box is at the dealership---

[Adam]

Originally Posted by DANMKII

Thanks for all the prompt replies.

I normally do all my installs/maint on my own (for my other cars at least). But seeing how I no longer have a warm garage to do the work, I just left the box with the dealership.

I always thought a smokey startup meant a bad ASO? And hopefully the sychros are fine

Definitely not a schedule service, just wanted to be proactive for the winter seeing how I rarely drive my boxster.

I purchased the spinlocks from suncoast after receiving advice from some board members, the DIY instructions looked pretty simple, but my lack of time and place to install it properly (warmly at least) left me with the dealership option.

Thanks again for the input! only a few more days!

Some smoke at start up is normal and not the AOS, if smoke is pouring out like a fog machine while driving that is indicitive of a faulty AOS. Slop in your shifter has nothing to do with worn synchros.