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These parts are for the underside of the sill cover not the top. These are available but I have confirmed with the Porsche factory that the special washers for the top side of the sill are NLA unfortunately
3D printing is an option when the price comes down to a more commercially acceptable price.
These parts are for the underside of the sill cover not the top. These are available but I have confirmed with the Porsche factory that the special washers for the top side of the sill are NLA unfortunately
3D printing is an option when the price comes down to a more commercially acceptable price.
The best alternative I could find are aircraft washer as pictured below. They don't unfortunately feature the dead stop ability of the original version but are a good fit otherwise.
The size is 0.6 of an inch. The original screws sit almost flush if you drill the hole out to 5mm .
This is far closer than anything else I could find . Hope you find this useful and happy 928ing
Turning a handfull of them out of some plastic stock in a lathe should have been a fairly simple solution. Kind of old fashioned - - I know.
I wish it was that simple Jerry, it seems nobody can do anything without CAD files these days.
The aircraft washers were less than £10 so were also cost effective.
If you know someone that could produce these things then I am sure there will be a demand as the original brass fittings simply fall apart when you try to remove them. I am also told 911 use similar parts so who ever can knock these out could find a market for them, he'll I would take a set.
After nearly 15 years in the 928 parts business you are the first customer to ask the question I doubt the market is huge but if someone makes them that would be great.
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After nearly 15 years in the 928 parts business you are the first customer to ask the question I doubt the market is huge but if someone makes them that would be great.
Hi Roger
I think the parts have now reached an age where the metal has become brittle so I would expect anyone repainting sill covers or even some needing to remove and refit sill covers on S4/GT/GTS to have the issue of these breaking - unless you are lucky and have somehow avoided the aging process?
Whether people want to make do with raised screw heads or not refitting the black plastic cover which goes over the screws I don't know. I definitely wanted to replicate the factory finish in this area as opposed to the other options I mentioned. What I found gets very close and will allow me to retain the factory finish just without the dead stop attribute.
I'm trying to revive your thread as I am facing the same issue on my car.
I took the door sill cover off and some of the washers you describe were broken and so brittle that I couldn't use them anymore.
Also, there are plastic oval grommets on the bottom of the sill cover that fall out and that I haven't been able to find in PET. Check the right picture below:
Has anyone found a solution for the top washers other than yours Marti? If not, then:
1. can you provide me with the details of where you got them?
2. Would a plastic washer do the trick? Aka would it be an idea to have a plastic version 3D printed?
As for the one on the bottom: I will try to get a specialist use a decent old one and get some 3D printed. No idea if it will work but it can't be rocket science……
Long shot but take a look at the 968 Pet illustration 810-005 - similar cladding to the 928. Shows an oval shaped washer 928 559 313 02.
Also grommets 999 702 160 40 & 999 702 202 50
Long shot but take a look at the 968 Pet illustration 810-005 - similar cladding to the 928. Shows an oval shaped washer 928 559 313 02.
Also grommets 999 702 160 40 & 999 702 202 50
Again, you are the best Roger...!!!!!
Those washers definitely look like the correct ones! What sort of strikes me is that they have a "928....." parts number but don't show up in the relevant 928 PET.....
I'll order some and check if they match the ones that came of my sill cover.
Unfortunately the grommets from the 968 PET are not the grommets that go in to the top of the sill cover. Hopefully Marti can provide his source, otherwise I hope an alternative shows up somewhere.....
So to remove that , its a matter of those screws and releasing the adhesive tape?
Hi Tony,
Basically yes, although PET shows a screw at the back inside the wheel well (810-05 nr 21) but if I read PET correctly it only applies to the very early S4 cars (up to VIN 40080 for the Euro cars; my VIN ends with 40715 and my car doesn't have that screw).
Be careful with those screws on the top of the sill cover: they tend to be stuck and I had to drill one out (check the photo in the middle):
The Arrow on the left photo above is showing the remains of the cover strip which didn't survive the operation…..
Sorry for the combination-photo: I took it out of the write up I made on removing my side trim.
I can't imagine how anyone would get the 25+ year old plastic upper trim strip (928 559 289/290 05) out of the channel in the sill without tearing it. I treat them as (expensive) disposables.
Here's a shot of all the sill hardware from one side of an '89:
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