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JagdHamster

JagdHamster

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Gents,
The switch to activate my screen wash is dead. Porsche want £145 for the part new; Porsche-a-part want £45 delivered for second-hand. One other alternative is to take the assembly to a local electronics engineers (£25 to examine, refundable if fixable) and get it mended.

Just wondering which is the best option, value-wise and for long term. Would appreciate your thoughts.

Cheers,
Russ
 
Buy a second hand set off someone like Elliot. I did mine a year or so ago when the auto cancel failed on my indicator stalk - I think it was about £20 for a second hand set which looked like new. It's a quick easy job to swap them over too ;)
 
Talk to Elliot or ask on here where to go. There are a few suppliers of second hand parts out there who believe it or not really love to charge you silly amounts of money for parts.I know it's herd to believe that company's would do that......... but they do. Most of the really expensive ones are the ones that the magazines etc seem to recommend all the time ( they always have lovely big adverts in said magazines) I'm not sure why the magazines always seem to recommend these people.
However there are a load of really good suppliers out there who will charge you a fair amount and give you good service.And we all know who the good ones are.
 
If the local guy thinks it's servicable, then that's got to be as good an option as taking a punt on a used one? By definition, decades-old electrical or trim parts will have suffered exactly the same aging and detirioration as your failed one.

Different if it's a part that rarely fails, or it's broken due to damage rather than age, of course.

Regarding breakers, see the list in the faqs. If they aren't on it, try somewhere that is. [;)]
 

ORIGINAL: JagdHamster

Gents,
The switch to activate my screen wash is dead. Porsche want £145 for the part new; Porsche-a-part want £45 delivered for second-hand. One other alternative is to take the assembly to a local electronics engineers (£25 to examine, refundable if fixable) and get it mended.

Just wondering which is the best option, value-wise and for long term. Would appreciate your thoughts.

Cheers,
Russ
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well £25 to examine it and I assume make that f.o.c. if you comission them to repair it seems cheap if you factor in dismantling the switch, I can't see how you can examine it otherwise. There are no electronics in side. It's all brass terminals and contact, like manually operated relay contact on the head light dip flash switch Having drilled out all the hollow rivets in mine when the wiper switch went floppy ( the spring on the detent pawl went weak). Don't know how they plan to reattach the top plate. Also you need arms like an octopus with an eye on the end of each finger there are so many bits to hold. Then they have to take care not to lose the little plastic insulation cap that goes over the teminal that stops the flexible braid on the headlight switch from shorting out. I drilled my rivets out then countersunk the top plate to take 2mm csk hex heads and half nuts. ust get round to finding the plastic cap and bolting it back together. BTW this was on a switch on a 29,000 mile car but to be fair it was only in 2007 or 2008 so aage could have been a factor. What else is powered by the fuse that supplies the wash; you know what I am thinking?
 
Whereabouts in the country are you Russ ? My vote is for repair, I've done my own previously when auto cancelling of the indicators and main beam failed. It was a simple repair and I'd be happy to help if you can get to me ?

Mike
 
Hi Mike,
I'm in Devon, so not terribly close to you, sadly. Thanks for the very kind offer, though.

Thanks for the tips, chaps, I'll contact Elliott. Got to love these forums.

Cheers,
Russ
 
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