BillK

In my experience the front rubber lips are the ones that usually get mangled - usually because of scrapes on curbs, driveways or just dips in the road.

They're around $15 each from the dealer...

I like many people have torn apart the hardtop on my 2003 S to try and silence the creaks and rattles from the various interior trim pieces. (I had the dealer try but they didn't cure it, and PCNA says the squeaks and rattles I suffer are "normal" and refuses to pay for future warramty attempts to silence them. :cursing:)

However, it appears at some point Porsche changed the clips used to fasten the trim pieces to the hardtop shell.

The TSB on hardtop rattles references a one-time use two-piece metal clip, coated to reduce vibration, part number 999 507 479 09, and then each clip needs to be covered with a piece of tricot tape, 999 551 134 40.

However, my hardtop trim was attached to the shell by a one-time use two-piece plastic clip, part number 999 507 764 40.

According to my dealer, the plastic clip does not supercede the part number for the metal clip, and both are still active parts in the Porsche parts system, so I'm trying to figure out which to actually use. (The part numbers for the actual plastic trim pieces that attach to the shell remain exactly the same.)

My gut says the metal clips would hold better than the plastic clips and would be less likely to make plastic creaky noises, though they of course could make metallic rattling noises. :D

Does anyone else who's done this care to comment on which clips their hardtop had? :help:

Sorry for the double post... my web browser got stuck. :lol:

I was afraid of that... I'll have to ask my dealer if Porsche would be willing to do this.

(FWIW, my speedometer reads about 5 MPH high, but fron other posts elsewhere I understand that is pretty much normal for Porsches...)

The clock in my instrument cluster loses one to two minutes per month - rather annoying.

I presume there's no way to adjust this short of having the cluster replaced? :unsure: