Porsche 911 997.1 Daily Driver

[ajap1979]

adean22 said:

ajap1979 said:

Are you still 22 OP?

24 now

Maybe time to change the thread title then. As my mum used to say, no-one likes a bragger

[996Type]

This is a great thread, your work on the car is amazing and it’s a great read, thank you for recording it.

I was a bit older than you but did similar with a 996, running it as a daily car for 2 years in all weathers at around 12 years old, car was funnily enough sourced from a feature in this website.

They stand up much better to constant use, it’s better I’m sure for things to wear out than just decay away from lack of use!

Benefit of cars at this interim age (modern classic?) is that enthusiasts like yourself work through fixes in a much more realistic manner than the main garages and record them for other enthusiasts to do like wise, which brings ownership into grasp.

[hunt123]

Nice car OP i think that era of 911 still look fresh. fwiw i owned a red 7 yr old 911 3.2 carrera when i was 21 that was 28 years ago, it's still the most prestigious car i've owned.

[Sport220]

ajap1979 said:

Maybe time to change the thread title then. As my mum used to say, no-one likes a bragger

Ooh someone’s bitter. Why would he need to change it if he indeed bought the car at 22?

Very cool thread

[ajap1979]

Sport220 said:

ajap1979 said:

Maybe time to change the thread title then. As my mum used to say, no-one likes a bragger

Ooh someone’s bitter. Why would he need to change it if he indeed bought the car at 22?

Very cool thread

I’m not bitter at all. I love Porsches and I love reading about them. But bragging that you bought it at 22 isn’t cool, nor is it particularly impressive.

[adean22]

duncancallum said:

Nice thread.

Used to live in horwich know rivvy rather well. The pub carpark was it the millstone.

Isn't there a porsche specialist in copull too?

There used to be one in Standish - Cath Burrows the owner was called. Doesn't seem to exist anymore. Funnily enough she was the women who ran over Bradley Wiggins many years ago . My go to is now Unique in Westhoughton, cant recommend them enough - fantastic in every way

The pub is the millstone, iv never been in but have stopped many times to look at nice cars in the car park

Edited by adean22 on Sunday 30th July 20:42

[adean22]

ajap1979 said:

Maybe time to change the thread title then. As my mum used to say, no-one likes a bragger

If I knew how to do it I would, went to do it the other week but doesn't seem like I can?

[adean22]

What a great day that was. Woke up at 2:30 am to head to the lake district to drive some nice roads during sunrise. Day went great, found some lovely roads near Buttermere and brought my mate who has some fantastic cameras and drones (pics to follow once hes edited them).



All was fantastic until I heard a bang and then a thud thud thud thud thud.


Pulled over to confirm my suspicions and it was a slash in the rear tyre caused by a big pot hole



Hopefully the wheel isn't bent/cracked. It has damaged the finish but the wheels need refurbing anyway so I wont loose any sleep over that.

Luckily this was right next to a cafe so we went and got breakfast and rang the AA , this is where the day got worse. Despite having AA with all the bells and whistles they wouldn't take me home, only to a tyre place. Annoying as it was I thought that's fine, id need two new rears as the other one is more than half worn so wasn't mixing new and old tyres . When I expressed the tyres would have to be Michelin Pilot Sport 4s (same as what I had put on the car 12k mile ago) the AA disagreed. They had found some "marshall" tyres in my size so wanted me to pay to have them fitted so I could carry on my journey. I googled these tyres and they seemed like cheap crap to be honest. Now I understand that the purpose of breakdown is to get you going again but surely they weren't expecting me to fit ditch finders to my car - maybe I'm being unreasonable here, would welcome peoples opinions on this??


After a lot of toing and throwing they finally managed to agree to recover me home, great news I thought.

Then I was told they were sending a van to tow me, now I know from experience with my family's cars etc they cant do this with anything rwd, low or wide. The 911 is all of these. So it took more toing and throwing for them to agree to send a flatbed

Luckily a flatbed arrived two hours later. this was geat news untill the first recovery truck dropped me off at tebay services (60 miles from home) and expressed he couldn't drive any further due to HGV laws etc. Now I love the tebay butchers section so I remained positive and rang the AA to see what happened now. I was then told we would have to get another recovery truck from tebay to lancaster and then another one from Lancaster to home . Seemed crazy really - 3 recovery trucks to get home. Luckily the second truck agreed it was nonsense and brought me all the way to where the car needed to be.

I dont like hanging about so the second i got home Iv ordered 2 new Pilot Sport 4 S's for the rear - they get fitted tuesday

The old ones had done 12k miles and had about 30% life left so they would of needed changing in a few month anyway.


It has got me thinking about changing breakdown cover, im more than happy to pay more for a better service. Anyone any recommendations?

Edited by adean22 on Saturday 29th July 15:54

Edited by adean22 on Saturday 29th July 15:55

[adean22]

996Type said:

This is a great thread, your work on the car is amazing and it’s a great read, thank you for recording it.

I was a bit older than you but did similar with a 996, running it as a daily car for 2 years in all weathers at around 12 years old, car was funnily enough sourced from a feature in this website.

They stand up much better to constant use, it’s better I’m sure for things to wear out than just decay away from lack of use!

Benefit of cars at this interim age (modern classic?) is that enthusiasts like yourself work through fixes in a much more realistic manner than the main garages and record them for other enthusiasts to do like wise, which brings ownership into grasp.

That's one of the main reasons I made the thread. I think its important people buy these cars and fix them themselves, brings it more into the real world - not everyone can afford to pay Porsche centres £250 + VAT per hour. Its a great car and it should be used everyday , pointless having it if its not used

[Jhonno]

Urgh.. Recovery nonsense.

I'm with the RAC and tbf, whilst it has never been a particularly quick fix, and at times I have had to iterate certain points, or followed certain paths to get a result, they have never failed to get me home.

I also completely agree that being forced to fit utter st tyres is not on, when your cover would/can take you home..

[adean22]

A small preview of some of the photos from Saturday. If you've never been on this road id say its a must. Its the B5289 when it runs along side the edge of Crunnock water. Honsiter pass is right after it aswell which is a great road too

[LanceRS]

Looks like an amazing trip, nice to see you enjoying the car as it was designed to be.
All of the recovery services are bloody hard work when you need them for something like this. I had exactly the same thing with the family bus a few years ago, fortunately it was close to home, so I cancelled them and got the local garage to recover the car and fit the tyres.
Last time I needed them was an errant overheating warning.
After a few hours, and the usual arguments about towing,the flatbed arrived, only to announce that he was only supposed to get me off the motorway. That was all of 400 yards!
I managed to persuade him that I only needed to get another two junctions and he agreed.

[adean22]

New rear tyres on the and car back to being able to be used.

Weather permitting I'm going back to the lakes this weekend to have another go at the same roads - hopefully without the puncture

Every time I take the wheels off it makes me want to buy a lug conversion kit. Its such a pain having wheel bolts instead of wheel nuts, especially on big heavy wide wheels

[s94wht]

adean22 said:

New rear tyres on the and car back to being able to be used.

Weather permitting I'm going back to the lakes this weekend to have another go at the same roads - hopefully without the puncture

Every time I take the wheels off it makes me want to buy a lug conversion kit. Its such a pain having wheel bolts instead of wheel nuts, especially on big heavy wide wheels

I bought one of these the other day and it made things much easier. Not sure if it fits your bolt size but it might do, or there might be similar about.

[Mikeeb]

adean22 said:

Every time I take the wheels off it makes me want to buy a lug conversion kit. Its such a pain having wheel bolts instead of wheel nuts, especially on big heavy wide wheels

A set of studs and nuts was the first thing I bought my 911. Makes life a million times easier.

[adean22]

s94wht said:

I bought one of these the other day and it made things much easier. Not sure if it fits your bolt size but it might do, or there might be similar about.

I have looked at these but feel the only real solution is the lug conversion.

[adean22]

Mikeeb said:

A set of studs and nuts was the first thing I bought my 911. Makes life a million times easier.

Which ones did you get and would you recommend them?

[adean22]

Got an idea in my head last week and had to follow through with it.

Here we have gold porsche side stickers.



The idea looked better in my head, really not sure how I feel about them. They can stay for a few week whilst I decide. No harm in them, worse case they are just stickers that peel off.

[adean22]

Messed around with photoshop and the car would really suit some BBS LM wheels. I was open to the idea until I saw the price of the wheels

[Scoobydrew95]

I have to agree, think it needs some gold to tie the graphic in. Perhaps there are other alternatives to the LMs. But gold centres and silver barrels seem a great idea. but definitely like the idea of the gold graphic!