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  1. Tool Pants
    The obvious things to check with the horns is the relay or fuse. The horns have their own dedicated fuse and relay so every thing else will work fine. If that checks out then my question is if you have a 4 spoke steering wheel as I have not seen a car where both horns went bad at the same time.
  2. Tool Pants
    Don't know what a TFT face is. In 2002 on the 996 and Boxster Porsche introduced a cluster with a dot matrix center display for cars with the OBC option. If the car does not have the option then it is a LCD display just like a 2001, or just like your 2003 without the OBC option. If you use a non OBC 996 cluster and retrofit the OBC then what you will see will look like a 2001 Boxster with the OBC option. There is nothing wrong with this as you will have all the OBC functions of a 2001 with the OBC option. This sort of explains it. http://www.brackenrig.net/OBC_Hack.htm With the part number from your 996 cluster I can look it up and determine if it has the dot matrix display from the part number list as it will show 659 after the part number as 659 is the option code for the OBC. If it does not have 659 after the part number then it is the standard cluster which, as I said, will look like a 2001 once you do the retrofit. The pic is a 2003 Boxster S I did the retrofit on 2 years ago with the non OBC cluster. You can see the 212 miles remaining in the gas tank is a LCD display, rather than a dot matrix display you see in your owners manual.
  3. Tool Pants
    I call the droopy headlights the turbo style since they first came out in 2001 on the turbo, and then the 996 got them in 2002 during the facelift. That is why a 2002 and newer 996 bumper cover will not work on a Boxster unless you also replace the fenders and use the turbo style lights. A 1999-2001 996 bumper cover will work as-is on a Boxster. What is the part number on the 996 cluster, and is it for a car with the OBC option? Is it new or used? I spoke to Peter and someone with a PST2 will have to code the new cluster with your VIN so it will be recognized by the radio. And of course you will have to have the trip computer turned on with the PST2.
  4. Tool Pants
    Boxster shop manual says up to 4 remotes can be used.
  5. Tool Pants
    I think the rear speakers are 3 1/2".
  6. Tool Pants
    Sounds like you found it, but just in case. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...st=0entry7231 http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=304&st=0 If you have a part number for a 996 cluster we can look it up. The parts list for 996 shows some clusters as the same for 2002 up. I did not see a part number just for a 2003-4. Little bit suprised. As you know, a 2003/4 does not have a user radio code as it is in the instrument cluster. I thought you would need a cluster from a MOST 996 so that you could code the instrument cluster or your radio would not work. Maybe there is a way to code a 2002 cluster to work on a 2003/4. A few months ago I asked Peter if we wanted to do a 996 cluster swap on a 2003-4 Boxster would it have to come from a MOST 996 car and he thought maybe so because of the radio code issue. But he has never done it because at the dealership they replace a defective cluster with the same type cluster that was removed. And like I said, according to the parts list, I do not see a specific 2003-4 cluster, just 2002 up. So you will have to be the guinea pig.
  7. Tool Pants
    A 2002 or newer bumper cover from a 996 or from a 2001 or newer 996 Turbo will not work unless you replace the fenders and headlights. Search as this has been covered before. Putting in a 996 cluster for the 2 extra gauges has also been covered. There are several Boxster owners who have a 996 instrument cluster. These are on 1997-2000 Boxsters. The cluster changed in 2001 and changed again in 2003/4. I was going to be one of them with my 1997 but the used 1999 996 cluster I bought off ebay had a defective LCD display when I plugged it into my Boxster, so I never finished the project. I do not know anyone who has put a 996 cluster in a 2003/4 Boxster. With 2003/4 you have to deal with MOST, the fiber optic system. If you were to try a 996 cluster in your Boxster then I think the only one that will work properly in a 2003/4 Boxster is a 2003/4 996 cluster, and it must be from a 996 C2. I will let someone cover the brakes as I never understood the need for bigger brakes on a street car. 996 brakes are the same as the S and neither is a straight exact swap on the base Boxster. This is a 2000 2.7 with a 996 cluster we saw at a recent tech session.
  8. Tool Pants
    This seems to be a common complaint with the 6 speed and a less than common complaint with the 5 speed. I have never noticed this on my 5 speed. Never noticed this on the many 6 speeds I have driven, but they were not stone cold.
  9. Tool Pants
    I had a beam style that I have not seen in many years - might have thrown it away. The rest of mine are the click style. What you need depends on what you will be using it for. I suggest a 3/8" drive as they usually go to about 75-100 foot pounds, and a 1/2" drive that usually goes to 200-250 foot pounds. The usual DIYer torque wrench is accurate to 3-4% which is fine. I do not like the standard Sears type because it has a plastic ring used to lock the setting. This is like the old Snap-On style but with Snap-On the ring is metal. With Sears the plastic ring can break and Sears will not take it back. Husky at Home Depot is good and I think better than Sears. I have a Husky that I've used for years. S-K is good. I do not like the China $20 torque wrenches but it is better than no wrench. Some of mine are Utica which I like because they are all metal, or CDI which is owned by Snap-On. When you look at them make note that some are in inch pounds or foot pounds. A DIYer will want foot pounds.
  10. Tool Pants
    The silver car is a US version so we get the usual bumperetts, unlike ROW cars. You can find more pictures here. http://images.formsense.co.uk/ I ayways find it interesting to go back in time and look at what people said were spy pictures of the 987 to see how accurate they were. This was on rennteam a long time ago.
  11. Tool Pants
    I did this about 5 years ago. Don't remember exactly as I just opened up the remote and got the key out. I think there was a spring loaded thing that hold the metal key shank in place and you push against the spring.
  12. Tool Pants
    By the way, how did your car escape the recall for the gas cap. If it is a leaker then I do not know what code(s) you see. The oil filler tube bulletin says the range of fault codes on a 2.5 with the 5.2 DME is P1123 to P1130. Loren has the codes listed here. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?a...code=disclaimer P1123 is for cylinders 1-3 and P1125 is for 4-6. Your oxygen sensors do not see that they want to see at idle. But your oxygen sensors may be fine. Figuring out the cause of fault codes is very frustrating for a DIYer, which I am. We can look up the code in the OBDII book. Replace the part and the light is back on. I have asked Peter so many times over the years about fault codes that I do not think he wants to hear another question. Without a PST2 it is a less than a DIYer educated guess to assume you have bad part A or bad part B just by the code, as it may be part C that triggers a fault code(s) for A or B. I am not much of a help. If your oil filler tube is producting a mist on the fire wall then something not right is going on with the tube, or how else would the oil get there.
  13. Tool Pants
    Do you have a dead battery. Turn on the headlights and try to start the car - what happens to the headlights.
  14. Tool Pants
    The regulator, if you take your car in, is something like $250 just for the part. The green round things are the plastic pulleys. They were white on the 996. The green and blue plastic round things also can break. I think that is what happened to Mark's car. I have a broken regulator with those parts but no clue if you can replace them. A dealer does not play around with this stuff. It is R and R. There are no parts for the regulator.
  15. Tool Pants
    I asked one of the mechanics I know, Manny, at Stevens Creek this very question in September when I watched him replace the window regulator on a 996 in about 20 minutes. The regulator is operated via a cable. He said it can stretch or something breaks - but otherwise the window goes up and down fine. The cable runs around several plastic pulleys, and the pulleys like to break like in the 996 he was working on. He pulls the door panel off to see what is going on. Mark in Sunnyvale has a new spare passenger side regulator, and I have a new spare drivers side. We bought them off ebay because the price was right and this is a common problem. I have had no reason to pull a door panel. Might be a good excuse, if I can remember what Manny and Peter said.
  16. Tool Pants
    One of the local owners, Danny, did this on his 2000 2.7 some time ago. You need to replace the fenders, headlights and their mounts, and other stuff. Then you need to figure how to wire the headlights as the plug is different. I do not know all the details. Ramis from Belgium also had this done on 2001 S. Except his 3.2 has twin turbos. http://www.ramis-porsche.com/
  17. Tool Pants
    Steering wheel air bag splits. Both the 3 spoke and 4 spoke If you have a vinyl one it is easy to see the pattern, or trace it with your finger pushed against the cover. It is bolted in place. It is not on a hinged like the passenger side front air bag. Pic from Tony.
  18. Tool Pants
    From renntech36 via 6speedonline. http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/showthr...&threadid=19693
  19. Tool Pants
    I do not know anything about a tip other than someone with a PST2/PIWIS can read stored transmission faults. If you had a manual transmission I would suspect the air flow sensor. Try this since it does not cost anything. Disconnect the air flow sensor and drive the car to see if there is improvement.
  20. Tool Pants
    Remove the center console. Remove the two 13 mm nuts for the brake cable. Then remove the four 13 mm nuts for the hand brake.
  21. Tool Pants
    Now it makes sense. Like why we cannot have a TV in a car the driver can see while the car is moving - or the driver may be distracted. Or, why you can drive with one hand (in California) and talk on a cell phone, shave, and put makeup on with the other hand. You have to remove the center console to get to the switch. Why can't you trick the navigation unit into thinking the car is stopped and the hand brake on. What kind of signal does the unit want to see? With the hand brake pulled up and the key on you get 12 volts to the instrument cluster warning light. It is just an on/off switch. There are many places to find 12 volts on any car.
  22. Tool Pants
    I had a feeling - that is why the link to the 996 post. After over 5 years of Boxstering I have seen just about everything you can stick in a car. The good, the bad, and the ugly. This Florida company now has 2 positive reviews. Maybe someday I will see their stuff in person. I can usually spot fake carbon fiber a mile away.
  23. Tool Pants
    This is a new one. The yellow line is to the connector for the 2 wires to the hand brake switch. Why does a navigation unit need to know if the hand brake is on or off?
  24. Tool Pants
    http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3278
  25. Tool Pants
    With an e-gas car the throttle is controlled electronically, not via a metal cable. Cruise control on an e-gas car is done electronically via the DME/car computer. This is why on an e-gas car you can make cruise control work just by doing some wiring. On a 2.5 the throttle and cruise is mechanical. If you have cruise control then the gas pedal is different. I would have to ask Peter if a retrofit can be done on a 2.5.
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