New Coolant Cap - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

blinkwatt · 09-07-2007, 04:51 PM

F.Y.I. there is a new coolant cap.

I ordered a updated coolant cap for my Pops 996. The package that it came had 996.106.447.01 listed on it,the part itself says 996.106.477.02 . Even the invoice that it came in says 996.106.447.01,weird. I will take pictures of the one ending in .01(from my Boxster) and the one ending in .02

List $18.32,Net $11.80 from Sunset.

williamsF1 · 09-08-2007, 07:42 AM

just updated mine aswell and it was a .02 !

I went from a .00 and updated just 'be on the safe side on that area' - i recently had a cracked compression tank.

Price was 18$ from a porsche dealer.

blinkwatt · 09-08-2007, 08:57 AM

Tool Pants · 09-08-2007, 12:30 PM

Can you post another picture of the package, and of the opposite side of both caps side-by-side.

blinkwatt · 09-08-2007, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tool Pants

Can you post another picture of the package, and of the opposite side of both caps side-by-side.

@ TP,

My Pops just got done driving the car 996 w/ the new cap and I get the damn thing off to get a side-by-side pic. I just took a pic of the cap and package it came in,like I said the invoice had the part no. ending in .01 as well. Let me know if you need more pics.

Tool Pants · 09-08-2007, 08:06 PM

Sure looks like Porsche has come out with yet another cap.

There has been talk about a black cap so about a month ago I had the parts guy pull one. What he gave me was the "usual" blue cap in a bag with the .01 part number on the bag. I did not think to look at the part number on the cap itself. He also ran it throught the computer and .01 was the current part number. I even looked at a new 997 in the showroom and it had a .01.

The more I think about it the black cap must be aftermarket.

The date on the plastic bag is June 15, 2007, for whatever that is worth. Visually I cannot see a difference between the .01 and .02 caps. There is a visual difference between the .00 and .01 caps.

It is a plot by Porsche to sell caps to pay for it's 31% share of VW because now everyone is going to want the .02 cap....

But then my January 1997 had a VW cap, with a VW part number on it, and with VW/Audi logos.