What did you do in/on/for your Porsche today?

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Not meant to be 'Spot the Difference' but caps now on the Cookies on one side...
Still looking for 2 caps like the picture.

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Great drive out today with PCGB to the Cotswold Gateway Hotel at Burford where I met some rally friendly people. It was a good outing and possible through beautiful countryside on near empty roads. What a joy it is to avoid queues of 35mph SUVs on 60mph roads.

Getting used to and loving the 718 with its almost motorbike overtaking ability.
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Got it frosty :) ......

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Decided to fix two things today.
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The wing/door panel gap on the driver's side of the old 911 was FAR too wide and it has been bugging me since I installed the wing, so resolved to close it by 2mm.
This would still leave a gap to the swage in the out sill rather than a touching fit with the risk of paint chipping.

Slackened all the bolts off, the head lamp bowl and the A pillar splash plate and put a Stanly knife through the terrible mastic as much as I could, and separated the wing from the inner wing about 8mm.
After that pain I stood back to see how the wing fit was expecting the panel gap to be much larger.

To my surprise, the gap had closed the 2mm I needed! Why that happened I'll never know, but the bolts were done up quickly.

Looks much better and the small filler strip at the windscreen scuttle is super tight now.

2
The car needed 2 centre caps for the 'new' Cookie Cutters; got fed-up trying to find some used ones below £60 each so went searching the net.

Surprisingly, Porsche Shop had a pair at 1/2 the price of Design/Type 911, 20 minute drive later they were mine. Painted and on the car by tomorrow tea time.

A good day and worth while doing. :drunken:
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Gave thought to how much to ask for the Cayman...
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KS wrote:Gave thought to how much to ask for the Cayman...
Do I win the bet ... I’m sure I said you’d last about 6 months Image
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Reasons ?
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hot66 wrote:
KS wrote:Gave thought to how much to ask for the Cayman...
Do I win the bet ... I’m sure I said you’d last about 6 months Image
It's been a year - you lose. :lol:

Lightweight_911 wrote:.
Reasons ?
Idly considering the purchase of a car that I can actually put my own stamp on and which won't (hopefully) plummet in value so quickly... :wink:
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Bored with something that starts, runs, goes everywhere, has heating and creature comforts, super performance and handling, and Mrs KS likes as well …………………………………??????

:shock:

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jwhillracer wrote:Bored with something that starts, runs, goes everywhere, has heating and creature comforts, super performance and handling, and Mrs KS likes as well …………………………………??????

:shock:

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Tosh wrote:Eurobox for Mr Seume
Well, Euro something...just not very boxy and not very new. :drunken:
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KS wrote: Idly considering the purchase of a car that I can actually put my own stamp on and which won't (hopefully) plummet in value so quickly... :wink:
Ha, funny isn't it, our need "improve" our cars. After I sold the 930 Backdate last year I bought a 996.2 GT3, Its an amazing car and I love it, but it's low mileage so I can't use it as much as I'd like (3000 miles last year) and I certainly can't (won't) modify it. So what did I do...

Went out and bought another car that I can mess around with... (lucky enough to be in a position to keep the GT3 though).
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KS wrote:
jwhillracer wrote:Bored with something that starts, runs, goes everywhere, has heating and creature comforts, super performance and handling, and Mrs KS likes as well …………………………………??????

:shock:

JW
Perfection is overrated... ;)

Agree entirely - I was in a similar situation many years ago when I had a 924 Carrera GT - great looks, performance, comfort - even a fair degree of practicality & even economy (considering the performance) - but that was the problem ... it did everything too efficiently.

A bit like being in a high-speed inter-city train - you arrive without having made any conscious input or having any real sensation of speed.

Far more interesting (for me at least) to be driving something that requires a bit of effort/input.

Tick it off the list & enjoy the search for its replacement ... :wink:

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KS wrote:
jwhillracer wrote:Bored with something that starts, runs, goes everywhere, has heating and creature comforts, super performance and handling, and Mrs KS likes as well …………………………………??????

:shock:

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Perfection is overrated... ;)
Tosh wrote:Eurobox for Mr Seume
Well, Euro something...just not very boxy and not very new. :drunken:
Thought that was the reason for the Westfield? :roll:

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jwhillracer wrote: Thought that was the reason for the Westfield? :roll:

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I'd almost forgotten about that. :lol:

Anyway, back to Porsches... :bounce:
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