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Bajaha posted:Yeah, I've heard similar. There's also the rumor that the later ones are reversed and that spirited driving is more likely to cause them to fail. Lots of hearsay and anecdotal evidence around this issue for sure. I hope so because my shitbox C2 has 132k on the original dual row because I don't feel like the throwing in the retrofit kit the PO included in the sale 
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Hello thread, just got a new dd  Keep me in your prayers.
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Sep 9, 2017 02:59
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The balls on this dude. Nice 
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Sep 9, 2017 03:07
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Oh poo poo Suh-weet
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Sep 9, 2017 06:52
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I am loving envious. It's still a dream to own a 928 for me.
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Sep 9, 2017 08:43
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928s are super neat, congrats. In other news, the turbo came home after a few weeks at the car spa wrapped and with ceramic pro on the wrap, wheels, and calipers. Cost a lot more than I was hoping but looks great and should be good for 10+ years. 
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Jymmybob posted:928s are super neat, congrats. I continue to like those wheels a lot. Question on the wrap, how's the gloss/depth up close? And how did you have them deal with jams? Are those just the original color, or did they wrap inwards or something? I ask because it seems like that's a high end wrap (and it looks great), which from what I've seen seem to be getting better and better, but I've still never seen one up close. Well, or if I did it was so good I just couldn't tell it was a wrap, which I suppose is the point.
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Really nice wrap, is it Laguna Seca blue?
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Mat_Drinks posted:I continue to like those wheels a lot. They wrapped the jambs everywhere until they ran into the hinges but for another 300 I could have the doors taken off and there wouldn't be any paint showing. Since the paint is silver and pretty neutral they recommended just doing the partial door wraps which worked fine since I didn't notice any exposed paint when I was checking it out. The gloss is good but there's a fine grainy pattern that shows up close in bright light that keeps it from looking like paint. From 10 feet it looks like paint and it's not like it was going over flawless paint anyways since it's so low, has 60k miles, and is 16 years old. willie_dee posted:Really nice wrap, is it Laguna Seca blue? It's Avery Dennison SW900 Light Blue which is about as close to Leguna/Mexico/Riviera blue as you'll get.
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Yeah that looks sharp. Do you mind sharing what a wrap like that is worth?
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slidebite posted:Yeah that looks sharp. Do you mind sharing what a wrap like that is worth? 3500 for the wrap, 350 for the door jambs, 650 for the wheels, calipers, and wrap coated with Ceramic Pro. The ceramic is like permanent wax so I should get 10+ years on the wrap and 5+ years before I might need another ceramic coating with a couple thousand miles per year. The price was probably $1000 over what I could have found somewhere else but this place did an identical GT2 really well and is a premium shop. They filled and wetsanded the rock chipped bumpers plus some minor other details without any upcharges plus the owner did the wrap and is very obviously a car enthusiast so I felt good about the whole thing. https://www.rehabdetailing.com if you're in the NE Ohio area.
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Do they ceramic coat the hub section of the disk too?
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DogonCrook posted:Do they ceramic coat the hub section of the disk too? Nope, but I bet they would if i asked them. I used to flash plate them in zinc-nickel but now I just use zinc flake which dodges hydrogen embrittlement questions and is what's done on high end stuff already. I did one set in cerakote because we had some kicking around but it's overkill despite being the best.
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That wrap looks real nice
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Thoughts on this? I've had my eye on it for the past while, they've had it listed for over a month now, not sure why no one has bought it? Price seems right, one of the lower priced 03's I've seen Bonus is my co-workers brother knows the dealership owner, so I've asked him to get me the inside scoop http://wwwb.autotrader.ca/a/porsche/911/north%20york/ontario/5_33916796_20111115101047209/?showcpo=ShowCpo&ursrc=hl&orup=2_4_4
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Sappo569 posted:Thoughts on this? I've seen a few tempting looking cars come through Platinum but I've also seen some kind of terrifying reviews about them selling what amounts to lemon or rebuilt luxury cars they grabbed for cheap at auction. Interested to hear if anyone has first-hand experience.
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Brooks Cracktackle posted:I've seen a few tempting looking cars come through Platinum but I've also seen some kind of terrifying reviews about them selling what amounts to lemon or rebuilt luxury cars they grabbed for cheap at auction. Interested to hear if anyone has first-hand experience. Well turns out there is a $15k lien on the car Explains why no one has bought it :edit: Or not? I asked for the car proof, it shows no lien but 2 accidents. One claim for $13k the other has no insurance claim attached Either way not sure what to do, other than see if they will drop the price closer to $15k, considering it's high KM and has had multiple accidents. Blue On Blue fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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BaT recently added a feature to let you review auction prices by model. I had been wanting to scraped their auctions to look at bidding behavior, but this is still cool. Some interesting auction data on 911s, with my interpretations of the markets: https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/964/ Steady. Cheap ones all cabrios. https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/993/ Rising. Almost all the ones below 40k are cabrios. https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/996/ Plentiful, cheap, and still declining. https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/997/ Not a ton of data points, but surprising. Even an early S can be had for <40k. Can't say if prices have bottomed out just yet.
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kimbo305 posted:BaT recently added a feature to let you review auction prices by model. The turbos/gt3 are their own models, volumes on all of them except the 996 are too low to infer much: https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/993-turbo/ https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/996-turbo/ https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/997-turbo/ https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/gt3/ <-- very confusingly all gt3s
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The model groupings seem arbitrary and added piecemeal, as you would expect for a small outfit. 914s all together, and trending down: https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/914/ Very noisy for 944s: https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/944-951/ Tea leaves -- you could see a long term downward trend or a near term upward trend. But the prices are all over.
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I bet the 944s are both with the crappy ones dropping and the nicest ones climbing because they're old enough to be getting rare for good condition examples but there's enough average and below that you have a lot of choices.
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This 968 looks clean as hell. I'd have been genuinley interested if I didn't just have some major expenses (IE: House). https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1993-porsche-968-5/
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Pulled the factory wheel locks off of the 944 today. Took about ten minutes with a tiny flathead. Not sure those even count as locks since they can be unlocked so easily.
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I'm planing to do the brakes on the Carerra this winter during the down time. Any recomendations on brands? A Rennlist sponsor seems to have decent prices on Textar. Are they comparable to OEM? $500 shipped to Montana for all the pads, rotors, sensors, caliper bolts, even 1L of Motul fluid and a wheel mounting tool.
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Pretty sure Textars are Porsche OEM. I have a pile of pad sets from POs of a couple of my cars and they're all Textar.
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Really? I thought Bosch was OEM for their brakes. Hmm interesting. $500 all in seems like a really decent deal.
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Update on LS1 944 -- guy upped the price to 16k: https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cto/6294444305.html And is barely reachable via email. I figure the price increase is either he doesn't actually want to sell it or he's gotten some high offers who then flaked.
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Economics guru. If it doesn't sell, increase the price.
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This 911's going the other way, 17.5 to 16: https://boston.craigslist.org/sob/cto/d/2001-porsche-carrera/6311735052.html Asking myself if I feel lucky about the IMS. And we know where I stand on the old eggy lights.
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God drat $16k? And at least with darker cars like that you can tint the eggy lights--it comes out pretty well.
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kimbo305 posted:This 911's going the other way, 17.5 to 16: https://boston.craigslist.org/sob/cto/d/2001-porsche-carrera/6311735052.html Do iiit. Have IMS done plus some other odd fixes while it's apart and have a solid car that shouldn't need anything major for a few years. The stalk is easy to fix or replace, it took an hour to do on my 968 and I'm pretty sure it's basically the same assembly. Full leather really makes a difference in the interior and blue is just icing on the cake.
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I'm trying to find out if those are BBS replicas or real deal BB$$$. Flashy, but would have some resale.
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kimbo305 posted:I'm trying to find out if those are BBS replicas or real deal BB$$$. Flashy, but would have some resale. Pretty sure they're BBS/Porsche Sport Classic IIs which aren't that expensive compared like the BBS LMs you might be thinking of.
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I have seen those wheels on a lot of 2000 ish Porsches before I bought a ford.
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At least they're not Sport Designs which are somehow the most expensive OEM wheel despite looking like rear end. In Porsche news, I suddenly remembered that every standard turbo car tune I've ever seen improves low end torque and drivability so I plugged in the switcher and set it to the pump gas 650hp tune from the stock ~450ish tune on the turbo. It did indeed make the car a million times easier to launch despite the clutch feel still being crap without any downsides I've noticed so far. I still hadn't really pushed it much with the stock tune but it feels like it could do a wheelie at 3/4 throttle now without even trying. It's on a stock suspension but it drives so well and the ride height is convenient for daily driver so I really haven't been looking at anything but that extra power moves it more than I expected.
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Pulling teeth with these Porsche listings. 16k guy is a builder and has no predictable schedule. Some guy is gonna see the car on Sat, so I have to try to see it before then to land it. Two extreme data points in 993: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1996-porsche-911-carrera-4s-6/ slightly modified on top of a bored 3.6L and AWD, but still pulls really strong numbers. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1997-porsche-911-5/ Automatic, got moderate interest, but ambitions (imo) reserve over 36k high bid.
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https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2016-porsche-cayman-gt4-6/ Lower-optioned GT4 goes for 90.5 on a 94.25 MSRP. The seller showed me the car (since I'm local, I def wanted to see it), and it's not much different from brand new, so while it hasn't been used much, definitely impressive that it only lost 4k in a year and a half. That's going on the seller saying the dealer didn't mark it up; I dunno if he actually got a discount off MSRP.
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So I took my 1986 n/a 944 in to get the brakes flushed and bled today by a local shop. I picked it up, and it's idling funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpsxXpEeRUU It was doing this briefly when I bought the car in April, but not once since then. I thought maybe it would clear up once the car was warmed up (normally it runs rough for the first thirty seconds) but it didn't clear up. Vacuum leak? Idle control valve (which looks like its under the intake manifold)?
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kimbo305 posted:https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2016-porsche-cayman-gt4-6/ Practically every special edition Cayman/Boxster/911 stands around MSRP for a long time from what I've seen. Also did you check that 996 out last weekend? New old wheels on the 968. The other set is back on the 996 so I can get it ready for inspection in 2 weeks  
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