Which 996?

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ooid

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Thursday 13th October 2016
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Dammit said:


This is the range of temps.
Not 996, but my 986 had the same. Used to get stuck in London, would get easily near 100 and high fans would kick in. (stage 1 resistors were not working). I've replaced resistors with new cooling fans and radiators recently, the gauge now stays just middle of 0 even in extreme traffic conditions. Recently, got stuck almost 30 mins bumper to bumper in Blackwall Tunnel, did not move that much. wink


Dammit

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mmcd87

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Sunday 30th October 2016
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ooid said:
Not 996, but my 986 had the same. Used to get stuck in London, would get easily near 100 and high fans would kick in. (stage 1 resistors were not working). I've replaced resistors with new cooling fans and radiators recently, the gauge now stays just middle of 0 even in extreme traffic conditions. Recently, got stuck almost 30 mins bumper to bumper in Blackwall Tunnel, did not move that much. wink
Agree that mine never moves from the middle of the '0' of '80'.


Bike rack looks awesome. How easy / quick is it to fit?

Dammit

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Sunday 30th October 2016
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Once you've fitted the mounting points/brackets it's a thirty second job, fitting the brackets on an 18 year old car did require a trip to the tool box:










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Friday 20th January 2017
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I was in the US for a couple of weeks, left the car at Heathrow using their "Meet and Greet" service as it was cheaper than standard long-term parking.

The drop off was fine, collection also, got home and saw that they'd reversed the car into something - and repairing the damage has been estimated at £450 by Precision Porsche.

I did call them, the guy said "you've left the car park, that's it" then put the phone down, at which point I was furious.

Since then I've entered into an email conversation with them which hopefully will go a little better!

Hopefully they'll make this right - anyone else had this experience?

Dammit

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Friday 20th January 2017
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It won't be happening again, that's for sure.

Dammit

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Saturday 21st January 2017
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The bumper is creased, looks like Heathrow Meet and Greet reversed the car into something ~2 feet high and ~1 foot wide, offset toward the passenger side from the centreline of the car.

It needs a new bumper, plus paint - which is going to be around £1,800 I think.

Heathrow are "investigating", luckily I gave a colleague a lift home who can corroborate that we didn't reverse into anything or get rear ended on the journey, but I have a bad feeling about this (largely based on Heathrow Meet and Greet putting the phone down on me when I called them to discuss this).

ooid

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Saturday 21st January 2017
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If it does not affect your driving or does not cause any safety, I would leave it for now really. My car has so many tiny scratches on both bumpers thanks to idiots in London. I would never use Heathrow facility though (airport itself too, st place and too far away.) I usually use city or stansted airport short stay, pretty safe (only for 3-4 days, longer than that just leave it at home)

I've left the car for a car-wash a few months ago at Tesco after a long journey, I never leave my keys but as they were not accepting CARD payment, had to go get some cash and left my keys. Warned them please do not do anything funny. I came back, and found them moving the car to a drying spot and revving (not too high but still!). Yelled at them big time ofcourse and complained to head office and their managers. Unfortunately, we are not living a country like Denmark or Japan, where you would think "common sense" and respect to people's belongings would exist so agree with cmoose, never trust any of these facilities.

rubystone

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Saturday 21st January 2017
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Dammit said:
The bumper is creased, looks like Heathrow Meet and Greet reversed the car into something ~2 feet high and ~1 foot wide, offset toward the passenger side from the centreline of the car.

It needs a new bumper, plus paint - which is going to be around £1,800 I think.

Heathrow are "investigating", luckily I gave a colleague a lift home who can corroborate that we didn't reverse into anything or get rear ended on the journey, but I have a bad feeling about this (largely based on Heathrow Meet and Greet putting the phone down on me when I called them to discuss this).
if they don't pay and you don't want to put it thru insurance, I estimate the job could be done for about half that, maybe less. Fwiw the front PU is a secondhand unit. I totalled the original hitting a deer....£200 for the PU, £300 paint, couple of hours' labour. Good to hear you're still using it though...and had I sourced the PU, I found have found one for £80!

Dammit

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Sunday 22nd January 2017
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If anyone has, knows of, or spots a clean 996.1 rear PU then please let me know.

rubystone

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Sunday 22nd January 2017
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Dammit said:
If anyone has, knows of, or spots a clean 996.1 rear PU then please let me know.
Do a search on eBay too. I found a front one for £80 on there but sadly after my indie had sourced one for £250!