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Michael Laity

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  1. AAA opened with inflatable thing. After turning off alarm key fob works to lock and unlock, I forgot the receiver powers down after several days of inactivity. Key still will not turn lock cylinder, that appears to be the problem. Thanks for the help everyone, might be back after researching the lock problem.
    Ahh ok, so because the lock wasnt turning it wasn't telling the car to wake up. The makes sense. Glad it's all working now.

    Sent from my GM1917 using Tapatalk

  2. Tried and still nothing. It seems like the mechanical part is turning, it is spring loaded and turns key back to upright on its own. Alarm light on dash is flashing slow both with pack connected and without.
    Guess you have to go in through the door seal and see if you can hook a handle. Or let the car sit on the charger for a while to see if it picks up a charge. Have you tried both keys?

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  3. Took off the rest of the screws on the bottom of the rear bumper. Used a screwdriver to lift the taillight and found the release cable for the engine. Used a pick to grab it and it opened. But put a jump starter battery pack on the engine connections, still nothing from the remote and key won’t open lock either. Battery pack light shows connected properly. Not sure how to proceed. I assume jump start point on engine would supply power to entire car not just the starter.
    With the jumper attacked try turning the key back and forth a lot of times. I think it could wake the car up. I thought the door lock was mechanical. You can always try and fish something in through the window and try pulling the handle.

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  4. You can pry the housing out of the visor using pry tools on the bottom. I then cut the power wires so I can get it out of the car. If your mirror is fine, you can carefully undo the tabs for it and remove it from the housing. I accidently broke my mirrors because I was rushing. Click the mirror into the new housing and solder the wired to hook it back up to the car. 


    Nothing to complicated, go slow and find all the clips 



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  5. Welcome to the world of Porsche. It sounds like you can do most of the repairs so that's good. I am an amateur and have been able to do most of the repairs on my car, though I haven't had the imsb done.

    I live in Los Angeles, but I had the car in college in a small college town in NorCal. The 911 got a fair amount of attention there. In LA, no one looks at all. So it a depends on where you live. Mine is also a midnight blue.

    As for reliability mine has 45k miles on it. I've had some small problems(rats eating wires, air oil separator) and the alarm is acting up (door switches I think). Overall it has been a reliable car. I have a 2003, so some of the previous Gremlins in earlier years were fixed.

    If you think the 996 is for you then go for it. I'd be looking for a 996.2 because it is facelifted a bit from the previous years.

    As for turbo vs non turbo, well that's a tough one. I have a base C2 and it's quick, but I wouldn't call it fast. So I have wanted to get a turbo because it's much faster, but you have to think about your use. For me, the slower car means hopefully less tickets, the non turbo is less complicated and is cheaper. But the non turbo has the imsb issue, harder to get more power, and it doesn't look like a turbo.

    Unless I find a great deal on a turbo, I'm sticking with the C2.

    I'm a bad influence with too many cars, so I say go for it

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  6. Just purchased a 1999 Carrera Cabriolet had a PPI on it and the horn and right rear side marker light did not work. The tech repaired the horn replacing airbag retaining frame, He pulled the right and left rear lights out and said it was the wrong right light for a 99 and the wrong part number (996-631-496-00) it has no hole for the running light ???  the left light (996-631-415-00 had a small hole with a bulb in it.  what gives ??? both lens are in great shape.  a good used one w/a harness is around $700 YIKES ! How did the right side parking light work without the bulb hole.    anybody out have any ideas to get it to lite without buying a whole light assembly.       Thanks blee       tried to upload photos to large max is only 2MB
    Maybe he was confusing the rear fog light? The left side has it, the right shouldn't. Can't remember if the right has the hole for it or not

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  7. No they are different. See this thread for troubleshooting and the pic for location.
     
    https://www.renntech.org/topic/28572-p0026-codeneed-help/
     
    996head.jpg.0a985ab27eb4b4c0a638224b0be4f52f.jpg
    I just drove the car to see if I could make it fail. It did go into limp mode and throw misfire codes and the valve lift driver bank 1 issue. I thought the issue was the variable cam solenoid so I already have that arriving but it seems I may need the valve control solenoid.

    I used the durametric to test the lift control and it didn't kill the car like it did earlier. The engine was stumbling like one bank was left on. So I assume that means the bank 1 solenoid was bad

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