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  1. Tool Pants
    I bet it looks/looked like this. At least when it was down and not up. Is your top/roof up and latched, or down?
  2. Tool Pants
    If you mean the trim for the switches, this is a picture of a Boxster. Pre 2002 996 are the same except the trim is shaped a bit different. It is held in place with 2 plastic tabs. If you have long fingernails you can lift up on the trim. I use a thin blade. Then there are 2 ways to remove the switches. From the back of the trim you insert a thin screwdriver and pop the switch out. From the front of the trim if you push hard enough on the oval button the switch will pop out the back.
  3. Tool Pants
    It is listed as "connection piece." I can't tell from the parts drawing what it is, but I suspect it is this part. If you have I picture then I might be able to figure it out.
  4. Tool Pants
    We filmed a brake pad replacement last year and Las Vegas is too hot. For certain fastners Porsche sells them pre coated or micro-encapsulated with something. It can be a sealant, thread lock, anti-seize, depening on the application. I have been told new caliper bolts are coated with anti-seize. You have a steel fastner, the bolt, going into a threaded aluminum hub. Those dissimilar metals like to bond to bond with each other. If they "weld" themselves together then the aluminum threads pull out when you remove the bolt and you have an expensive repair on your hands. This is why I use anti-seize on spark plug threads, an old habit. They are not torque to yield bolts which stretch as a means to determine how tight they are. That is typically used on head bolts. On those bolts you use a torque wrench to set them to an initial low torque specification. Then you tighten them by the required number of degrees. Then you go back and repeat, and repeat once again. There is no torque specification. The specification is the number of degrees you rotate the fastner. I also use anti-seize on the retaining pin when I put it back in as it is also a lubricant and the pin is usually a very tight fit.
  5. Tool Pants
    One of out local Boxster owners, Danny, has a turbo front on his. He used the halogen new style headlight and ran jumper wires from the connector to the new headlights. Because, as you know, the electrical pins on the back of the headlight do not match your plug for the headlight. What you could do is order the front trunk wiring harness for a 2002 or newer 996. Which harness to get depends if you are using the standard halogen or Bi-Xenon. Xenons have more pins and so they have more wires in the harness.
  6. Tool Pants
    Guess the instructions in the bulletin helped. The official time is about 80 minutes not 3 hours. Next time you will do it in an hour. Since I have a 1997 I'll give you a call when it my time. Jeff
  7. Tool Pants
    Looks like fun. I vote you the lead driver to Laguna Seca if you have a V1.
  8. Tool Pants
    The company is in the US. http://www.evoms.com/p%20boxster%20swiftshift.htm Here is another version, from Agency Power.
  9. Tool Pants
    I installed the EVO shift link first on the original shift lever as a test, then on the B&M shift. You are supposed to remove the green plate with the B&M,
  10. Tool Pants
    Any dealer can order it PNA 489 021 04. List is $43 and I paid about $27. Unfortunately as of 2003 Porsche has eliminated some of the technical information from their technical introduction booklets. The previous booklets for other models had more technical info. It does not have the info you are looking for. It is a basic overview of the car with some technical stuff thrown it.
  11. Tool Pants
    It is not great but it is better then nothing. I did not see a part number on it.
  12. Tool Pants
    Our cars do not have an inspection plate.
  13. Tool Pants
    is out for the GT3. This is what is given to the mechanics when they go to school.
  14. Tool Pants
    http://www.smiley.net/boxster/row030.htm
  15. Tool Pants
    Yes, otherwise the airbag control unit does not know to deactivate the passenger side bags when the correct buckle is inserted into the deactivation bar buckle.
  16. Tool Pants
    So much for that internet noise guess. Suggest you go to the 2 dealers that said it was normal and ask to test drive a few cars just like yours and see if you hear the same noise. If not, then take a mechanic on a drive(s) and point out the difference.
  17. Tool Pants
    I found a picture of an oem shift I removed for a short shift install. You can see the bend.
  18. Tool Pants
    Maybe they forgot to put oil in the transmission. :o Try another car and see if it is "normal." When you have the clutch pedal down the gears inside the transmission stop spinning. Porsche uses a dual-mass flywheel, and this reduces transmission noise from the gears. If the flywheel goes bad then you hear transmission noise. Guys that switch to a conventional single mass "racing" light flywheel hear transmission noise. They should have inspected your flywheel. Just a guess over the internet.
  19. Tool Pants
    It is bent as is the oem shift lever.
  20. Tool Pants
    Never replaced one, but there is a bulletin that explains how to replace the tube.
  21. Tool Pants
    Taken at Carlsen today.
  22. Tool Pants
    996 618 212 02
  23. Tool Pants
    This is a new one. No clue. I trust you are holding the switches down. Can you repeat this problem over and over. With the key on, handbrake up, and top latched, do the windows drop a few inches when you unlatch the top I think the microswitch only controls the window drop. Other than that the window motors do not know if the top is up and latched, or the top is down. And the fact they go down but not up and operate properly with the key in the door is strange. I'll ask Peter when he gets back from vacation.
  24. Tool Pants
    Bought 4 normal wheel bolts today at my dealer. Locking ones are off. 5 part numbers for wheel bolts - only Porsche. They only had in stock the original version that came on my 1997. Too bad as I wanted to take pictures of all 5 versions side-by-side. Looking at the parts computer they almost doubled the prices from the original version.
  25. Tool Pants
    Yes.
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