Nip / Tuck - The Boxster saga - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Travis · 01-23-2007, 11:44 AM

Well I had been wanting to update the look of my Boxster for the last few months, so I had started off with buying some skirts (Zender) and the bumper diffuser.

About to send those off to the body shop to be painted, when wife bought me the Aero I kit for Xmas, so I put the zender's back on the self since I now have the big new box from Germany with new bumper, skirts and back lid with spoiler.

Take it all down to the body shop to get painted / installed, we inventory everything to make sure all is accounted for, yeap all checks out per packing slip and install instructions.

I leave with the Box since we took the time to pre-fit and did paint matching (OEM for my year had two shades of Artic Silver and neither really matched 100%)

They call me a few days later to bring the car on in and I take her on in and drop her off, was nervous till I seen a very sharp Lotus being worked on next to where they pulled mine to.

I am told the better part of the day to install, so I get the wife to pick me up and go home to wait . . . .. .

I get a call that afternoon to come on down that they are just finishing up and will be ready by the time I get there . . .

As my wife is driving me over I get a frantic call from the shop on my mobile

saying that they have an "Issue" and that I am going to have to look at it.... Oh no I think what the hell is going on...

I get there and a few people are all around my car looking and shaking their heads, and I walk up quickly looking at the car but see no damage and it looking pretty sharp, so I ask them what the issue is?

They ask me to give it a good looking over and again I stare and look over every inch of the car and still do not see any thing wrong, I mean paint matches perfect no gaps with the hood/bumper, tail and spoiler look great, skirts are . . . . . . . .

Damn!!!!

Skirts are two different versions!! drivers side is Aero I and passengers Aero II

And I was the one who opened the original box from Porsche and we did not catch it when we inventoried or did the pre-fit

So you guess it, back to the garage to get the Zender's

Now I wait again . . . .

djomlas · 01-23-2007, 11:51 AM

damn man, that sux, but i tink ull get a much better look with zender side, to spice it up a little (even though it has to be this way)

post pics when done please

Pharaoh Sphinx · 01-23-2007, 01:12 PM

Travis, get the 986->996 turbo facelift conversion, its probably the sexiest modifcation for your boxster

replaces the front fenders, headlights, and front bumper with parts from the 996 turbo, looks absolutely gorgeous in my opinion, and is supposedly very easy to install. you should really consider it if you want to make your boxster really stand out. Theres only a handful of boxsters with the modifcation, and almost all are in europe.

Travis · 01-23-2007, 01:23 PM

As I read your post all that I could hear is "Cha-Ching" and my wife's divorce attorney laughing

I really like the stock design of the 986, it just needs a little "nip & tuck".

I do like the way Jeph's turned out, but that would be out of my budget, for now just the Aero kit and later this week installing the litronics.

And of course when I burn off the rubber on my new tires I will be "forced" to upgrade to 18" wheels

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Originally Posted by Pharaoh Sphinx

Travis, get the 986->996 turbo facelift conversion, its probably the sexiest modifcation for your boxster

replaces the front fenders, headlights, and front bumper with parts from the 996 turbo, looks absolutely gorgeous in my opinion, and is supposedly very easy to install. you should really consider it if you want to make your boxster really stand out. Theres only a handful of boxsters with the modifcation, and almost all are in europe.

RandallNeighbour · 01-23-2007, 04:47 PM

Sorry to hear about the mismatched parts, bud! So you're going to have them put on the zenders and take off the Aero I and II skirts? Or, are you going to send the II back and get a I to match?

One thing everyone should know is that you should inspect all parts coming out of a Porsche box. I've had THREE wrong parts put in the right boxes now.

That's just sloppy distribution, ain't it?

01-23-2007, 04:54 PM

Isnt the zender skirt the same as the aerokit II? Or is that the wierd one that comes up by the door?

Travis · 01-23-2007, 05:31 PM

Randall - I had them remove both Aero skirts and paint / install the Zenders, that way I have both on hand to deal with Porsche if at all possible.

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Originally Posted by boggtown

Isnt the zender skirt the same as the aerokit II? Or is that the wierd one that comes up by the door?

I have attached the Aero I & II style skirts along with the Zender style.

The Aero II & Zender I think are quite close but not an exact match.

Aero I

Aero II

Zender

thomschoon · 01-23-2007, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

One thing everyone should know is that you should inspect all parts coming out of a Porsche box. I've had THREE wrong parts put in the right boxes now.

That's just sloppy distribution, ain't it?

I can second that, I just picked my car up from the body shop, they were suppose to replace the bumper with the Aero II, even went to the stealer to verify the part number before it got ordered, I get there and the car has the AeroI bumper on it. Not much I can do about it as they gave me the option to verify the parts before they painted but I was in Germany.