RE: The Brave Pill: Porsche 928 S

[dinkel]

928 community is enthousiastic over here: 9 turned up at a meeting for Dutch RS Porsche Magazine.

[Hugh Jarse]

Mr Tidy said:

I never liked them back in the day, but I think they look fantastic now!
It's certainly had some TLC lavished on it recently, so might not prove to be too eye-watering for a while.
I hope it finds a good home.
And as others have said, the Brave Pill is proving to be great reading.

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As the article metioned Skegness, where I've seen some pretty disgraceful behaviour before from scummy families. However yesterday on Skegness seafront I saw what must be worst yet.....A man and wife were arguing in front of their kids and then out of the blue she smacked him over the head, he then kicked off big style at her. Then the local police turn up and due to the level of violence by this psychotic couple he decided to draw his truncheon and started to pummel them both with it. It got worse....the bloke managed to get the truncheon off the copper and started hitting him round the head with it, followed by ttting his missus with it too....Then a crocodile turned up and stole all the sausages.

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deltashad said:

That's an s2.

Nope.

[Water Fairy]

Hugh Jarse said:

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As the article metioned Skegness, where I've seen some pretty disgraceful behaviour before from scummy families. However yesterday on Skegness seafront I saw what must be worst yet.....A man and wife were arguing in front of their kids and then out of the blue she smacked him over the head, he then kicked off big style at her. Then the local police turn up and due to the level of violence by this psychotic couple he decided to draw his truncheon and started to pummel them both with it. It got worse....the bloke managed to get the truncheon off the copper and started hitting him round the head with it, followed by ttting his missus with it too....Then a crocodile turned up and stole all the sausages.

[Bo_apex]

mcelliott said:

Such a pretty car, one of Porsche's finest efforts. They look small in real life too, compared to the bloated st boxes of today.

I have to agree. Even the mighty GTS with it's muscular arches looks catwalk-petite compared with today's dunkin' doughnuts.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23603/lot/11/

[Rumblestripe]

mcelliott said:

Such a pretty car, one of Porsche's finest efforts. They look small in real life too, compared to the bloated st boxes of today.

Yes, this. I prefer it to the facelifted versions with the larger rear light clusters. Incidentally, was there an S3? I know there was an S2 and then S4.what happened to the S3?

Beautiful design to the interior too.

[soxboy]

Rumblestripe said:

Yes, this. I prefer it to the facelifted versions with the larger rear light clusters. Incidentally, was there an S3? I know there was an S2 and then S4.what happened to the S3?

Beautiful design to the interior too.

IIRC the S3 was only released in the US and was the 928S2 but with the 32v engine that went into the S4.

[tiptreegeek]

Love & hate 928s - I had a 1985 S2 for 3 years, when it was going it was an absolute blast!
Unfortunately it had a number of issues, one engine written off with a scored bore after a head gasket failure in year 1.
Numerous electrical gremlins mostly caused by dodgy aftermarket alarms (2 of them!) - year 2
Slipping auto - booked in with a local specialist only for one of the head gaskets to go on the replacement engine.
Fell out of love & sold it for £1800 as was.

Still thinking of getting another though... lovely lovely noise!

[carinaman]

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deltashad said:

That's an s2.

Nope.

Agreed, it's not an S2. My choice would be what's to referred as an S2 and a half from mid 1986 on? They feature the chassis of the S4 with the engine of the S2.

928s seemed wide back in the day compared to the more mainstream cars they shared the roads with.

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carinaman said:

928s seemed wide back in the day compared to the more mainstream cars they shared the roads with.

Yes I remember thinking the same until recently a friend pulled up in his next to a LR Discovery and thought how small they look now.

[poo at Paul's]

928s are The Business. End of!

Why cant you get the Pasha check seats in Porsches anymore? It was fking awesome.

Edited by poo at Paul's on Tuesday 2nd April 01:04

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poo at Paul's said:

928s are The Business. End of!

Why cant you get the Pasha check seats in Porsches anymore? It was fking awesome.

Edited by poo at Paul's on Tuesday 2nd April 01:04

Pascha check is great unless you suffer from migraines!

I had Berber in my 924 which I thought was triffic really you need dead cow in a 928.

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Rumblestripe said:

poo at Paul's said:

928s are The Business. End of!

Why cant you get the Pasha check seats in Porsches anymore? It was fking awesome.

Edited by poo at Paul's on Tuesday 2nd April 01:04

Pascha check is great unless you suffer from migraines!

I had Berber in my 924 which I thought was triffic really you need dead cow in a 928.

Nah. Poo’s correct,

Source: ex leathered 928 owner.

[PomBstard]

Google [bot] said:

Rumblestripe said:

poo at Paul's said:

928s are The Business. End of!

Why cant you get the Pasha check seats in Porsches anymore? It was fking awesome.

Edited by poo at Paul's on Tuesday 2nd April 01:04

Pascha check is great unless you suffer from migraines!

I had Berber in my 924 which I thought was triffic really you need dead cow in a 928.

Nah. Poo’s correct,

Source: ex leathered 928 owner.

Pasha works

Source: current leathered 928 owner with no AC...

Looking at this ad again, I’d suggest the money spent on the respray would have been better spent under the bonnet. When the head gaskets were changed on mine, at 31 years, there wasn’t much gasket left and was probably 12 months away from a leak. This one is already up to 37 years. Suggest all other seals will be a bit suspect too.

Totally worth getting sorted though.

[fastjason]

Awesome Car, and I’m certainly missing mine. Don’t be shy of mechanicals, i replaces both head gaskets in situ on my 4.7 S2 despite being told it was an engine out job. Mine unfortunately had had several years of neglect prior to me, which meant a lot of un-addressed issues, most were accomplished, but I never got around to repairing the pneumatics that controlled the rear boot opener and headlight adjusters. That said it’s new owner had plans of full strip and rebuild from the ground up, so I let him have the dozen ring binders of OE Manuals as never planned to have another.......🤔

Edited by fastjason on Tuesday 2nd April 20:12

[sinbaddio]

German GT's from this era have all stood the test of time, all still look fabulous now - 928, BMW 8 series, Mercedes SL R129.

[carinaman]

sinbaddio said:

German GT's from this era have all stood the test of time, all still look fabulous now - 928, BMW 8 series, Mercedes SL R129.

I remember the earlier CAR Magazine front cover, but your comment reminded me of the later one:

[Labradorofperception]

I see the 928 as being similar to the Mondial and the DB7 (dog compared to the 928) - they were never quite the favoured child. As a consequence, in the secondhand market they attracted people who could not quite stretch to a 360 / 328 or DB9/ Vantage. So, they got thrashed, had bugger all maintenance and way too many ended up as donor cars or just rotted away.

The ones that were left are now attracting good money, because they've been loved. I reckon Bentley Conti GT's will go the same way, once the gangstas have finished driving them into the ground.

Anyhow, buy on history not mileage. Mine came with a book of receipts. There was no way i would touch one without seeing a Strasse, 928spares, Dave Griffiths or specialist receipts in there.

Cambelt at 4 years without a shadow of a doubt. They can last a lot longer, but the S4 is interference, and why the hell risk it for the sake of £500 (and you have to get the waterpump at the same time). The electrical can be a faff, but mostly if driven regularly, they tend to behave themselves.

On mine, the rear wipe has given up, but it is the pick up pinion that's worn - cheap fix, lot of faff. The side rubbing strip is laying on it's belly somewhere on the M54 - £100 replacement and into Telford for a spray. Use Design911 or Rose Passion for spares and most of the bits you need are out there.

30 mpg on a run, single figures when pressing on. They aren't Caterhams, but they do handle surprisingly well - quite agile for their age. An X pipe and bypass and it sounds Wagnerian.

Here's mine.

[blade7]

Labradorofperception said:

I see the 928 as being similar to the Mondial and the DB7 (dog compared to the 928) - they were never quite the favoured child. As a consequence, in the secondhand market they attracted people who could not quite stretch to a 360 / 328 or DB9/ Vantage. So, they got thrashed, had bugger all maintenance.

I doubt much has changed.

[Muzzer79]

I'd love one and, in dream land, I'd get it Singer-ised aswell

A neighbour has one up on blocks on his drive. It hasn't moved for as long as I've lived in the area. Waste.