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Good day, I took the assembly off yesterday and cleaned up using CRC electronic spray cleaner , reassembled and map light works fine. I set the switch to low and noticed it does not turn off. Is this normal? Thanks Phil

One thing I failed to mention was when I put my hand in the area of the light it does'nt come on. Or if it does its more of a flicker on off type of light. Could it be the sensor that could be causing this? Thanks

I took a quick look at the light itself in the daylight and realized how complicated it was. I took off the black covers and blew air in through it with a type of keyboard cleaner, no differance. I have a Durametric tool, when things slow down I will hook up and see about the regulator. Thanks

Last night my Wife and I noticed the overhead lamp at the rear view mirror would give off a stobe of light every once in a while, say ten or fifteen seconds apart . There was no timing about it at all. I figure I will take it apart and clean it up but wanted to get any input first. Thanks Phil

Yep, got it! Thanks for all the help, Phil

Good day, I removed my seats to recover them and unhooked the positive battery cable first thing then without thinking closed my hood all the way down. I have a 2001 boxster base model. I tried taking the small cover off and applying positive to the little clip you pull out and nothing. I am afraid this will not work because the positive cable is off the battery. Any help would be great. Thanks Phil in Ohio.

Good day, I own a 2001 boxster base model which I am in the middle of recovering the seats.I have noticed the backs have heating elements in them with the wire hook ups, the bottoms of the seats do not. That is all as far as anything concerning heated seats. How hard would it be to make the backs operationable? Thanks

Good day, I own a 2001 Boxster base model with 18 inch wheels. I am looking for snow tires and rims. I found a person on E-Bay selling a set of 16 inch tires on rims off a 2002 Boxster. Are the rims compatable even though there is a year differance? Thank you for your help.Phil in Ohio

Thanks for the quick response Loren, I am going to track down a rebuilt pump. Seems they have the same warranty as a new pump with a much cheaper price tag. The pump now is original with only 57000 miles on it so how much worse could a rebuilt one be.

Another thing I should add is the pump itself seems to work fine with no whining or grinding sound, just a fant bearing sound going bad. No leaks and the shaft seems tight. Thanks

Good day, after about a week of listening to a noise get louder I tracked it down to the power steering pulley. Not a very loud noise but for someone who prefers to listen to the engine instead of the radio I knew something was going bad. The pulley has no wabble play at all, instead when you start to spin it feels like there is small a gap at the start of the spin. Hope this makes sense. Please tell me I can pull the hub and replace the bearing and be done with it. Oh ya , not to long ago I had a tiny creek noise coming from the front right when I turned the wheel. Upper Strut bearing needed lubed. Anyhow getting back to the new project, 2001 Boxster with 57000 miles. If I need to replace this should I go rebuilt or new? Where is the best place to give my business ? I plan to do this myself, any help is appreciated.

Thanks for input guys, looks like a project in the making.

Good day, I believe my upper strut tower bearing is creaking when I turn the steering wheel. It is not very loud but is happening all the time now. My question is can I some how lube this thing since it is a sealed bearing and if so what type of lube would be best ? Thanks

I have lloyds carpet mats that have little female clips attached to them that meet up with the male clip which is attached to the seat mount. Problem is there is only one male clip per matt. Where can I get two more male clips? Thank you

Just to get back I talked to Owen at Durametric and he nailed the problem down to my 2001 Boxster has the 5.7 version ABS/DSC/PSM instead of the 5.3 version. The year the 5.3 changed to 5.7 was 2002. Thanks to everyone.

Good day everyone, I own a 2001 Boxster and noticed a tiny, almost cannot hear ticking sound coming from my steering rack area. This was when I was puttting the car away after a somewhat hard drive. 1/2 hour of stop and go traffic jam then 1/2 hour freeway.Only happens when operating the wheel at a dead still. Fluid level is ok, never happened before. Would flushing out the system and putting new oem fluid help. Or is this the beginning of the end for the steering rack? Car has 56000 miles and everything including the steering is still very tight. Thanks for all the help

Thanks for all the help. I just typed out a message and sent it to them. I will keep you posted. And if anyone has any other ideas let me know. Thanks

Yes, I have been at it for three days and always get the same results.Maybe tried ten times total.Thanks

Thanks for the reply. When I did the short test to erase irrors, a box came up with everything checking out ok except the section ABS/PSM5.3 It had a red exclamation mark with the words current fault codes, nothing else. No code, #s, or anything. So I went to the section to erase fault code in the abs section and hit the button and a window asking me if I want to do this shows up and I hit yes.Then another box shows up saying, Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click quit, the application will close immediately. Index was outside the bounds of the array. I hit continue and a tiny box says please wait. I waited about twenty minutes with no change. I finally shut everything down. Thanks for the help

Good day, I have a 2001 boxster that I am using the Durametric program on. Everything checked out fine except the abs system had a fault red flag come up which I could not remove.This stikes me as odd because the dash light was never on to begin with. The Q&A section at durametric talked about correcting the DME first then the fault can be fixed. Am I on the right path? Should I even worry about this? If so how do I proceed? Thanks

Good day , when I first start out shifting from first to secound is just a little notchy. If I am on a back street not so bad because I can shift much earlier. After the car warms up no problem. I just changed the oil with oem and checked the level twice. One other thing that may be a factor is when I take off out of the garage without giving any gas she wants to tremble just a little bit. You dont notice this if you are taking off giving her a little gas at take off once you hit traffic. Need to go to work but will check back, oh ya 2001 Boxster with 56000 miles. Thanks Phil

Ok, we got it! I pressed the station search button quickly after I put in the code you provided. Thanks a ton for your help, have a great day!

Still a no go, I kept pressing it in and still no luck. I will try it when I drive to work. Thanks Phil

Loren I went back and checked the # I first gave you and noticed I gave you the wrong # I am sorry for wasting your time. The correct # is T500 1438

The serial # I gave you was done using the method for the Becker CR-210. My radio is the CDR-210 . The method went through with no problem . Didnt see a method for CDR-210 T500 1438