Anyone notice that if a bug hits your mirror at just the right speed with the window down you get splattered with bug juice and bug parts. If I'd wanted to be that close to nature I'd have bought a cabriolet!

 

My GT3 gathers more bugs then any other car I have owned. Maybe it could be the plus 100mph speeds, but hay!

 

You're not driving fast enough. Those Michigan bugs can be pretty huge, though. The June Bugs are my favorite. <g>

John, how's the GT3? I drove a 996 GT3 and fell in love with it... I'm sure that the 997 is just Heaven.

-don

 

Speaking of mirrirs, my driver's side mirror is making a whistling sound at speeds over 60 mph, anyone know what causes this?

 

It's hard to explain the large smile on my face every time I drive this car! It's very gooooooooooooooooooood!

 

This was a relatively common problem on the early 997 cars. There are some threads on the topic. In this case, your dealer may be your best bet to fix this one.

 

"You're not driving fast enough. Those Michigan bugs can be pretty huge, though. The June Bugs are my favorite"

I'm still in my break in period, staying under 4500rpm (mostly). So maybe the bug problem with go away? Atleast the bug guts in my face.

 

We have gone ahead and contracted for localized bug abatement vehicles to drive ahead of our cars so as to erradicate the problem before it even gets to the car.

Porsche has made some inroads into minimizing the impact of bugs upon the side windows after impacting the mirrors. It's far better than it used to be.

Whistling mirrors are not uncommon with the 997s but can be and should be correctly. A test car I took out in 2005 had that problem and I was fearful that mine would suffer from the same thing. Never a problem. It has to do with sealing the two halves of the mirror correctly.

For the pilots out there, consider revising your "bug speed."

 

Thanks, I was not aware this was a common problem.

 

Yepper. The dealer will fix under warrantee. Good thing, too, bc the mirror housing ***'y is $1,800 from Porsche...

The split line on the mirror housing causes the whistle. If you cover it with some blue lo tack painter's masking tape the noise will go away - but it looks like Hell. :-) If you do try this as an experiment, make sure you wrap the tape thru the mirror supports, bc it appears that the main noise comes from that area (between the mirror supports).

The split line is at the bottom of the housing.

If that doesn't fix, the really early 997s had a TSB for a whistle coming from the windshield coping.

Regardless, you should be able to enjoy your car with the windows down.

 

Thanks Don, great info!

 

there was an ad for the Porsche turbo several years ago that read "kills bug fast"

 

For even more fun, wait until you get splattered by a 4 inch Kansas grasshopper.

 

I must have hit a giant bug the other day, fortunately my window was up, but there was a 5-6 inch "splash" on the window. Close call, normally drive with the windows down...

 

Had a really big bug get sucked into the car thru an open window. Made friends with him(possibly a her)! He/she/it drove for the next hundred miles.