S2 Cab. Re-spray ...

[Fen]

Rubber around the lock is about £1.50. Rear decal is something stupid like £70 per side (it comes in 2 halves). Prepare to blow the fat end of £1k if you want the seals around the screen etc.

Search and there is a thread (relatively recent) about fixing the screen aerial reception.

 

[Guest]

Thanks fen, the horrible electric wing aerial has got to go. Think I'll put it on front of roof like my 924, never had any reception problems and not too much wiring to hide.



Key hole seal for hatch sell for under £ 3.00 on ebay. You can get rear decal of ebay too but can't remember what they sell for - worth a look.

 

[Fen]

Hmm, maybe I need to start buying hatch lock grommets and centre console hinges from the OPC to sell on eBay. They are, as I said above, £1.50 or so (+ VAT) from the OPC - I bought one 2 weeks ago.

 

[Diver944]

Yes I've seen one of those grommets go for nearly £10 on Ebay []

I also had a £1.50 one direct from the OPC recently

 

[Guest]

What can I say - there are bargins on ebay. What ever I say or post on this forum, someone finds fault with. I will not bore you any more.

 

[Fen]

Carol, Please don't think I was finding fault with what you said as that was far from my intention; This being a forum to help owners of 944s I think it would have been remiss of me not to point out that the grommet concerned is one of "those" items that is extremely cheap from the OPC and that they are available for less than on eBay. It's one of the eBay anomalies that as well as being fantatsic for finding almost anything, even if it is now out of production, sometimes things are not the bargain they might appear. I have said in the past (only half joking, too) that I'm going to start buying console hinges from the OPC and selling them there as they seem to achieve a 100% markup at minimum - in fact I said so on Titanic and I believe Exeter OPC subsequently got an order for 5 of them, not from me. I apologise profusely if the wording I used gave the wrong impression (and I can see now how it might well have done). Everyone on here has something to offer and everyone has an equal chance of knowing the best and/or cheapest place to buy any particular part - the more people we have saying "part x is available in location y for z pounds" the better the chances of us truly finding the cheapest source.

 

[944turboS]

It may be worth checking out how much Kieth at Prestige parts wants for the Porsche logo for below the rear lights, I seem to remember his price is usually pretty good.

 

[millisland]

Cabriolet hoods are LINED with mohair with canvas outside.
Harriet

 

[Guest]

Fen

Over reacted with my posting last night. Wasn't is the best of moods. Spent the day doing 2 jobs as welder decided not to turn up, and caught some bug my daughter brought home from school. Friends?

 

[Fen]

ORIGINAL: tiptronic
Friends?

Absolutely. As I said in my earlier post I didn't mean to criticise you but I see how you could have read it that way and I know exactly how frustrating it can seem on a forum if people ignore or disagree with what you have to say. I had a little stop myself on another forum a couple of weeks ago for that very reason. I'm just glad you haven't taken permanent offence.

 

[Alpine]

ORIGINAL: kevinshally

Indeed. Ariel attached to the windscreen. I need to be within 10 feet of a mast before it will pick up a station though. Yet another thing I need to get looked at.

slightly off thread perhaps, but i find that if i put my mobile in the cubby hole in front of the gear stick, i get a beaping sound through the radio speakers every so often. Worked out it was my mobile picking up signals through the aerial in the screen, so now leave mobile on back seat !

Has anyone else found this happening?

 

[Fen]

I think you'd get the rhythmic buzzing/beeping noise in any car with the mobile right next to the stereo. I know I have done in the past and not just in the 944. They only do it when they are receiving something or changing cells or about once per hour (based on the interference I get between my PC headphones and my phone if they are in the same room). Of course you might have a new phenomenon I haven't seen, but in that case I didn't exeprience it with my 944's.

 

[Guest]

Spent the whole day cleaning my car and found fault with every panel. Apart from a huge zit on the wing, faults most people wouldn't notice. If I have time I am going to respray the whole car this year, if not next. I've decided to make a diary of everything I do and how long it takes and what it costs. Then post it here. Should be useful to others when getting quotes - maybe get some sympathy as us car restorers work damn hard!