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Did it today. Everything was quite tight though. Must be because everything is wrapped in leather in my car.I really had to pull hard an the covers but didn't break anything. I removed and isolated the white wire from the connector itself instead of cutting it. This way it's easily reversable. You need to open the plastic flap of the connector AND to push down on the brass connector on it's flat side while pulling on the wire. If you examine the connector you will see the two methods used to hold it in place. Took about 10-15 minutes. Thanks Loren :renntech:

The exterior lights flash (I think twice) when setting the alarm. People have talked in the past about hooking up a piezo device so that you would get 2 sound signals that comes on when the lights flash.

Not so cool to sound like the garbage truck everytime you use the turn signal :oops:

Loren - ROW cars (Well my '04car 'Downunder') blink twice on Arming and only once on Dis-arming.

Same here with the original setting :P

Thorsten (from Germany)

Why not just take the panel off (with all the switches) and disconnect the wire?

Thanks for the help Loren. It's not that I'm not willing to follow your hints - I just tend to break the wonderful Porsche plastic. But I'll try. Had a look at Bernie's spoilerswitch DIY and it looks like I can pry it out with some kind of plastic spatula. Correct?

BTW: the wiring diagramm is a little cut off at the upper end. I suppose it's a white wire?

Maybe remove the wire on pin 5 and tape it over?

Loren, any idea where to locate that wire in the foot well area? Thus I wouldn't need to pull the switch out.

Thorsten

Is there a (perhaps reversable)way to disable the red light in the power lock switch? I find it quite annoying that they use a red light to indicate a normal system status.

Thanks,

Thorsten

.....can they clean the sealant crap out of the tire?

From what I understand, no. Although it could be that they just don't wanna mess with it. :cursing:

What do you mean? They remove the tire and throw it away. Then they clean the rim and put a new tire on. And yes, mechanics love it - you better tell them about the sealant before they pull the tire off since it's still liquid inside. Otherwise they might be less thankful than expected :rolleyes:

@DCP: I certainly wouldn't want to have a repaired puncture on a car capable of going 280kph+

I'm not really a big fan of that stuff. Once had a sidewall puncture on my MB (which by the way like many other cars has NO monitoring system - if you needed that you should have bought a 928 15 years ago :P ). Size was less than 1 cm but the tire wouldn't hold more than 1.5 bar since when the sidewall started straightening out it would loose it again. Was sufficient for driving to the dealer though. Nevertheless it's always more work than a spare:

Remove the valve, fill it in, put the valve back in, inflate,then hurry to get the car going in order to spread the stuff, stop, check again, inflate a little more an re-check.

Thorsten

Anybody?

Hi,

during tire change while the car was on the lift my buddy pulled out the remains of a rubber seal from the engine. About 1 cm was already sticking out so he easily pulled it all the way out. I wasn't there to have seen where it was exactly but he indicated me the area of my rms-leak. This was already 4 months ago and I haven't had any issues yet and for the last 10000km I virtualy needed no oil (less than 1quart). But since I'm due to the RMS change as soon as my clutch needs replacement I would rather know before I show it to the dealer. Outer diameter is about 35,0 mm, inner 31,5 mm. ~ 1.35/ 1.24 inches.

Any ideas?

Thorsten

Hi, never did it with a 911 before but yea I have done a few. It is a pretty basic thing much like hooking up a power antenna line or amplifier turn on lead. Your unit should measure the output from the wire and adjust the sound of the unit to compensate for that lovely engine purring. Myself I would just skip it and enjoy the sound of the engine! I'm not sure if my stereo adjusts to the speed, but if you know yours did then you'll already have the wire there at the head-unit. Nonethe less I'm sure as soon as everyone sobers up someone will help you out as the wire is in the 911's somewhere as they have speed adjusting power steering. Good luck and this would probably be something cool to get pics of and set up a DIY on Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Since it's a NAV unit that he wants to install the speed signal (grey/pink wire) needs to be hooked up for reasonable accuracy. As you said the signal should already be there in the DIN plug behind the current radio.

Otherwise look here:

Thorsten

Yes, just remove the relay completely. It should make your PSE "OPEN" all the time. This is what I did. If you want your car to be silent, just put it on again.

Why should he pay for the full install and then remove the relay? This doesn't make any sense at all. I#d remove the wire because I favor mods that are easily reversable.

Thorsten

For fear of tickets/jail I have only gotten mine up to 145mph. . . But it was ready and willing to go more!

Just wondering if the top speed in the US 996 model has been set at certain speed? If yes, what is it?

Thanks

Yes it's 75 mph - you just never noticed

SCNR

Thorsten (from unlimited Germany)

I just did the same after replacing the battery. My car would stall each time I took my foot off the pedal, spoke to my Porsche mechanic [not a Porsche dealer] and he suggested to do that rather than waiting for the computer to reset. Worked perfectly and no problems since cleaning.

Hi Glenn or Richard,

is there a DIY or is it just pretty much self explanatory? Anyone took pics? I started to notice that my idle is a little rough lately. How much time would you estimate for the job?

Thorsten

I thought he hit the nail on the head from the perspective of how Porsche has positioned the Cayman in between the 911 and the Boxter. It was quite funny actually.

Okay, okay I definitely have to see that vid. Would anybody be willing to mail it to me or even better put it on another server? Tried http-tunneling to get by the restrictions of google but had no success. The only reason I could imagine why they would do this is copyright protection :censored: .

Thorsten

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=10...30165&q=porsche

Ouch. Interesting article though when you consider the overall marketing drive from Porsche. (See Also today's Wall Street Journal).

"Thanks for your interest in Google Video.

Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.

We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience."

is all I got...

I've installed the Vauxhall/Opel GB/Ireland 2005 MapCD and it works just fine, I didn't need to update the PCM software, the CD Part No is T1000-8039.

Hi Nic, glad to hear it worked out for you :clapping:

Thorsten

... yesterday it dropped under freezing and i noticed that the LCD screen for the radio was kindof laggy while updating what it read. my amg mercedes never had a problem in the winter season, how reliable is my c4s for the winter?

You do realize that LCD is short form for LIQUID Crystal Display don't you? This is perfectly normal system behaviour in cold conditions. Even your Mercedes wouldn't be able to defy the laws of physics if it had LCDs.

Concerning the other part of the question: I'm currently running 225/265 winter tires on 18" rims and had no problems two days ago with 8 inches of fresh snow. Of course braking is just the same as with any other two wheel drive. Even the 25° ramp in front of my garage was no problem despite me being too lazy to remove the snow before.

Thorsten

BTW: Tires are Hankook W300 rated 240km/h

I've read that if you have the later 16 bit version of PCM1 that you can use Opel/Vauxhall CDs to update the maps. I've had a look at the Navteq website and there are several different options for Opel/Vauxhall vehicles and they differentiate between EHU4/CD70 and SVDO Daytona systems. If anyone here has succesfully updated their maps using one of these CDs could they please let me know which one? It's the UK maps that I'm trying to update.

Nic

I can only relate to the information I found for you in our german forums:

Members were successfully using the 2005 Opel (Vauxhall) CDs with the PCM1. Some had to update their system software using the latest (2002) 8 CD set before they could use the Opel CDs. So I suggest you contact your local Vauxhall dealer and tell them what the problem is. Borrow the 2005 CDs and check if they are working in your car. Why would the do it? Because your a potential buyer of the CDs and most of all he can tell all his buddies that Porsche couldn't help you but HE could!

Personally I don't have a PCM in my car, I use the Becker Traffic Pro. So this is not based on personal experience. Good luck and let us know if it worked.

Regards,

Thorsten

Replace asap because your rubber ( pun intended ) is going to be as hard as a well...a brick and is not going to be pretty good in stopping and other things such as driving at speed or maneuvering.

Harry is right. Wear is not the only thing to consider. Your tires must be about 7 years old. Have a look at the DOT-number on the sidewall of the tire. It will tell you which week and year they were made. For example "228" would be 22 week in 1998. IMHO tires should be changed after 4-6 years.

Thorsten

Yeah, don capecod posted another pic of the same car here.

What wing do you think is on the back?

It has to be a TechArt wing since the car is fully tuned by Techart. It will be shown on the Essen Motor Show starting on 25. Nov 2005. Her are some specs: 370hp, 406nm and 297km/h topspeed. Base car was a Carrera S. Rims are 20" Techart with 235/30 ZR 20 front and 305/25 ZR 20 rear tires.

As far as I know it's not a real policecar (yet). Price tag will be around 125000 EUR.

The car is currently a promotion act for the "Tune it!Safe!" initiative supported by the german DOT, the Essen MotorShow and the Organization of German Auto Tuners.

And this puzzled you for 10 months? :eek: There's nothing more distinctive than the sound of a gsm phone contacting the base station...

Besides: the wisdom is here in this forum

I don't know why the song data is not supported on the CDR/CR radios though.  Aren't these made by BECKER and the same or similar to the stock radios in the BMWs.  Dension engineers must all drive BMWs as they have a ton of support for the BMW radios but hardly anything for the Porsche radios.  And to top it off, you can get a TrafficPro NAV radio for the porsche (same as the BMW) but little to no support.  This radio should be able to display all song/artist info.

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Only radios that support CD-Text will also support the display of ID3-tag info in the radio display. So if the BMW radios are the same hardware (I don't know if that is true) they must have a better firmware supporting CD-Text. I have replaced my Porsche CDR with a TrafficPro Highspeed because of the similar looks and didn't pay attention to that litttle detail which still p***** me off. Otherwise I would have installed a hidden IPod by now.

Thorsten

Does anyone have the cost and part #'s to do this to my 99 Boxster?  I really like the looks, what a major improvement! :o)

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My C4 as shown already had the litronics with the "clear" turn lights in. So I don't know. The above pic shows it after the full turn light mod. Costs you a set of new silvervision bulbs and 45 minutes.

Look here

Thorsten

Looks great now, although it could look even better :P :

Glad to be able to help you- that was easy wasn't it?