The Boxster "Affair"

[Dgnarvs]

I hope your wife has now ridden in the car by now? It's a shame she's being too harsh on something you enjoy so much.

I'm lucky my wife was the one who really encouraged me to buy the car. She wasn't so thrilled when the repair bills came in though. Still, every time she rides on it and receives the look of appreciation from onlookers (on the car not my wife...I hope), she kinda understands.

She won't be driving it ever though...and that's probably a good thing for the both of them!

[Wulf190]

Originally Posted by Dgnarvs

I hope your wife has now ridden in the car by now? It's a shame she's being too harsh on something you enjoy so much.

I'm lucky my wife was the one who really encouraged me to buy the car. She wasn't so thrilled when the repair bills came in though. Still, every time she rides on it and receives the look of appreciation from onlookers (on the car not my wife...I hope), she kinda understands.

She won't be driving it ever though...and that's probably a good thing for the both of them!

The ride: No, Still holding out...but I have made strides at dispelling the notion of repair costs by snagging parts online and doing my own work, which so far is saving me hundreds of dollars on more than one occasion. I see that they like to be maintained, so no problem doing it as I enjoy the work as long as I am not doing something like pulling the engine or trans or something that is impossible in my driveway.

I dont ask if she wants to get in and she doesn't ask to...so I just get in myself..it's a drivers car anyway, so fine by me.

Replacing my own ignition coil tomorrow which hopefully cures a cylinder 3 misfire cel code. Will ride the scooter to work instead

Spent a couple hours polishing an aluminum trim ring on one of the front rims where the clear coat is missing. Refinishing this myself too. It already looks 100% better and I am only done with most of the surface prep part of the job. Also restored the surface of the center caps which look a ton better. And de-greased the bottom of the oil pan area and variocam which looked like it hadn't been done in a long time.

[Wulf190]

Yanked the #3 ignition coil and found that it looked like many others I looked at online, all cracked and trashed. Put a new one in it and after a minute or so of 'figuring itself out again' the engine once again runs like a sewing machine. Most excellent.

To clear the code out of the OBC, I hooked up the Durametric tool to it for the first time. Very cool accessory to have I must say. It doused the CEL, cleared the misfire codes and while I was at it, I killed off the Airbag light from passenger seat relay fault....Nice. I knew that thing would come in handy. Too bad I accidentally switched my speedo/odo to Kilometers..oops. Just a reason to use the tool again I think.