family tree of my 944lux 85

[Guest]

hello again every1

I bought an 84/85 ( ?? ) lux, A880 YOM. It says between 85 and 87 it had 6 owners...any1 knows that car... Im getting suspicious [>:]
then 1 owner since 87 to 2007, then me...
(i drove it home and the break line burst... the guy that sold it to me said: the breaking is FINE ... nice one... I won't name him.)

thanks you all


pjb

 

[Alpine]

you can get the full keeper history from DVLA for £5 - give them a call

 

[Guest]

used to be in oxfordshire, chinnor area. under a private plate ... something like; UAD 944 , letters maybe diffrent.

thanks

 

[Guest]

Thanks Alpine,

I didn't know, i 'll do that.

will they also provide some history about vehicule ?

pjb

 

[Alpine]

they'll tell you names of previous keepers, addresses and dates of change of owners. They normally copy the old v5 s to you so it might have mileage details too

 

[Guest]

good stuff, cause i foind it totally surreal , 6 owners in 2 years !
( i can imagine the recession and petrol price sky high, people selling, or something dodgy )

thanks

pjb

 

[pauljmcnulty]

good stuff, cause i foind it totally surreal , 6 owners in 2 years !

Don't panic!

Mine had 8 owners, but within three families. It also had 3 private plate changes, which added to the number of ownership changes. In it's first few years it went from company-owned, only driver bought it from his company, passed it to wife, passed to another family member and changed reg. three times!

 

[Steven944]

a private plate change doesn't add another owner to the registration document though...?

 

[Guest]

thanks,

still 6 owners in 2 years ... maybe they didn't realise how expensive it was tu run ...

paiul, I see you have a lux, have you ever changed the window motors ? Ive started a post on that, I need to change one, I wondered ...

pjb

 

[JM1962]

I have recently changed a window motor. I got 2 thin pieces of wood to support the glass in the up position, this made the rest of the job quite easy. If you undo the lower guide rail and remove that from the guide roller first, it all comes apart quite well. There are about 7 screws that hold it all in place. Once you have the mechanism out of the door removing the motor and gearbox is easy and this is best replaced as a unit. You can replace just the motor but I found I had to drill the gearbox lid which is riveted on in order to seperate the motor and gearbox. The gearbox has to be drilled and tapped to put the lid back on.

 

[Guest]

jm1962

thanks
gearbox ?? you mean regulator ? i haven't got a clue , i looked at it a couple of times, and on line, I saw either the motor alone, either the hole set, ie motor + regulator... damn 150 £...

BUT THEN, im wondering, every1 seems to have to "hold" the window up, but mine doesn't need the help, it stays up, i changed my relay today, and , yes the driver side one works, but not the passengers one, so I assumed ( as usual ) that it was the motor... ( with old relay neither side windows worked )

Saying that, when I replaced my relay, I was able to wind up my passenger window, but since it got top the top, strictly No action. No up No down...

...??

pjb

 

[Fen]

Cherished transfers used to add an owner even as recently as the mid 90's I believe. You also didn't get the old number back like you do now when you take the cherished one off. That's why most Porsches of a certain age have loads of owners.

BTW taping the glass up is a lot easier than pfaffing with wooden props when you take the window redulator out.

 

[Steven944]

Cherished transfers used to add an owner even as recently as the mid 90's I believe. You also didn't get the old number back like you do now when you take the cherished one off. That's why most Porsches of a certain age have loads of owners.

Fen - the above is not correct I'm afraid. My family hs had cherished numbers on all our cars since the early 80s and a number plate change has NEVER added another owner(provided the forms are are filled in correctly). This is just an excuse used to try and justify a huge number of owners in a short space of time. Don't be taken in ! It is true that until relatively recently you weer not re-issued with the old registration number however. Hope this clarifies things for everyone.

 

[Fen]

Not how I understood it and I don't think how it worked the one time I was involved in one in that period (on a 911 I was buying) - the key presumably being "provided the forms were filled in correctly" in that case. Which means that if the forms were not filled in correctly then it could create a phantom owner change - which is pretty much what I said I think.