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Thanks for the advice Jon, left the outer ones well alone! Having trouble with the passenger side top shock bolt. Nut is off but it's wedged. Hopefully can remove it tomorrow and get on. Can't wait ,even though it's only the back end to start I am hoping it will feel better.

Amazed at what your offer in your warranty. Once we have purchased a house I might come 911 shopping with you! Now how can I persuade girl I need the 944, defender and a 911!?

Imagine you bought a car and it needed a clutch within three months, you would feel seriously unlucky or even may suspect you were ripped off and the vendor knew, especially when the vendor is a Porsche specialist.. We can't have that when someone has bought a car from us.

Much better that they come away from the purchase feeling we were honest and bent over backwards, not great for our margins, but who knows, he could recommend us to someone who becomes a customer over the course of many years, or on the other hand, if he felt stitched up, he could dedicate the rest of his life to telling the world we are cowboys.

Last year I sold two of my S2's and one of my 968's. I asked a good price for all of them, and got a good price for all of them, and of those three cars only this one has needed anything, so, hey ho, it all comes out in the wash.

Besides, I remember and miss every car I ever owned, I want to give every one of them the best chance I can that I might see them again in 20 years!

I replaced and adjusted my tailgate lock pins today. I now have a very nicely sealed tailgate, hopefully meaning no more exhaust gas creeping in...

Dropped a spanner on the rear wing of the 944. D'oh! No dent but its taken a bit of paint off. It's a good job it will be going for a full respray however that's another bit that needs prep.

Well I am very impressed with what you offer, I have purchased one car in the last few years from a dealership and for a garage that sold itself as a luxury performance car place and the service was rubbish, the car had issues and they bogged them and made them worse. Fixed the car myself after three months and got shot of it.

So what is it about the 944 over other porkers that you like so much?

All solid salesmanship Jon. When I sell reconditioned computers, I don't have a warranty as such, but I will do what I can to repair it for free if it develops a fault not long after I've sold it. Fortunately, probably like you, I have a great amount of confidence in my work, such that faults rarely occur after sale.

Took the S2 up to Glasgow to see my son and his Lux. More bits dropped off. 2 bolts securing fan cowl missing and no securing clips for the small bore hose that runs along the top. Coolant leak from stubby little hose near bleed elbow. Charging volts dropped to 11 then spontaneously righted itself back up to 13. Passenger door lock stuck cured with WD40. Small stuff but irritating, otherwise car ran like a dream.

Hoovered it it out, and after pull the front mat out discovering oil on it. Having looked the pedals, the clutch master is leaking!

Oh joy, maybe ive bought a pup

Yesterday, I picked up new fixings for my sill covers from the OPC, then got my brother to put them back on



Drove through cow poop on the way and he made me clean it off before he'd do it though, Some people. Tsk

I love all Porsche. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Over the last 25 years I have worked on every model of Porsche, from high power high tech (sometimes) 917's, GT1's, 959's, GT2's through all the other models down to 356's at the low tech/low power end of the scale. Was factory trained on 944's and the tail end of 924's, 911 3.2 Carreras, 3.3 Turbo's and 928's, have worked on every model since and find myself today solving faults in 991's and Panameras that the main dealers can't solve.

But since I have been back in the UK from the middle east since 2002 I managed to get get a name for 944's because no one else seemed to fully understand them, to the point that about 10 years ago I had more 944's in my workshop at any one time than any other Porsche... Today though, you are more likely to see 996, 997, Boxster or Cayenne's at the workshop, but I find there is more people with problems with 944's online than any other model, so you will often find me helping you guys out, so on the surface it may seem like I am just a 944 boffin, but in reality I am just as at home with any Porsche model.

On a personal level, a black 944 lux was the first car I was trained on and I watched every step of that car being built, so deep down, I smile whenever I see a 944 and that may be why I own far too many of them. So in the future, I will eventually get down to just owning one or two, but in the meantime I keep having problems resisting the odd one which turns up.

What would I say is great about 944's? A great deal, good weight distribution, excellent design, over engineered in so many ways, very safe in a crash and the potential to out perform a super car, what more could you ask for?

Its nice at last to see their values rising and hopefully a time where they will be truly respected.

Changed my scuttle panel cover today, my broken old tatty one had been annoying me for 4 years since I bought the car but was never the most pressing concern!

Got myself 4 new brake disks too at a bargain price. May fit them tomorrow see if I can finally get rid of a wee brake shudder I have over 60mph that gets worse the hotter the disks get. Fingers crossed cos I've no idea what else it could be. I was blaming a rear wheel bearing for a while but got it done and the problem never went away! Rear calipers are fairly new and fronts been refurbed and all mating faces cleaned up. Rear disks are about 4 years old now and fronts about 2 and look quite rough.

Stuart

Refreshed & painted my engine bay - quite satisfying

Ordered some nuts and bolts from Porsche, and a fly wheel locking tool to keep. 900 082 059 02 for the rear suspension to body mount is no longer available - any one know a source?!

Dropped my 944 at the bodyshop today for the sills to be replaced & a full glass out respray, I'll be going back early next week to take some pictures of the horrors that'll likely be hiding beneath!

Yours looks better than mine even before the respray!