Porsche 996 cabriolets cant live outside???
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Can anyone please set my mind at rest. I have a beautiful 996 4S Cab but my garage will be another 4 weeks before it is finished. In the meantime the 996 sits outside and as we all know the UK weather has been terential recently!!! As a result I have a soaking wet footwell behind the passenger seat and the car wont start. I had a Porsche mechanic out to look at it and after drying it all out the car started again perfectly. However, the mechanic has told me that these cars cannot live outside and while they dont leak on the move the water will get in if they are left outside in heavy rainfall. Is this true???
This is exactly what happend to mine. The drains were blocked. Fortunately I noticed before too much came in. The design appears to anticipate a small leak. In mine a constant drip was apparent in heavy rain. It is quite disconcerting. The drains need to vent so any blockage leads to a backup. Check them at once as in the link above. I took mine to a specialist - half an hour's work at most.
Am update from me on this issue.
Although I had lifted both the carpet and "fat stuff underneath" in both the rear passengers well and front luggage compartment and found all was well, I still decided to get my drain holes checked front and back. I've just got back from FMH who found that one of them was blocked - so I was lucky it had coped given the weather. They said they had had people with big bills as a result of not doing this - from my point of view £50 a year to do this seems money well spent.
Although I had lifted both the carpet and "fat stuff underneath" in both the rear passengers well and front luggage compartment and found all was well, I still decided to get my drain holes checked front and back. I've just got back from FMH who found that one of them was blocked - so I was lucky it had coped given the weather. They said they had had people with big bills as a result of not doing this - from my point of view £50 a year to do this seems money well spent.
Whitean3 said:
Dumb question, but couldn't you just fit the hardtop temporarily? Standard equipment for the UK I thought
Fitting and removing the hardtop, whilst "fairly quick" is a two man (and I mean man) job. Plus in the uk, if you put the hard top on every time it might rain, you might as well buy a coupe...khushy said:
I would be more worried about cats on the roof using it to stretch their claws!
Actually as a cat owner in a small cul de sac where most houses have cats, and as someone who has owned ragtops for years - that doesn't happen. What does happen is the buggers sleep on the roof and cover it in cat fur. (I use a "defluff" roller to get it off)Gassing Station | Porsche General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff