Car D.I.Y.

[Pinno718]

Porsche prices are crazy, I replaced a front wing on my 1977 Carrera 3.0 back in 1990’s and that was over £1000. Every service seem to cost £1000 because of all the additional work required. You need deep pockets to run and maintain one properly. I am itching to buy another, perhaps a 997 Carrera 4S convertible this time, but not sure I really want to back in to that world of pain again.

Not sure I would want a convertible. The 4s you'll pay more for. I had the basic 3.6 2 wheel drive and was a lot of fun.
997's are going relatively cheap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/27695765...TA==|tkp:BFBMlKamuqRm&pfm=1&var=2560320879680

I had a pdi done by P for Porsche, Clydebank and they even did a borescope for the sum of £272. This report allowed me to knock off £3500 from the asking price. I was quoted £1700 to do the aircon - replacing both condensers. Did it myself with OEM parts including charging for £590. Added a Zunsport grille to keep them and the radiators protested from leaves and stones.

 

[raleighnut]

Porsche prices are crazy, I replaced a front wing on my 1977 Carrera 3.0 back in 1990’s and that was over £1000. Every service seem to cost £1000 because of all the additional work required. You need deep pockets to run and maintain one properly. I am itching to buy another, perhaps a 997 Carrera 4S convertible this time, but not sure I really want to back in to that world of pain again.

As I posted I worked at Clarks and knew a couple of the mechanics from Roger Clark cars, full service on a 911 was 'engine out' just to check/adjust the tappets, one of the guys there had a Mini that would run rings around a Porker until it came to fast motorway/A road stuff when the speed would count but on back lanes Fred's Mini would be offski

 

[Gunk]

Not sure I would want a convertible. The 4s you'll pay more for. I had the basic 3.6 2 wheel drive and was a lot of fun.
997's are going relatively cheap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276957654652?_skw=solid+rubber+block&itmmeta=01K4HT9JBYEWKN68HC6EVRS0F6&hash=item407bf66e7c:g:isMAAOSwe91nUl-1&itmprp=enc:AQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1dktbGss+0AwsKvZ1q7KWwOtvin1I9awiBycLIBx+GT+KtbFX8wg8qajAHSVn2oCh7csVLCefF/m2DFF1uQFQpKjnxP+R8FWr32NwDDrXhEek4u39L3rBsm9i3lyU7s1vI1zOLv1Q2cWnjoYgnPon3zsHNapCR3QBG1Rund6zkr3MJ+LJkri1D8LPA0kfxz1M0N15AZjF+C1H+Hq0QRS37/JrUoTUu6ggfPISuWWpFjXjod5SR5rjokssi8u2+odpalHE60JQEZflGZ5RRGj1lgARwW0iGTb7E6LD/B0RysTA==|tkp:BFBMlKamuqRm&pfm=1&var=2560320879680

I had a pdi done by P for Porsche, Clydebank and they even did a borescope for the sum of £272. This report allowed me to knock off £3500 from the asking price. I was quoted £1700 to do the aircon - replacing both condensers. Did it myself with OEM parts including charging for £590. Added a Zunsport grille to keep them and the radiators protested from leaves and stones.

I must be getting old as my wish list is 4WD, auto and a convertible. A bit different to what I owned 20 years ago!

 

[Pinno718]

That's gorgeous.

 

[Pinno718]

If I had the money, I would have a 963.

 

[fossyant]

If I had the money, I would have a 963.

I've got far to sensible these days, so I bought a fast van instead that can 'do stuff' - carry bikes, tip runs, carry 7 people, go camping and sleep in it. Way too sensible.

 

[Pinno718]

Waaay too sensible.

 

[Drago]

Aye, im happy with the T5 vert for the two days a year it isn't raining, and for daily duties the van is painfully practical. Nothing like sitting in the back and brewing a cuppa while grilling a cheese toastie when stuck for 4 hours on a stationary M1.

 

[Pinno718]

I do like the T5 transporter. I had a T2 '74 bay

 

[Pinno718]

***Thread diversion alert***

Pile of Torx and Alan and T12 bits. No home. Kicking around my tool box. Home was a plastic moulding in a metal box but after 20 years of use and abuse, it died a couple of years ago.
What to do? It's Sunday 07/09/25, it's pixxing down and I have cabin fever as I would rather be pedalling and then showering and stretching and consuming too much and then snoozing and enjoying that fuzzy after pedal feeling.

No foam of the depth required but actually, a previous attempt with foam went horribly wrong. But I do have lots of tool box liner felt/sponge/stuff. It's dense enough.
Created a template on Excel after the paper and ruler technique just didn't hit the mark. Excel has this function where you can set the ruler in the Advanced options to millimetres. I did this but it did not change a thing, so a bit of perseverance and converting pixels to mm in column and row settings and I finally got a template.

...and 4 sheets cut. Tedious,

Laminated:

Trimmed and mounted on a backing board. Ta da!

Job done.

 

[Drago]

Spent 10 minutes with Carista changing some settings on the van such as startup logo, needle sweep on startup, overspeed warnings, etc.

 

[Pinno718]

'needle sweep' ?

 

[Drago]

Aye laddie, on with the ignition and all the gauges sweep simultaneously fully to max and back to their normal position.

Its supposed to check the function of the gauges but it looks tres cool.

 

[fossyant]

'needle sweep' ?

Boy racer 'add on' in the settings.

My son's done it to his Fabia, and changed the start up logo !

 

[Drago]

My son's done it to his Fabia, and changed the start up logo !

Me too! I've gone from the VW logo to a Bluemotion logo on a world map background.