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  1. If you are looking for a PPI, I'd strongly recommend ARM at Dubai Investment Park. For Dhs 500 they will find everything that's wrong with it. What sort of mileage and price are you looking at?
  2. Personally I'd stick with a local car, there are plenty around at good prices. All CTTs have PSM and PASM.
  3. They changed the design to be unlocked when doors unlock, you have to press door in to open the latch I wish that they hadn't, mine keeps opening in the car wash.
  4. Removed comment as I just realised that the other thread I was looking at was started 2 years ago. :blush:
  5. They won't have changed the VIN number though so it should be a US number.
  6. Absolutely, but its just another step in the process of elimination.
  7. Try switching to MONO and see if you get the same end result.
  8. Same trip to work every day all highway at around 140kph in GTS (left) 05 turbo (right) last column is litres/100 km
  9. Is that computer or calculated? Its about what my computer says but its not what i get.
  10. The first summer I had my 05 CTT (Dubai/ Abu Dhabi 45+ deg C) it behaved normally as you described. The following summer it the needle started wandering up to the 3/4 mark on high speed or high boost driving. It continued to do this for the next 2 years which I owned and continues to do so with the new owner (a friend of mine). According to Porsche this is within the acceptable operating limits for the engine, in fact they go as far as to say that it is acceptable for the needle to go into the red provided that it comes down again when you reduce engine load. One more thing which I noticed was that when I replaced the battery prior to passing on to the new owner, it damped the speed and amplitude of the temperature fluctuations so possibly a voltage influence also.
  11. My simple advice: if both cars are in you price range and you are not a speed demon, buy the 2011 S for the simple reason that it's newer.
  12. You seem to want to spend a lot of money to provide a work around rather than solve the problem. I was under the impression that all 2003 V8s were supplied with dual batteries so you may want to confirm this before proceeding in another direction.
  13. Could this be fuel pumps again? When mine bit the dust I did not have enough power to get past 2nd gear; it all happened very suddenly too.
  14. It's all relative, my light foot still sees most cars rapidly disappearing in the rear view mirror albeit not nearly as quickly as happens with my heavy foot. I'm now driving a 25 mile round trip to work with about 90% on highway and am averaging around 11.5 - 12 mpg; on the same 170 mile roundtrip at 88ish mph as I used to do daily I still get the the same 14.5 mpg that I used to get with the 05 turbo and the 09 GTS. Go figure!
  15. Mine never stopped but I had a very precarious limp home, in your situation I would have done the same. Mine was my DD for a 170 mile round trip commute, over 4k miles a month and I intended to keep the car for some time so replacing both was a no brainer as far as i was concerned.
  16. If you're into the car for the long term though it becomes more expensive to do the same job twice.
  17. When I changed mine ( same symptoms as yours before finally one gave up the ghost completely ) my tech told me that Porsche advised changing both pumps and the filter at the same time. Makes sense on a higher mileage vehicle as both are likely to be in a similar condition. Glad to hear you got it sorted in the end though!
  18. My old 05 CTT at 195,000km on its last annual roadworthiness test had to be put in the sport setting to pass, however damping was still adjustable and didn't feel substantially different from what it had done in the past. At this point if driven very hard it would tend to buck a little in fast corners.
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