Oilslick964

You guys are going to love this. I bought this car on Friday and it's perfect. All is right with the world. I drove it Saturday, then went out of town on Sunday-Monday. I drive the car to work this morning and guess what??? The AC isn't blowing very cold. Well, I run it by my local wrench and he tells me it is full of freon (the old stuff) and I must have a problem with a recirc valve or something. He can get it in early next week. OK, fine... I'll just drive with the windows down. Well, the windows just quit working. Fuse is fine, must be the switches (brand new, by the way). I dropped it off at the shop, told them to fix anything they can find that needs fixing. I told them to call me if my bill gets over $2500. I figure the worst that can happen is I'll have a perfect 928 with 78k miles for $16,000. Not a steal, but not a terrible deal either, right? Does this stuff happen often for you guys or am I just jinxed?

SharkSkin

If you gaet the car hot, then shut it off and restart it a couple of minutes later, the AC won't blow very cold. That's with everything working "perfectly, as-designed". When you turn off the key, the heater valve opens, allowing hot water into the heater core.

Kind of dumb, IMHO, but there it is. I have seen a couple of solutions to the problem, ranging from tie-wrapping the valve closed to fussing with vac lines in the engine bay. I'm working on a more elegant solution, but it is an issue.

As for the windows... that sucks, but 928s seem to have a way of doing this kind of thing... like a dog that you take from your owner where it was happy, first thing it does is crap on the carpet, but after a little patient TLC it's your best friend. Try pressing harder on the buttons.

bcdavis

It's the nature of the beast.
I'm sure it all worked great the day it rolled off the factory floor.
But 15 years later, these cars will have glitches.
The key is to just fix all the ones you can find,
and keep fixing little things as they come up.
Each thing you fix, or replace to new, will probably last another 15 years.
But if you want a car where nothing ever goes wrong, then buy a new car.

macreel

"... buy a new car."

And hope they don't recall it !

Keep truckin'. (the 2nd law of
thermo rules.)

G'luck.

Oilslick964

Allright, looks like the ac issue was a recirc box/valve. I don't know exactly what it was or wasn't doing to make the air not get too cold. The air was cool and the compressor was obviously working but just not very well. I think it was blowing about 58 degrees at the vent and it was just insufficient cooling for our 95 degree days! I think I'll get by with spending less than $500. The window deal is a mystery. It was really hot and I rolled them up and they would not roll back down. I parked the car in the shop for a few hours and they work fine now. I pulled the switches and everything looks fine and I can't get them to not work again. Just a temporary gremlin, I guess. So I should be driving in air conditioned comfort this weekend!