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mikejb993

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Can anyone help me with a web site address where I can check the codes for the precise options I have listed in my service book. As its my first 993, I am unsure which are standard features and which are added extras, and all I have to go on is the codes C16, X63, X64, 033, etc.. Embarrassing to admit this bit, but I have had the car for 2 years and not done this yet! [8|] Shameful.
Thanks in anticipation.
 
When I wanted to know I phoned up my OPC and they gave me the Porsche GB phone number and they told me my car options. Free!
 
Thanks chaps, what a friendly forum this is.

Found most of them now (well 12 of them!), but the elusive ones are X63 and X64

And then there are the 5 digit ones listed at the bottom, 00061 (unknown), 09991 (exclusive prog-thanks Maurice), and 18931 (unknown).

Oh well, I'll keep investigating, but when you do discover what they are, it's such an anti-climax. i.e. 425 = Rear wiper.

 
Maurice
I really couldn't live with myself if I were to inadvertantly create some kind of mass hysteria with this particular issue, so I'll allow things to calm down a little, and perhaps post the full list another time.[8|]
 
All

Where would you find the options list fitted to the car if you don't have the original set of books that came with the vehicle?
 
Hey Craig

Look on the underside of the front bonnet, should be a sticker there. If not there, firstly, be suspicious as to why it's missing[:-], then I suppose the only way then would be to quote your chassis number to an OPC and they should be able to help. If chassis number has been ground down and erased/replaced, be even more suspicious[8|], and ring police.

Maurice will probably be along soon to offer more idea's, and he knows absolutely everything. [;)]
 
May I ask , have you had any luck finding out about the reason your bonnet and front page of handbook do not have option codes specified? Thanks
ORIGINAL: AlanPound

Well, I bought my C2S new from an OPC (I didn't spec it, they specced it for stock, and I bought it before it was delivered).

I don't have a label under my bonnet, and in fact, there is no list on the front page of the handbook either. I do have the original OPC invoice of course, listing the options.

I recently came to wondering about why this might be, and thought of asking the company, but the outfit concerned (Arlington of Northampton) is no longer an OPC, and it is 8 years....

... any thoughts?

Alan
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I looked at a silver coupe about 3 years ago that had option 240. It was a C16 car and I couldn't find anything about 240 other than inferior fuel. There where a several sources all listing it as inferior fuel.

I could see a case where a UK national based overseas (say army personel in Greece or someone in the Gulf) ordered the car through the UK but had it adapted for inferior fuel. They would have ordered the C16 car because they knew they would be bringing it back to the UK. Best guess I could come up with at the time.

Ian.
 
Maybe the engine mapping is for a lower octane than 98, would there be any way of having this checked by some of the tools that access the maps - map version no's etc

Pete
 
Hi Maurice

Agree there would be a power decrease - or no increase from running on 98 Octane - but I would have thought you would be able to extract the map settings and compare them with a standard C16 car (not my area, just a thought to confirm the Option code), or there would be an equivalent firmware version number to check?

Is there anything in PET which refers to different chip options?

Pete
 
Hi, sorry about the radio silence, yes, it was a low mileage silver coupe, which appeared to be UK supplied, altho I did not check this point too carefully.

I am pretty certain I did not misread the option code. I agree, sometimes the 5's, 6's and 8's can be easy to misread, but the 240 was unambiguous.

Ian's suggestion is plausible, but I was under the impression that the first owner was based in the UK.

The other thing I thought of, was that I vaguely remember BMW having a relatively high number of engine failures on their new 3 series cars based in the middle / northern part of the country in the late 1990s and that they blamed the high sulpher content of the fuel. Apparently it damaged the cylinder liners. Then letting my imagination wander for a bit, I thought that perhaps Porsche may have quietly adapted some of their UK supplied 993s in light of this. But I think this is pretty unlikely to be true.

 
Pretty sure that's the same car I looked at back then when I was buying. It was silver and very low mileage too with option 240.

I still have the PPI for it if it's of interest to you.

Ian.
 
235 Porsche approved tyres Bridgestone N2 or Pirelli N2
XD1 993: Aero II Turbos S Front Air Dam
XD2 993: Aero II Turbo S Rear Deck Lid

From http://www.kindel.com/Porsche/options.asp

C18 looks like a country code.
235 looks an odd code (if you don't buy this option, sir, we'll put unapproved tyre on it....)
 
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