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If you NEED to deactivate the bag, you can pull it out, unlatch the connector and put the airbag back into place. This will trigger the dashboard light and leave passengers at risk.

Agreed. Take it in for an alignment and make sure they staighten the steerimg wheel at the same time. How is your tire wear?

It's illegal to idle a car WITHOUT you in it in Denver. That may be the way it works in Germany too. Freedom where art thou.

Oil manufacturers are also being forced to create formulations that contribute to longer life of the catalytic converters at the expense of better lubrication. So it's not unreasonable to assume this is the motivation behind the instructions.

I believe Porsche provides this instruction to reduce emissions. Driving the car will warm it up faster, thus bringing the emissions controls up to operating temperatures faster. Also, a cold idlimg engine is spewing essentially untreated exhaust without doing any useful work (people moving) so the overall trip is more polluting. I can't think of any reason why it would be good for the engine to drive right away. It's probably not too bad to drive it right away as long as your careful with load and engine speed, but I'd think idling for a minute or so is probably better. You at least have to wait until the windsheild defrosts, right?

Thanks for the compliments guys. It's not a bad job, actually, as long as you stay organized. There's not really any specialty tools involved, nothing's prohibitively heavy or cumbersome, and there aren't may things that need "adjusting" or fine tuning to get back together. Orient Express - I didn't take any pictures while the dash was coming off, but the assembly instructions can pretty much be followed in reverse for disassembly. The only big thing that I can think of on the dash removal that isn't noted in installation is to be sure to set the front wheels straight before taking off the steering wheel, mark the steering wheel and shaft positions before pulling the wheel off with some white-out, and be careful not to pull or twist the airbag ring when working in the area once the steering wheel is off. Be careful with the little protruding "fingers" that interface the airbag ring to the steering wheel, they're fragile and will break easily. Also, if you think you have all the screws out and the dash is ready to come out, but when you pull it out, it's not coming, don't force it, there are probably a couple more screws that you forgot. That was the case for me with the bracket that holds the ignition switch to the inside of the dashboard and the screw at the top center of the dash that attaches to the windshield defroster plenum.

I removed my dashboard to fix a "pop" that I would get when raising one front wheel, like driving up a curb. It involves placing felt and a couple of teflon pads in strategic places. I documented the reassembly in case anyone wanted to see what's involved. http://www.filefactory.com/file/ahc1c18/n/...Board_color_pdf

Heree you go. Sorry for the wait! How's the visibility? Any issues with bigger blind spots?

Look where He's from. We'll just chalk it up to natuaral selection. Vacuum system not withstanding, exactly what can happen refueling a running Boxster that has you so scared? Very, very remove possibility of explosion from gas fumes and high emissions.

Amazing price, the next time I need a set of wheels and tires I am going to call you! At $400 sounds like they were stolen! :clapping: Are you positive they are OEM wheels and not the Italian replica's?, a stock Porsche wheel up in the great white north is $1000 each! Anyway, the set you bought has the OEM tires sizes for the 987/987c(F 235-40, R 265-40), the 986 according to the TSB's was different, the front was 225-40 and the rear 265-35... As suggested, you should run the correct sizes for the car, the differences in the look will not be noticable IMHO ahahahah believe me i knew the guy he had a cayman and bought the cayman s rims from dealer $2500 brand new, he had them on for 2 weeks and decided to trade in his cayman for a E350 =/ So he had them sitting in his back and just wanted to get rid of them, he originally wanted to get $1000 out of it but i told him all i got is $400 :D hes like ok here...so it was a steal, and tomorrow i have an appointment with discount tire co. i called them and they told me then can give me credit for the tires not a complete trade, does anyone know a company that will trade them, the tires are still brand new, only used for 3 weeks!!! btw im selling my boxster 2 17's with tire if anyone is interested :) ps here are the pictures of my car with the oversized tires on them lol The wheels are really nice. It does look a little high in front, but not so much so that I'd think there was something off if I saw the car on the road. It could just be an optical illusion due to the different design and color of the wheels and the fact that the rear tires are too tall so they fill in the wheel well better than the stock size does. Are you sure it was lower on the 17s?

Are the front tires rubbing on the strut? Your problem in the front is something other than the overall diameter of the wheel. Got any pictures? The rear may look fine, but that's not really the most important thing. You should keep the overall circumference to something less than 4% of stock, which means the rear tires should be changed.

The front should be 225/40, ignore my previous post, I had a calculation error. But actually, the 235/40 should still only 1.3% off from stock circumference, which is actually OK. Oh ok thank you very much ill see if i can get my tires swapped out for a smaller size, should i leave the rear tire the way it is or size them down a bit also ? You could leave the fronts alone if they don't rub. You should replace the rears.

The front should be 225/40, ignore my previous post, I had a calculation error. But actually, the 235/40 should still only 1.3% off from stock circumference, which is actually OK.

You have increased the front wheel circumference by 7.7% and the rear by 5.0%. That's WAYYY too far off. You'll not only mess up the car's speedometer (actually probably brings it closer to reading true with the Porsche built in error, but anyway...), but the DME will probably be pretty confused for the ABS system and if you've got PSM. If you want to keep about the same tire widths, you need 265/35-18 and 215/35-18. Even a 225/40-18 is 6.5% larger diameter then stock, which is still too big.

Not even an option, my friend.

Porsche offers a smaller steering wheel on the 987 as an option, they call it the sport steering wheel. It even comes with a thicker rim. I wonder if the 987 and 986 wheels are compatible?

I haven't seen the flow over the side of the car, but if it acts as Brad describes, then the air at the intake follows the air flowing over the side of the car, which increases with the speed of the car. This lowers the pressure at the mouth of the intake, which makes it harder for the engine to pull in air. This is referred to as static pressure. When you add an effective scoop, and it's hard to tell if the Kokeln unit is just by looking at the picture, the pressure at the intake will increase as speed increases as the car catches and pools air in the scoop. From a technical standpoint, it's called total (stagnation) pressure. It's the addition of the static pressure and the dynamic pressure (the pressure resulting from bringing the air to a stop). This will actually improve the ease with which the air can be pulled in by the engine. Now there are some complicated things going on with recirculation when you add the bump to the front of the intake like they did in the 2000+ cars. That can actually create some of that scoop effect without the drag associated with the scoop.

Antifreeze is naturally clear. When the manufacturers add their food coloring, they don't have any rules to go by beyond whatever their internal convention is. So there's really no point in going by color as the exact same mixture can be two different colors from different manufacturers. It looks like Porsche hasn't even been consistent with their own coolants.

Been looking under the car. I can't find anything that this thing would remotely fit onto. I'm still stumped. Any more ideas?

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What year and what's wrong with them?

The chassis can be drained?

Are you talking about 930-113-430-00-M136 If so, that's not quite the same, plus it looks like that part is only for the tiptronic, mine's a stick.

So do you think that's what I've got here?