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So pleased to hear that you are happy! Are you doing the NER Spring Rally?
Thanks John! Happy to get your seal of approval. I dont think i'll make the spring event but look forward to the summer/fall happenings. I'm sure we'll meet up at some point this year.
Found these Herringbone insert sport seats in Latvia on EBay. Removal/Install pretty straight forward. Gained a Porsche Crest in Headrest...Lost seat heat I never use. Calling it a win...
Found these Herringbone insert sport seats in Latvia on EBay. Removal/Install pretty straight forward. Gained a Porsche Crest in Headrest...Lost seat heat I never use. Calling it a win...
Wow, those look great. I understand how the backs come off but how did you swap out the bottoms? Or did you get entire seats?
Thanks. I bought the seats complete. Apparently a small custom shop overseas did the work on the donor seats that cam out of an ‘09 Cab. I saved the stock Alcantara seats and they will stay “minty” while I enjoy the Herringbone. I prefer the classic look and the white on my Carrara white exterior makes the interior pop versus the stock seats. I had priced picking up a used set of 997 sport seats and having work done and just the material was $1400 quoted so I did really well. The outside leather is more black than my gray/black Alcantara seat color. They present as new with a couple of minor scuffs on the hard shell. I am never back there so
I had no idea there was a fix for this - is the above exactly what I should ask for?
The dealership suggests that a power drop to the PCM can result in the loss of your VIN-spcific MMI Enabling Codes. The codes are important to the system's ability to communicate within itself. I have my doubts that it's that simple. But, I'm playing the game so that when their "fix" does not work, I can challenge the bill.
If the issue that you're having has to do with your clock maintaining time, this is what I can tell you. Originally, the cars delivered with navigation benefitted from regular and routine hands-off clock updates. Otherwise, the clocks simply lose time. The way it needs to work is for the chain of data coming from the GPS constellation to be parsed into the correct areas of the PCM. Part of the data received is the time standard. Other elements appear to be parsing correctly--the right Lat Long is getting put into the unit, as well as elevation data. Time is an important element in navigation. For some reason, the time data appears to be disconnected from the PCM and as a result, the car's digital clock is not going to stay on the correct time. When the GPS signal is received, the car should be keeping time within 3-5 seconds of WWV, provided that the data is getting distributed or parsed to the correct part of the PCM that processes it and translates it to the car's clock. Back when I ordered the car in the first place, fellow Rennlisters were reporting that the clocks, unaided, were performing badly. This is an area in which Porsche has gone backwards. The clocks from the late 70s and the 80s were incredibly accurate devices. In fact, I have a repurposed VPO clock on my nightstand that delivers perfect time, all the time. When Porsche moved to the 996 cockpit layout, they simply ran out of gauge space and elected to reduce the clock to a mere digital readout--a bad move. From the days of the 996, the clocks have been inferior. When they tied it to the GPS/Naivgational system, ideally, that would have been enough. The specs on the clock were probably relaxed as the clocks only had to maintain a certain amount of time 'smoothing' between GPS parsed updates. But once the GPS data is cut off from the clocks, the clocks become useless. This is an example of things NOT improving at Porsche.
Aluminum trimmed dead pedal. Not happy Porsche didn’t supply the car with it as standard, as they do starting with the 991, but glad I put it in cause it looks matched with the rest of the pedals now...
Finally got around to installing my LN 2 qt deep sump kit along with an oil change. Also swapped coilpacks and spark plugs while I was in there.
On another note, I didn't find anything in the pan either after dropping it. Zero traces of metal, plastic, or anything else thankfully. Good sign of health for my motor which just turned 161k miles! Here to hoping it make it until next year when I plan to do a motor build.
04-05-2021, 07:46 PM
