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Thank you for that, I'll take a look for prevention in the future.

I've a 2001 - 996 that over the years has suffered water ingress. A few years back I found out about the water drains and how they get blocked, the car was regularly parked under a Silevr Birch tree that at various times of the year had the worst size parts that could probably block small drains so every 2 years started blowing them out with compressed air which helped massively and the tree died and has since been cut down. This year we had some absolutley torrential rain for quite a few days and the inside became absolutely soaked and damaged some of the electrics. I've heard some stories that the rear drains exit in the wheel arch and there's a cover over them, it sometimes gets to the stage the cover needs to be removed and the drains cleared from the bottom end. I've taken it in somewhere and they haven't looked at that but say there is quite a history that the seals all go, especially as it's parked outside year round and has suggested replacing them all but it's expensive and if it's just a case of removing the covers on the wheel arch and clearing them don't want to spend the extra £2000 for seals if it doesn't need them. My dilema, I pay for the new electrics which will also reqire recoding 2 keys which is expensive, if I just make sure the drains are completely cleared both ends, I run the risk that it was actually the seals and having paid out for the electrics / keys it fills with water next time we get torrential rain and I'm back to square one and have potentially damaged a 2nd set of electrics. Trying to find out how common this issue is and is there any way to test it without incurring a similar cost of just replacing the seals. A more general question about the same issue, does the hard top - if it's on - make any difference in terms of reducing the amout of water the drains have to deal with or does it still take the same route. I do wonder to a degree if the rain was so bad that the drains just couldn't cope with it but would have thought Porsche's engineers would have calculated how much they may have to deal with in more extreme climates. Any help from anyone greatly appreciated.

Sorry .... you say it doesn't take a code, I'm confused. I've owned the car for 18 years and have entered the radio code several times over that period, I unfortunately lost the card recently that it's written on. I've attached a picture of the radio requesting a code? Probably me being a bit thick but if you could explain would be greatly appreciated?

Any chance of getting a code for a CDR 32 Model No. 4667 Ser No. 15000533