Stijn!!

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by HHI944

That bolster doesn't look too bad in the pic, hopefully it looks the same in person. Other than that, looks really nice!

its odd to see wrinkled leather there, almost looks like somebody sat on the bolster instead of in the seat.. you couldn't expect it on a 50K miles car(no matter the 19 years ag)

But I guess tall dutchies have more problem sliding in with a high bolster

[svandamme]

some say I have dark humor..

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by svandamme

its odd to see wrinkled leather there, almost looks like somebody sat on the bolster instead of in the seat.. you couldn't expect it on a 50K miles car(no matter the 19 years ag)

But I guess tall dutchies have more problem sliding in with a high bolster

Low cars and tall/big drivers definitely lead to bolster wear. I was 6’ and 250-260 when I had the lotus and that bolster showed it.

[GH85Carrera]

I got my 911 back from the paint magic place. Most all of the rock chips have vanished, some of the worst are certainly better, but not perfect.

Anyway the guy that own the place had to drive my 911 from the front to the garage in back. His is easily 6'4' and he pulsed the seat to the back of the rails. I am 6 foot tall, and I could not push the clutch in, and I could hardly touch the throttle. Easy to slide the seat forward.

[svandamme]

another atlas grey car drops off with sagging headliner.
There is no way i'm going to go buy a car for 35 grand with the roof stapled up.




Why do people think they can sell a car for such money, and just not fix that properly, before selling.

They are wasting everybodies time and even more of their own time.

I'm not going to buy it like that, cause I don't feel like buying a project, Its not something I can fix myself, I don't have the patience for it.. And Its already been stapled.. I'm not going to improve on that.

[GH85Carrera]

The good news is there are lots of other cars out there.

It just amazes me that a Porsche owner would just ignore maintenance and cosmetics on an expensive car. My 911 is 41 years old and looks and runs fantastic.

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The good news is there are lots of other cars out there.

It just amazes me that a Porsche owner would just ignore maintenance and cosmetics on an expensive car. My 911 is 41 years old and looks and runs fantastic.

That is absolutely ridiculous for a $35k car. Heck, if I was trying to sell the Prius and it had a sagging headliner, I'd get it fixed first.....and it's worth half that on a good day.

[GH85Carrera]

Since I have not bought a used car since 1995, I am far from an expert.

One of my friends was ready to sell his pickup. He wanted it to look right, and have all controls working. He fixed all the little issues that had made him want to sell it, then detailed it. He stood back admired the pickup, and decided to heck with selling it, it works perfect and looks great.

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Since I have not bought a used car since 1995, I am far from an expert.

One of my friends was ready to sell his pickup. He wanted it to look right, and have all controls working. He fixed all the little issues that had made him want to sell it, then detailed it. He stood back admired the pickup, and decided to heck with selling it, it works perfect and looks great.

I've got an uncle who did the same thing with a tractor. It sat around for a few years with a handful of minor problems, he decided to fix a few things up before selling, next thing we knew he had it in the fields bailing hay.

[svandamme]

2007 987.1 Atlas Grey Metallic
seller instantly send me scan of the options sticker, I was surprised to finally have a seller know what I asked for

Called him up, he says mint car from 2nd owner who is old and moves to portugal
headliner is indeed buggered but we ordered new headliner and just got the parts in today.. It will be fixed by Wednesday.
engine? no ticks , runs like a champ

Cool, I will come Wednesday 13h.. if it looks like the pics, interior is clean like in the pics and engine runs like you say and you guys fixed that headliner professionally, you'll have a deal.









Its a Belgian car, so no import, I could be driving by next week
Low options, PCM, thats about it.
The Wheels on it are Cayman S2 18 inch
It was sold on Cayman S1 18 inch wheels.

But I do like em (though I like S1 wheels as well and might get em to be original)

Only thing kinda missing is the cruise control and the ASK or BOSE speakers

But I won't skip a mint looking car with only 66000 km over that.
Cruise control Retrofit is not a big hassle anyway , just need Durametric or Piwis to code it.

and most ASK amps are getting long in the teeth anyway.. lack of MOST fiber optics makes it easier to put in a more modern head unit.

It has a curbed 211 engine, for taxes.. which is easy enough to chip up to stock 245 or a bit more 255
That curbed engine means the po wasn't a hooligan , not tracking it, but its possible he already chipped it.. I kinda doubt it from what I heard (older man).
I'll notice right away if it's 211 (flat spot at 5500 rpm) or 245 (pulls to 7300)



As for footy
I reckon USA 3-0 Belgium

Belgians will have a couple of early optimistic runs, but miss the goal or fizzle out
US will have countered with 1-0 at half time, maybe 2-0.

Then the Belgians, as usuall will fold, lack of team cohesion will start to show, the big egos will start to look defeated and blame the lack of passes to the strikers.. it will all start looking stagnant and defensive, no Belgians attacking and the coherant USA Team mentality will start getting more and more shots on goal till eventually knocking in a 3rd

[GH85Carrera]

Back in 2024 I did the two day Porsche driving experience at Barber Motorsports. Driving their brand new 911 GTS, Cayman GTS, 911 Turbo S, and a Tycan Turbo S on track. We got to drive a Boxter GTS on an autocross course.

Anyway, obviously the Turbo S was insane fast. I expected to see the Star Wars type of stars moving past as they jump into hyperspace. Wow is all I can say. Mostly we drove the 911 GTS but we had two 20 minute sessions on the track in the Cayman GTS. The handling was phenomenal. It just needs the 911 engine lever of power. All of the cars were insane fast compared to my antique 85 911 with a whopping 200 HP at the rear tires.

I did drive my car on track at a HPDE, and I was the rolling roadblock and saw a lot of blue flags. I had more fun on track in my antique, 100% manual no computers driving the car. The 911 GTS was just amazing with the PDK just shifting at the perfect point in milliseconds. Come into a corner hard on the brakes, and the PDK downshifts three gears, and I could feel the rear traction control correcting my over exuberance.

I still had more fun driving my antique 911 on the track.

[svandamme]

Lab people called me at Oh Dark Thirty.
I pick up the phone say hello
They go
CONTACT MEMORY DUMP

Zero provision for the fact they just called somebody out of bed, they work the night, assume everybody they call will just be awake.

Luckily I do function in 0.5 seconds after it rings whilst I sleep
Bare functionality perhaps, but still it works
Hello
listen to rambling
Has anybody else tried it?
there is nobody around she says (Iheard voices on the background)

I hear other people
aah yes, those are nurses, they can't in the soft either(there you go)

I'll start up and ring you back in 10 after my initial dig in the problem

[svandamme]

Server not responsive
can't login to it in windows either

This ain't my server, the company who supports it doesn't take night support calls
And our own Lab IT guy obviously is on vacation since this morning.. so can't reach him either.

Alanis Morissette would say , Isn't it Ironic

NOO Alanis, you silly cow, it isn't.. its "Typical"

But since Hospital lab does work at night for dialisys and ER
I kinda winged it and went ahead with a remote server restart command
Lab got a half shutdown, didn't respond, powercycled the vmware.
Server came up
the console is still not happy bout taking admin orders
but the clients can login again

Suspect something locked on the Database somewhere
and now a session table registers something from the console pre restart and needs to time out before I can access the admin console..
Or somebody has to kill a Db lock from the previous console

But since it works for the end users, I'll leave it as is, for the morning shift
oh wait, that's me as well since everybody is on vacation or sick or on training or useless

But at least in the morning the lab soft company can be called and yelled at

But since I'm awake, I guess i'll just watch the footy now...

[GH85Carrera]

Many moons ago, a buddy went on vacation and he asked me to take his pager and respond to problems on his server. That pager was beeping constantly, and most were unrelated to what I was supposed to do. I never had a pager myself, and after that experience, I never want one.

I was 99% just a babysitter for his setup.