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  1. Tool Pants
    If you have a problem with both reverse light not working and both bulbs are NEW then this is a switch on the transmission that triggers when you select reverse. You get confusing when you start to switch bulbs. Put 2 new bulbs in the socket and make sure it is the reverse light bulbs you replaced. No glow then it might be the switch on the transmission.
  2. Tool Pants
    I saw Peter today and he said he just turned on the trip computer on a 2004 with the new tester. Nothing has changed since 2003. Abe's dealer could not figure it out with the old tester even with the DVD and Peter's instructions, so Abe contacted me and I gave him Peter's cell phone number and Peter walked them through it and it worked. This is the new tester. I did not get to see it in action because Peter was working on a problem Boxster owned by a friend.
  3. Tool Pants
    It can be done but you cannot see anything since the OBC display is shared with the odometer display as of 2001. You must therefore do the trip computer retrofit so you can switch displays. Search, as it has been covered many times on this board. There have been four 2003 trip computer retrofits posted here.
  4. Tool Pants
    Too bad your messages are all over the place so it is hard to follow the problem. Peter said they have had problems with the second and third version e-gas sensors due to idle problems. He likes to put in the first version and then reprogram the DME for the original version. The original 2000 e-gas bulletin has been superseded by a 2001 bulletin. I have the first bulletin but not the second, but when Peter showed it to me it did not mention the third version sensor because that one just came out. Codes P1128 and P1130 are most likely a vacum leak. Additional places are the brake booster and some other places I forget. Peter did not think it was related to the sensor, but with out seeing the PST2 print out it is all a guess.
  5. Tool Pants
    I talked to the guys at the shop today. 1997 and I think 1998 had the old horizonal vapor separator - that is what my 1997 has. If the car is on angles you can get oil into the intake and not a check engine light. This is why Porsche switch to the new vertical design. If the old style needs to be replaced it is replaced with the new vertical. When the separator fails is fails, and does not cure itself. When it fails you see constant smoke out the tail pipe, or pressure out of the oil filler tube. Smoke is easy to see, so the other test is to remove the oil cap and see if there is pressure. So if this is the reason for your smoke on the track then you must have been going faster than me.
  6. Tool Pants
    The console is going to have to be removed to see what is going on.
  7. Tool Pants
    The rubber extension just pulls off the coil. When I do a spark plug change I remove the coil so I can inspect it for cracks since this is known to happen as you found out. I also inspect the rubber extension and once in a while I will see one that has a split in it.
  8. Tool Pants
    I said it might be a oil/vapor separator starting to go bad. At least I hope that is what it is or somethning simple like that, since I was told you missed a downshift and you could have bent internal parts - but when I saw your car it sounded fine. Is it still smoking. The oil could be from the oil filler tube or the camshaft cover since the is the most common source of leaks. You will have to clean everything and see where it is comming from. I sent a guy the instructions on how to replace the tube and he did it - that was posted a few weeks ago. This would not be related to smoke out of the exhaust. Some info on the oil separator. Hope that is what it is but that shift bothers me. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...st=0entry3630 http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...st=0entry4871
  9. Tool Pants
    You are missing some numbers in your part numbers, and I'm not sure what is the issue. A 996 with a tip has an opening for the transmission cooler in the front of the car. On a Boxster there is no opening because the cooler is on the transmission. A 996 with a manual transmission doe not have the opening for the cooler - this is the one you should use. This is a 1999 Boxster with a 996 manual transmission bumper cover.
  10. Tool Pants
    Secondary hood release lever. There is a red plastic cap on 1998 up but maybe not on some early 1998s. It is so old eyes can see it. My 1997 did not have it and I have never seen a 1997 with it. When my car got hit the body shop put the new style latch in and I asked them to remove the cap since it did not come on my year. You cannot buy just the cap. I would give you mine but it was thrown away.
  11. Tool Pants
    I cannot picture what part you are talking about.
  12. Tool Pants
    The Boxster shop manual says the same thing. Hard to understand. I have never done this but I have an extra regulator and I played around with it a few months ago to see how it works. There is a clamp on each side of the regulator for the glass. By adjusting the height of the clamp you adjust the height of the glass. Each clamp has a male torx screw to adjust the height. There are 2 round oval rubber plugs at the bottom of the door. Those plugs must be for adjusting the height with a tool through the opening. You can see my E7 female torx driver in the picture and it is on the screw. My regulator is an E7, not an E6 like the shop manual says.
  13. Tool Pants
    If you have a valid credit card in there I will pull your door off.
  14. Tool Pants
    I do not see how you can do that without removing the door.
  15. Tool Pants
    I think I know what you are talking about keoni. If you open the door all the way and stand outside the car there is a black plastic plate/cover that closes the opening from the fender to the upper door jam. I see 3 plastic rivets securing that plate and the rivets look exactly like the plastic rivets on the spoiler. If that is it why do you want to remove it? A local guy asked me to remove it because his credit card dropped into that area after it bounced off the windshield. I told him I would if I could use the card. :lol:
  16. Tool Pants
    You may be happy to know Porsche finally released instructions on how to install the 2003/4 sport exhaust. 15 pages, but that is with all the electrical and vacum stuff. I forgot someone on RennTech was doing the install, but they say to remove the bumper cover just like they did with the original sport exhaust instructions. My dealer has a 2004 with the sport exhaust but it was in the showroom so I could not rev it up to compare the sound to the prior sport exhaust. Your car has 4 catalytic converters, with a pre cat right on each manifold. Some say this muffles the exhaust sound. A 2.5 has just 2 and with my old ears the original sport exhaust sounds best on a 2.5. There is a German guy who has been on this board who modifies the factory standard and sport exhaust. That, I would like to hear some day. The original Boxster sport exhaust never had the bark of the 996 sport exhaust, and it looks like the new Boxster sport exhaust is no different. Some people say the sound improves once the exhaust is "broken in." I do not know how you break in a muffler. Thanks for the instructions for the next guy. Jeff
  17. Tool Pants
    And a fine DVD it is. ;) Peter came up with the retrofit instructions years ago and was the only one able to figure out the 2003 issue. He works at my local dealer and each year when a new model comes out I see Peter and we go around the lot turning on the trip computers. That is how the 2003 "bug" was spotted. I spoke to Peter 2 days ago because they have 3 PST2s and I wanted to know what they were going to do with them now that the new PIWIS tester is out. I asked if he had tried to turn on a trip computer with the new tester, and he said no. So, I will have to go to the dealer and see if they have some 2003/4 without the OBC and find out what is the procedure with the new tester. Might include the prior year cars as well just in case. Jeff
  18. Tool Pants
    Cost 20 cents. There are several versions of hitches over the years, but nothing new.
  19. Tool Pants
    We have relaced a few. You need a pop rivet gun. For some reason it is the driver's side that breaks first.
  20. Tool Pants
    Need a translation to Yank speak. If you mean the plastic front bumper cover you can use an S on a base. You will just have an extra opening in the middle.
  21. Tool Pants
    There are 3 black plastic rivets that have a pin in the middle. Push the pins out with a small straight punch or the end of a small drill bit and they will fall into the spoiler. Then you can lift the top off the spoiler. Then remove the 2 allen bolts that hold the metal body in place and the pins will inside it. Once the metal body of the spoiler is removed you can get to the screws holding the top of the rear bumper cover in place.
  22. Tool Pants
    It gets confusing because we talk about amber lights but then talk about removing the amber. The Boxster standard halogen headlight were amber until 2003, when the Boxster got clear. Litronics are clear. Some us us old Boxster owners would buy 996 lights since they are clear, unless it is a very early 996. The turn signal bulb in an amber headlight is clear. It flashes amber from the outside because the surface plastic headlight cover is amber. Inside the headlight and just in front of the bulb is a clear plastic light diffuser. The diffuser can be clear because the surface plastic is amber. The bulb in clear or lits is also clear, but the internal diffuser is amber. So it also flashes amber from the outside. If you remove the amber diffuser like in the pictures then you need to replace the clear bulb with an amber bulb, or one of those silver bulbs that flash amber. On the left is my standard amber Boxster light. On the right is a clear 996, but the amber diffuser has not been removed.
  23. Tool Pants
    I only do the slides for the clamshell but I guess it will not hurt to grease anything that moves. I use grease in a spray can that has an extension tube so it is easy to apply. Don't know what porsche uses, perhaps a dry grease that does not attract dirt. On the cars I have seen it was as hard as a rock.
  24. Tool Pants
    Loren posted this for a 996.
  25. Tool Pants
    986 351 401 05 for front. 986 352 401 04 for rear
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