With the inspection out of the way, time to turn my intention to improving things I don't fully like yet. One of the bigger ones is the feel of the brakes. First question is whether this is expected behavior for these 986 cars or whether it is my specific car having an issue.
The thing I don't like is that the pedal continues to move down when increasing brake effort. So going from light to hard braking means my foot goes down more. What I would like is to have a rock solid brake pedal. Once starting to brake the pedal shouldn't move down noticeably when increasing brake effort.
I have driven a fair amount of different cars, old and new and found that it differs car by car. New toyota cars having a fairly spongy pedal, older BMWs having a solid pedal etc. So as for the first question, what is the Boxster supposed to be like?
Little detail is that I have the 'S' brakes on my base model. But also the base brakes were feeling the same to me. All out brake power is fine, I can decelerate quickly.
Thanks for any input pointing me to either fixing my car or improving
P.S. I have talked to a few 996 owners and a common thing seems to be to change brake pads to aftermarket brands to improve brake feel. For me that is a bit of an odd thing, because although I understand the physics and see how that can improve the braking, I'd like to think that OEM pads should at least feel ok.