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My front end only damage with car driveable repair company stopped counting at over $24k. For your safety, make sure the frame has been measured via a jig or laser and the suspension inspected. The 8K value doesn't sound right...even for a base with 50k. Visit www.cars.com and use the advanced search and you'll see a car like yours with front end driver's side damage asking $7900 before repairby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
And wasn't Gates or Allen footing the bill for the first one street legal and specificallyby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
of the third gen Boxster will still be a 6 cyl. Now the interesting question becomes will people buy the 6 cyl for the tradition or will sales stall while people wait for the all but announced turbo-4 with perhaps more HP? And who will be the first to transplant one of those turbo 4s into the lightweight VW/Audi/Porsche baby-boxster?by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
except I was in the stall with 'em and my experience with finding indies in a big metro area was excellent twice. But get way off in the boonies and you can't find one...heck the nearest dealer has 1 Porsche mechanic. So it can be a scramble. As others have said, ask around and see what others are using. Good work gets rewarded with good words.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
and I had a Mazda made in Michigan by UAW workes with 85% content versus a Dodge MiniVan made in Canada with a Japan sourced engine. So recently I needed a luxo-mobile for my wife. Quiet and comfort and regular gas were the top three items. Buick Lacrosse versus Toyota Avalon was what it came down to. Toyota built in Kentucky 70% versus Buick made in Kansas at 57%. So what is the American car? Nby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
And I recall the cross country publicity flight where they flew the shuttle on top of the 747 across country from a West coast landing and did fly overs of major cities. We all went in to the DC beltway to see it fly in a circle around the city and, as it was early, it did another loop around so we got 2 passes to get pictures...then we all made a mad dash out to Dulles where it was to land. I thby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
museum and you'll see my family name on a few of the planes/missiles there. No close connection as my ancestors came in through New Orleans in the late 1800s. But fun to see. Some of the planes on display now were just out in old barns out on the Dulles grounds then. My wife for a time worked at Dulles and one of her jobs was being a tour guide into the storage and refurb buildings for visitingby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
I've seen the spy shots. Decontenting the Boxster to a turbo 4 puts it too close to the baby box in my marketing think. Too many will buy the baby in some brand and the profit won't be there. To my mind the rumors are mixing up the baby and the Boxster. Guess we'll have to see. I don't think a big HP boost for the 12.5, just the normal 10. Now with the CAFE standards, will they be able to keeby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Not based on any insider knowledge but rather predicated by the talk from VW/Porsche/Audi re the new baby boxster and the accompanying talk of taking the Boxster/Cayman upscale towards the 911. More $, more HP, restyled in and out, bigger. But not radically different from now as Porsche has a habit of doing styling first (see 1997, 2005) with old engines and then introducing new engines as a miby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
and taking a lunch break on the lawn to watch the Blue Angels overhead practicing for the graduation show. Private show...all the middies were in class. I was also lucky enough to have as a customer the Smithsonian when all the good planes were in the old castle and it closed to the public at 4. I regularly called on them a bit after that and was the only one on the floor with the Wright Brosby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Had a rear ender with zero sheet metal or electrical damage. Buy you should have seen her car! Required replacement bumperettes, redo of bumper cover, new crossbar, new bumper support shocks, new fasteners, straighten muffler, painting of bumper cover, etc. Her Insurance co (GEICO) fought over the new bolts the shop wanted to use...the old ones were rusted and 7-8 years old. You don't have to saby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
1. For a while (say 500 miles) your rears will be slick until they wear in. 2. Your tread depth will be slightly different but then that is true for most Boxster owners who replace their rears even if they use the same tire. 3. For around town and on the road normal use the difference between 4 new tires and just replacing the rears (as long as it is the same tire on the axle) with a similar treaby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/996-forum/630121-ims-new-detection-speculation-28.html No connection, just happened to blunder over it this AM. Details are said to come out on 7/8.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
http://sites.google.com/site/mikefocke2/hvacblowermotorby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
would limit the number of potential buyers to only those who liked the combination just as any color does even ones Porsche did ... but we also know from research that some colors affect resale prices by up to 30% and the same are hard to sell. Even some mods affect the price and can almost never recover their cost. In this case, I'd say the color/strips you describe would severely limit the uniby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
If you want high quality air/dirt filtration, the OEM paper type. If you are willing to forgo some filtration, then the oiled filters being careful to not oil them to heavily and to let then sit and drip for a day before installation. Think what high performance must mean...it must mean more airflow which must mean that the "holes" that allow air to flow must be bigger thus allowing larger (andby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
As the manual says "In the case of a catalytic converter fault in the Boxster (2.7l and 3.2l), only the pre-catalytic converter is to be replaced." As I'm thinking of it how would the sensor know of any issue past where it is in the exhaust stream? But my big question is why should the cat be clogged? Any mods? Any history of other faults (AOS?) that would allow unburned gas or excess soot to beby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
www.pistonheads.com but more active is boxsa.netby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Section 5 on http://www.hartech.org/buyers.html is an interesting read on the new engines.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
going back to the 70s and owning some Toyo-Kogo stock. Loved the first RX-7 shapes but the engines were not so good and I see so many negative comments today I can't see the financial case for putting one in a car designed today with CAFE standards even if the 3 series helps offset. I see so few rotarys that I think the market has spoken. Sad because I lost money and so did my dad and I had greatby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
is pull the trans and identify the needed part type before ordering. Extra work and down time, yes. But if you are trying to save $.... Another approach is to sell the unused part in country. You have paid shipping and import tax already on it and the convenience to someone else may be valuable. Get with a mechanic who does several and offer it to him.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
VW, Audi and Porsche will all have versions of the 914-like roadster though they aren't all coming out at the same time or with the same engines. The VW version is said to be priced like a Miata.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
in the same brand and type tire just mean that there was a change and the new tire design/compound was resubmitted for re-certification. Consider your situation before you lost the front tire. Your fronts had lots more tread than the rears. So you must have been able to survive such a slight difference. I'd worry more about the deep tread on the fronts versus the shallow tread on the rears thanby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
still with three pedals.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
and strictly from memory, for the 986 series there were options settable by a PST2 (dealer diagnostic computer) or PWIS and I had mine set to lock at 5MPH. See your owners manual as it listed the options there.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
My Japanese car buying experiences have been mostly bad. All were new car purchases. Mazda 626 - good experience, still in the family after 16 years and running (though ill-maintained by car clueless son) Honda Civic - before 30k replaced 4 brake cylinders and PS pump. Rusted out at 80k between rear doors and wheel wells. Every one I ever saw had the same rust problem. Nissan Sentra - after 2by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
for a car with a pretty open mind and a lot of online and published information, the domestics are back. I was predisposed to a big-3 car this time (despite not buying one for the last 10 purchases) though the needs of my wife made that not work in the end. But the perceived quality and the ratings are now very even. It was ergonomics that eventually drove the choice (a back window upright enougby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
http://www.pedrosgarage.com/Site/PPI_%28PrePurchase_Inspections%29.htmlby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Put my wife's 72k '01 Acura TL up for sale on the Raleigh Craigslist. Priced it to move at $6,499 which was right below what dealers were asking for 120k cars. But expected trouble selling since I'm 50 miles from nowhere. In 3 hours had 3 people begging me to hold the car and they would bring full price. Guy buying it just totaled a similar 200k '00 TL. I'm surprised to get that much out of an 1by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
through CarMax. Never thought of them as a new car seller but they seem to have an arrangement with dealers and the total fees are ~$120, no dealer added options, lowest price, etc. Even adding a day out of my life to go to Md and the cost of a train ride up and gas back, it is lots lots better than any local dealers who seem to have this "we'll all add lots of extras on every car because we canby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum