What did you do to/with your 996 today?

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by Dr_Strangelove » Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:26 pm

Magical how we are all on the same oil change calendar now, since we've moved in as a family. It's great, just like sorority sisters living all in the same house getting on the same cycle.
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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 32wildbilly » Wed Aug 18, 2021 2:49 pm

I wouldn't know about sorority girls as I was a GDI and a hippy. They wouldn't look at me even if they got a new pair of Christian Louboutin Pumps out of doing so. That was ok because there were plenty of hippy chicks!
Dr_Strangelove (whew!) wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:26 pm Magical how we are all on the same oil change calendar now, since we've moved in as a family. It's great, just like sorority sisters living all in the same house getting on the same cycle.
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Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Aug 19, 2021 4:33 pm

I used my extensive troubleshooting skills (I added 5 gallons of gas; when the needle didn't move, I whacked the gauge cluster twice). As percussive maintenance had no discernible effect, it seems I have a bad fuel level sender. My car _is_ a C4, but I know it wasn't below half a tank when I parked it last Saturday morning...and the battery is healthy and hasn't been disconnected recently.

This won't prevent me from making one last, pathetic trip back to the gas station so I can fill it ALL the way up and be disappointed by the outcome.

Since the list of shit I need to fix is now even longer, I need to block out a weekend and get the ol' Fräulein spiffed up before the CA Festival of Speed in October...

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Aug 19, 2021 4:41 pm

Dr. S's soliloquy about coinciding menstruation is, I believe, the first such musing on the site.

So we've got that going for us.
Dr_Strangelove (whew!) wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:26 pm Magical how we are all on the same oil change calendar now, since we've moved in as a family. It's great, just like sorority sisters living all in the same house getting on the same cycle.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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Post by Dr_Strangelove » Thu Aug 19, 2021 6:45 pm

Waiiiiiit a second.
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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 5chn3ll » Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:39 pm

I drove mine to work - in spite of having no idea how much fuel is in the tank. But I'm edgy like that.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by gnat » Wed Aug 25, 2021 5:28 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:39 pm I drove mine to work - in spite of having no idea how much fuel is in the tank. But I'm edgy like that.
We'll regularly go for a year or more when the float gets stuck on hers. Seems like every time we get it reset it will get out of whack again a couple of months later (I paid for 13 gallons, I'm using 13 gallons!).

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:25 am

I started working on the updated list of deferred maintenance items...

* Replace driver window regulator
* Adjust passenger window regulator
* Replace ignition switch
* Reinstall AC duct (from last time I replaced ignition switch)
* Replace front fender liners
* Investigate oil drip (when parked for more than a week)
* Replace microswitch(es) in sunroof
* Repair headlight harness insulation (OMG fire hazard)
* Replace failing LED third brake light
* Repair/replace roof rack attachment point cover (front left)
* Resolve blend/mix/whatever door (blowing foam) issues
* Investigate non-functional cruise control
* Repair and recover center console
* Replace e-brake rear trim
* Replace mirror and cover assembly in pass-side sun visor (the cover fell off at a car show a few weeks ago)
* Pads and rotors
* Oil and filter


...

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 32wildbilly » Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:27 am

I thought you were in backwoods N.C.!?
5chn3ll wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:25 am I started working on the updated list of deferred maintenance items...

* Replace driver window regulator
* Adjust passenger window regulator
* Replace ignition switch
* Reinstall AC duct (from last time I replaced ignition switch)
* Replace front fender liners
* Investigate oil drip (when parked for more than a week)
* Replace microswitch(es) in sunroof
* Repair headlight harness insulation (OMG fire hazard)
* Replace failing LED third brake light
* Repair/replace roof rack attachment point cover (front left)
* Resolve blend/mix/whatever door (blowing foam) issues
* Investigate non-functional cruise control
* Repair and recover center console
* Replace e-brake rear trim
* Replace mirror and cover assembly in pass-side sun visor (the cover fell off at a car show a few weeks ago)
* Pads and rotors
* Oil and filter


...
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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:52 am

We leave Saturday AM...

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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