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Now this is a neat idea that my 986 didn't have! I read the section in the manual but didn't see where the frequencies that this remotes system uses are listed? Seems to be like a programmable RF remote? In addition to a garage door, I would like to be able to turn on driveway lights when I get home in the dark. Has anybody seen a list of the commercially available products this system works with? Home depot for example has some RF light switches but of course there no 'Porsche approved' logo on the back! :D I guess they figure most Porsche owners are not DIY'ers!

I called the local dealer and was prepared to buy one from them and was pleasently surprised to find that they are charging about 20% more then the MSRP listed on the forums look-up. <_< Time to head over to Dad's and spin up the lathe! I sure wish I had a metric leadscrew or transposing gears for my aged South Bend. Hey, way too interesting, My Dad's lathe is a 9" South Bend as well, I am pretty sure that the lead screw in SAE, but he does have a whole lot of gears for it (transposing?). I used this exact type of lathe in shop when I was in grade school, nobody else liked it because of the belt/pully system! Didn't matter to me because that was what I was used too, because of this I had almost unlimited time on it during class too. :) If I remember correctly it is circa 1940... Mine is a 10K, which is basically a 9" on jack stands. circa 1959. To cut metric pitches you need a special set of metric transposing gears in addition to the "whole lot of gears". Those are called change gears. Sometimes there's a quick change gearbox, like on mine, which is a 40-speed transmission replacing that pile of fiddly gears. None of those pitches are a close enough match to the metric 1.5 thread to allow you to cut a thread and have it screw in fully. Anyway, the transposing gears are a set of a 127 tooth and a 100 tooth gear. 127 = 254 / 2. 254 comes from the 25.4mm per inch. Those gears are not common, and are not cheap. Complicated by the fact the South Bend uses an oddball pressure angle gear (which vary with the vintage). Bill Hi Bill, your reply leads me to believe that I may be out of luck. Transposing gears, not too likely at all as he is not too found of metric, avoids working in it whenever possible. But being that he is a machinist by trade and knowing that he made a couple of the change gears that were missing when he bought the lathe, maybe he can make these too? Dad's lathe does not have the quick change gear box, we have been looking for one of these forever, we have learned to live with the gears, he is 'old school', I sometimes think that he was looking for the gear box so I would make more use of the lathe! I searched the net and found out that 14mm-1.5 dies are available in HSS, not too expensive $12.90 from a place called Victor Machinery, this might be the easier route if you only needed to make one size metric thread. But... I would also like to duplicate the thread pitch found on the tow hook, it is even larger. Al

I called the local dealer and was prepared to buy one from them and was pleasently surprised to find that they are charging about 20% more then the MSRP listed on the forums look-up. <_< Time to head over to Dad's and spin up the lathe! I sure wish I had a metric leadscrew or transposing gears for my aged South Bend. Hey, way too interesting, My Dad's lathe is a 9" South Bend as well, I am pretty sure that the lead screw in SAE, but he does have a whole lot of gears for it (transposing?). I used this exact type of lathe in shop when I was in grade school, nobody else liked it because of the belt/pully system! Didn't matter to me because that was what I was used too, because of this I had almost unlimited time on it during class too. :) If I remember correctly it is circa 1940...

A quick couple of questions: About the painted plug covering the tow hook hole on the 987 Boxster (possibly all are the same). How do you remove the plug safely without damaging the paint? Also, anybody know the size of the thread that the tow hook uses? thanks

The reason I like the idea of the alignment tool is because I remember having to touch up to many chips I was putting into the paint on the calipers... :angry: I called the local dealer and was prepared to buy one from them and was pleasently surprised to find that they are charging about 20% more then the MSRP listed on the forums look-up. <_< Time to head over to Dad's and spin up the lathe!

Thanks for the replies everybody, I am off to the 'Metal Supermarket' this afternoon to get some material to make up what I need, probably over kill but like I say to my kids: 'take care now and later you won't have to say your sorry!' For me, Murphy is always watching and waiting for me to let down my gaurd so he can jump in with a 'gotcha!', and then he sits back and laughs as I lament " stupid, stupid, stupid..." :censored: Hey, sort of on the same topic, I thought tire sealants were not the best idea?

A change on the 987 from my 986 in an attempt to save space/weight by eliminating the jack, spare tire and other tools required to remove the wheels has left me with a little problem, no jack that fits the cups under these cars! :angry: So I need to find out what the thread size is so I can fashion some removal tools (you know the one, designed to support the wheel while the remaining bolts are removed). I have a plan for the floor jack that I have, along the lines of something I saw on eBay, a pin and some UHMW poly in place of the standard cup on the jack. So if some one can check the one that came with a 986 as to thread size, length of thread and overall length, this would be very helpful. I still feel a bit vulnerable traveling with out a jack or a spare! :huh:

So Alan, your car has the same style of headlight assembly as I show in the picture right? The lights are too bright to tell! :D Does the kit you installed use the usual 35W HID bulb (I know there are many, but nothing unusual?)? As I posted, I am bit worried about the danger of damaging the headlight enclosure. Any word back from motoadve?

You have to hand it to the 'Lawnmower Man' that is a slick way to avoid drilling into the bumper! :cheers: Kabota's and Porsche, strange bedfellows indeed!

My 2006 came with the regular Halogen lights, happy to say that they visually resemble the Bi-Xenon option minus the washer nozzles. Interesting, while reading the manual, I see the B-Xenons are 35w HID bulbs, I can get a kit online with these same bulbs, would get me real close to Bi-Xenon lights, only missing the self leveling feature and the washers. Are there any bad reasons with this plan, the kit bulbs are 35w as well? Any problem with heat dissipation and the regular headlight assembly? I remember seeing yellow stains on the inside of the lens of a MY03 that had an HID kit, could have been from hi-wattage regular halogens as well? Replacing the 55w H7 bulbs with 35w HID bulbs should run cooler if anything, right? Has anybody tried this?

I have not taken the lights apart to look for the ballast, but there are no washers and the code list does not have the Bi-Xenon option listed, so Halogen is the result. They are gret lights however, very distinctive cutoff and a nice color temperature. hmmm, see the new post on an upgrade idea...

Well, the US parts list has a different part number and the bulb is white - whereas the RoW part number uses an orange bulb. Also, they show the same version for US from MY05 through MY07. Of course I could be wrong - but I have been reading their cryptic codes and logic for many years... :wacko: Would that be the key then? "whereas the RoW part number uses an orange bulb." Get the part number for this assembly, orange bulb = clear lens BTW, I was on the Suncoast Porsche e-parts site looking at what they had and this was the part numbers they listed: "Model: 98763103301and 98763103401 " they referred to them as original equipment on European Porsche's. I may give them a call tomorrow and see what's up.

I just recently made the change from a 986 to a 987, the newer car does seem to be larger with respect to the amount of headroom. I did find however that I could adjust the height of the seat so low, I'm sure other motorists thought that I was sitting on the floor. FWIW I am 5'10" With regards to the 987 I read that they extended to height of the roll bar slightly for better protection in the unfortunate event of a roll-over, also that the actual seats are different as well, not sure about the seat width, but the back is definitly higher in the 987.

hmmm, interesting, how did you tell that it was orange from the price list? For grins, I copied the picture from the Porsche 'configurator', to show what I saw, the clear markers compliment the clear headlights nicely!

For a 987, I have seen clear side markers in certain pictures, do we have a part number? Actually strange because on the Porsche website, an exercise in 'build you own' shows clear as standard for my07, was this not the case for my06? Thanks

Is the build date for these cars on the decal located on driver's door jamb?

Did you enter them as I267 and I268? No, and I see the notes regarding this now... thanks

Very cool, thanks guys. Right, forgot the notes on the option code look-up about the I and the M It of course has airbags, but then again I thought that they all did (I502)? 267,268 from the other thread, 584, ahh yes the storage box.

As DenverBill pointed out, no headlight washer, so I gues no Bi-Xenon either :( The halogens on my 986 were pretty good, so if these are better as suggested, I'll be happy too!

Thanks Loren, I did check the option look-up but it didn't return anything for these codes. They are listed on the sticker in the service manual.

I got most of them from the sticker, but these I can't resolve: 267,268,502,584 Also this car has the preferred package but I don't see the codes for mats, rain sensor etc, etc, what's up with that? If I call PCA can they provide the complete list? I would like to confirm what I thought I was getting. Thanks

I'll have to look at them as you suggest, I have only had the car for a day so not really enough time to figure all of this out. Do the regular halogen have the same lens system as Bi-Xenon ones?

This is a Candian car (might not make a difference), with the "preferred package", which is supposed to include the P12 option: rain sensor and self-dim mirrors. How can I tell? Thanks

Are these standard halogen lights or Bi-Xenon? Thanks

BINGO!, yes a few pages in, where the Vehicle Identification info was to be written in... Thanks! PS. maybe I should read some of this stuff! :D