100K!!! Yipee!

[CJ_Boxster]

Congrats, welcome to the club! currently 108k.

[Wonko The Sane]

Noice!! Your car is finally getting mature I'm currently @ 96,500ish. I'm in the process of getting things tuned up for a good start to the next 100k.

Good occasion, too!

[unklekraker]

Congratumalations (from Waterboy's Col. Sanders looking teacher), Randall
You have reached another milestone...and they said Boxster won't last long! If you clayed it and polished enough, it will last forever

[Brucelee]

Congrats Randall and thanks for all the productive posts that you have made.
Best of luck for a smoother second 100K.

[Perfectlap]

after such a milestone how many non-maintenace repairs have you recorded?

I'm frankly amazed at how reliable after 30K miles of ownership my car has been.
just a clicker that has kicked the bucket, a new throttle body and a failed parking brake switch, I have a clicking that I can hear when I make slow turns but that's as short a list as I have had with any car.

[David N.]

Congrats RN. Noticed you've got S white-back dials and rings, did you do an instrument swap?

-David

[70Sixter]

Add my congratulations to everyone else's. I hope to see your 200k posting - maybe with the turbo or blower.

Also hope you are able to keep your '97 even after you buy a new Box. I can see it now: "For Sale - 97 Boxstser. Fine early example, fully sorted. One owner last 30 years. Many extras."

[RandallNeighbour]

Originally Posted by David N.

Congrats RN. Noticed you've got S white-back dials and rings, did you do an instrument swap?

-David

Yes and No. The process went like this:

A. I bought a new, unprogrammed cluster off eBay (just $275!) because my original one had a bad LCD segment. It is a 2.5 tiptronic cluster (notice the redline at 6500). I just took my right manual gauge face for the temp and fuel and stuck it over the lights for the tip gears and no one knows the difference. Since there's no electricity going to that part of the cluster, it doesn't light up anyway).

B. A year and a half later, I bought the silver TechArt gauge faces off eBay (just $71) and put those on. The bonehead employee of the speed shop in CA listed them to end at 3 am CST and no one sniped them but me, the early bird who set the alarm and woke up to buy them cheap.

C. The trim rings were a Christmas present from the wife two years ago, also bought off eBay for $105 (normal price... which is still too high for stupid aluminum trim rings if you ask me!)

...and that's why we now call your uncle "Aunt Mike."