A favour please....... - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

SKOOSH1970 · 05-21-2014, 06:47 AM

.... I recently debadged the Boxster and ordered from the states, 3 white Porsche font numbers "986" in white for her rear........

Could somebody measure the distance from the boot ( trunk ) lid edge to the bottom of the "Boxster" emblem for me please so I can position my numbers...? I want to try and maintain the factory spacings if I can.

White numbers on black bodywork is gonna look pretty nice me thinks...

Thanks in advance.

Si.

PONYHERE · 05-21-2014, 07:51 AM

45 mm from bottom edge.

SKOOSH1970 · 05-21-2014, 11:29 AM

Cheers Pony.... that'll do nicely....

cardiffgiant · 05-22-2014, 08:38 AM

Where did you get them in white? I can only find them in black and I would like to get them in chrome.

amagalla · 05-22-2014, 03:34 PM

Hopefully this will help.

You can find it in this thread:

http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/38257-dimension-replacing-rear-deck-emblem.html

Tony

SKOOSH1970 · 05-22-2014, 10:50 PM

now that is how to reply to a question......topman....!!

SKOOSH1970 · 05-22-2014, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by cardiffgiant

Where did you get them in white? I can only find them in black and I would like to get them in chrome.

here ya go.....

Jager Engineering - Garage9

Si.

Ashmyster79 · 05-26-2014, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by SKOOSH1970

here ya go.....

Jager Engineering - Garage9

Si.

Cheers Skoosh. Just ordered me some white numbers for the boot also. Do you have any pics of yours fitted? How does it look?

Ashmyster79 · 05-26-2014, 05:39 AM

Silly me. I just see the date message was posted. Will take a while for delivery. Mine should arrive shortly after yours.

SKOOSH1970 · 05-26-2014, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Ashmyster79

Cheers Skoosh. Just ordered me some white numbers for the boot also. Do you have any pics of yours fitted? How does it look?

No problem.....fitted today and pics will be posted tomorrow..... looking good tho

SKOOSH1970 · 05-26-2014, 10:42 PM

Pretty pleased with the outcome, fitted free hand too

Ashmyster79 · 05-26-2014, 11:58 PM

Looks good mate. And free hand. I went with the S also which I hope looks as good. Free hand hey. You do know I am going to ask you for measurements ha so this will be a good test of your hand to eye

Where in the UK are you?

SKOOSH1970 · 05-27-2014, 01:11 AM

Cheers Pal, I worked on 50mm from the spoiler, and, if you look closely, you'll see a slight crease down the middle of the boot, you have to look closely though to see it.......... am based in Staffordshire.....Good luck.

danch · 05-27-2014, 01:30 AM

Looking good skoosh, cars coming along nicely

Ashmyster79 · 05-27-2014, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by SKOOSH1970

Cheers Pal, I worked on 50mm from the spoiler, and, if you look closely, you'll see a slight crease down the middle of the boot, you have to look closely though to see it.......... am based in Staffordshire.....Good luck.

There is probably a lot of creases in my boot ha. I will get it done and report back. Ordered yesterday so should not take too long to send.

SKOOSH1970 · 05-27-2014, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Ashmyster79

There is probably a lot of creases in my boot ha. I will get it done and report back. Ordered yesterday so should not take too long to send.

Mine took about a week from order to delivery.......Top service.

Ashmyster79 · 05-27-2014, 04:31 AM

Can't grumble with that. I ordered from the states and takes less time than if I ordered something off of eBay here in the UK

I will post some pics when I get them on. I wanted to go a bit different but pretty hard to do. I might mount the boxster slightly above the 986s and see how that looks. Will need a spray white though.

I was thinking to go modern with the font like on the newer shape Porsches. I'm committed now though so will stick semi original and see how it goes. White does look better on darker cars. My black on blue is not really for me.

Once I have the badge on I think I will respray the wheels same colour. I don't watch to go to OTT

I think I just enjoy tinkering

jb92563 · 05-27-2014, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by SKOOSH1970

Pretty pleased with the outcome, fitted free hand too

Oh oh... white numbers will totally disappear on a cloudy day.

Just look at the white cloud reflections.

You can only go driving on clear sunny days now

SKOOSH1970 · 05-27-2014, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jb92563

Oh oh... white numbers will totally disappear on a cloudy day.

Just look at the white cloud reflections.

You can only go driving on clear sunny days now

Aha.... Porsche's first ever stealth Boxster.........

Ashmyster79 · 06-07-2014, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by jb92563

Oh oh... white numbers will totally disappear on a cloudy day.

Just look at the white cloud reflections.

You can only go driving on clear sunny days now

That company has let me down. Said they have no white numbering for 5 weeks. Not a biggy as I had a change of plan. I think I will go with the modern Porsche badge on the back instead