K40 Radar broken mounts

[barlowdo]

I have been catching my leg on the front License plate bracket of the 996 as I pass by it in the garage. Last Saturday I tore my pant leg on it.

I decided it was high time I lose the plate that was put on by the dealer. Heck they are already advertising on the back of the car.

Thank heaven I am in NC and so far do not need a front plate. - One thing I hated about NY.

So a task that I thought would be ten minutes at most turned into a project that still needs additional work.

As I removed the Advertising Plate I felt something wobbly connected under the Plastic Porsche front plate bracket.

When I got everything loose I discovered it was the front sensor for the K40 installed by previous owner.

It is mounted to the plastic bracket with two L shaped pieces of metal one on each side. (Both Very Very rusty)

I discovered that one was broken off. And it was the "ear" that was part of the K40 that was broken off.

If you have seen this sensor unit you know it only has two metal ears one on both sides, all the rest is plastic accept for the four wires coming out of it.

I am attaching a photo of the wires where they are routed thru the front bumper via a hole drilled thru the bumper.

I needed to take the sensor off so I could fix it so I attempted to get at the back side of the bumper in this location and could not find any easy access.

I guess you need to pull the bumper. Maybe someone can tell me for sure.

I must say for an expensive radar unit I was not impressed with the two small mounting ears. Even the one that did not break off was close to breaking as they are very very rusty and reminded me of cheap after market add on's.

I could not get the sender off so finally decided the best approach was to velcro it on. I still had to use the Plastic Plate bracket because I could not disconnect the wire short of cutting it. I thought I could mount the detector behind the plate and just make sure I never put a metal plate on there but the detector would not fit behind it. So I velcroed it inside the top of the duct leading to the radiators. This is not the best spot as it robs some of the air flow as well as it pretty low on the car for Radar detection but is the best I could come up with for now. I am almost tempted to mount the detector above the rear view mirror but that would be a long term project.

So now at least I do not have the metal plate to catch my leg or the better halfs leg on. But I still have the plastic plate holder mounted since I got the wires behind it to hide.

A couple of pictures of the mount location.

Don

[fpb111]

Pull the bumper cover. It is only ~12 screws.

[barlowdo]

Thanks, And even better no ugly background soundtrack :)