por85928

I think it is a good thing too!

por85928

Another problem reared its ugly head last night, well it wasn't that bad but my headlights quit working. All the lights come on except the headlights. Also at one piont they were going up and down over and over even with the switch off! I wonder if one of those Brits put some Lucus relays in there

por85928

Got the window problem solved. It was a frayed wire inside the door, it looked like it may haven been pinched between the door and door panel.

por85928

I thought I would let everybody know the resolution to the boiling brake fluid. After looking at eveybody's advise and hours of internet research. I decided to go with a complete brake fluid flush before I started throwing parts at it. I used the ATE Super Blue Racing Fluid. Problem solved, I have put close to 600 miles on the car since the fluid change and no brake fade what so ever. It is very interesting that a very small amout of water in the brake system lowers the boiling point greatly and then from what I have read everytime you boil the fluid it can reduce the boiling point by half. I found that after it boiled each time it would take even less time for it to boil again. Anyway this problem seems solved. I am loving the 928 and am getting used to driving on the right side. I drove it to work today and had a smile on my face the whole time!

smiffypr

Do you really think that the UK is so small that the whole island is covered in sea-spray?
The real reason is that the authorities spread salt on the roads in winter to prevent ice.

por85928

Do you not think that a car living in the close proxcimity of the ocean would have more of a chance with rust as opposed to a car living in a desert in the US? We use salt here in Arkansas and our cars don't rust like the 928 has. If the 928 would have spent its life in Arizona it would not have any rust. You really should not take things so litteral.

smiffypr

I don't know about the climate or how roads are salted in Arizona, but I do know how it is in the UK. Wet conditions around freezing, are common, and the councils are legally obliged to keep certain roads ice free. The result is that huge amounts of salt are put on the roads even if the weather forecast says there is a chance the roads will freeze, and the roads are usually wet during the winter months. The humidity means that salt spread on dry roads will absorb moisture, and soon the road will be wet. This salt in solution is sprayed up by he tyres into every possible crevice, and in particular soaks into the mud trapped (for example) above the 928's fuel expansion tank Then the cars are taken home and put in a nice warm garage which accelerates the chemical reactions causing corrosion.

To get salt on a car by the ocean, basically means living within a few hundred yards of the surf. The salt is deposited on the top of the car, and minor blemishes in the paintwork will rust, the under-side of the car is pretty-much unaffected. Very few people (even in the UK) live close enough to the sea for this to be an issue.

I know, I have one 928 which spent 25 years in the UK, one which spent most of its life in Hong Kong, and one which lived right next to the beach in NZ for several years.

por85928

"I don't know about the climate or how roads are salted in Arizona"

Arizona is pretty much a desert climate...doubt there is any salt on the roads there.

Imo000

Come up here and I'll show you what road salt really does to cars, including some 928s.

por85928

I have seen some cars for Ohio that made me wonder what was holding them together!

UKKid35

The brake callipers will be partially seized, The road salt causes corrosion between the calliper body and the stainless steel plate that the pad rests on, The corrosion forces the plate towards the pad so it becomes stuck in the calliper. Removing the plate means removing a pair of machine screws, and they are not easy to undo.

Another part that will be seized is the rear suspension pin, if you replace the shocks this pin has to come out. I've heard that one UK 'independent 928 expert' uses an angle grinder, I used elbow grease, and it took a whole day to remove one pin.

Cheburator

Nice to see oneself recognized...

Paul, I used my angle grinder three times on the passenger side pin on my S2 - it had seized solid in the front rubber bush, the shock bush and the rear bush... And it was properly greased when last taken out in 2004... In fact it was soo seized, that a 6tonnes hydraulic press struggled to pop it out from the shock bush when we experimented for a laugh and instead tore it out of the rubber, still welded to the metal sleeve...

UKKid35

Alex, I would never have referred to you that way, I would have named you straight up!

I was actually thinking of someone who is paid buy other people to fix their cars.

And what is that hole in the underside of the suspension arm for? Is it deliberately designed to let water in?