OK, I yield to a much more diverse experience. With only two vehicles I that work on my breadth of repair is narrow.

The Elky compressors are fairly cheap and they come with a new clutch and coil. The 911 has had just the one AC clutch.

I have one old dead compressor in my attic that I keep as my master reference. Getting the compressor "clocked" properly is always a challenge. There are several compressors that are real close but the pulley sticks out too far. I learned that the hard way. I have a second dead compressor that has the wrong pulley. I had been buying new compressors and just keeping the old ones. Next time I will take the correct one in to be sure they have the proper one, and my wrong one as the core for a rebuilt one. Then I will have two correct cores!

I have spare cores for the starter and the water pump as well. The stuff one collects after owning a car for 25 years and over 300,000 miles of home maintenance. Oh yea, I have a second alternator in perfect condition ready to bolt on. I bet I have gone through a dozen alternators. They are a 20 minute swap.

I've been lucky with no A/C issues except for a DD that had a leak somewhere. I just added R34 to it every month or so.

I changed the oil in truck today. A little over 4000 miles but 6 months old. I changed the van's erl last weekend. Except for the truck needing struts, we are good to go for a while.

Ive got a roast in the slow cooker for supper. Watching 'Stand by Me" on tv right now.

I knw, rough life..;)

Did you spend less than $800 to fix your A/C?

If you did I got you beat!

Just got back. Took the new Cayenne Turbo by the shop to have it checked over, $813. And that was just to fix the brakes and get the cornering lights working. Brake pedal was soft, needed new brake booster vacuum line. That was most of the cost. It is a funky line that snakes around thru the fender and takes 2 hours to get to and replace.

The cornering lights didn't work. Ended up replacing one headlight, both cornering light bulbs and every freaking bulb in the car except for the other headlight bulb.. Someone had put in LED lights that weren't loaded correctly and were giving all kinds of faults and working only sporadically.

More to come.
The check engine light was the O2 sensor that the seller had provided a new one but they wanted to install at a different date so they could do it with the engine and exhaust cooled.

Hatch shocks and hatch window shocks, labor is about $400, At least the shocks were provided by seller.

Now the really good news. They expect to have the 928 done a week from Friday!

No A/C troubles here........wait what is A/C?

Which Friday, December 30th or before? :p

Glad you are getting the Turbo fixed up. So when do you give up the old pepper wagon? That is likely why he is finally getting the 928 done, he wants the S.

When I swap the loans and have a clear title to sign over.

Waiting for the new remote keys and the title on the Turbo to get all that mess started.

Want to keep the S around just in case the turbo craters and it takes a couple of years to fix like the 928.

Didn't really expect them to do anything on the turbo today. But somehow they seemed to think brakes and working signal and brake lights were pretty important.

And your $800 in their pocket.

They did have 3 guys working on it from 9am to 2pm tracing down all the error codes. The exterior lights intermittenly working and the throwing error codes was weird until they started finding the cheap LED bulbs. And those xenon headlamp bulbs are EXPENSIVE.

The best part...2 blocks of leaving the shop in the hottest part of the day the A/C had cooled it down. With the 4 zone AC and two condensors it cools down much faster than the S.

Cool!

Hey fellas!

Good Thursday mornin'!

Crappy, rainy day here today. Glad I got all 3 yards mowed on Tuesday. They will probably need it again this weekend. The grass is growing like crazy now that it got a drink.

They keep promising us rain and technically it does rain but one hundredth one day an just under a 10th a few days later don't help a lot. Better than zero.

Good morning all.

morning all. went home at noon yesterday and slept all night, stupid migraine.

Glad your turbo Pepper came. Should be like your other after a red bull. If you push the pedal to the floor, you should get pushed back in the seat a bit. The brakes should be a lot better too.

Seems like you cold make a lot of little clear stickers to put on your steering wheel buttons that kind of money. The are worn off on my old 4Runner and I don't even notice...since I know what each does after 22 years.

Rain? What is that?

Steering wheel buttons?

Both of my cars just have a single function button. It makes the horn loud.

Richard, just as a off chance fix....

Contact Dallas Steering Wheel (469) 449-7973. He replaced the leather on my 911 steering wheel and it looks perfect. That is a LONG way from your steering wheel. He might well have a fix for your wheel. He may just laugh and say no way.

Tiny little stencil...and a tiny little paint brush or a white sharpie/marker. Is it the white symbols or the brown buttons?

Check this out:
http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/cayenne-955-957/243470-05-cayenne-steering-wheel-touch-up-pics.html

Maybe this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef4gbuvAkzg

Superior Restoration Products

The problem with the touch up paint is mine is much more damaged than the couple of spots the guy fixes with touchup.

The vinyl button cover things from Superior Restoration only come in black and don't have any overlays for Porsches.

The guy I found searching for steering wheel button repair is in Dallas, but the shop is called Fibrenew and does leather and plastic repair. Says he does the intricate work to cut an overlay for the text and symbols on each button. Sands the scratchs to minimize them. Puts on a primer to accept the dye (not paint) to match the interior color. Dyes the buttons the peels off the overlays to expose the white text/symbols and clear coats the entire button to keep them from scratching in the future. Says the process takes him about 3 hours except for drying of the primer, dye, and clear coat mainly because of the intricate work cutting the overlays for the text/symbols. Says a lot of other car brands he can get overlays already made.

Mechanic told me there is a local guy that fixes these, but uses water based paint and ends up scratching again very easily.