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  1. Tool Pants
    The reflector and just about everything else inside the headlight is plastic. Once it has burned from 100 watt bulbs then that is the way it is.
  2. Tool Pants
    I had the prices written down when the clutch was replaced 3 months ago but I can't find the paper. Dealership was about $1,800. Independent shop I have known for years about $1,400. A new independent shop recently opened and I met the owner Marvin, who worked at 2 local dealerships. Marvin had a special, $800 parts and labor for a 2.5. He uses a Sachs clutch kit. It does not take 7 hours to replace a clutch, but that could very well be the book rate. I once watched Peter Smith get the transmission out of a 2.5 in 25 minutes. All a lightweight flywheel does it permit the engine to rev a bit faster. If that is important to you you might want to try a car with one on the street. They also permit transmission noise to enter the cockpit, more so with the 996. How long does a clutch last? It is like asking someone how long a tube of toothpaste or a bar of soap last them. Depends on the user. The Boxster clutch is also small. After my 2.5 was replaced my 1988 pickup was replaced at the Toyota shop next door. I put both used clutches side-by-side and took a picture. They were about the same. The pickup is a 2.4, and has about half the torque and hp as my 2.5 Box. Here is my 2.5.
  3. Tool Pants
    Hard pedal usually the sign of a worn out clutch. Mine was recently replaced. Sometime I felt I needed 2 feet to push down the pedal. Became a pain in stop and go commute traffic. You might get it checked out. My disc was down to the rivets on the pressure plate side and had started to score the pressure plate. This does not matter because a clutch kit includes a new pressure plate. Fortunately the rivets had not started to score the flywheel, so my flywheel was reused. List on a flywheel is like $900 so you do not want to replace it if it can be avoided.
  4. Tool Pants
    Part prices look high, but at least it is done. I said the big item was the new style transmissions. Those 6 specers are needed when mounting the new style transmissions on a 2.5.
  5. Tool Pants
    I have been following this from Jake Raby, and other companies as well. The Boxster has been around for 11 years. I have been around for 9 of those years. Said a long time ago the Boxster was going to be the next 914, just water cooled and heavier. I am on 2 message boards run by Brad Roberts, and Brad and others saw this before me. Jake is also on these message boards. You can find 2.5 cars for less than $10,000. If they are in decent shape and the engine runs. Here is what Jake said 1 1/2 years ago: "When Porsche cuts that program off [Porsche selling rebuilt engines for the older cars] we'll be ready for it with an updated stock engine replacement as well as performance upgrades. The 2.5 cars are already 10 years old and I'll bet that the engine program to support these cars won't be around much longer." http://www.914club.com/bbs2/index.php?show...2696&st=280 Fast foward to today. On Brad's spec message board: "There are only 7 left in the world!!! For those of you who are thinking about it now is the time to order. There were 11 on Friday and 31 at the begining of the month so they are going fast!!!! " http://www.boxsterspec.com/index.php?showtopic=993 If this is true, then Porsche has ended the production of 2.5 rebuilt engines. So, the aftermarket steps in to fill the gap, or has already stepped in. Auto Farm and Hartech in England has been doing this for a while. Auto Strasse in Southern California. Now Jake Raby is in the pipeline.
  6. Tool Pants
    You are in trouble....
  7. Tool Pants
    If a battery has an internal short, bad cell, it can work fine one day and be dead in the morning. Nothing is going to cure it. As rsfeller, a GPS unit does not draw enough amps to kill a battery that fast. Get it fully charged then take it to a place for a load test. If you need a new one then. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...&hl=battery
  8. Tool Pants
    You use 1 bent paperclip. There are 2 clips in the picture because one is the thin kind and the other thicker. I spent 9 years hunting down little parts like those pins. Drives the parts guys crazy when I order 25 cent pins just so I can see what they look like. AMP/TYCO does make the electrical connectors throughout the car. This link helps because it has pictures of some of the different styles. http://www.nsxjr.com/Audipins.html Mibooltool makes the red handle set my local dealer has. http://www.mibostahl.com/ Other companies make the same style tools. Thought about buying a set but it is expensive. In the past I have searched around for US sources for these type of electrical parts and the removal tools. If you found a good one then you should do a link.
  9. Tool Pants
    http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...mp;hl=regulator
  10. Tool Pants
    Unfortunately the vfxbox plan went nowhere. This is what I need. A B&M installed in the housing. From a local owner who does not need it for a few weeks.
  11. Tool Pants
    When I asked at my local dealer a few years ago the standard price, car unseen, was $2,000. A pair of the new style top transmissions alone was $900. I do not know what the current going rate at my local dealer is. That is when I decided to learn how to fix them. All 1997-1999 have had or will have top problems.
  12. Tool Pants
    These special editions always have 8 hp more. 8 must be the lucky Porsche number.
  13. Tool Pants
    I was going to have someone I know try to make one. I showed him the standard and B&M shift, and the 2 versions of the factory tools. What I need is to borrow a B&M already installed in the black plastic housing, so I can give it to him. Any local owners with an installed B&M but not in the car?
  14. Tool Pants
    http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21785 Don't know why you started 2 messages on the same subject. Maybe Loren can merge them.
  15. Tool Pants
    You can buy the pins from Porsche. Part number is N-903-352-04. They look like the pic. The tool to remove. Paper clip. Factory tool with the red handle. Or the orange Sir Tools.
  16. Tool Pants
    When I found out there is only one mirror left in the world I should have bought it and sold it on ebay..... I learned a long time ago that if you want a part that has been discontinued, you have parts guy check the computer to see if another dealership has one sitting on the shelf. Bob in parts at Stevens Creek told me there was one in Edison. Edison is in NJ where Ray Catena Porsche is. But you have to verify that it is actually on the shelf.
  17. Tool Pants
    I wrote the radio code and wheel lock code on my sticker just like yours. So you go lucky. If you have the radio code card look and see if it is 0987.
  18. Tool Pants
    I have the rear speaker kit that I have not put in yet. There is a loose brown connector in a plastic bag, and a long wiring harnes with 4 female pins on the end in the same bag. First pic. Since you have no amp you should have used that loose connector. There is a second brown connector that has male pins. This is the short extension in the second pic. In which brown connector did you stick the 4 female pins? A picture of your situation would be nice.
  19. Tool Pants
    Along this line. Us Boxster owners who put in rear speakers like to ues the 996 amp. The Boxster has a 4 channel amp and the 996 has 6. The extra 2 channels are used to power the rear speakers on a Boxster. The 996 amp comes in 2 versions. 1 for the coupe, and 1 for the cabriolet. Either version works, but why is there 2 versions? The Boxster of course is a cabriolet. I asked one of the mechanics and he thought it had something to do with crossovers. Does this make sense?
  20. Tool Pants
    You have the correct storage bin. It should be just like the top one in this pic, rectangle shape. You are not missing anything. There is no trim or brackets for the bin that I know of. I was hoping it would just snap in like it does above your a/c display. Might want to post a picture and see if someone has a suggestion.
  21. Tool Pants
    I knew the part number 9 years ago when I bought my 1997, because it was missing. I was going to order one but back then the parts computer was screwed up and had it listed for something like $112. That got fixed and it was like $3. Never ordered it. Half the cars I have seen over the years have it missing. Back then I asked the mechanics at the local dealership if they removed them for some reason during service, and they said no. If you look through the rectangle hole you can see the VIN. I have searched cars that were missing them and never found it.
  22. Tool Pants
    We were able to do this on 1997-2000. When the 2001s came out I tried it and it would not work.
  23. Tool Pants
    There are 2 types of storage bins. The rectangle and the one with the curves at the bottom. The retangle one fits where the radio goes. The space above the radio where your cupholders are should be the same size as the radio. You might try and see if the rectangle shelf fits where your cupholders are. But I have not seen a car where this was done.
  24. Tool Pants
    People move all this stuff around. Search for cupholderectomy. That style cupholder was only used 2001 and 2002.
  25. Tool Pants
    At a work on cars day 4 years ago Raman put the changer in his 2003. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...29&hl=Raman Loren was there that day. Raman is good at this kind of stuff and figured it out using the TSB. Put the car back together but did not know if it worked until Peter Smith turned it on with the PST2, and it worked. I have a PST2 and can turn it on if someone will tell me what buttons to push. Raman bought the changer as a kit from Brandywine so it had all the parts. Also bought the fiber optic kit from Brandywine but it turned out to be the wrong one, and had to run over to Stevens Creek Porsche for the correct kit.
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