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Thank you all! Filling in some of the details... 77Kmi, no recent service, I read codes last night and there weren't any stored. As for the 'not fully starting,' if I release the key a split second too soon when I'm starting it up, it will start but just barely -- it runs really rough and sounds terrible. I guess I'm not sure the difference between the sound of the starter and the sound of the enby phatryd - Main Forum
Hoping someone can help... have a knot in my stomach. I started up my '01 986 this afternoon and it fired up but did not sound like it was fully starting so I turned the key back to off before it got running. I then tried to turn the key to start it again (this has worked without issue in past) and all I get is the normal sound of the starter but the engine does not start. I removed the key andby phatryd - Main Forum
Thanks guys. Learned more than I expected yet again. I will try the fix just to see if it does the trick, Pedro. And FWIW, MarcW, I have a loose substrate brick in one of my CCs also -- so far, the worst symptom has been occasionally sounding like a Model T on an bumpy road.by phatryd - Main Forum
Hi all, It's been ages since I've posted (was more active on the old PPBB ) but just wanted to share some insights in case anyone else runs into this... I have a 2001 Boxster that had a persistent hunting idle that I could not get rid of (began at around 55K miles). Idle RPMs would fluctuate up and down and it finally got so bad the car stalled a few times at a stop. Smoke tested the motor mulby phatryd - Main Forum