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  1. Tool Pants
    Yep, from their own site. Same parent company. http://www.tmdfriction.co.uk/index.html Looks like TDM friction owns a few brand names.
  2. Tool Pants
    The carpet is not glued down. You remove the seats, center console, and the side plastic things in the sills. For some reason B) porsche does not have drains in the seat pans. This is a problem if there is water under the drivers side as there is an expensive control unit under the seat. Not so on the passenger side. If it bothers you I would remove the seat and the storage thing in the sill and then lift up the carpet to dry.
  3. Tool Pants
    Spend some time on google. Brake pad material. Coefficient of friction. Brake pad material. Chase test. Here is a link to get you started. http://www.epsparts.com/category/chassisnumbertable/ The company name means nothing to me. A large friction material company will buy up other companies and continue to use the smaller company name. There are only about 26 possible ingredients used to make a brake pad material. The bottom line is the friction ratings based on the Chase test and the application. Racing, performance, sport names mean nothing to me as it is marketing. Find out the 2 letter rating on the back of the pad. The pic is the Boxster factory pad. It has Porsche and Brembo logos but is made by Galfer. The rating is FF. We have put in FE aftermarket pads which is about a third of the cost simply because it is not sold by Porsche. We have also put in GG Hawk pads.
  4. Tool Pants
    FVD has cams. I have also seen them a few times on ebay. Have no other info.
  5. Tool Pants
    Per Peter the advertised tank capacity is a bit optomistic. 5 years with my Box and the most I have ever put in is the same as you, 13.1 or 13.2, with about 30 miles to empty.
  6. Tool Pants
    I'd be very surprised if that was true. Certainly my 996 was tested with the mandrel at **** Lovett Porsche in Swindon. Cheers, Uwe Well, then they need your help on the UK board boxa.net. This is a recent post from Matt on that board. "Got my car back after having 2nd RMS in 6 months. Just spoke to Customer Service Supervisor at Porsche and mentioned the above thread ie the Mandrel, crankshart being concentric to engine etc etc. He said never heard of this part, the causes are most probably incorrect fitting or a faulty seal, it is impossible to tell. He went onto say that if anything was misaligned there would be a lot of engine vibration, he also said that he had heard nothing about engines being replaced after 3 RMS failures in the USA. He said that he was only aware of a couple of cars having to have an RMS replaced more than once in a year. He is based at Chiswick Porsche." Here is a link but you need to register on the board to see it. http://www.boxa.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=8186
  7. Tool Pants
    Search under Mark's name as he has covered the timing several times. You want the orientation of the V-levers to be identical on both sides. Pull up on the clam shell so that it is in the highest position. Operate a transmission via a drill on the end of the cable until you can get the female arm ball joint on the male joint on the V-lever. Repeat for the other side. Stick cables into the motor and secure with clips. You can then test the operation of the clam shell. But make sure you do not get the red/white plastic joints caught on something or you will break them. A helper to keep the joints clear will help. Then hook up the plastic joints.
  8. Tool Pants
    This was a popular swap on Boxsters when the 220 radio first came out. You have to remove the metal housing that the 210 slides into and tape off the alarm contact. See 220 radios on ebay from time to time - make sure you get the code. Easy project for our work on cars day in San Jose.
  9. Tool Pants
    The TSB for the measuring mandrel is on the board. It was issued on March 3, 2003. The mandrel is supposed to slide in the seal bore with slight resistence. If it does then you get another seal. Peter at Stevens Creek Porsche showed us the latest seal tools at last years tech session. For Scouser, the PCGB survey is being sent only to Boxster owners I think. They should have included 996s. But what is a survey going to do? Tell Porsche something it has known for many years?
  10. Tool Pants
    http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15 That is the measuring mandrel. The seal is removed and if the mandrel fits in the seal bore then you get another seal. Before the mandrel they would measure by hand with calipers. I am on the UK Boxster board and they do not use this tool. They simply replace the seal, after seal, after seal, Never replace the engine. The Porsche Club of GB is taking a survey now in order to deal with Porsche. Sometimes they even make the owner pay for a seal replacement - their warranty is 2 years. I have been waiting for the first report from a 2004 owner. I started Boxstering 5 years ago and there were the same complaints before I started. How many miles.
  11. Tool Pants
    Here are 2 pictures of the cable on a Boxster. The location is the same for a pre and post 2002 996. Removing the wheel makes it easier, but that is not an option for you. But at least you can turn the wheel for more clearance. On a Boxster you remove a plastic rivet and I think maybe a nut so you can get your hand under the plastic wheel liner and up to the headlight area. This is done by feel. It is a thin stranded metal cable with a loop in the end - so so not pull on the headlight wires by mistake. The yellow line is too the loop, but it is not always exactly in the same location.
  12. Tool Pants
    This is funny, because when the electrical trunk releases came out 3 years ago I asked a mechanic at my dealer if the spare battery jumper positive cable to the red/orange thing in the fuse box and the negative jumper to the door striker would work, when a battery had been removed from the car. As a former history major, it seemed you would need something to complete the circuit, like the battery, even a dead battery. I was told the battery could be removed and it would still work, as the trunk release had it's own circuit. Guess not....... Time for the emergency mechanical release cable so you can put your battery back in.
  13. Tool Pants
    I remember complaints like this on early Boxsters when I started Boxstering 5 years ago. It was called Ferry's Ghost. Did not know it happened to 996s. It has been too long and I do not remember what the fix was. Perphaps the motor or control unit.
  14. Tool Pants
    I do not know what is going on. We filmed the mirror install on Henry's Boxster last year. As Henry said, you only hook up 3 wires. Positive, ground, and the reverse wire under the seat. The other wires are not used and they have a pin on the end that will not go into the bridge plugs. Positive and ground go to the correct bridge plugs in the correct empty slot. The bridge plugs are the gray plastic things. I forget if they are marked so you would know which is which. We used the wiring diagram. This is Ramen inserting the pin at the end of the wire into the empty slot in a bridge plug. Turned out it was the wrong plug because there was a wiring change to the Boxster which was not noted on the Boxster instructions, so Henry used the 996 instructions.
  15. Tool Pants
    Carlos looks like a Willwood made by a guy named Will, and I think there is a bike rack attachment. EVO and South Sport also had/have hitches for Boxsters. I have no other info other than I have seen them on Boxsters in the 5 years I have been Boxstering. You can tow a light load of 4 tires and a track box for all your stuff. On a Boxster the hitch is bolted to the bumperette brackets. I do not know if the spacing of the brackets is the same on a 996.
  16. Tool Pants
    Some local Boxster guys have a hitch for the track. Funny, but I have never seen one on a 996, just Boxsters. This is the one Carlos had on his Boxster.
  17. Tool Pants
    Those pictures were taken by Dan of me doing an OBC retrofit on Bruce's 2000 S many years ago, and we did about 5 other cars at the same time. I am suprised to see them still floating around the net as I do not do it that way anymore. If you search on this board there are better instructions and pictures. Or you can watch the movie. ;)
  18. Tool Pants
    Litronic is a trade name from Bosch or Porsche for xenons. Bi-Xenons came out in 2001 for the turbo and in 2002 for the 996 as an option. Those are made by Hella. There is no such thing as Bi-Xenons for a Boxster as the shape of the headlight is different, unless you retrofit the front of the car to make it look like a turbo/facelift 996. Have the seller send you a picture of the part number and then we can figure it out. For litronics it will start with 996, but they also fit a 986. Also, you may need the headlight washers to pass inspection. This is covered on the German Boxster board. It depends on the year of your car.
  19. Tool Pants
    Not sure what the question is. But. With AeroKit 1 the moveable spoiler was removed and the hole covered with a plastic plate. The metal rear trunk lid was removed and replaced with a longer plastic lid. With AeroKit 2 that came out about 2 years ago the spoiler stayed in place but was disabled. The original metal trunk lid remains in place, but you get a blanking plate for the third tail light as it is now on the bolted on wing. The moveable spoiler shoud not work with AeroKit 2
  20. Tool Pants
    I watched Peter at AB do it a few years ago. It is just soldering new ground wires and following the instructions. The only tool I can think of the the female torx socket to remove the seat bolts. You should have the fault codes read to make sure the kit will fix the light. If you have something like a bad air bag control unit then the kit will not fix it.
  21. Tool Pants
    On a LHD car there is a control unit under the drivers seat, for the alarm and other things. We remove the seat to get to the reverse wire. Like loren says it is black with a blue stripe. The TSB says there are several, but I do not remember what I saw since there were many wires. Plus after we poked around with the wires we found a black/blue wire that went nowhere and had a plastic cap on the end so that is what we used. We detached the control unit from the floor pan so we could look at all the wires.
  22. Tool Pants
    The early Boxsters have the same issue. My 1997 has had two fixes over the years. Second fix a few years ago was the gold plated electrical contacts and buckles and no light since then. My car was long out of warranty when the second fix was done for free. I was told by the local dealer that as of July it is no longer an automatic free fix if you are out of warranty, it is case-by-case. Find out if prior fixes has been done if you are not the original owner. This is the kit. New buckles and ground wires depending on the year.
  23. Tool Pants
    There is a switch on the handle. Operate the handle and see if you can hear it click.
  24. Tool Pants
    I cannot figure out your electrical over the internet. Next.........
  25. Tool Pants
    I was going to say you may just have a bad battery even if it is new. I'm on my third battery in 27 months. I would drive all day or have it on the charger all day, and next morning I was lucky if the cluster lights would go on. They were all from AutoZone and made by Johnson Controls which has a good reputation. We were at a tech session last year and they had a new in the box Porsche Moll battery that tested bad. Take it to a place like AutoZone after it has been charged so they can do a load test. Peter says the draw should be no more than 40 milliamps. Not the electrical guy so I do not know how long it takes to drain a battery with a 150 milliamp load. You might check the seat back motor. http://www.pca.org/tech/tech_qa_question.a...9-284D52B42EDE}
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