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steve_944

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hello, just bought my first porsche and its fantastic. Great car, drives like new and a pleasure to own. its a 2.5 lux, full porsche service history and well looked after by the previous owner.
going to be looking for some wheels soon as i think the 15" are a too small
larger wheels transforms the look of the car.

everything on the car works fine apart from the heater in the car, most of the time the fan speed is vairiable but on occasions it will only blow on speed 4 , any ideas?
cheers

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Hello, looks like a nice car, odd to have a bridge spolier on a Lux. Dont go bigger the 17" on the wheels. Also do a search on here about the heater it is a very common problem with the resistor pack on the heater.
 
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Hello, looks like a nice car, odd to have a bridge spolier on a Lux. Dont go bigger the 17" on the wheels. Also do a search on here about the heater it is a very common problem with the resistor pack on the heater.
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I don't think it's an original bridge spoiler - looks little high to me

looks nice - I'm sure you'll enjoy it
 
thanks for the advice chaps, i have found some useful info on the resistor for the heater. i dont think the spoiler is a genuine part as the finnish of the spoiler is not perfect, but looks good anyway.


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Yer the bridge was only on the later cars. What part of the world are you in. As I did see a one the same colour as yours with a bridge spolier last week-end near sheffield.
 
Yes I am in Sheffield, I might of been the person behind you in a sliver-ish turbo with a a black boxster and yellow 220 behind me!! It was last sat.[:)]
 
Nice car Steve. [:D]

Is the colour Nautic Metallic?

Looks it, which is of course the best colour for a 944 [;)]
 
yes i remember, you pulled into the pub carpark , my girlfriend was driving at the time and i was watching you both. what a small world, your car looks nice,
do you often go for a drive at weekends ? would be nice to meet up and chat porsche, i have had bmw's for the last 10 years and thought of a change. i will be keeping the 944 but would like a boxster soon.
 
hi lee, not sure of the colour but yes it looks great. im new to porsche and am just getting into them, ill have to do some more research [:)]
 
Out most weekends if its nice.
Have you driven a boxster? Your better off with a 944 turbo[:D]
Car is a bit of work in progress, but getting it togather slowly, with a lot of help the the guys off here.
My driving may have seen a little erratic but I was trying to work out what was going on with my turbo[8|]
 
not had the pleasure of driving a boxster yet, but i have seen a few on autotrader that i may be going to view, i'm not going to jump in feet first and buy the first one i see, going to chat to a few owners and get a feel for them, common probs and what to look out for.
your driving was fine, [;)]
ill pm you my number and mabe can meet up for a drive sometime.
 
Sounds good, also I am sure my mate will take you out in his BoxsterS and you can see what your not missing!!
 
Tom beat me to it; try a Boxster and see if you still want one.

I should really like the Boxster (being a major open-top fan), and I loved the concept when it was unveiled in the mid nineties, but the production car just leaves me cold. I even thought once I was being silly and went to my local OPC to have a serious look at the 550 special edition run-out model of the 986 version. After sitting in the car in the showroom for a couple of minutes while the salesman was getting the test drive organised I cancelled it because I simply did not want to spend time in it. I had driven them before, so I was confident the drive wasn't going to change my mind and I didn't want to joyride the car and get it dirty for no reason.

The Boxster to me feels like a mass-produced, fairly anodyne car (same as the Cayman and much like the 996, but much worse). It has a really very good chassis but even the S version is totally incapable of stretching it, which basically makes it a pretty uninspiring driving experience. I've also looked at both the Z3 and Z4 M-Roadsters and come a lot closer to buying both and in fact would have had a Z4 had they not been so new to market and showing some worrying early indications of massive depreciation.

Ultimately I appreciate the Z4 is probably not as capable a car and possibly a Boxster S could leave one behind despite the power shortfall, but I'm interested in having fun at legal(ish) speeds in my road car, not knowing it might be slightly quicker than the competition when totally wrung-out. A 944, like a Z4, fits that bill far, far better than a Boxster does.
 
That looks like a nice well looked after example, I quite like the bridge spoiler might have to get mine fitted sometime I suppose.
 
hit the nail on the head there, i like a car to have a personality, makes you feel good when you get in, like it was made just for me. i have had LOADS of cars , from e30 bmw's to toyota supra's. my last car was an integra type r. stop gap car until i found something special. I felt nothing for this car, just a car, just another mass produced product like a toaster.(it lasted 6 weeks)
my last 2 bmw's that i had, e39 and e30 were great cars, so much character, a pleasure to own.
i do like the z4 but have always had a soft spot for the boxster, i hope that when i go drive one i am not let down,
do you think the older cars have more personality? i do .
 
I absolutely think older cars have more personality. The longest I've ever owned a car was pretty much a dead heat between a 944 cab and an e39 - the e39 was relatively new, but as it's quite possibly the best saloon (or estate in my case) ever built it stayed for a while. Actually my Turbo is the longest by a country mile, but I don't count time spent in non-running condition and that's been about 6 of the 7 years I've owned it.

The Boxster just feels like white goods to me, in spite of a half decent engine sound and the cracking chassis (well, I assume it's cracking; maybe with more power it would just become dangerously snappy). Even sitting here now I get a slight feeling that I should like them, but every time I get into one I feel an overwhelming sense of boredom.

I currently have a Cooper S with a few modifications (230bhp or thereabouts) and a last of the pre-facelift Jeep Cherokees (1997 facelift, not the completely new model in 2002 or whenever). The Mini is fun and not exactly devoid of character, but I hardly use it because I really like the Jeep. In fact I'm toying with selling the Mini and buying a Wrangler to go with the Cherokee so it can be a proper off-roader.
 
cheers jon, yes its a very nice example, should be with a couple of owners and full porsche main dealer history totaling nearly £20.000...........i couldnt believe the history . makes an interesting read. [;)][;)][;)][;)]
 
yup, my 1997 e39 saloon was fantastic, did near 50.000 miles and never replaced a part, apart from service bits. The best saloon car ever made? i think so , if you google 'best car in the world' the e39 is on the first page..... and i did 40 laps of the nurburgring in it on 3 different trips! superb car.
 
Sadly I've spent about £10,000 on mine in just a year and a half (and that's not including purchase cost or the crippling insurance cost I have, probably be over £20k with that included) it's just because I'm so fussy and now I'm bored with it.
I agree about a car needing to have character something which the new BMWs or Porsches I've driven have not got much of if any and although the 997 Carrera S with sports exhaust I drove whilst at work the over day had a nice sound to it, it just did not have much else going for it and besides an air cooled 911 sounds better as does a TVR hence why I want one.
 
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