A lot of help needed

[BoxsterRS]

First of all, I own a 1998 Boxster Blue metallic or whatever it is blue green and purple. Second, I changed the engine mount, brake pads, serpentine belt, brake pads, and rwl tires. Third the cars pedals vibrate a bit, sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. Fourth, I hear a ticking sound coming from the passenger dash side stationary or on the move. Fifth, The steering wheel vibrates a bit. Sixth, There is a ballish sound coming from the soft top area, not the rear control arms. And finally the most recent prob. When starting cold, the car hesitates to start. I also noticed, that when accelerating somewhere from 900rpm-2000rpm, the car sort of has a delay like if the valve from the throttle body was stuck or no lubricated. FINALLY, HELP!!!. I want to fix all of this before April 11, 2007 which is my birthday. Thanks to anyone who helps and even those who just read it and say too bad for you!!!

[Chris_in_NH]

LOL! :lol:

i believe your car is Ocean Blue. mine too (MY97).

i can't help with everything you listed, but i can give you some suggestions.

if the steering wheel is vibrating, it could be that your wheels need to be balanced and/or you need an alignment. does the wheel vibrate at a certain RPM range or speed? when driving on a straight, level road, if you let go of the wheel does the car track straight or does it pull to the left/right?

if the car is hesitating to start in the cold, i would suspect the battery. how old is the battery? batteries seem to last about 4 years. but maybe it's just darn cold out. my car has a pretty new battery and if the temp is really cold (5-10F) the car doesn't like it, but will start reluctantly.

not sure what to tell you on the vibrating pedals. and i'm not sure what a 'ballish' sound is. can you describe it?

hesitation when accelerating has been traced to the MAF on more than a few occasions. have you ever replaced it or cleaned it?

i hope this helps with your **** car. :lol:

[BoxsterRS]

LOL! :lol:

i believe your car is Ocean Blue. mine too (MY97).

i can't help with everything you listed, but i can give you some suggestions.

if the steering wheel is vibrating, it could be that your wheels need to be balanced and/or you need an alignment. does the wheel vibrate at a certain RPM range or speed? when driving on a straight, level road, if you let go of the wheel does the car track straight or does it pull to the left/right?

if the car is hesitating to start in the cold, i would suspect the battery. how old is the battery? batteries seem to last about 4 years. but maybe it's just darn cold out. my car has a pretty new battery and if the temp is really cold (5-10F) the car doesn't like it, but will start reluctantly.

not sure what to tell you on the vibrating pedals. and i'm not sure what a 'ballish' sound is. can you describe it?

hesitation when accelerating has been traced to the MAF on more than a few occasions. have you ever replaced it or cleaned it?

i hope this helps with your **** car. :lol:

Thanks, I replaced the battery(actually my dad did) with a crappy -3000watt I guess from pepboys but he insists its ok. I have never aligned the car since I got it, and the cold start, I forgot to mention, I cleaned the throttle body. The sound the car makes is the same as the one it does when the throttle body is disconected and doesn't start. Hope fixing them resolves it for ever.

[Glyn]

First of all, I own a 1998 Boxster Blue metallic or whatever it is blue green and purple. Second, I changed the engine mount, brake pads, serpentine belt, brake pads, and rwl tires. Third the cars pedals vibrate a bit, sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. Fourth, I hear a ticking sound coming from the passenger dash side stationary or on the move. Fifth, The steering wheel vibrates a bit. Sixth, There is a ballish sound coming from the soft top area, not the rear control arms. And finally the most recent prob. When starting cold, the car hesitates to start. I also noticed, that when accelerating somewhere from 900rpm-2000rpm, the car sort of has a delay like if the valve from the throttle body was stuck or no lubricated. FINALLY, HELP!!!. I want to fix all of this before April 11, 2007 which is my birthday. Thanks to anyone who helps and even those who just read it and say too bad for you!!!

The pedals - i would guess this is due to the front wheels requiring balancing and this is also your steering wheel problem, there is nothing connected that could cause a vibration on the pedals unless of course the vibration occures when braking - if so this is disc run out - new discs required.

The ballish sound from the soft top area - try lubricating with vaseline the two locating lugs on the clamshell (male) where they meet with two female corresponding lugs (these tend to clunk and move a little as the body flexes)

The hesitation sounds like MAF - Disconnect the MAF and run it unconnected - the engine will default to its "Limited opperating strategy" which is an approximate setting but much better than a crap setting from a faulty MAF - This should sort your hestitation out and if so buy from Europarts for £175 then fit it yourself in a couple of minutes and save over £100 from an OPC

The poor starting is probably down to spark plugs, not sure why but people avoid changing the plugs on Boxsters and try to motor in excess of 50000 miles why? dead cheap and dead simple to change, new plugs aid much better combustion, change them at every service especially as they only cost a few pounds each

Glyn

Edited March 10, 2007 by Glyn

[beety]

Sergio - I also own a 1998 Ocean blue Metallic boxster 2.5. I can potentially shed some light on your problems based on my experiences:

(i) Vibrating steering wheel - if the car has sat for some period of time - the brake pads can corrode onto the disc, this manifests itself only at speed e.g. wheel wobble at over 50mph and shudder under braking (this is not really noticeable driving around town)

(ii) Ball-rolling sound is probably one of the cables that has come unclipped from the ball joints in the roof mechanism - you'll need to put the top into service position and pop them back on - or even replace if one has snapped (as in my case)

(iii) I had a really annoying rattle from the drivers side of the dash nearly all the time the car was in motion - managed to track this down to the trim cover over the wing-mirror adjustment control working loose - try here first.

Hope this helps.