PETA violations against my 930

[PorscheGAL]

Not that PETA! The PETA I'm referring to is my own group of People for the Ethical Treatment of Automobiles. This weekend while updating the suspension I found 2 violations.

First, someone put the front driver caliber on without the spacers. Seen below is what was missing.





Second, someone enlarged the bolt openings in the passenger side outer spring plate cover. I guess they did that to make it easier to align the bolts with the openings. This was an unnecessary; it isn't that hard.

Why do people do a halfa$$ job when they work on cars?

Also, if anyone has 2 extra spacers, I'll take them.

[WERK I]

"Why do people do a halfa$$ job when they work on cars?"

Easy. Because there are idiots out there that have no business putting a wrench in their hands.
Maybe the "technician" thought this would be the cheap way out in creating floating calipers!

Fortunately the spacer is not unobtainium. Our host sells them for $5.25 ea. "OEM-93035155301"

[einsteiger]

It would be fun to find a way to shame previous owners and/or mechanics that do things like this. I have a hunch it would be a very long thread.

Steph: I'm going to look at an 86 Targa with 80K miles - how's your's been as far as reliability, etc?

[PorscheGAL]

My Targa has been great. The only times I have gotten stranded was 1. a DME and 2. I didn't connect a ground wire well enough on a new radio. It would cut out when I would break and then start back up again. It has almost 170,000 miles on it. I do think I am getting close to needing an engine rebuild.

Of course a rebuild will also give me the time to fix another PETA violation: Someone has crushed the hard oil lines on both sides with a badly placed lift.

[einsteiger]

Thanks. I'll look for oil line damage when the guy does the PPI.