Are Spyders Becoming Extinct At OPCs!
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Hope the previous owner is reading this [ORIGINAL: kitchens Like wise never had any issues with water coming in ...has been left out in torrential rain overnight and been out driving in the rain and not a drop inside ....quick nurse Daro911 is having an attack [][
]Even the Spyder in the Porsche brochure took cover under a bridge to avoid abusing it []
There have definitely been 2 versions of the rear section of roof. I got my (May 2010) car in Feb 11. The rear section was replaced under warranty soon after (as the "fins" on the bottom that go into the slots by the door windows / top of rear wing had begun to crack). The replacement part now has "cups" where the top of the solid sides clip onto the suncap support bar (does this make sense?). I'd say that, since this change, the seals between the suncap and side windows sit slightly further away from the glass at the rear edge, so things are a bit noisier at speed, and the odd drip of water comes in there in heavy rain whilst driving (the water moves along the top of the side window rearwards, and a drop finds its way in at the rearward edge), but there are no problems at all when static. Steve
ORIGINAL: jdpef356 On some of the original Blurb from Porsche they stated that the roof/suncap system on the Spyder was not exactly water tight[&:] The above post prompted me to think was there a mark 1 and 2 roof/suncap. Heres a question for everyone but Daro[
kenneth ritchie
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Hi Barty964rst Hope you enjoy my old Spyder, there are many photos on this thread of the car but I have no idea on what pages, no doubt daro911 can tell you! Kenny Spyder (now 430 Spider)
Big E
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Another article about the Spyder in this month's Evo app. They are calling it a future classic, articles like this can only be good news. I'll see if I can cut and paste later but I'm currently lying by the pool in the Italian lakes looking up at the mountains and wishing I had the spyder with me!
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast! Florence here we come [][][][8|]
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every review does always seem to state how great the car is, with no AC, no Radio, bucket seats etcORIGINAL: daro911They must be reading these pages to reach that conclusion [
_ you don't see any reviews of fat cars with PDK lol
New front offside radiator - there was only a faulty sensor as it came on at full speed when you started it up from cold but they fitted a whole new unit. A couple of press studs for the rear window. Metal bar that holds the rear of the roof in place was powder coated as the original paint had worn through on the outside edge of the corners where it touches the roof (it was worse than it was beforehand after a few months). New instrument binnacle (£££) because of a bizarre fault with the fuel gauge after I had cruise control retro fitted. New filler neck to the fuel tank too. Ultimately all for nothing as the problem was trying to calibrate the fuel gauge for a Spyder tank when in fact mine had the long range tank fitted which never made it on to the original build sheet. This took 6 visits to fix in 2012. Nothing since, so it was right as rain for Phil to borrow for a while [
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think it's about time for some proper sports cars the extra tweeks they did to the Cayman R coming later then the Spyder just make it one of the best cars Porsche has ever made. Porsche were lazy on the Spyder just giving it a bogo S map and no new exhaust system or ARB's I have already converted my Spyder map to a R map, will be changing the exhaust to a wider dia unit like the R and think I might try the R rear ARB as the R is just that little bit tighter at the back. Seems the same with the GTS cars, the Cayman GTS spent 4 weeks longer with the handling team over the Boxster GTS to make sure it was a sweeter driveand had a better ecu map. which just means the R and the Cayman GTS are the better finished and more thought out driving machines over the Boxster models.
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