autobonrun

For those that have upgraded the suspension (shocks and springs), I'm interested in what you did with your old suspension if you removed it early on?

I'm interested in knowing is there a market for original suspension components on these cars or not. On my 993, the old Monroe OEM shocks went straight to the scrap yard when I put my M030 kit on. Those things were shot in 5 years.

It seems the OEM suspensions on the TT's is pretty good, albeit 10+ years old. In talking to Gert Carnewal, it appears my TTS came stock with Porsche's sport suspension. I'm considering buying the Euro version of the same suspension which will lower the car 10mm in the rear and 20mm in the front and still keep the car stock, although it would be with stock Euro parts. He also said the camber settings would be a little more aggressive.

My current suspension has 28k miles on it. Do you think it still has any useful life and could be sold, or should I just plan to scrap it?

CincyScott

I never scrap anything. I even keep old parts that I've replaced if they are more than wear items. (Water pumps, etc). Do they have a market? No, but it sure is comforting to the next owner when you can hand him the parts that came with it.

"02996ttx50

ya just never know. what once thought of as junk, might not be. i bought 996twinns old oem sway bar as i needed a quick replacement until my replacement gt3 bar showed up and he was a cpl miles away and it kept me on the road instead of just sitting and waiting for a sway bar. he made a 100 bucks, i now have an extra large paper weight. who knows maybe i can sell it forward lol

then there was the time i was going to try to give a guy who needed my old oem plenum but i mustve made a bong out of it because as i offered it to him, next day search as i did, i could no longer find it in my own pile of discarded parts.

my advice would be, if you have the space? never throw away working 996 turbo parts if you own one. ya just never know.

autobonrun

I had not thought about that aspect. That's probably the case for the OEM TTS parts. A new owner might want them.

However, Fred Sanford would not have accepted the 993 Monroe shocks.

Dock

I threw away all of the parts.

autobonrun

Guys I'm thinking hard about pulling the trigger on the suspension components now.

The euro OEM Porsche sport setup is 2095 euro.

I took a quick look at the conversion rate history:

2 years ago, the rate was 1.37 meaning the cost would have been $2793

1 year ago, the rate was 1.27 meaning the cost would have been $2590

The euro bottomed out at 1.06 but is now back up to 1.13 meaning the cost to me now would be $2304. This is still almost $500 less than two years ago and doesn't seem bad for an OEM porsche suspension.

Anyone know what a typical figure for hours to install a new suspension? I was told there's quite a bit of work to replace the rears.

"02996ttx50

its just a visual representation of the fact that the central bankers are taking down the euro prior to the utter collapse of the usd. so it momentarily favors those with dollars vis a vis the rate of exchange.

its a 4-6 hour job for which they'll want to charge you 6/7 hrs. if its a shop.

autobonrun

So if I take advantage of the momentary collapse of the euro in advance of the collapse of the dollar I'm really playing into the hands of the central bankers by being a pawn in their scheme? I'll take that role for $500.

"02996ttx50

you should! buy anything you can that is usd to euro now if you need/want it. we're all serfs. we have to become rapidly upwardly mobile to become pawns lol

autobonrun

CincyScott

Because I'm too lazy to look it up, is that shocks and springs?

autobonrun

Yes. Includes both shocks and springs.

edit with link:

http://www.carnewal.com/products/P96...or-P96TT-Coupe

cbracerx

I'd pay you something for the stock suspension. So that will offset your cost.

autobonrun

Thanks for the offer. If I move forward with this and also decide to sell rather than store the parts, you will be the first I PM.

sanyata

I sold my stock suspension for $400. It had around 8k miles on it. I actually had the parts boxed up and stored but saw a local WTB ad so took advantage of it.