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create a button to mute and blank political ads. I live in a swing state. I long for the days when I can see a Kia commercial. OTOH, if I buy that $170k Targa and I install the switch, would the canopy blow off? (There, I got the Porsche content in.)by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
1997 Base introduced 2.5Litre engine 201 HP. 5 speed manual transmission, Tiptronic 5 speed optional Originally produced in Stuttgart. 11th digit of VIN is S. Later produced in Finland. 11th digit is U. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1998 Base 2.5Litre engine 201 HP. 5 speed manual transmission, Tiptronic 5 speedby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
As you can see any time you visit a wheel repair shop. I had to get one of mine repainted and, since the shop was 50 miles away, I happened to arrive before the shop started work. One of the guys let me wander through the shop. All sorts of exotic huge wheels. Looked expensive. When I asked about them, he explained that those were from the cars the local pro team members drove. Then he mentioneby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
18” wheel option with rear chassis reinforced to accept new wheels. Rear body structural change included redesigned wheel wells and coil spring mounts, lower engine compartment bulkhead, rear wall crossmember and rear axle mount reinforcements.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
is the chassis problems were detected in cars that were using 18" wheels on the track.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
1997 Base introduced 2.5Litre engine 201 HP. 5 speed manual transmission, Tiptronic 5 speed optional Originally produced in Stuttgart. 11th digit of VIN is S. Later produced in Finland. 11th digit is U. See note in red below. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1998 Base 2.5Litre engine 201 HP. 5 speed manual transmiby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
seems to be with the tests not predicting well the results in the real world. So there is pressure to change the tests in the EU and to test car on a random basis rather than a single car being predictive of all those of similar engine. Kinda like the tests that caught the VW real world problems but without the cheating. But that incident caused a focus on how cars really performed. And guess whby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
While I know we had comparatively few deaths and more resources to deal with the issues, I also know from personal conversations today South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia are all still massively affected. Got only 8" in a day in my city maybe 150 miles inland but 30 miles south it was 12"+. Boats adrift, docks too, 200 trees down across roads, 25 houses with trees on them all in my small devby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
I've tried twice to send you a private message but that doesn't seem to work for me. They were both links to some articles I thought might help including a list of NOVA independent mechanics (if nothing else, someone else to talk to even if you don't take your car there) and a write up on the options I've read about that you have if your engine is blown. Here.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
when I went to "private messages" I had no sent messages despite having sent one earlier in the day and one IIRC yesterday. Inbox was fine.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Board suggestions
I'm not really an authority, just someone who has been fascinated with the whole IMS issue since it was first exposed. I'd go even further in denying any "authoritative" status to say I never had mine done despite owning a '1S for 5 years. My only interest was to get the facts as best I could understand them separated from the marketing and the personalities for my own understanding and then to sby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
On the basis of the many hundreds of samples they see every year, they learn more. Lets list the progressions in understandings I remember from their public statements. Oil change interval and driving style seem to matter. Check the oil filter. Ceramic bearing better than steel. Oil mist better than grease. Installer training and tools. No bypass oil filter better than bypass oil filter. Preby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
keep the replacement wheels/tires in electrically heated blankets to assure that the worst of the "not up to racing temperatures" are kept under control.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Here. Gives you 10 options and you can choose multiples. A slippery slope and dangerous to your wallet.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Maurice (aka 1stchoir) also wrote this one up and items 1 thru 5 cover the top removal/unbolting from the car.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
At one time I thought from folks posts I understood the compatibility between the Porsche parts and the OEM replacements. But further reading led me to know I wasn't right and so I removed that section. O2 sensors are easy and I used the OEM Bosch parts myself. Anyone who knows for sure, please post.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
That is a 730CCA. It doesn't say if it has a vent, if it is right or left hand positive and there is no picture available. Also compare the dimensions to your current one. When I swapped mine, I needed a longer cable. Just went to an Autozone and bought a generic one with the old one in hand so I knew the length, what the ends looked like and "wire thickness". Get anti-corrosion "rings" (to goby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
It seems it is still on Interstate's web site as where the width, height and length are detailed.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
MAF and throttle body cleaned recently?by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
I am following a guy who is installing a '70s Pontiac Firebird body onto a wrecked Prius v chassis. Several year project.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
You have to have the code and follow the diagnostic flow chart before you know whether the problem triggering the CEL is major or minor and thus if the car should be driven for long distances that require reliability. Even just having the code sometimes isn't enough as a single code can have multiple causes, thus Porsche provides in their maintenance documentation a list of causes for a specificby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Porsche 718 Cayman and Boxster To Get N/A Flat-Six 3.8-Litre In GT4 Specby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
My wife has visited it several times, but never sold anything to them. She took her sister there just last month and she did sell a box or two of stuff. Says the size and number of warehouses is staggering. If you are short a piece or two, you can get on their list and they will watch your pattern and email you every once in a while with what they have in stock.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
I offered a daughter-in-law her choice between two two sets of china (one actually made in occupied Japan) and her choice between two 12 piece place settings of sterling silver. No charge! No interest. Doesn't fit their lifestyle. If it doesn't go in the dishwasher ... And she is probably right, in 40 years we have used them probably only ~50 times. Now we just get out the stoneware that wereby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Exactly same thing happened to me. I was downstairs working on my computer when my wife called to tell me to come upstairs that the kids were ready for their good night kiss/reading. Uncrossed my legs, got up, took one turning step on a leg that was asleep, rolled my ankle because I had no feedback to tell me how to operate the muscles and the end of the bone was torn. Sounds worse than it wasby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
how difficult it is going to be grabbing that cup blind so far back that it sits even with the seatback. I'll confess I never found any including the dash mounted ones that were safe for the electronics, fit all my cups and bottles and were convenient. That included the dash mounted ones from the '01S that Porsche used.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
No idea if the links are good still or if the products are still available but there were many different cupholders offered years ago. Here. Also a wrecking yard would have the parts from a later 986 that were used after 2001.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
plug in LED lights that auto senses when you come into the area. I use them for halls and baths where visitors might need to traverse/visit at night. I even have one in an area of the house where I would be entering/exiting some stairs but not wanting to turn on lights. Goes off in about the time you need to exit the area. A $7 solution.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
the dealer accepts any responsibility for something that happens 2200 miles later. Rooting for you.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum