Show all posts by userDiscussion of Boxsters and other Porsches |
In fact, in the hands of most idiots, AWD just gets you to unsafe speeds faster. It does nothing to improve braking steering or cornering grip. We all have 4Wbrakes and 4 contact patches. I really DO love my Audis in the snow, but that's with 4 snows and lots of skating away on the thin ice of the new day practice. ps: anyone go to the QCUSA ice driving school in New Hampshire last weekend? Gby grant - Main Forum
Here it is. Absolutely no grease inside Some residual oil No apparent damage to the races. Cant see the balls. not sure what to take away from this. at 37k the grease is gone. OTOH, it is not deteriorating too badly either, which suggests it was getting oil. Consistent with the "drive it like you stole it to get splash lubrication" theory. Grantby grant - Main Forum
...summer tires. Plus a mid-engined car will spin easily and keep spinning. Low moment of inertia. Is that bad? I say heck no. But if you are an idiot, and most drivers are, it has its side effects. A "safer" design for snow is a nose-heavy, FWD car with a propensity to continue going straight no matter what you do. Kinda compromises handling and agility, though :-) I have 4 now tires on myby grant - Main Forum
Did donuts in the church parking lot just after it snowed last...whenever. Plus, no car benefits from sitting idle. Just keep the salt off when possible. I try to do a car wash after every major snow/salt infestation. Its a good winter car. Warms quickly. Loves the dense, cold air ("nature's intercooler"). Mid engine layout provides adequate traction. Very, very low though! I bottomed out pullby grant - Main Forum
for the record, my clutch held with the material torn into pieces on the race track once. They dont just start to slowly slip. It goes from holding to shuddering upon engagement to dead. IME anyway. Grantby grant - Main Forum
In manufacturing and design it is well known that most defects either appear quickly or essentially never. In electronics infant mortality is the vast, vast failure mode. That's why extended warranties on electronics are such a bad deal - and so in credibly profitable. A TSB for a defect such as a too-short harnass indicates that the failure almost MUST re-occur. In fact, i'd insist they takeby grant - Main Forum
The oil spot on the left is from earlier. The one on the right formed over the past 36+ hours. Grantby grant - Main Forum
actually, now i'm thinking either PS fluid or simply road dirt.by grant - Main Forum
There is an oil spot on the paper now. Unclear if this is from the inside, or just the lip where the seal meets the metal. The whole thing was (duh) covered in oil. See for yourselves. 18-20 hours elapsed: Grantby grant - Main Forum
2002 Audi S6 avant with 70-something k miles 2007: $3517 (ouch, timing belt ++) 2008: $1134 (tires+) 2009: $0 (i dont count oil etc) 2010: $359 (plugs, muffler clamps, filters) 2011: will be, among other things, full brakes, but that's a project just because i feel like it. No doubt a big surprise too. Meh. Grantby grant - Main Forum
neither owuld be a big deal. Just an idea. Grantby grant - Main Forum
Ao far no leak inner either. The problem is that its hard to keep it propped up on an angle.by grant - Main Forum
I found errors, omissions, etc and cant fix them. But for a short interval i can. So it must be a timer. Grantby grant - Board suggestions
$1500/year plus depreciation. On costly cars, its far cheaper to fix. On cheap cars maybe not. Incidentally, ron Ananian, WOR's car doctor, uses the same figure through coincidence. For example, my S6 avant depreciated about 30-35k over the first 3 years. (for someone else, btw) Say $10k/year. Its now depreciating at roughly $4k per year over the next 10. And at 9 drives like new. Add $1500/yby grant - Main Forum
n/tby grant - Main Forum
n/tby grant - Main Forum
nothing on clean white paper. As to the N/S bit, no i didn't actually speak with Charles yet. And he didn't say in his note. Grantby grant - Main Forum
Now have 17 DE days under my belt over a period of 3 years. The first year i did one event. Good, but by the next year, much was forgotten. Bad habits returned. Feel from the track was lost. Not gone, but diminished. Next year then, on much pressure to be serious if i wanted ot get any good, i did two. Big improvement. Each time you go out, you work on something new and a small new world opeby grant - Main Forum
like .....where a car's limits are. What happens as you approach them, and eventually exceed them. How it recovers. How to balance it - either using throttle to adjust attitude (my attitude improves with massive throttle for example), or steering and throttle to balance a slight drift ( if much hard packed green stuff extends to the outside of your line). It will forever change how and when youby grant - Main Forum
I cleaned it off with a tissue, and now have it sitting on a 45 degree angle on a white buck slip, to see what leaks out. Fort the record, after 5 minutes a small drip is visible on the face of the seal - so something is. Someone asked how much play was in it - if you rock the shaft as if one was stirring a mortar or using a joystick. Answer - there *is* play, but nearly none. Since Charles tby grant - Main Forum
shops can be a pain. Often it easier and faster to fix it myself. I will also 2nd that while my Audis have been very durable ( actually 125 is nothing, i routinely go > 300k), they are very difficult to work on, and require a lot of maint. Much harder and more maint than our boxsters. Grantby grant - Main Forum
i've learned volumes in DE. No car comparison though, and i dont recall seeing Hurley int he right seat :-) Grantby grant - Main Forum
.. you have to add repairs and depreciation to have a comp. J have found that over time, used cars eat up $125/mo >> new ones do (oil changes etc are a wash). As a partial DIY guy, i'm usually well under that long term. So far the boxster has been quite cheap. Grantby grant - Main Forum
Quotelongislander1 Now, some questions for the OP (grant): I may have missed it, but could you go over the parts/labor costs again for the LN repair? Did you simply find a local mechanic who would agree to do the fix and then order the necessary parts from Raby? I'm interested to know because I may want to have this repair done myself. Thanks. Sorry i missed this. I bought the part from LNby grant - Main Forum
And i am now in that space. Rightly or wrongly. Grantby grant - Main Forum
looks nearly identical. Where are the "3 slots"? Grantby grant - Main Forum