Deleting spare tire?
#31
Also, in this day & age, especially in America, you're most likely to be rear-ended by a soccer mom texting while driving an 8,000lbs 7' tall SUV with a bumper that will make contact with the rear window of a 928.
#32
Check to see if there are any brackets, hooks, or residue of where a bracket/hook might have been in the spare tire well compartment. Maybe they used hold down straps or bungees like they did on the 914.
Still, if you are getting hit in the back hard enough to crush the tire well you have bigger problems to deal with such as the transmission entering your passenger seat and covering you with hot, buttery fluid.
Still, if you are getting hit in the back hard enough to crush the tire well you have bigger problems to deal with such as the transmission entering your passenger seat and covering you with hot, buttery fluid.
#33
I would like to find out what kind of system was in the early cars so I can start to source them for my 78.
It doesn't take much of a crash to turn every day objects in the car into deadly projectiles, much less a very heavy metal wheel with a rubber band around it. This doesn't just apply to being rear-ended. A front end crash will cause everything not bolted down to suddenly come flying forward.
An other wise survivable crash you may have walked away from with bruises is now a fatality.
#34
I've spent a lot of time in the spare tire well of my '82. I don't recall seeing any brackets for the spare. It wedges in there pretty tight, and the cover had a retaining clip. Maybe Porsche didn't feel it was necessary.
BTW: I'm shopping for 928 spare tires - wheels, actually - so that I can put snow tires on my daughter's Boxster. So if you're deleting your spare, I'll take it.
BTW: I'm shopping for 928 spare tires - wheels, actually - so that I can put snow tires on my daughter's Boxster. So if you're deleting your spare, I'll take it.
#35
That brings up another question: When I swapped the battery on my 86.5, I didn't see a bolt and keeper to hold down the battery in that box, the battery takes up the whole box. The only thing holding it down is the cam on the box cover and of course the spare tire with the bolt. Technically with the spare in and secured the battery could never come out, maybe they bolted down the battery on earlier models and left the spare secured by straps or something.
#36
I've spent a lot of time in the spare tire well of my '82. I don't recall seeing any brackets for the spare. It wedges in there pretty tight, and the cover had a retaining clip. Maybe Porsche didn't feel it was necessary.
BTW: I'm shopping for 928 spare tires - wheels, actually - so that I can put snow tires on my daughter's Boxster. So if you're deleting your spare, I'll take it.
BTW: I'm shopping for 928 spare tires - wheels, actually - so that I can put snow tires on my daughter's Boxster. So if you're deleting your spare, I'll take it.