Newbie, just got his first Porsche
Discussion
Hi all, been trawling through the forums and thought this is the place to be. So my first Porsche and i got it last Wednesday an Aug. 1994 LHD, 968 Club Sport, 52,000 miles, i would have preferred a RHD but this one was in such good condition and low mileage, plus it was cheaper being LHD.
It was first registered to Porsche, Stuttgart as their press car and was factory fitted with a comfort pack, Cloth sports seats + rear seats, central locking and air con, everything else is manual. I'm still trying to get used to changing gear with my right hand, it works ok for me if i'm not in a hurry but when pushing it and instinct takes over i forget that the gear lever bias is in the opposite direction, so i often change down from 6th and get 3rd or going up to 6th i get 4th, i guess a few hundred miles in it will get my brain in the right gear.
I have a couple queries/issues i'd like to ask of you all. Where can i get a wiring daigram for it? The fuel and battery charge gauges work normally for a while but then they will drop, the fuel gauge drops by approx a quarter and the battery charge gauge drops to 12volts from 13.5/14volts and then they'll go back to normal again! I hope this is a bad earth problem and i can fix it myself.
I'm looking for a Porsche specialist in the Guildford area, even though all the belts and tensioner kit was changed at 45,000 miles - 2 1/2 years ago, i'd still like to have them checked over just in case. How long should this check take? cost?
cheers
It was first registered to Porsche, Stuttgart as their press car and was factory fitted with a comfort pack, Cloth sports seats + rear seats, central locking and air con, everything else is manual. I'm still trying to get used to changing gear with my right hand, it works ok for me if i'm not in a hurry but when pushing it and instinct takes over i forget that the gear lever bias is in the opposite direction, so i often change down from 6th and get 3rd or going up to 6th i get 4th, i guess a few hundred miles in it will get my brain in the right gear.
I have a couple queries/issues i'd like to ask of you all. Where can i get a wiring daigram for it? The fuel and battery charge gauges work normally for a while but then they will drop, the fuel gauge drops by approx a quarter and the battery charge gauge drops to 12volts from 13.5/14volts and then they'll go back to normal again! I hope this is a bad earth problem and i can fix it myself.
I'm looking for a Porsche specialist in the Guildford area, even though all the belts and tensioner kit was changed at 45,000 miles - 2 1/2 years ago, i'd still like to have them checked over just in case. How long should this check take? cost?
cheers
heyou said:
It was first registered to Porsche, Stuttgart as their press car and was factory fitted with a comfort pack, Cloth sports seats + rear seats, central locking and air con, everything else is manual.
I have a couple queries/issues i'd like to ask of you all. Where can i get a wiring daigram for it? The fuel and battery charge gauges work normally for a while but then they will drop, the fuel gauge drops by approx a quarter and the battery charge gauge drops to 12volts from 13.5/14volts and then they'll go back to normal again! I hope this is a bad earth problem and i can fix it myself.
I'm looking for a Porsche specialist in the Guildford area, even though all the belts and tensioner kit was changed at 45,000 miles - 2 1/2 years ago, i'd still like to have them checked over just in case. How long should this check take? cost?
cheers
Great choice and welcome
Shame about the comfort pack - it is to Domster as lunch is to Gordon Gekko, but aftermarket Recaroness is an option 
Not sure about wiring diagrams - try www.968.net forums or ask a friendly OPC.
Belts are difficult to check visually (can you tell how much they've perished in 2.5 years by looking at them?). They are a cheapish bill to change preventatitvely but an expensive one to fix if they snap. I would get them done - should cost about 300-400 GBP, and they may need tensioning after a few thousand miles.
ATB
Domster
domster said:
....Shame about the comfort pack - it is to Domster as lunch is to Gordon Gekko, but aftermarket Recaroness is an option
Domster
Hehe, when GG said that, he was referring to me and after reading some of the jibes about the wimps option pack, i thought i'd better come clean right away in case anyone mistakes me for a real man, still for £8k i'm not complaining.
heyou said:
I'm looking for a Porsche specialist in the Guildford area, even though all the belts and tensioner kit was changed at 45,000 miles - 2 1/2 years ago, i'd still like to have them checked over just in case.
cheers
Can but recomend GT-One at Chertsey -01932 569911. Mention my name.
Melv
heyou said:
I'm looking for a Porsche specialist in the Guildford area, even though all the belts and tensioner kit was changed at 45,000 miles - 2 1/2 years ago, i'd still like to have them checked over just in case. How long should this check take? cost?
cheers
I have used CAMTUNE at Godalming seem good to me.
Steve
>> Edited by sb-1 on Tuesday 2nd September 18:55
Thanks for the info on the specialists, i've found another one nearer to me, in Aldershot Zest Performance www.zestperformance.com/ They're going to check all the cam related stuff and they said you might as well fit a new cam belt while they've got the bits off all for £75.
well see.
well see.
heyou said:
Thanks for the info on the specialists, i've found another one nearer to me, in Aldershot Zest Performance www.zestperformance.com/
Do let us know how you find Zest, Derrick,I am only round the corner from Aldershot.
Cheers
Steve
It's booked in for Monday morning. The website doesn't inspire me but they have first class engineering facilities. They design and build onsite, complete cars for the track, including CNC lathes/mills etc. They machine their own straight cut gearsets from their own design. I'm guessing, but the car servicing could just be a way of making some spare cash for the racing, i'll ask these questions on Monday and let you know.
I have a feeling that if i asked about a courtesy car i'd get some strange looks from them as all they seem to have hanging around the place is really expensive looking Ferraris and Porsches, still if it has to be a Marenello or an Enzo then i'll just have grin and bear it ;o)
The boss Mike, told me that they take delivery of brand new Fezzas from the showroom and completely rip them apart to rebuild it for the track, ouch!
a few pics of my new pride and joy
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/derrickb/
I have a feeling that if i asked about a courtesy car i'd get some strange looks from them as all they seem to have hanging around the place is really expensive looking Ferraris and Porsches, still if it has to be a Marenello or an Enzo then i'll just have grin and bear it ;o)
The boss Mike, told me that they take delivery of brand new Fezzas from the showroom and completely rip them apart to rebuild it for the track, ouch!
a few pics of my new pride and joy
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/derrickb/
Being a new Porsche onwer, I had to search for a suitable Porsche specialist, near me in the Guildford area, i didn't want to go to AFN for several reasons - one of them being money! but I happened upon Zest Performance in Aldershot. They maintain Ferrari and Porsche and they also build, from the ground up and race Ferrari's, so i thought they sound like they know what they're doing, so i decided to put mine in for a complete cam related inspection and belt change.
They took it apart and reported that everything inside the engine was fine but they weren't happy about the cam belt tensioner roller bearings and several other bearings that jockey the cam belt and some of the bearing inside the toothed pulleys. Now rather than just go and buy the Porsche replacement pulleys (with new bearing) etc, which are fine and just need the bearings replaced, their natural reaction was to want to press out the old bearing and fit new ones into these otherwise fine pulleys. But as it the way of things these days, in the end they had to replace the whole pulley and bearing as the pulleys are made to take a specific bearing made for it, stopping you and I from just replacing an otherwise inexpensive bearing!
Anyway, what i'm trying to point out here is, that these people are proper engineers first and foremost, that have all the skills with a fully equipped engineering facility to manufacture from scratch mostly any part for your car or if you want something special made and of course they're Porsche specialists at the same time and that combination makes me feel very confident that i'm getting the very best of attention for my car.
They replaced the cam belt, balance shaft belts, ballance shaft bearing, 3 other bearings that support the cam belt, reset the front wheel bearings - when they removed the wheels to set the bearings, they must have automatically inspected my tyres (Bridgestone SO1s) and reported that the fronts are cracking between the tread pattern, the rears are oK, i didn't ask them to do that, i did mention that i was going to track day it, they suggested that I try and get Bridgestone to cough up for a new set (i'm on the case).
And at my request they gave the car a road test to report on anything that felt out of the ordinary, this is where they found that the top of the front struts were moving about under braking and cornering - they said that either the top mounting bearings or inner shafts are worn, that immediately explained to me the slightly uncomfortable wandering i get sometimes when turning and braking, as the camber and castar is changing under stress. all of that for £276, the labour part was only £75. They also told me, but only after iasked them if they did MOTs, that most MOT testing stations will not understand that the wheels bearing will have movement on them and fail the car. They've had to educate the testing station they use about Porsche engineering fundamentals.
A real find as far as i'm concerned, being a long time served mechanical engineer, i know the cars in good hands with these people. here's there web page in case anyone's interested - www.zestperformance.com/
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They took it apart and reported that everything inside the engine was fine but they weren't happy about the cam belt tensioner roller bearings and several other bearings that jockey the cam belt and some of the bearing inside the toothed pulleys. Now rather than just go and buy the Porsche replacement pulleys (with new bearing) etc, which are fine and just need the bearings replaced, their natural reaction was to want to press out the old bearing and fit new ones into these otherwise fine pulleys. But as it the way of things these days, in the end they had to replace the whole pulley and bearing as the pulleys are made to take a specific bearing made for it, stopping you and I from just replacing an otherwise inexpensive bearing!
Anyway, what i'm trying to point out here is, that these people are proper engineers first and foremost, that have all the skills with a fully equipped engineering facility to manufacture from scratch mostly any part for your car or if you want something special made and of course they're Porsche specialists at the same time and that combination makes me feel very confident that i'm getting the very best of attention for my car.
They replaced the cam belt, balance shaft belts, ballance shaft bearing, 3 other bearings that support the cam belt, reset the front wheel bearings - when they removed the wheels to set the bearings, they must have automatically inspected my tyres (Bridgestone SO1s) and reported that the fronts are cracking between the tread pattern, the rears are oK, i didn't ask them to do that, i did mention that i was going to track day it, they suggested that I try and get Bridgestone to cough up for a new set (i'm on the case).
And at my request they gave the car a road test to report on anything that felt out of the ordinary, this is where they found that the top of the front struts were moving about under braking and cornering - they said that either the top mounting bearings or inner shafts are worn, that immediately explained to me the slightly uncomfortable wandering i get sometimes when turning and braking, as the camber and castar is changing under stress. all of that for £276, the labour part was only £75. They also told me, but only after iasked them if they did MOTs, that most MOT testing stations will not understand that the wheels bearing will have movement on them and fail the car. They've had to educate the testing station they use about Porsche engineering fundamentals.
A real find as far as i'm concerned, being a long time served mechanical engineer, i know the cars in good hands with these people. here's there web page in case anyone's interested - www.zestperformance.com/
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