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Are you sure you mean m-mode? In M-mode you need to upshift unless you hit the computer max. Perhaps you mean auto-mode?

yes, m-mode, manual shifting from 1st to 2nd at around 2500~2800, the rpm would jump to 3800~4k before it comes down to a 2k's level.

I bought a used 2009 c2s pdk with 17K miles on it. The car drives beautifully,  except in the m-mode, when I shift from the 1st to 2nd gear, the rpm would go up to 4K before the 2nd gear is engaged. I am used to(2003 tiptronic)  change gear around 2500~3k rpm, but this c2s seems like having a mind of its own and takes the rpm to 4k every time. This only happens from 1st to 2nd, all other gears are fine.  Is this normal? Should I have any concern over this? Thanks in advance!

I think Loren is right. I had a rear bearing problem a few years ago, it started with loud muffler noise at speed over 25mph.

Hi Bill! Read the manual page 211, got it opened mand installed the battery, thanks alot!!!!

Look at page 211 in your owner's manual. There is a procedure out lined there.

If you dont't have an owner's manual go to the "documents menu" at the top of any page here on RennTech and download the manual for future reference.

Bill

I felt the cable under the mid front bumper, I pulled it, the trunk did not open, but I think I have just disconnected or broke off some kind of electric wiring.....This car is going on the flatbed in the morning before gets more damages. Thanks all for the inputs.

2003 boxster 2.7. Yesterday I took out my old battery to replace with a new one, but when I came back home with my new battery, I have realized I have closed the front trunk( I wasn't thinking right!). Now I have no battery in my car and can't open my front trunk, pls help!!!

MY 2003, cdr-23 radio powered by becker be6600 went dead. i went to a local installer and he told me i cant just replacing an aftermarket amp, i will also need to change the radio as well. is there a better, cheaper solutions to this??? i also have read something written about MOST BUS?? if i really have to change both units(radio & amp) will my existing speakers match(i dont think i have the bose speakers)??? :(

Many thanks for all the replies. I will get a set of 4 Sumitomo since they are so cheap with good review from Tirerack.com($79 for the front & $99 for the rear)

Hi,

I have a set of 4 Goodyear F1 17's. After 20k, the front looks ok(maybe still have another 8~10k), but the rear tires look pretty much wornout. I am thinking to replace only the rear 2 tires at this time with a different brand(Sumitomo HTR3), and eventually replace the front ones when I wear them out in 1 year. Is there any problem with 2 different brands of tires??? This is my daily commute car, I dont track nor ever get wild on this car.

What about resetting the service reminders?

major services should be done by porsche dealer, boxster: every 15k, cayenne: every 20k. i do oil changes between each major services, i never saw the service light. but there are many posts for resetting the service light.

$199.98 Parts and Labor

i have a 2006 v6, dealer quoted $275. instead, i bought the mahle oil filter from the internet for $10.00 and took it to the local mobil station for the oil change for $78.00( v6 only takes 7 cans of mobil 1). oil change is oil change, dont believe the dealer's bs on 25 or 50 points checkup!! i do the samething on my 2003 boxster($90.00- 9 cans of oil). save your money, you will needed for the major services..... :D

Please dont sound stupid ;)

GO visit your Boxster and click your headlights once to the right. Now go look at the headlights. Those are your "city lights" or as we call them here "parking lights" in some countries they drive in the well lit cities with these lights on and not their full beam headlights. In the US we park with them on. While your outside playing with your head lights turn them off again and then turn the dial to the left one click lights up the right side "parking lights" for the rest of the world and the second click to the left lights up your drivers side "parking lights" these are used for the times you need to park on a street at night. You would turn on the light on the traffic side of the car.

So in otherwords the yellowish light you see is another bulb in your housing. It can be changed out to a xenon matching bulb. I think its number is 5w5 but please check on that. Its a very easy swap. It changes just like the rest of the bulbs in the housing.

Good luck and please ask any further questions.

hi gary,

u r right! i just did a test on my cayenne. when engine is turned on, xenon low beam & yellow parking light both went on. engine turned off, xenon went off but yellow park light remained on. cayenne has 3 separate lights, but boxster has bulbs behind that round glass cover, cant really tell how many bulbs are behind it. going back to the shop tomorrow, change to a 5000k hid(6000 is just a bit too blue) will also replace a white parking bulb so it wont look so weird like a christmas tree(red car with blue & yellow light). many thanks to you all.

Please dont sound stupid ;)

GO visit your Boxster and click your headlights once to the right. Now go look at the headlights. Those are your "city lights" or as we call them here "parking lights" in some countries they drive in the well lit cities with these lights on and not their full beam headlights. In the US we park with them on. While your outside playing with your head lights turn them off again and then turn the dial to the left one click lights up the right side "parking lights" for the rest of the world and the second click to the left lights up your drivers side "parking lights" these are used for the times you need to park on a street at night. You would turn on the light on the traffic side of the car.

So in otherwords the yellowish light you see is another bulb in your housing. It can be changed out to a xenon matching bulb. I think its number is 5w5 but please check on that. Its a very easy swap. It changes just like the rest of the bulbs in the housing.

Good luck and please ask any further questions.

also started the same thread in the babblers, these are 2 pics when the light switch are both turned to the far right(low beam), 1 is with engine running, u can see the blue hid with some yellowish light. the other pic is with engine off, the hid blue light went off, but the yellowish light still remain on(the light switch was untouched, in the far right-low beam). i was told the hid light should remain on with or without engine running when the light switch is in the low beam position.

OK, so looked at real litronic lights and couldn't swallow the $1300. I have had HID retrofits in a lot of my cars before but have had mixed results with them. I generally buy a projector housing for the car then put hid in that and even then they are not that great.

I bought this kit from CQ Light:

H7, 5000k http://www.cqlight.ca/index.php?cPath=32_45

They are plug and play lights ment for a H7 halogen headlight. The install was really easy. As a matter of fact the easiest I have done in any car. The headlights pop out with the tool in your bag in the spare tire in about 30 seconds then plug in the HID light, zip tie the ballast in the headlight hole to something so it doesn't flop around then re-install the headlamps. You will need to drill a hole in the plastic cover on the back of the headlamps for the hid wiring to go through. Two wires for the bulb it's self and power and ground that plugs into the stock wiring harness. No cutting or soldering involved. The kit comes with power leads with spade connectors on it already that just slip into the stock bulb socket no probs.

The stock halogen lights have the european code light cut off like this. ____/ if you have ever driven close to a wall you will notice it. I took before and after pics. The cut off was exactly the same with no glare or light wandering away. The cut off on the stock lights is really good and cuts the hid off just like the stock bulb so you only get light were the factory light intends it to be unlike most cars. Generally hid retrofits in stock housings have light all over the place which was the case for me a few times. This is NOT the case with Porsche lights, lucky us.

Here are some pics. Notes for each pics are under.

Halogen lights as stock from Porsche.

HID retro fit installed. You can see the cut off is exactly the same on the wall. The car is in a slightly different spot here and it's much darker ouside in this pic making the lights look a lot brigher. More or less the light is exactly the same and in the exact same position.

Halogen light stock.

HID Retrofit with fog on to see difference.

Stock H7 vs. HID H7. You can see the arc point is in the exact same spot. Might be hard as I'm holding the bulbs but they were identical.

Headlights outta the car. 30 seconds a side really.

Stock bulb out. Got kinda hot there wow. HID are cooler running so thats good. The top is the low beem. The HID retrofit goes in like stock. Just run the wires out the plastic cover, drill a hole.

On the front of my house. Same as stock cut off.

HID on the road through the windshield at eye level.

HID on the road over the windshield.

Color of HID 5000k retrofits.

Color of stock halogens.

Just incase you wondered about HID retrofits, you can now see they are just as good as stock. You get the light of HID without 1300 bux. Remember real litronic are better, self leveling etc. so they are worth the money. For $200 you get more light output than stock, the nice HID color, and no downside typical with HID retrofits.

I think that Porsche did a really good job on the stock headlights as they have good cut off from the factory. With a lot more light output from HID lights, they still control the light very well and get it right on the road with no glare.

Bottom line, really good for the cost, and really look nice too.

Just got my 6000k hid installed by a local xenon dealer this afternoon for $235(parts & labor). Took about 1 hour. The installer did not take out the whole headlight piece from the front trunk, he jacked up frontside, removed the panel in the wheel section and worked from the backside of the headlight without removing the whole piece. I guess that also works. I am very happy with the result, the light output on this aftermarket hid maybe even better then the original factory xenon I have in my 06 cayenne. (Sorry, I forgot to mention, the newly installed xenon is on the '03 boxster). PROBLEM: I realized there is some yellowish light in my 6000k hid when I see the car from the front with engine running, but when I turned off the engine, the hid light turned off as well and left with the weak yellowish light, is this normal??? I saw the installer took off the halogen low beam bulbs which I have them in them in the box. What is that yellowish light?? Cant be the parking light? Cant be the signal light? I am going back to the installer on monday, please help, I dont want to sound stupid. :huh:

Very interested in your vfbox's adapters. Let me know if still available:jsellers5@cox.net

It seems like it has taken forever (2 months with all the interuptions), but I finshed one of the more economical upgrades of Boxster stereo speakers in my 2003 S today.

I elected to continue to use the factory CDR23 HU and Becker BE660 Amp because I wanted to retain the stock appearance and as they are linked by fiberoptics, if you change one, you must change both.

Andy Morris' DIY on stereo upgrades is a great guideline to start with and along with that and some personal e-mail advice from Andy I completed the task for less than $450.

I used Harvey Peck's PNP rear speaker kit to start with and then installed 4" MB Quart DKD 110s with vfbox's foam baffles in the dash and 5 1/4" MB Quart DKE 113s in the doors using the stock baffles modified slightly ala Dremel.

The transformation is phenomonal and the results far outweigh the money spent. Those of you thinking about upgrading your system, should do so.

I would like to have a little more amplifier power, but then again I don't want to deal with the fiberoptic compatibility issue.

I initially tried to use some of vfbox's adapter plates to fit the dash speakers, but ended up cutting up the original speakers to do the adaptation because of some clearance problems. These adapter plates are really a nice item and I would guess that they work well in 95% of the Boxster applications. I have them available at a much reduced price, should any of you be interested in them.

Many thanks to Andy Morris for taking the time to put his detailed DIY on the Forum and now I'm on to the next project: the exhaust system.

Lyn

hi brian, many thanks, the pics and instruction will help alot when i take it back the the installer. cheers :cheers:

q-ship, thanks for the photo, yes it is exactly what i have becker be6600 in my 2003 boxster. what if you are right, the installer pulled the pins from the door speakers and plugged the rear speakers into there, but why i can still hear the bass from the door?

chris, i think u r right, he must have tapped the wires to the door speakers, will ask him to connect it to the head unit tomorrow. 2 questions before i ask him to to that: 1. should be battery be disconnected??? 2. do i need the radio code?

kevin,

the installer did not take out the head unit, he just wired it to the becker be6600 amp(he said it is a 4channels) in the front trunk. maybe i should ask him to re-wire to the head unit instead or just buy a new amp. would a 6 channels and 4 channels make any difference?? :(

man!! soooo disappointed!!! bought the pnp rear speakers, found the instaler, have them put in and sound came out terrible!!! well, maybe not terrible but totally not what i have expected from a $235 speaker. when i fade all the way to be back, it sounds like... like... sound covered in the box(lots of bass & flat). now my front speakers sound wonderfully good comparing to the back. i really wonder if the installer connected the wire right?!! my boxster is a 2003, the amp in the front trunk read: becker model be6600, s/n# 986 xxx xxx......., made in germany( i called becker in nj last week, the tech said becker doesnt even make this model???). according to the installer, this becker be6600 is a 4 channels amp. could this be the problem???? :help: :(