I assume this applies to the boxsters and 996's also. Anyway, it's my last day of vacation and I have been planning on doing this a while. Not really tech savvy or especially motivated so this will be several posts as I work though it.

This service should be done every 2 years or 20K miles.

First problem is getting the correct lubricants.


I could not find them in the US, so I'm improvising after a lot of research.

Osixo Anti squeak 557 is a fluorinated lubricant?
This is the closest thing I could find



The krytox GPL, I found this




And for the control optitemp, I found it was a lithium grease so I got this



Ok. That's the first post. Now off to try to follow the instructions on the manual

 

Thanks for posting this. Can you post pics of what locations to apply the grease to after you’re done?

 

Ok here goes



And on the car


More steps to come

 

And the conversation with my wife when she gets home and sees the top in the service position -



She asks - what are you doing
To which I reply - lubricating and maintaining the top
And she says - great, this is how we break things...

 

Ok next step




Which took me forever to find and they are small plastic pieces already with a layer of grease on them





I could never find number 3
I think I found the piece but it had no grease on it. The krytox gpl is a grease and the other stuff is a clear liquid, but I thought I could feel some grease on one of the bars and I could not, so I skipped that one.

One more step to come

 

Great stuff. Thanks for posting and keep it coming! I am going to need to do this at some point, so appreciate your post.

 

Last step



And these are easy to find
The krytox on these



And the white lithium on these



And done

 

dgjks6, thanks for posting this project. I'm going to order up the supplies and do this myself.

 

To OP, I was just about to start a thread on what "alternative" lubricants people were using to do the routine maintenance and stumbled on this thread. Very much appreciated!!!

Now to order the lube and get it off my to-do list.

 

Yes good info but yikes, i havent lubed anything on my top in 9 years! Have had no squeaking and the top works great but I guess i should tackle this at some point

Thanks

 

Thanks for this post! The only thing I would add is that #3 item is simply the rubber seal that goes all the way around. Lithium grease applied and wipe down with a rag after to prevent it from staining the top and surrounding metal

 

This is summary

 

This is great. Thanks.

I do get this rubbing like noise when I close my top, passenger side. Totally quiet on opening. I did lube the hinges, suspect it’s the spindle bearing. Is the service position just half way to opening or closing? Sorry for the newbie question. Thx again.

 

Very useful.
Thank you.
I have just noticed my cab top squeaking in the last 5k miles or so.

 

sir, thank you for posting this. Can you please advise what technical document you are referring to? Where did you access it? I would like to download it