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Originally Posted by 911boost
Bummer on the flat.
I use a hockey puck on my jack pad in the cup of the jack. It has worked for 20 plus years.
No experience on the jack pad adapters.
At least you can get your wheels off, on my 997 I do not have anything to apply the required torque.
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Hmm, fancy porsche stuff $40/ea, or hockey puck $13/for 4. LOL
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Originally Posted by JackDidley
Ive been wanting one of those low profile jacks forever but but the old Sears 2 1/2 ton jack just wont die. I used to use a hockey puck on my jack. Now I have something similar that goes up in the frame. They came with my car.
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If money was no object, I've seen one of these in person, and they are the best floor jack I've ever seen. They seem to be very well engineered. Pelican has them for $628 (I think the price has come down a bit).
https://www.pelicanparts.com/More_Info/TOL13HLQ.htm?pn=TOL-13HLQ&bc=c&SVSVSI=3239
Yes, those are the pads that I'm talking about. The Rennline are $40 each through PP, so that's a nice score that your car came with 4.
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Originally Posted by blucille
Porsche does offer a spare and tool kit, including jack for Boxster and Cayman models, but I'm not sure there's room to store the flattened wheel&tire that you take off, I suppose that varies from generation to generation and which model cayman/boxster you have. My GT4 tires are enormous.
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Yep. Years ago, there was a guy near Austin, TX that had a bunch of Porsches, and was selling spare parts. I was going to go get a spare and jack from him. I think he was going to charge $150. I never took the time to make the drive. I wish I had.
Porsche spare/jack kit for 987 for $1700 at a fairly well known FL based Porsche dealer that has good prices on parts online. I don't see the kit as available on PP.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
My 85 911 has a space saver spare, and a jack. If I have a flat in the rear, I have to take off the front tire to put on the rear, and put the space saver on the front. If I have any luggage like all my road trips, I have no idea where I could put my road used dirty, rear tire.
I carry a plug kit, compressor and tire slime. So far I have never needed to use any of it after 41 states and Canada in my 911.
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Yep, I've carried a plug kit for many years and have plugged a slew of tires. Over the years I've only ever had 1 plug that was an issue (super slow leak). My old '88 911 had a spare, jack, etc... The boxster has a compressor and Porsche style fix-a-flat stuff. But no jack or spare. Unfortunately, when the sidewall is cut, the plug kit is not helpful.
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Originally Posted by David
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Yep, that's what I was looking at at PP, except those are reasonably priced. I usually don't like the Chinese knock-off stuff, but in $28 for 4 vs $116 for 4 (or $228 for the powerflex
) is hard to argue with.