what did you do to your 944 today
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Frenchy
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Seems like peeps have been busy, had a good all round car day, off to the local scrappie and got me a BMW Business CD head unit for my daily for the princely sum of £10 (£90 on a well known auction site) donor car was also fitted with a mint 6 speed original "M" illuminated gearknob and leather gator in as new condition, mine for a few quid, it will be going on said well known auction site and should see £70+ [
] as mine only has 5 forward cogs. Chucked some fuel in the 220 along with some water about 1.5 litres as it had leaked when i recently got her running (faulty temp sensor) drove up to my matey's large warm well lit garage with a few to tracking the water leak down, let her get up to temp and the fans came on a couple of times, no leak or water loss apart from the overflow chuckiung a few drops out after filling ??? Fixed it's bloody self ! probably not sulking from being locked down ? i will keep an eye on the temp and will be carrying water should it decide to chuck another hissy in the cooling department, water will be dropped when i come to change the belts soon, what anti freeze do you lot use (Pink or Blue) ? The day was turning out to be a good un, so changed the rear shocks and took the M030's off which will be used as spares for the black beasty. Black car not running still so i should maybe have another fault finding session whilst on a roll, that said youngest daughter is bustin my baalls to go to the swimming baths so i should do my Dad bit, but may go chasing trout in the afternoon and take another look at the black car (Tubo S) next weekend. Still light up here at 16.45 roll on light nights.......yipee.
] as mine only has 5 forward cogs. Chucked some fuel in the 220 along with some water about 1.5 litres as it had leaked when i recently got her running (faulty temp sensor) drove up to my matey's large warm well lit garage with a few to tracking the water leak down, let her get up to temp and the fans came on a couple of times, no leak or water loss apart from the overflow chuckiung a few drops out after filling ??? Fixed it's bloody self ! probably not sulking from being locked down ? i will keep an eye on the temp and will be carrying water should it decide to chuck another hissy in the cooling department, water will be dropped when i come to change the belts soon, what anti freeze do you lot use (Pink or Blue) ? The day was turning out to be a good un, so changed the rear shocks and took the M030's off which will be used as spares for the black beasty. Black car not running still so i should maybe have another fault finding session whilst on a roll, that said youngest daughter is bustin my baalls to go to the swimming baths so i should do my Dad bit, but may go chasing trout in the afternoon and take another look at the black car (Tubo S) next weekend. Still light up here at 16.45 roll on light nights.......yipee.Decided to reseal my tail lights today - there was a small amount of water getting into the boot area and the passenger side tail light had been poorly resealed in the past, with it oozing out of the panel gap, which annoyed me!! So out with the pass side one to reveal a fair amount of mess! 
AHalls_20140119_0002 by Hallsy01, on Flickr 
AHalls_20140119_0003 by Hallsy01, on Flickr This took a bit of time to get it nice & clean, WD40 or something similar probably would have got it off a lot quicker, but I was mindful of keeping the body clean from contaminants so that the new seals would stick well. In hindsight, wiping over with IPA after WD40 probably would have been OK. Anyway, nice & clean now 
AHalls_20140119_0004 by Hallsy01, on Flickr And the tailight cleaned up and sealant in place: 
AHalls_20140119_0005 by Hallsy01, on Flickr I used 8mm butyl sealant tape from Wayside Adhesives. Annoyingly, after the first go it leaked, hadn't quite got full contact in the top corner. Not sure if this was down to application or everything being a bit cold, so cleaned it all down again, heated the lamp & adhesive up, and this time along the top & bottom edge I let the tape overhang the edge a little to make a better seal right into the corner of the body aperture. Second time it was fine. Due to the overhang I had a little ooze out along the lower edge, I tried to tuck it back in, but in the end I used a scalpel to trim it back neatly. Also realised I had leaky hatch latch seals. I removed them, cleaned & silicone greased, but they have swollen along the front edge - so I'll have to get a new pair. Still getting water in the passenger rear footwell which is annoying. Last time I checked, I could only find a leak along top of hatch seal (need to replace this and headlining), but not 100% convinced that it is finding it's way along to the rear passenger floor without getting much else too wet. Time to get the carpet out again Need to get all of the leaks sorted now, otherwise come the summer I will forget, only to be reminded next winter!!
AHalls_20140119_0002 by Hallsy01, on Flickr AHalls_20140119_0003 by Hallsy01, on Flickr This took a bit of time to get it nice & clean, WD40 or something similar probably would have got it off a lot quicker, but I was mindful of keeping the body clean from contaminants so that the new seals would stick well. In hindsight, wiping over with IPA after WD40 probably would have been OK. Anyway, nice & clean now AHalls_20140119_0004 by Hallsy01, on Flickr And the tailight cleaned up and sealant in place: AHalls_20140119_0005 by Hallsy01, on Flickr I used 8mm butyl sealant tape from Wayside Adhesives. Annoyingly, after the first go it leaked, hadn't quite got full contact in the top corner. Not sure if this was down to application or everything being a bit cold, so cleaned it all down again, heated the lamp & adhesive up, and this time along the top & bottom edge I let the tape overhang the edge a little to make a better seal right into the corner of the body aperture. Second time it was fine. Due to the overhang I had a little ooze out along the lower edge, I tried to tuck it back in, but in the end I used a scalpel to trim it back neatly. Also realised I had leaky hatch latch seals. I removed them, cleaned & silicone greased, but they have swollen along the front edge - so I'll have to get a new pair. Still getting water in the passenger rear footwell which is annoying. Last time I checked, I could only find a leak along top of hatch seal (need to replace this and headlining), but not 100% convinced that it is finding it's way along to the rear passenger floor without getting much else too wet. Time to get the carpet out again Need to get all of the leaks sorted now, otherwise come the summer I will forget, only to be reminded next winter!!Sandspider
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Fitted a new sunroof seal. Got the panel back in just before the torrential rain started! Alas, despite lots of wiggling and pushing the seal was too long, so there's a bit of a gap at the back where it pushes under. And the panel sits a little bit proud all the way around. I know the seal is supposed to shrink over time so I shouldn't cut it, but what can I do in the meantime to fill that gap and make it watertight? Blu tack? Hmm, blu tack!
CarreraRSR
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I trimmed about 1-2cm off my new OEM sunroof inner and outer seal. Had to do the same with the new OEM hatch seal. Torrential rain yesterday and this after noon and its still dry inside. So it should be for £160 the pair!!
Kongsodoken
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Took some bits off the car[]
Someone tell me how to disconnect the power to the AC compreesor, I can see a plug but it does not want to part[] the harness seems to be terminated inside the compressor HELP???
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] the harness seems to be terminated inside the compressor HELP???
Kongsodoken
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it,s my birthday today .......so allowed to do what I want[ORIGINAL: Frenchy Ken, you got it bad fella [
].[] Got lots of new bits to put on[]
ChasR
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It has been a busy month, but not as busy as some posters on this forum! Firstly, the car has spent a good proportion of its time at the bodyshop over Christmas. Whilst the car was in great shape the rear of the rear arches was not. New metal was let in in addition the rear of the car being tidied up. At the same time I took the opportunity to add some styling additions. The additions came in the form of dealer-esque number plates of the older type font to replace the tired old Euro items. Small details to some but I have never really been a fan of modern plates on old cars. I also obtained some clear lenses since my old lenses were not that clever along with the fact that the seal was very tired around them Plus, the lenses were cheaper than replacing corroded indicator units. Truth be told, it was a change I fancied trying out:
A comparison of the lenses: 
The old seals were very brittle and quite past it (I was losing my indicator in one side due to the water being let in: 
These may not be to everyone's tastes but I prefer the look of the car now it has to be said :
And some night time shots. Better shots shall arrive at a later date!:
Furthermore I had plans for the audio of the car. Purists and non car audio folk may as well look away! The radio in this car has never been fantastic truth be told. It did not sound too great in addition to the Head Unit (HU) generally looking tired and worn out. That is before you get to it skipping more than MC Hammer's beats and the fact that only half of the buttons illuminated at night time. Not something that one wants in a Porsche! This was something that required amending. Naturally, the photos flatter the appearance of the CD player:
Modern technology has spoiled me though. I wished to have a HU which did the following: -Had CD MP3 Playback -The ability to work effectively with iPods and Bluetooth devices -Allow Bluetooth audio streaming -Have the ability to account for future audio upgrades (Equalisers, flexible crossovers, time alignment etc.) This is what I ended up with:
The issue. Around 15 years ago when the Pioneer was installed, someone had used crimped connectors with no ISO block in sight. Great for powering an outdated Pioneer, not so great for running anything else without taking some time. That and crimped connectors have never been that great IMO (with the old Pioneer having connectively issues to boot). I set to make the loom more of a plug and play affair: Before:
With a spare ISO loom and the soldering iron fired up this was the final result:
After which I decided to sample the new setup. So much so that I have yet to tidy the wires behind the dash (there are now many boxes and wires present, but I shall tidy this later on in the week!) and to remove some of the tools:
So far there have been improvements to the car audio in addition to bringing the 951 partially into the 21st century .
The old seals were very brittle and quite past it (I was losing my indicator in one side due to the water being let in: 
These may not be to everyone's tastes but I prefer the look of the car now it has to be said :
.After reading Mark's story I felt brave enough to pull off my driver's side visor. Instead of surgical tape, I used some heat shrink tubing as it seemed harder. Once shrunk down with a soldering iron it made the bar a bit thicker, and more importantly, firmed up the visor a treat. Used it a few times over the weekend, and still stays where I want it to be. A result so far, and easy to redo.
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