'manuelle' air condition on display - u.k boxster? & PCM...

[sinly]

Collected an 04 550 boxster yesterday and come to use the air con and the display reads 'manuelle' and not manual as its meant to/as in brochure? Does anyone know if this can be changed, or more concerning it could be some sort of foreign car..yes, i'm not totally thick, and have checked the steering wheel is on the right

Also, seems to have intermittent prob reading PCM sat nav CD...few marks on the CD so could be 'worn' - friendly OPC said it would cost 400 to replace CD...but surely the software is the cost, and that has already been paid for! Any advise please guys/gals. Thanks

[Vesuvius 996]

Look inside the front boot cover and see the label stuck to the underside.

If you can see the figure C16 then it's a UK car.

[Fidgits]

yeah, think mine does this too (C16 UK car)...

[AndrewKillington]

[quote=sinly]Collected an 04 550 boxster yesterday and come to use the air con and the display reads 'manuelle' and not manual as its meant to/as in brochure? Does anyone know if this can be changed, or more concerning it could be some sort of foreign car..yes, i'm not totally thick, and have checked the steering wheel is on the right

don't they all read that way?

[911_OMG]

I believe all 996 and Boxster's A/C displays read the same...

Edited by 911_OMG on Sunday 21st January 20:34

[sinly]

I very nervously checked, and it is a UK car thanks Vesuvius - and assume its just one of those strange things..did check though in the operating book. Having thought about the Sat Nav disk, I don't see why if it is a disk error I can't copy one, as I'm sure this is not piracy, considering it would just be a back-up to the original that I have bought with the car...best I get along to some meets and find a friendly volunteer

[Vesuvius 996]

Just checked my 2000 996. Same.

[nervous]

embrace it as a friend.

mornin' manuelle.

[sinly]

..yeh - and I just know I'll have the vision of Basil Fawlty cracking the waiter round the head every time I use it too now!

[Henry-F]

Oh dear. If your Boxster air con reads "manuelle" it means it was one of a batch bound for the Galápagos islands, the ship hit a rocky outcrop just south of Weymouth and sank. The cars themselves were only under water for a week or so until they were offloaded on a spring low tide.

A company in Grimsby bought the salvage and set about removing the seaweed, barnacles and sold the fish to Findus to pop in their fish fingers and jolly sailor fish pie. Initially there was a problem with their being unable to get rid of the smell of the ocean but help was at hand. One of the valteters took a 996 home for the weekend and lent it to his mum to go to bingo in. The nasty ocean floor smells were no match for her rather cheap perfume and so the solution was found - I`ll wager you can still smell a feint whisp of lilly of the valley buttercup body mist - £0.99 from martins the newsagents (includes a free bingo dobber).

Some 500 vehicles were affected and they have long since been sold by the firm (they are currently trying to remove a little bit of radio activity from a lorry load of salted cashew nuts caught up in an aborted missile test in Afganistan).

So yes, there is a reason why your car doesn`t say Manual & I hope that sheds some light on it.

Henry


edited to add that all the above is a complete fabrication and all boxsters / 996 say manuelle. Porsche obviously realised that we all knew what it meant and so there was no need to waste money re-programming the display. They invented a new "euro-word". (We shat ourselves when the first one came into our stock & we thought we`d bought a puppy!).

Edited by Henry-F on Monday 22 January 11:28

[Don]

Henry-F said:

Oh dear. If your Boxster air con reads "manuelle" it means it was one of a batch bound for the Galápagos islands, the ship hit a rocky outcrop just south of Weymouth and sank. The cars themselves were only under water for a week or so until they were offloaded on a spring low tide.

A company in Grimsby bought the salvage and set about removing the seaweed, barnacles and sold the fish to Findus to pop in their fish fingers and jolly sailor fish pie. Initially there was a problem with their being unable to get rid of the smell of the ocean but help was at hand. One of the valteters took a 996 home for the weekend and lent it to his mum to go to bingo in. The nasty ocean floor smells were no match for her rather cheap perfume and so the solution was found - I`ll wager you can still smell a feint whisp of lilly of the valley buttercup body mist - £0.99 from martins the newsagents (includes a free bingo dobber).

Some 500 vehicles were affected and they have long since been sold by the firm (they are currently trying to remove a little bit of radio activity from a lorry load of salted cashew nuts caught up in an aborted missile test in Afganistan).

So yes, there is a reason why your car doesn`t say Manual & I hope that sheds some light on it.

Henry


edited to add that all the above is a complete fabrication and all boxsters / 996 say manuelle. Porsche obviously realised that we all knew what it meant and so there was no need to waste money re-programming the display. They invented a new "euro-word". (We shat ourselves when the first one came into our stock & we thought we`d bought a puppy!).

Edited by Henry-F on Monday 22 January 11:28

To the OP: They all say that, sir.

[paracetamol]

Henry-F said:

Oh dear. If your Boxster air con reads "manuelle" it means it was one of a batch bound for the Galápagos islands, the ship hit a rocky outcrop just south of Weymouth and sank. The cars themselves were only under water for a week or so until they were offloaded on a spring low tide.

A company in Grimsby bought the salvage and set about removing the seaweed, barnacles and sold the fish to Findus to pop in their fish fingers and jolly sailor fish pie. Initially there was a problem with their being unable to get rid of the smell of the ocean but help was at hand. One of the valteters took a 996 home for the weekend and lent it to his mum to go to bingo in. The nasty ocean floor smells were no match for her rather cheap perfume and so the solution was found - I`ll wager you can still smell a feint whisp of lilly of the valley buttercup body mist - £0.99 from martins the newsagents (includes a free bingo dobber).

Some 500 vehicles were affected and they have long since been sold by the firm (they are currently trying to remove a little bit of radio activity from a lorry load of salted cashew nuts caught up in an aborted missile test in Afganistan).

So yes, there is a reason why your car doesn`t say Manual & I hope that sheds some light on it.

Henry


edited to add that all the above is a complete fabrication and all boxsters / 996 say manuelle. Porsche obviously realised that we all knew what it meant and so there was no need to waste money re-programming the display. They invented a new "euro-word". (We shat ourselves when the first one came into our stock & we thought we`d bought a puppy!).

Edited by Henry-F on Monday 22 January 11:28

Yet another reason to not buy privately

[Fidgits]

Don said:

To the OP: They all say that, sir.

Until that is, trade in time.

"i'm sorry sir, you appear to have the continental air conditioning, not much demand for that im afraid...."

[sinly]

Henry-F said:

Oh dear. If your Boxster air con reads "manuelle" it means it was one of a batch bound for the Galápagos islands, the ship hit a rocky outcrop just south of Weymouth and sank. The cars themselves were only under water for a week or so until they were offloaded on a spring low tide.

A company in Grimsby bought the salvage and set about removing the seaweed, barnacles and sold the fish to Findus to pop in their fish fingers and jolly sailor fish pie. Initially there was a problem with their being unable to get rid of the smell of the ocean but help was at hand. One of the valteters took a 996 home for the weekend and lent it to his mum to go to bingo in. The nasty ocean floor smells were no match for her rather cheap perfume and so the solution was found - I`ll wager you can still smell a feint whisp of lilly of the valley buttercup body mist - £0.99 from martins the newsagents (includes a free bingo dobber).

Some 500 vehicles were affected and they have long since been sold by the firm (they are currently trying to remove a little bit of radio activity from a lorry load of salted cashew nuts caught up in an aborted missile test in Afganistan).

So yes, there is a reason why your car doesn`t say Manual & I hope that sheds some light on it.

Henry


edited to add that all the above is a complete fabrication and all boxsters / 996 say manuelle. Porsche obviously realised that we all knew what it meant and so there was no need to waste money re-programming the display. They invented a new "euro-word". (We shat ourselves when the first one came into our stock & we thought we`d bought a puppy!).

Edited by Henry-F on Monday 22 January 11:28

Fantastic, comprehensive explaination as to not only the history of the air-con, but the 550..thanks Henry...I obviously didn't do my research well enough when I was looking

[clarkeyjnr]

Fidgits said:

"i'm sorry sir, you appear to have the continental air conditioning, not much demand for that im afraid...."

ooh and Savannah interior sir, I be cutting my own throat to take it sir - perhaps if I give you only 20% of it's current value, I may be able to sell it on.......

[Henry-F]

clarkeyjnr said:

ooh and Savannah interior sir, I be cutting my own throat to take it sir - perhaps if I give you only 20% of it's current value, I may be able to sell it on.......

Don`t give up the day job clarkey you`ll be out of business in the blink of an eye.

























15% tops !



Henry

[paracetamol]

Thought Savannah was "the new black"

[bennno]

sinly said:

Collected an 04 550 boxster yesterday and come to use the air con and the display reads 'manuelle' and not manual as its meant to/as in brochure? Does anyone know if this can be changed, or more concerning it could be some sort of foreign car..yes, i'm not totally thick, and have checked the steering wheel is on the right

Also, seems to have intermittent prob reading PCM sat nav CD...few marks on the CD so could be 'worn' - friendly OPC said it would cost 400 to replace CD...but surely the software is the cost, and that has already been paid for! Any advise please guys/gals. Thanks

Where did you buy the car from, unless privately then why arent you asking the dealer to provide a replacement cd as supplied one not working

bennno

[Don]

bennno said:

sinly said:

Collected an 04 550 boxster yesterday and come to use the air con and the display reads 'manuelle' and not manual as its meant to/as in brochure? Does anyone know if this can be changed, or more concerning it could be some sort of foreign car..yes, i'm not totally thick, and have checked the steering wheel is on the right

Also, seems to have intermittent prob reading PCM sat nav CD...few marks on the CD so could be 'worn' - friendly OPC said it would cost 400 to replace CD...but surely the software is the cost, and that has already been paid for! Any advise please guys/gals. Thanks

Where did you buy the car from, unless privately then why arent you asking the dealer to provide a replacement cd as supplied one not working

bennno

You could also have a friendly IT person pop the CDs through a copier. Then use the copy and keep the original pristine in its packaging - for when the copy you made "wears out". In reality the "wear" is scratching from putting the disc in and out.

[Dr S]

paracetamol said:

Thought Savannah was "the new black"

more the new light green...