Hilton

The separate contact is sold by Porsche for the 90-95 models.

I fitted it to my '89 - but there were a couple of gotchas:

1. The height of the plastic L-shaped back was too tall for my '89, so I had to file it down to shorten it.

2. The pin diameter on the later cars is thin where it enters the connector - I fixed it by hacksawing the end off the original pin, drilling it, and then soldering it onto the new thinner pin, so it fit the connector properly.

3. The original contact is held in with a couple of tiny e-clips inside the housing - overcome by brute force pressing out the contact's pin while carefully supporting the housing plates very carefully so as not to bend/break anything else.

Note the above mods were to make the contact fit my '89 - which is a weird model year that has a unique part number for the switch assembly (due to digital dash, no airbag, etc), so the above mods may not be the same to make the contact fit any earlier years.

For my '87 (same basic stalk as earlier years - 3 levers including cruise) I just bought a whole new assembly.

edit: just saw solution post.. I wrote above before reading the whole thread. Cool, sounds like the pin diameter issue only affects '89, which was the only tricky part of making it fit