Help fitting wheel centres and exhaust

[SIKO]

Bone question I'm afraid.....just bought some lovely new crested wheel centres, with the plastic surround from porsche shop in halesowen.

Tried prising the old ones out and plastic splitting etc...am quite inept mechanically! Any top tips?

Also looking at making my 996 a little more "fruity", not that fussed about power and don't want to spend too much as a tight wad! Reccommended to just buy some exhaust tailpipes for couple hundred squid but not entirely convinced that they'll make that much difference?

[turbobloke]

SIKO said:

Bone question I'm afraid.....just bought some lovely new crested wheel centres, with the plastic surround from porsche shop in halesowen. Tried prising the old ones out and plastic splitting etc...am quite inept mechanically! Any top tips?

I started to get some old centres off to put the coloured cresty things on and decided the same thing might happen so I used the teeth on a plastic fork to ease the old uns out a bit all round, then gave it some, hoping that if anything broke it would be the plastic fork. I was right - but eventually the caps came out. No doubt an OPC will sell you some factory tool with a part number on it and an impressive sounding name...for about £845 plus VAT. Be careful out there.

[Melv]

Take the wheels off and punch the centres out from the rear.

Mel

[will_t]

Melv said:

Take the wheels off and punch the centres out from the rear. Mel

Thats what I did. The tool for taking them off is only like a bit of wire and not that expensive. I've seen them on ebay.

Will

[turbobloke]

Melv said:

Take the wheels off and punch the centres out from the rear.Mel

well that's sure one way of doing it but I reckon the fork method's one helluva lot quicker. Wonder how much OPCs charge for plastic forks...

[SIKO]

Thanks,

my girlfriend is very smug as she also reccommended the wheel off thing! Well I guess I have to do what she says every once in a while.......

[Melv]

SIKO said:

Thanks, my girlfriend is very smug as she also reccommended the wheel off thing! Well I guess I have to do what she says every once in a while.......

Told ya so!!

Mel