Dial faces peeling - 964,993
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David H suggested this become a thread in its right, which is a good idea. Some of the dials in my 964RS started to peel (sun damage apparently) and I had them redone by Julian Reap; he even offers a mobile service. Reap did the OEM speedo dials for RHD 993s, so he is not a cowboy; these aren't stickers. Cost for me IIRC was around 300-400 GBP.
Bernard (turbobloke) and David H have also experienced this problem, amongst others. Here is what David has to say from another thread:
"Some early 993s (and now I hear from Bernard) maybe 964s suffer from the black field flaking and or peeling off dail faces, as if someone had placed a blow torch on them for a moment.
All of mine were fine except the speedo, which worried me because I thought it may have been tampered with! Being a one owner car I was able to to check all history with Porsche GB and I got enough detail to verify its history.
I couldn`t live with the flaking after a few months, it's like the door check straps, that clonking is just not Porsche.
I spoke to Porsche GB and they said they had never experienced flaking paint on dials before. When I spoke to the people that rectified my dials, the story was a little different (off-line for details please)
All coloured OEM dial faces for Porsche are high quality silk-screened, including the then standard black.
They are not self adhesive stickers, although there are some problems with any coloured silk-screening (again off-line please)
There is more in the detail... "
Bernard (turbobloke) and David H have also experienced this problem, amongst others. Here is what David has to say from another thread:
"Some early 993s (and now I hear from Bernard) maybe 964s suffer from the black field flaking and or peeling off dail faces, as if someone had placed a blow torch on them for a moment.
All of mine were fine except the speedo, which worried me because I thought it may have been tampered with! Being a one owner car I was able to to check all history with Porsche GB and I got enough detail to verify its history.
I couldn`t live with the flaking after a few months, it's like the door check straps, that clonking is just not Porsche.
I spoke to Porsche GB and they said they had never experienced flaking paint on dials before. When I spoke to the people that rectified my dials, the story was a little different (off-line for details please)
All coloured OEM dial faces for Porsche are high quality silk-screened, including the then standard black.
They are not self adhesive stickers, although there are some problems with any coloured silk-screening (again off-line please)
There is more in the detail... "
Porsche GB has a very sensible (from a legal point of view) but very infuriating (from a practical point of view) policy of denying everything until someone, somewhere - probably in Germany - makes a decision about it. Is it a fault? Is it just wear and tear? Do we give a bavarian buggeration anyway?
The denied the 993 wiring loom manufacturing fault until they were blue in the face. Then one day it gets put on an official fault list and cars get recalled, people can claim back money they had to shell out to get the work done themselves etc.
It doesn't surprise me that OPCs claim not to know about it. Remember also that they immediately tend to trade-on anything over 4 years old so most won't know what a 964 or 993 actually is
The denied the 993 wiring loom manufacturing fault until they were blue in the face. Then one day it gets put on an official fault list and cars get recalled, people can claim back money they had to shell out to get the work done themselves etc.
It doesn't surprise me that OPCs claim not to know about it. Remember also that they immediately tend to trade-on anything over 4 years old so most won't know what a 964 or 993 actually is
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