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therealsamdailly said:
What am I missing here? I know its auto, but still
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Porsche-911-996-C4S-Cou...
Hmmm....low feedback (3) all as a buyer and a host of suspiciously cheap cars for sale.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Porsche-911-996-C4S-Cou...
If it looks too good to be true....
Maldini35 said:
therealsamdailly said:
What am I missing here? I know its auto, but still
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Porsche-911-996-C4S-Cou...
Hmmm....low feedback (3) all as a buyer and a host of suspiciously cheap cars for sale.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Porsche-911-996-C4S-Cou...
If it looks too good to be true....
MrC986 said:
Fleabay seem very lax at removing scam car ads IMO....someone I know was selling his silver C4S tiptronic via A/T and once it was sold a scammer used the pics/most of the text to create a twin listing at £4K less - it was reported by was still showing some 3 weeks later.
‘FleaBay’ a bit of an unfair name, unless you’re buying second hand clothes. 
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king droplinks on these cars is such an utter ball ache.
Trying to swap out the rear links on my other halfs 987. One side was bad, the other (drivers side) is not budging an inch. Odd as the passenger side tends to be the worse for corrosion ime. Joys of living in a flat means I can't get any power tools on it either. Have chopped off the ball end so I can get a 17mm impact socket on the non threaded end so will try to get that twisting this evening.
Any top tips anyone? Don't say take it to the garage, they're booked up till the 14th.
king droplinks on these cars is such an utter ball ache.Trying to swap out the rear links on my other halfs 987. One side was bad, the other (drivers side) is not budging an inch. Odd as the passenger side tends to be the worse for corrosion ime. Joys of living in a flat means I can't get any power tools on it either. Have chopped off the ball end so I can get a 17mm impact socket on the non threaded end so will try to get that twisting this evening.
Any top tips anyone? Don't say take it to the garage, they're booked up till the 14th.
Lots and lots of heat and then freeze spray, then you really need an impact gun on it.
I have an 18v DeWalt with 1600nm of breaking torque, Millwaukee do one with 1900nm now.
The problem with that much torque on a breaker bar is you have a real chance of it snapping the head off.
I have got to do the pinch bolt on the front wheel carrier to get the strut out, C4 has a bolt, not drop links like the RWD cars, but same pain in the arse.
It is also twisted so no room behind to get anything on it. I have put it off for two weeks now, I know I have got to get the whole thing carrier off and get it on a bench, but that is two days work.
I have a workshop but it is 20 minutes away, so I have bought a Honda Jazz today that I can leave over there so I can go and get parts, get home if I don't finish etc.
The problem is, it can be 8-10 hours to change 4 dampers, it starts to get silly expensive paying labour for that.
It took me 6 hours to do the drop links on the Boxster.
I have an 18v DeWalt with 1600nm of breaking torque, Millwaukee do one with 1900nm now.
The problem with that much torque on a breaker bar is you have a real chance of it snapping the head off.
I have got to do the pinch bolt on the front wheel carrier to get the strut out, C4 has a bolt, not drop links like the RWD cars, but same pain in the arse.
It is also twisted so no room behind to get anything on it. I have put it off for two weeks now, I know I have got to get the whole thing carrier off and get it on a bench, but that is two days work.
I have a workshop but it is 20 minutes away, so I have bought a Honda Jazz today that I can leave over there so I can go and get parts, get home if I don't finish etc.
The problem is, it can be 8-10 hours to change 4 dampers, it starts to get silly expensive paying labour for that.
It took me 6 hours to do the drop links on the Boxster.
Escy said:
Think it's expensive at £5500. I bought a 2007 2.7 with 15k more miles last year for £3500 also needing an engine. Don't think it would do more than £5500 in parts.
I remember missing out on a nice 987.1 Boxster for £10k that had just had £11k spent on a recent engine rebuild.Imagine that sellers pain at selling the car for a bloody 'loss',i.e. the net worth to him was more unfixed than fixed!
Talking of impact wrenches.
My local Lidl have their 20v impact wrenches in again so I picked one up as it’s just for occasional use. Might do the trick on the droplinks?
https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/car-care/ultimate-spee...
My local Lidl have their 20v impact wrenches in again so I picked one up as it’s just for occasional use. Might do the trick on the droplinks?
https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/car-care/ultimate-spee...
Great value, but I don't think it will get those corroded bolts out.
That has up to 400nm of torque, the Milwaukee and the DeWalt have around 1700nm and 1900nm and still can't often do them. Not without a serious amount of heat, like getting the bolt glowing.
But for everything else that is a no brainer and less than a battery on the others.
That has up to 400nm of torque, the Milwaukee and the DeWalt have around 1700nm and 1900nm and still can't often do them. Not without a serious amount of heat, like getting the bolt glowing.
But for everything else that is a no brainer and less than a battery on the others.
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