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As others said, par for the course. Other than my 06 Club Coupe, my 5 prior Posches (996's & 986's) all were 3-4 MPH off, similar to yours. The Club Coupe is barely off, by 1-2 MPH, and is the closest I've ever had.by Paul S. - Main Forum
Quotedb997S A big factor for me, is what's your deductible? Was the other person in the car when it happened (potential for additional liablility if claims injury)? What kind of car was it (deminishing value or whatever that thing is called)? Lots of factors come into play to decide if you should call or not. If you do call your agent, find out how long after an accident you have to make a clby Paul S. - Main Forum
Quotepatrick I think they are supposed to be inspected every 5 years or so. Sounds like your air bag should have gone off. You are right it would have been more expensive if it deployed. I had a frontal crash in which both air bags deployed including the passenger side even though there was no passenger I had to replace both air bags and the force of deployment from the passenger air bag broke thby Paul S. - Main Forum
Quotegrant on the first wheel. That removes the guesswork. Grant That's my "system" too--my catch bottle holds a pint and came with lines on it, but I just eyeball, so that around 3/4's of the bottle from the first wheel and paying attention to the fluid coming out the end of the drain tube, and less from wheels 2-4. I stopped using the ATE blue to gold alternating, after doing my first brakeby Paul S. - Main Forum
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QuoteMarcW around the seat back to hold the blanket up on the seat back and in place on the seat base. Might point out that the dog is not safe in the car should you have to make an emergency stop. Years ago I had a dog on the front passenger seat of my pick up truck and was driving home (just a few blocks away from home) when (what proved to be) another dog darted out in front of my truck. Thby Paul S. - Main Forum
QuoteTheFarmer I feel that the reason that I have a Porsche is because of how great it feels while driving it, and the fact that I can count on the acceleration, steering and brakes. Maybe the top will get stuck or the radio won't work or a headlight will fail, but the things that I really need to work - brakes and tires - are the things that I keep a close watch on. I do my own pads and rotorsby Paul S. - Main Forum
As others have alluded to, if you keep a car long enough and don't change the brake fluid, you will be replacing expensive brake system parts. Not to shock you but an ABS pump (I had one replaced under warranty in my 01 Turbo) is a $5,000 part. Brake fluid in all cars should be changed, regularly. The problem with waiting too long is the moisture starts corrosion and when you do change the fby Paul S. - Main Forum
I thought I would weigh in on this quote from your review, "I promise you under hard steering conditions there will be times that you want to change gears and will not be able to do so." I have driven and tracked 6 different Porsches, all with tiptronics (I know they're not PDK's but the positioning of the shift buttons are the same). My point is this: First, if you unlearn certain bad habits-by Paul S. - Main Forum
QuotePedro (Weston, FL) ... several sets of Lloyds Mats and a couple of the OEMs as well. No question that the Lloyds are superior in feel and wear (there are several tiers of quality in Lloyds - get the thickest). I, on the other hand absolutely love the strap system. It anchors to the seat rails and uses a quick-release buckle for the mat. I've never had it come loose. The velcro system for thby Paul S. - Main Forum
And therein lies the rub--in a Boxster, I doubt even a flat front tire would fit in the front trunk. Even in the 986's if you had 18" wheels, putting a fully deflated rear tire in the front trunk was dicey at best, and those trunks had more space because Porsche hadn't put in all the trunk treatment that came with the 987 and elimination of the spare. There's no really good spare tire solutionby Paul S. - Main Forum
I don't think lack of power affects putting the car in neutral--I guess do it the normal way and see. Or drive your other car to the nearest walmart and buy a plug in battery maintainer, and if your car's still in warranty, there's always roadside assistance.by Paul S. - Main Forum
I don't know if Porsche changed the Porsche Sport Exhaust since my 2006 Club Coupe, and if they did not, you have two options to have the PSE in the always on or open position. One entailed disconnecting and plugging a vacuum hose on the control switch and the other was unplugging the relay. Both are accessible from the engine compartment, which is easier on a Carrera than a Boxster. But y'allby Paul S. - Main Forum
Open the door using the key in the lock; then go to the fuse box, and pull out the red terminal; connect the positive terminal of either a battery charger or battery from another car using jumper cables; negative to door jam striker; and the trunk switch will work. Have your key handy because the alarm may go off, and you'll need to reset it. Or you can plug in a battery maintainer in the cigarby Paul S. - Main Forum
I didn't see the clip, but FWIW, that was roughly 5" of snow on top of packed ice, here in Dallas and temperatures still in the 20's. Any Boxster here is likely on summer tires and those are not good in the cold. Fact is, the traction starts going down as the temperature gets under 50 and degrades as it gets colder. A lot of drivers have really bad car control feel, and don't notice the diffby Paul S. - Main Forum
QuoteMarcW clip I might end up further up the hill! AWD you know. Powerful cars like the Corvette, the Turbo -- to name just two -- can get away from one before one knows it. Not too many years ago a car with the performance of a modern 'vette or similar car would have been a supercar. And not too many years before that an out and out race car, sans the posh interior and road legal stuff. Weby Paul S. - Main Forum
QuotePedro (Weston, FL) ... then it's a lot quicker to raise one side of the car at a time and work on both the front and the rear of the raised side at once. You can put a jack on the rear jacking point, just in front of the rear tire and lift. the Boxster is rigid enough that the whole side will lift. This is what we do routinely at the track to install our racing pads and then again after theby Paul S. - Main Forum
Quotegrant this is why you always hand start bolts and use a torque wrench! especially with alloy parts. Grant (who's brakes finally stopped squealing) Best advice in the world--until the day I die, I will never understand how (whoever did it) stripped out the threads on the carrier bracket on my 67 Corvette. I take the bolts out, clean them off with brake-kleen, hit with a wire brush as neeby Paul S. - Main Forum
QuoteMauriceonLongIsland TimeSert is that they sell a tool with it which insures that you are going in completely square. Regards, Maurice. Actually, from the video I saw (and I am going to guess it was of the master kit--Helicoil has master kits with metal insert tools too, but I've never seen them in any retail store--used with what looks like a pretty standard thread tapping hand chuck), itby Paul S. - Main Forum
QuoteJFP in PA Yes, you should be concerned as loss of threaded area in the caliper. Suggest looking at installing a Helicoil thread insert into the damaged openings... You will end up with steel threads for the bolts to grab onto. You will need to drill out and re-tap the damaged holes, but they sell complete kits to make this an easy fix. I'm going to suggest, just saying no to Helicoilby Paul S. - Main Forum
OK, I don't have a boxster anymore, but it is easy to test this out. It will sound the alarm, but under the scenario posed, the car is locked with the remote, which arms the alarm. The trunk releases (year dependent) may be cable controlled but there is a locking mechanism that is powered that locks out the switch. That's why when the battery's dead you cannot open the trunks at the switches (by Paul S. - Main Forum
Quotetamarsha I had the brake fluid flushed fall of '09. I try to get it flushed every two year. Do you think it will be necessary to do it again before the April DE? I am sure I am not pushing the car as hard as it could be so I was not real sure about how necessary track pads would be. The track is Carolina Motorsports Park which I understand is harder on brakes than most. So I think the geneby Paul S. - Main Forum
QuoteRainyDayGarage The closest Walmart was 10 miles away in Quincy. They carry DieHard chargers, but no DieHard car batteries. In fact, they don't carry any car batteries at all. Wonder if that is true of any other Walmarts. Let me clarify--the Walmart and Diehard batteries are both made by Johnson controls. You paid more for Diehard's label vs. Everstart (at Walmart). Every Walmart around heby Paul S. - Main Forum
QuoteBobtesa I looking for decent music when I take what are going to be more frequent long drives. (My daughter, and more importantly, my grandson, are about a 75 minute drive; and my kayaking buddy is about 2 hours away.) Free radio just doesn't cut it for me anymore on these trips - too little music, too repeditive, way too many commercials. I have a friend with an iphone and he like pluggiby Paul S. - Main Forum
QuoteRainyDayGarage We don't do much of our shopping in brick & mortar stores any more. However, the Boxster's battery died yesterday and we need another one ASAP. So we brought the dead DieHard back to Sears and picked up a new one. The amazing part was they were able to locate our old receipt in the system. As it was still within the 100 month warranty period, we got $31 bucks rebate for iby Paul S. - Main Forum
I cannot stand the Cars--Freshman year in college, a guy across the hall in the dorm played the Cars endlessly. 31 years later and I still cringe at Cars songs.by Paul S. - Main Forum
My driving tunes playlist is getting rather lengthy--currently at 75 songs (and 5.7 hours play time). The common thread is songs I like and a lot have something loosely about cars. Some obvious like "Life is a Highway". Some less so, like "Wango Tango" ("your face is a Maserati...") ). Others--"It has a good beat....you can dance to it". You get the idea. Driving Tunes Playlist: 1. Allby Paul S. - Main Forum
You may want to check the price and selection for 3D blu-ray disks. Not a lot of content out there at the moment and pricey. I was at the Dallas Cowboys game last year, when they broadcasted most of the 3rd quarter in 3D on the "jerry tron". What a bust. The crowd cheered loudly, when they stopped the 3D. And 3D glasses stink. So I will be sitting out the 3D at home experience, and hope Jby Paul S. - Main Forum
At the right price, I'd take the an 02 S because it has a spare and IT DOES NOT have the variable ratio steering. The single thing I didn't like day one on my 06 Club Coupe and still don't, is the variable ratio steering. The net effect is, older cars without it turn with less total steering input and have better feel. I also like the 02 styling which was the last year for what is essentiallby Paul S. - Main Forum
Essentially what the install was is to get the aux in connector cable from Becker, and then a cigarette lighter dock charging cable that charges the current iPods and also has an aux out jack. The iPhone/iPod connects to the dock connecting charge cable, and behind the dash is a cigarette lighter outlet the adapter plugs into, and a mini rca cable from the aux out of the charger to the aux inby Paul S. - Main Forum