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Leo E Waner
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I'm curious, I just completed a plug & coil replacement on a 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S [at 40K miles] , by myself, with a pretty basic garage and tool set and took me almost 10 hours over two days. The challenges I faced were substantially in removing the two rear heat shield bolts over the plugs on both sides, AND the three bolts on the passenger side VTG. While accessible, the quarters were very confined... BUT the big issues was the TIGHTNESS of these bolts... All of these bolts "pinged" when they finally broke free. The difficulty in getting the rear heat shield bolts restarted was also a time consuming challenge for me! Maybe I'm just out of practice working on cars?. Should these bolts be replaced, the ones that were so f*cking tight and "pinged" upon loosening? That is what took the two days.... I sprayed with blaster and WD-40 and let them set overnight? I used liberal amounts of anti-seize compound upon the reassembly... but??? I can't believe these bolts were not over-torqued... but maybe heat, and no anti-seize could have something to do with it?? The heat shield reassembly was my down fall the left side rear shield.... one bolt I dropped numerous times attempting to start with the tips of my fingers... one time the bolt didn't fall to the ground and spent about 1 hour looking for it with my little magnet. It was ultimately found on top on the exhaust header.... had to find it or I was done?? Could not find a comparable bolt anywhere in extensive collection of metric bolts... YIKES?!?!?! An E-torx socket with a wobble extension and a universal attachment wouldn't work on the heat shield rear bolt, used a 8mm box end hand wrench to loosen, held with a ViceGrip pliers & reinstall, just with the box end wrench... but a devil to get these bolts started....... but, Ultimately success! Strategies for a better process or tools are welcome.