Remote locking.
- Thread starter Bobpool
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944 man
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Im not sure what to say: if your car has it then it has it. Im confident that factory central locking was only available with the new handles though (what I mean by this is that only the plain late-style handles have provision for central locking) and this was simple key-operated central locking. If its remote then I would venture that it is either retro-fit, or possibly a dealer-fit option (which wouldnt have to use Porsche parts). If its fitted to a 1987 car (with script handles) then I will eat my Arai if theyre factory central locking handles with integrated wires.....
Simon (standing by with Henderson's relish)
]Im not sure what to say: if your car has it then it has it. Im confident that factory central locking was only available with the new handles though (what I mean by this is that only the plain late-style handles have provision for central locking) and this was simple key-operated central locking. If its remote then I would venture that it is either retro-fit, or possibly a dealer-fit option (which wouldnt have to use Porsche parts). If its fitted to a 1987 car (with script handles) then I will eat my Arai if theyre factory central locking handles with integrated wires.....
Simon (standing by with Henderson's relish)
944 man
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Also: theres no such thing as a 1989 'S1'. The series one 944 was manufactured from late 1981 until August 1985 and the series two from September 1985 onwards. The 'S' in S2 stands for 'Super': this is the second 'Super' 944 model, the first being a 2,500 16v model manufactured during the 1987 and 1988 model years.
pauljmcnulty
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Gawd! It might be wrong, but can't we just call the early cars early dash, or square dash, and late cars oval dash!
Lloyd, you have an S2. Which is the replacement for the 944S, with the 2.5 16V engine. Nothing to do with "series".
Series one is the early car with the 924 interior, series two is the later car with the oval dash regardless of 8-valve, 16-valve or turbo. It's pointless, if pedantically correct, and confusing. [&o]
pauljmcnulty
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Lol!
Yep, you have an S2. And, a series 2 car with the later interior. All S2 are series 2 as well. The "S" is for "super", the line-up was original 944 8-valve, then the short-lived 2.5 16-valve 944S (super) and then the 3.0 16-valve S2 (super mark 2).
Super, as in "S", and series, as in dashboard style, aren't related.
Suffolk944
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Was about to post that having a Turbo avoids all this Series and S nonsense, but then of course there was the Turbo S followed by the non Turbo S cars with the 250 engine and with almost all the features of the S, but which folk still seem to call the S even when it isn't. [&o][8|][&:][8D]
Sorry OP no idea about the Central locking question and how it relates to the lack of S's or otherwise.
944 man
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All Turbos are series two cars. Series one and series two cars are fundamentally different: this doesnt refer to small alterations. Am I the only person who thinks that the cars should be described properly, rather than using made-up names, which came about through mistake/ignorance and were then repeated?
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