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Boxtercrazy

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About Boxtercrazy

  • Birthday 01/12/1968

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    left England 10 years ago, Moved to Colorado, Love Boating and my porsche, have an 06 Bayliner 245, yes there really is boating in CO.

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    Firestone, Colorado
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  • Present cars
    1998 Boxter
  • Future cars
    Boxter S, C4, Carrera
  • Former cars
    Audi,BMW's, things really became complicated since I stopped driving Fords and Chevy's

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  1. I don't know how much about PSM, I have TC in my 98 but I love watching this video, check it out http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p...;vid=1301270727
  2. Thanks Tool, I believe from your answer their the same wheel ,Thanks mate
  3. I have the collapsed horn/airbag bushing thing going on does anyone know if this is the same wheel,
  4. Loren do you know which fuse I should look at as I have no manual
  5. Thank you very much Loren, I also have a smell of gas in the cabin could this be in anyway connected, or help pinpoint which one
  6. 98 Boxter, cel, code reads sec air injection system, Does any one know what this means and how to fix it, I would like to do it myself if I can, Thanks Ross
  7. My 98 drains in about 5 days, from brand new battery install, The Horn is one place it has been draining, removed the fuse but there is still a drain, I think it has something to do with the alarm as the alarm horn has been disconected when I bought it ,Please keep us up to date as to what happens as the drain fried my alternator already. I had a 5 and a 3 BMW that had the boot light that stayed on after it was shut (Sometimes) and that drained the batt also.
  8. If You want to hear weird noise, take the carpet out behind the seats and remove the back plate and then go for a test Drive , You don't hear the Tappet/Fuel injection rattle until about 3000, and My god the heat, You think your engine is about to blow, What a great car, If my engine blows tomorrow I'll still be happy with the times before it happened !
  9. Got my alternator back today, To my dismay the new battery was dead, in 7 days, Put the alternator back in and all was cured after a Jump, Yipee, no more warning lights abs and TC etc, but I still think I have a power drain independant of the horn thing. She ran like a dream though, I love my boxter again, Ahhhhhhh Boxter. What an amazing car, by the way when putting an altenator back in you can save a million hours by realizing that there are three bolt points on the altenator, one on the left and two on the right, The furthest one on the right if tapped lightly with a hammer will open the gap so that the alternator will slide right in place if not you have a fight on your hands,discovered that today.
  10. Spoke to the alternator repair guy today , Described symptoms he told me to pull the alternator back out and get it back down to him, he said he has seen this before, it's called a floating Brush or something like that which causes the alternator not to keep up with the load requirements as the car increases power. Will keep you all informed status so far (Still bad alternator)
  11. Thanks, ordered one on ebay tonight thanks 1schoir
  12. It is a wierd one for sure, just pulled the t/control fuse making sure thats ok, tc warning light no longer up, tc switch works fine again, No battery warning light on, drives great until I accelerate hard, then Batt Light dimly lights again, Does a rebuild need a beak in period on the brushes or does the car act funny when it has had no power source for a while, Or am I still looking at bad rebuild or switch Tricky Eh ? I plugged my actron in says all is fine but who knows. Ill run it again tomorrow and see what lights are gonna show next and I think I'll do the Ig switch just to say I've done it. I'll also get that alt checked.
  13. Thanks Loren and the rest of you guys, Here's the latest saga, I pulled the alternator and sent it away to be checked, theysaid that the volt reg was shot, and the brushes were shot, they told me it was probably due to the original bad battery, put the alternator back in, replaced serpentine at the same time and all was great, Started right up and all the warning lights had reset themselves. I made sure the horn fuse was out so that if that was the original problem it would not re occur . As I went on the test drive all was good and then the dash just lt up like a christmas tree, the abs, tc and battery lights were flashing intermittantly, no rythm , sometimes independantly sometimes not at all, until I went back to idle, and they would then come on speradicly. I stopped the engine and fired it up again, the only light that was now on was the traction control warning lamp but not at the switch on the dash, when I accelerate hard the battery light starts to come on faintly at first and brighter the higher the revs and then dissapears at low revs, My question is, was the alternator repaired incorrectly, (They never asked me if I had tiptronic or Manual) or could it possibly be the ignition switch (Key works fine no Jamming) or both! I'm getting frustrated now.
  14. I Read on One forum That a porsche should always be jumped from the donor vehicle without the engine running , Just FYI
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