Back in a Porsche!!! - Page 2

masraum · 08-18-2014, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Hugh R

You need to change your sig to "Prissy red interior boxster!"

I was going to quote your other post and respond with "says the guy that sold the coolest James Bond car ever!"

livi · 08-18-2014, 09:38 PM

Congrats! That is truly a Lovely car!

javadog · 08-19-2014, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by masraum

The sound, oh my, the sound. When cruising at a steady speed, it's very quiet inside, but if you roll into the throttle a bit, the sound is quite glorious and that's without the sport exhaust enabled. With the sport option enabled, spectacular, especially with the windows down.

FWIW, you can push the sport button, then push the PASM button. That first puts it into sport mode, then changes the suspension from hard to soft. Net result, the exhaust is in sport mode and the suspension is not. Be advised that the throttle response changes in sport mode. If you give it a bootfull in sport mode on a twisty road after getting used to driving it in normal mode, you can get a surprise...

JR

Shaun @ Tru6 · 08-19-2014, 04:58 AM

Special car Steve, have fun with it!

weseeeee · weseeeee's Garage

Very nice! It's also my favorite color!

masraum · 08-19-2014, 09:14 AM

The guy that sold me the car (well, the guy that took care of the paperwork, I pretty much sold myself the car), seemed to be a pretty major car guy. He had been doing accounting/finance work at the dealer, but got into the sales side so he could be closer to the cars. He has/had a mini, and also has an old Chevelle with 4 wheel disk brakes, fuel injected motor, etc....

Anyway, as we were leaving and the paperwork was done, he got very excited and said "I've got to show you this car over here. I didn't snap a pic, but it was the new targa. I thought it was pretty cool, how they have a canvas targa top and even the targa bar with the full size, old style targa back window.

scottmandue · 08-19-2014, 10:17 AM

Oh sure it is nice but it is no Miata!

Super nice Boxster, congratulations color me jealous!

And dang, that new targa... dang.. if anyone needs me I will be off buying lotto tickets!

DanielDudley · 08-19-2014, 02:55 PM

Nicely done !

masraum · 08-19-2014, 06:23 PM

We drove the car a bit today. The leak appears to be coming from the front where I would expect the AC condensation to leak from, but I believe there may be some drainage from the windshield area up there too. The missus said some water dropped onto her foot from the footwell near the "transmission tunnel" which is usually where the AC stuff sits. Unfortunately, I can't be sure because we also went through a little rain early on in the drive.

onewhippedpuppy · 08-19-2014, 07:21 PM

If you pop the frunk there are panels just forward of the windshield wipers, remove them and you'll find the battery, A/C stuff, etc. There are drains in that area that can get plugged by leaves and cause water to drip into the interior. If it drips with the A/C running, I would strongly suspect that the evaporator drain hose has come loose from the evaporator, but I'm not 100% sure where that hose connects on the 987.

masraum · 08-19-2014, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

If you pop the frunk there are panels just forward of the windshield wipers, remove them and you'll find the battery, A/C stuff, etc. There are drains in that area that can get plugged by leaves and cause water to drip into the interior. If it drips with the A/C running, I would strongly suspect that the evaporator drain hose has come loose from the evaporator, but I'm not 100% sure where that hose connects on the 987.

I did some searching and found the info with the two drains on either side of the battery. I did see a couple of small leaves, but neither seems clogged. I didn't try pouring water down either one, so I can't say for sure. I had also read that the AC drain was around there somewhere too, but didn't see it. I'll let the dealer figure it out. We drove it today and had some water again. Unfortunately, we had a little rain AND had the AC on, so I can't say which was the cause. I'll be driving the car to work this week, so hopefully, there will be no rain so if there is more water, then I'll know for sure that it is the AC. If there is no water, then it may be due to rain.