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GranburyChuck

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  1. I went through, am going through, the same issue. The car is a 2000 996 Tip coupe and my daily driver car that I drive some back roads of north Texas as well as city in Fort Worth. The car originally came with stock suspension but PO put Eibach lowering springs on. Came with no name tires when I bought it. A lot of noise in the car. Switched to M030 springs on the original suspension. Rolling road noise was the same but harsh impacts less (because I wasn't bottoming the springs). Had to change out the tires and put some Yokahoma (don't remember model) all season tires. It was still noisy. Tires got shredded by a piece of metal and had to buy Falkens (don't remember model) on the spot. Still noisy. Finally, pulled out all of the interior in the rear and covered as much as I could with Dynamat Extreme (even inside rear inner fenderwell). Want to say it made a very slight difference, but wasn't fully satisfied. Dynamat recommends trunk, floor, doors, and roof to be covered. So I went to the doors next. Covered the outer and inner door skin with as much Dynamat as I could. Still noisy. Then put Dynamat all over the floor board, still noisy. Starting to notice that my tires are making one hell of a racket after only 5000 miles. Got DiscountTire to give me trade credit on the Falkens and I got Goodyear F1 All Season. Tires were way too noisy out of the box. I am beginning to think the cross chevron pattern was the culprit. Anyway, went about 5000 miles on those and said no way. Dumped those tires and put Sumitomo HTRZ III. Instantly much quieter and softer ride. I'm not saying that it's quiet but it is better than it was. So that brings me to current. When the weather warms I will be putting the remaining Dynamat I have on the roof panel and maybe double up some in the rear if I have leftover. Also, contemplating Dynamat Dynaliner as a sound absorber. Bottom line, this is not a BMW or Audi. Friends who get in the car don't understand how I can put up with that much noise and banging around. But hey, its a Porsche! By the way, I have 18" Porsche Sport Design rims. I believe the larger rim size (lower tire sidewall) also contributes to harshness and maybe noise level.

    Oopps, forgot to add that after the Goodyear F1's and before the Sumitomos I needed to replace the suspension (>100k miles on original) and put the ROW M030 kit on, replacing ever part down to the nuts on the suspension. Don't do this, my impression is harsher suspension and may be contributing to some of my noise level.

  2. I have recovered the center console, defroster vents, door handles in black Alcantara, the console lid and side trim pieces in savannah beige alcantara. Was wanting to cover the dash pod and dash in the future. Without having stitching its fairly easy to do. I think the stitching option makes it look better but when I can get a yard of Alcantara from Gulf Fabrics (~$100) and cover most of what I want it's hard to justify the extra cost for stitching. Just depends upon how much you want to spend and if your willing to live with some mistakes as it will take some learning.

  3. Sorry, can't show a pic of the modified ashtray because it has been further modified. I originally cut out the back two switches that I guess operates something on a cabriolet. I fiberglassed the whole thing together and repainted. Then I could put sunglasses in there. After that I fiberglassed the whole hole thing in and moved the two window switches to blank places on the dash. I then covered my center console in Alcantara since it was getting pretty scratched up. I modified the console bin to be a cup holder and covered that with contrasting alcantara.

  4. I have recently had a JVC KW-AVX720 Double din head unit fitted, the sound quality was ok...so i thought i would do some research into upgrading my door speakers...i removed the head unit to find that my dood speakers were not even wired up to the head unit, and i cannot see anywhere to wire them, the company that fitted the unit have shut down so i am a bit stuck, any help grateful

    Did they tap into your old connector plug or just cut wires and start from scratch. I would think you should be able to find some free wires sitting behind the head unit. I assume they would be ganged together in pairs for a +/- configuration.

  5. Not sure I can help with a drop in replacement but I have modified my ashtray for several options over the past couple of years. Originally, I cut a hole in it and the console to make a cupholder (mine didn't have one). Then I fiberglassed it back in just to have a cavity for a sunglass holder (removed the two dummy switches for lowering rear windows that I don't have on my coupe). Now I have fiberglassed the whole console in and put a "command knob" for my Kenwood entertainment system. Going to cover the whole thing in Alcantara when I finish.

  6. Could depend upon what your CEL is for. I found that when I went to certain gas stations it would trigger the catalyst CEL. I assumed poor gas quality. I switch to a different station and it doesn't happen. CEL may not come on until halfway through the tank. It is consistent with a local, small town gas station.

    Also, make sure you are turning the cap at least 3 clicks.

  7. Loren,

    I recently purchased an ROW M030 kit from Sunset. I verified that all the numbers of the parts that I received matched a printout of the Porsche Tequipment parts table that I found on Pelican Parts. I assumed the numbers from the Tequipment list were for the ROW set up. I confirmed this PN by going to the Suncoast Porsche website and clicking on the ROW M030 kit for sale. That shows the same kit part number as what I ordered (000 044 500 19). After I installed all of these I wanted to look at the differences in each of the shocks and springs per Porsche part number. What I found is that the part numbers on the Tequipment list matched the US M030. So are the ROW and US M030 the same? I have a 2000 C2 Tiptronic.

    Kit part number 000 044 500 19

    ROW M030 US M030 US Stock

    Front spring 996 343 531 11 996 343 531 11 996 343 531 01

    Front strut 996 343 041 16 996 343 041 16 996 343 041 04

    rear spring 996 333 531 12 996 333 531 12 996 333 531 37

    rear shock 996 333 051 13 996 333 051 13 996 333 051 04

    I am interested in this because I am not happy with the suspension. The car corners great now but every bump in the road is slammed through the cabin. I wanted to see how different regular Bilsteins would be if I ordered those. Interestingly, the Bilstein site shows two sets of M030. One has Porsche PN references. All of the PNs relate directly to the US M030 kit. So I guess that indicates that, even though Porsche shows a lot of shock\strut variations for the US kit depending upon year and coupe\cab, but they are all the same shock.

    Can you help confirm if I ordered the right thing and got the ROW kit.

    Thanks

  8. In Fort Worth here last week it was 105. In stop and go my temps rapidly went to the right side of the 0 in 180. The HVAC hack showed I was at 105C. Had it at the dealer for an alignment and also had them clean the rad's today. Temps seem better but it was only 90F today. Historically my car would run on the left side of 0 in 180 in good flowing traffic.

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