and after I have that tentative list, we'll go forward ASAP! or "schnell", even. ... in other words, we'll then be in that "depeche" mode. LOL!!!by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
leaves scenery, which is simply breathtaking, IMNSHO. Regards, Maurice.by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
hoses / and/or the heat exchanger/little radiator after we dug up some instructions.... If it's only coming on after you turn on the AC, I don't think it matters in terms of the diagnosis, because a leak is a leak is a leak and you just have to find the emanation or origin source of said leak... I'm not sure whether you are now referring to the heater core (small radiator under the base of theby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
be ideal... I took a trip to Lake George and found a great spot that meets most or all of the requirements of the discerning TSBL crew/participants of TSBL's past... If you received an e-mail, that should give you a good idea of what I am trying to make happen....If not, please don't be cross...I don't keep these in a list anywhere, I am averse to auto-mation! LOL!!! As always, open to simpby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
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QuoteFivefive Has any one out there purchased an extended warranty for their Porsche and had to use it? I'd like to get one for my 911 with 61,000 miles. that, I can say that once you held their feet to the fire (literally before the arb), they ponied up honorably and exactly as an insurance company is required to do, at least in NYS. The take away is that the "warranty" or, more accurately, thby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
"Handlebar Moustache", by as yet undisclosed, un-published, and anonymus author (auteur pour les francophones). LOL, ROTFLMAO, and LIAATCWM!!! Please submit your entries asap as contest will close on or before this Friday,19AUG11. Let the games begin! Best Regards, Maurice.by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
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QuoteLawdevil What you say is true in many states. However, the situation I am talking about is where the other party is insured and the insurance company denies liability and either no one is charged by the police or the other insurance company denies liability. In either case, unless you want to go to the trouble to sue the other party, you pretty much have to go through your own insurance (wby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
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Ray: The real problem when the top is stuck in the completely open / down position, with the clamshell on top of it is that it is difficult to do the Owner's Manual manual procedure because of the tremendous pressure that the black "hydraulic" pushrods receive, because that is what holds the clamshell secure after it closes down on the canvas portion of the top... If you have a '97 to '99 Boxsby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
I'm having trouble downloading the photo, but will get it corrected later. Regards, Maurice.by MauriceonLongIsland - Photo / Quote of the Month
QuoteFaster Horses (Apollo Beach, FL) A few days after submitting my claim to my insurance co. I received a letter from the perp's ins. co. stating that her policy had been rescinded 3 days before the incident (suspiciously convenient timing) I contacted my ins. co. and was told that they were aware of the problem and would be pursuing the individual directly to recover the damages. My car has bby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
Remember about two years ago, Boxtaboy had a undiagnosed noise/vibration emanating from the rear, and it only happened when executing certain types of turns (long, sweeping left turns ONLY, IIRC?) The "Deal"-er soaked up some other needed repairs, but it turned out the be the engine mount... One of the subject heatshields may have also first cracked (but not split apart fully) as those heatshiby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
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QuoteDave In MD 10:00 at the Burger King parking lot in Elkton! ooklyn..., Eh, I mean Brooklyn'S infamous traffic violations bureau... Try doing 61 in a 30 mph zone, where the client was coming off the Prospect Expwy, onto the Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn's, not Captree's or Jones Beach's Ocean Parkway) and got clocked at "31 MPH over", which is this case is also TWICE Plus One over the limit! Oooby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
QuotePedro (Weston, FL) ...... I also like the removable faceplate on the 210. ...... Happy Boxstering, Pedro Removable faceplate... How quickly we forget those outdated anti-theft measures. Or are they... I too tend to prefer the understated, classic lines or look that only time will bring Regards, Maurice.by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
Quotefrogster "The squeal may arise from the brake hardware being dirty." more precisely from brake dust between the piston and the pad. most people think that it's the pad against the rotor that squeaks but that's more of a grinding, rubbing sound than the high pitched squeel that occurs under light braking. if the sound goes away when you brake heavily, then it's the dust between piston and paby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
QuotePedro (Weston, FL) n/t Regards, Maurice.by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
Regards, Maurice.by MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum
man-datory to have a "K", "Car" or "Qu" prepositional or oppositional syllable comprising a part of the un-tire nom! enclature... Ergo, past goodies (id est, Oldies but Goodies), which remind me of ewe, have included the likes of Oskar, a/k/a Os-car, and Es-Car-Got (with a silent TEA at the end because its demise was in the English vernacular of the countryside), and Carruthers, for yet anotherby MauriceonLongIsland - Main Forum