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A quick intro before the info on the window. October 12, Friday I loaded up my trailer and headed to the panhandle to provide hurricane relief in Panama Florida with a group out of Tampa called Compassion Kind who needed a trailer to haul all of their goods to the panama. While in Panama City Beach my vehicle locked itself with the keys inside and the vehicle running. After realizing it was not feasible to get a police officer to lend a Slim Jim or have him open the vehicle since they were doing search and rescue for survivors and also no pop a lock people were available I decided to break what I thought was the cheapest window on the vehicle the rear right quarter window (last window on the right side of the vehicle). After 10 smacks of a hammer in the middle of the window someone suggested hitting it in the lower corner, after doing so it finally shattered. We were able to unlock the vehicle by opening a back door at that point. So I taped it up with a piece of cardboard and duck tape and drove home. October 16, The following Tuesday I contacted my local Porsche dealer only to find out that the part was $650 and would have to be shipped from Germany since they did not have it locally. I think called a few junk yards and found one here in Tampa (Partsmart) that had the part second hand and would sell it for $75. I bought it and proceeded to remove and replace the old window. At first I thought it was just going to be the glass but as it turns out the c pillar accent is part of it and it is also connected to the trim that goes around the top of all the windows. In order to remove the glass you have to loosen the inside panels all the way around. You have to completely remove the panels that are above the lower portion of the window. When removing these panels you have to be careful because some of them use clips and others use screws (a combination of torx and metric bolts).

I purchased a 2003 Porsche 996 C4 Cabriolet, upon receiving the vehicle noticed that the stereo had been modified and the subwoofer ( 996.645.567.00 A10 ) was not connected. The vehicle originally came with the bose system and in order to make the subwoofer work I would have to add a second amplifier in addition to the preexisting one that the previous owner put in place of the factory unit. In order to do this I had to answer several questions: 1. How much power can the bose subwoofer handle? I removed the subwoofer from the passenger foot well, since it was the unit that is mounted against the transmission hump. After removing the 2 screws that hold it in place I took it inside to look up what ever information I could based on the Porsche part number that was on the sticker on the back of the subwoofer enclosure ( 996.645.567.00 A10 ). After that provided me little to no assistance with the exception of telling me that it was a Porsche subwoofer I then proceeded to remove the speaker from the enclosure. First I had to remove 6 screws that held the protective grill, which turned out also held the speaker in the enclosure. After the speaker was out it provided me with the bose speaker information. Which I then called bose who was very difficult to get to an actual person, so I did the typical maneuver of getting to an answering machine then hitting 0 and finally got to a real person who provided me with the specs that I needed. 100 watts @ 2 ohms 2. How can I add a second amp safely into the vehicle (to prevent fires)? After finding out the specs for the subwoofer, I analyzed the way the system was currently setup and determined that I needed a way to safely connect 2 amplifiers without causing damage to the cars electrical system and potentially starting a fire. While reading some forums I found out that I need to add a distribution block which was very inexpensive ($20). When doing this use a fat gauge wire with a big fuse from the battery to the distribution block, one bigger than the wire you will use to connect your amps. Then from the distribution block to your amplifiers use another larger gauge wire with fuses inline. This will prevents fires from starting in the wiring of the amplifiers. 3. How can I get a 4 ohm amplifier to work with a 2 ohm subwoofer? My final issue was to determine how I could connect the amplifier I had laying around to the subwoofer seeing as though it was a 4ohm amplifier how can you make it produce 2 ohms as to not overload the speaker. I came across yet another forum that had the answer. Which I have illustrator below. You simply connect the hot to one set of outputs and the negative to the other set of outputs and this reduces the amount of ohms outputted in half. ........A..............B ....| + | - |...| + | - | .....|+|.............|-| .......|+|...........|-| ........|+|.........|-| .........|+|.......|-| ..........|+|.....|-| ...........|+|...|-| ............|+|.|-| .............|+|-| .............|+|-| .............|+|-| .............|+|-|