Weather looked nice today, so i spent a good 6 hours doing the exterior. I went to my mom's place for some peace and quiet while i worked.
Dish Soap to wash off last year's wax and sealant, then new layers of sealant and wax. I only had time to let them sit for about an hour before buffing.
I didn't even get to touch the interior yet. Plus my arms are killing me.
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997? Boss wheels.
Got a 996 C4S with another pain in the arse story attached, will bosh up a picture and short history soon.
Edit, found a couple:
So, I picked this up at a repo auction. The bodywork was a bit scruffy but nothing too bad so I thought I'd take a punt on it.
Picked her up and I was in a good mood, started first time, no smoking, smooth through the gears (auto), interior in fantastic shape and a good spec model with loads of extras (electric seats, old school car phone, porsche embossed leather etc etc). It only had a valet key with it, no remote key, but I figured I could resolve this sometime in future.
I took it straight to my mechanic and although it needed a few bits doing (top mounts, pads, discs, that kind of thing) it was minimal really. Annoyingly the rear spoiler wasn't working though.
I thought about this a while and found a replacement spoiler mech from a breaker yard for a couple of hundred to picked that up, gave it to my mechanic who fitted it, still no play. He reckoned it might just need initialising with proper porsche software so I took it into a local specialist.
4 hours worth of diagnostics later, it's a problem with the instrument cluster. Replacement from porsche, ｣2.5k.... I searched high and low and found a second hand part for ｣269, a huge saving. It had a different mileage on it but I found a place that would do a mileage correction for ｣60 (worryingly simple to do apparently).
Cluster arrives, swapped them over, now the fuel gauge doesn't work and the oil level warning is on despite it being full. Sent the cluster back and hunted down another one.
Next one arrived - bingo! Fires into life, a full day of spoiler joy, parked her up and life went on.
Couple of weeks later and the sun comes out, thought why not be a twat and put the roof down. Erm, roof not working. I knew straight away what it would be, and I was right. The second hand instrument cluster came off a coupe, not a convertible.
Long story short I've now tracked down a guy who says he can clone the software from the original cluster and install it on the new cluster and bring the roof back to life, I'll be sorting that this week. It's not the end of the world, just fucking around as ever.
As for getting a remote key, porsche took one look at the engine ecu and said it had been changed at some point in the past so they have no idea what car it came off, so there's no way of finding out the codes to link a key to it.
After the various electrical issues I'm starting to think it was never a repo car in the first place, it was just a problem car thrown in to the auction by a guy who'd had enough of fucking around with it.
Still, drives like a beast, and I'm in the minority of really liking the styling on the 996 when they have the flared wheel arches, even the runny egg lights that a lot of people hated, so all's well that ends well I guess.
