Seal Grey Porsche Boxster S 987

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Not much to right home about really with the Porker in terms of changes, thought I’d post a quick update now I’ve had it a year.

Being my first rear wheel drive car and mid engined I had to make sure to find the limit of the old rear snap, too much mid corner and the rear will try to come round but I’ve learnt how to control it now and still love driving it every time I go out in it.

Few common issues over the year which have been rectified. Front springs will corrode and snap over time especially when left hibernating over winter etc, front right went on me just before a trip to Enniskillen but replacement parts from Porsche and spyder performance and labour at AMG ended up not being as bad as I imagined 👍🏻

The hood on the 986/987 likes to start sitting over the outside trim eventually when the elastic that holds the tension stretches too much over time. Some clothes elastic and the wife’s sewing kit, tutorials online and it’s back to tight and flush 👌🏻. Happy to help anyone who may need this too and doesn’t fancy attempting it, plenty of elastic left 👍🏻

Cylinder 6 is misfiring at the minute, Alan suspects the coil as the heat from the exhaust tends to literally burn them out on these cars. Will get it fixed out soon.

Finally, changed the yellow fog lights our and with a new set of decent bulbs and a diode that cost a couple of pence in the light knob wires, I did the DRL mod so the fog act as DRLs during the day (before anyone says anything they are no brighter in the day than any other DRLs) but they can be turned off at the knob and used as fogs as needed on appropriate days.

Onwards to the next year 👍🏻

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Not much going on really but out of its main Winter hibernation and a run up to the hot house Mallusk MOT centre this morning. It’s only done 800 miles since the last one so I definitely need to get it out more this year. Anyway full ticket with no issues.

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I’d love some more modern looking rear lights, think it will keep it looking a bit more current and a topgear / designtek valved exhaust but I may start saving the pocket money and sell a kidney before she approves of that lol.

Doing alright for 20 years old next year, never gives me a bad drive 😃
 

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Been seeing this on the forums so jumped on the bandwagon following the good reviews they have been getting and must say I’m impressed, perfect for what I need, which was mainly CarPlay. Once connected it then works wirelessly too so even better when you’re just jumping in for a blast or quick message. If phone needs charged plug it in and put it out of the way.

Think I’ll download the AGAMA launcher or whatever it is as the generic Home Screen when not on CarPlay isn’t pretty but 95% of the time I’ll have it on CarPlay.

I have BOSE and the sound is great, can modify the sound settings through lots of settings so will always find the sound you like. As far as I could see in the developer mode you can adjust the sound to be even louder if you need it but I found mine great out of the box.

No DAB but if you have the app called ‘Radioplayer’ on your phone it’s basically DAB so it just loads up through the CarPlay etc as of it had DAB anyway.

Anyway, only a day in and it’s fine so far, hopefully serves me well for a while and definitely didn’t see the bed to spend £1300 on a Porsche PCCM one.
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That looks tidy.

While you're in there:
 

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That looks tidy.

While you're in there:

I had them on the back of the mind list, that unit comes out even easier than the radio but do the buttons come off from the front if right tool is used or does the thing have to be taken apart?
 

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Instructions from that site show there's a bit of work needed to replace them.
 

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These are pretty easy to replace. Get the buttons for £7.50 or so from Ali Express though! Delivery pretty quick too.
 

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Cylinder 3 was unhappy last year, coilpack replaced, all good for the guts of a year. While I was there Alan did say they could probably all do with a change.
Cylinder 4 and 6 decided they'd bring this back to the top of the list at the end of April there. Sounds like the love child of a classic beetle and a sick subaru.
At the Porsche doctor for the other 5 to be changed so I can get her out and about for the summer. Always a nice array of other Boxsters and 911's there 🤌

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@Normski Looking good mate, have you a link to the head unit?

Hi there. Here’s the link to the AliExpress seller I got it from:
Just found this amazing item on AliExpress. Check it out! £138.99 55% Off | 7862 720P Auto Android 13 12G+256G Car Radio GPS Player 4GB Carplay Navigation autoradio For Porsche Cayman 911 987 Boxster 997

Here’s the spec I got, mines has Bose so needed the optical box, ask for the wires to be pre wired on it and it’s just plug and play.

Prices may have changed since I got it 👍🏻

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I spy my Cayenne in the background, there for service and timing belt 😎

Alan’s a top man. Well worth doing the coil packs, one of their few weak points
 

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I spy my Cayenne in the background, there for service and timing belt 😎

Alan’s a top man. Well worth doing the coil packs, one of their few weak points
I’d hide it in there out of sight too 🤪 lol, only messing sir.

It’s like a wee part of Stuttgart escaped and morphed into an alleyway in Ballyclare.

I want a nice summer of trouble free gassing about, hopefully this will be it, he always says it’s in great shape otherwise, someone did always give it everything it needed in its previous life.
 
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