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928 performed admirably over almost 1100 miles of driving in Ireland. However, not long into the trip, I had a coolant light come on one morning when I started the car. It was pissing down with rain so couldn't tell if anything was leaking. Topped it off and carried on. This became a regular feature ...

Came across a set of improved injectors for the bargain price of £164. Ordered and they'll be here Friday. I'll try and carve out some time when I get back to get them fitted. Should hopefully take a couple of hours.

I'm off to Ireland on Saturday with TIPEC for 6 days. Ferry from Holyhead to Dublin, then across to Galway, Galway to Dingle, Dingle to Kinsale, Kinsale to Leixlip, then back to Dublin.

TIPEC road trips are always awesome. We've done Germany 2023, Germany/Switzerland 2024 and Scottish Highlands ...

928 is running a little warmer now the fans aren't running continuously. It seems to have coincided with return of the mysterious hot start issue I had. It will almost catch but never start unless I plant the throttle to the floor. My money's on either a leaky injector or a duff fuel pressure ...

It's like the situation has now been reversed thanks to the leaps Ukraine has made in drone tech. The longer the war goes on, the more it favours Ukraine. Ukraine's killing Russian men and materiel faster than it can be replaced. The more it hits targets inside Russia, the more the Russian general ...

I remember going to one and ended up crashing in Trany's (whatever happened to him?) hotel room. Beany's "big crisps", the awesome chicken chat starter, fun times.

Comb flap actuator for the HVAC has a vacuum leak which meant the flap kept rising up then falling as it gained and lost vacuum, making a repetitive banging noise as it did so . As replacement requires removal of the centre console, I've applied a temporary fix which involved disconnecting it from ...

I've been banging on about Mr Inbetween for ages to a couple of mates and they've both finally watched it and said how great is was. I'd be suspicious of anyone that didn't like it, tbh!

Never seen the show but he looks like Doug, my Patterdale mix.

RIP Ted.

A couple of Porsche-centric ones Oop North :-

RennTag Wheels Up North - https://www.wheelsupnorthrenntag.co.uk/

Yorkshire Porsche Festival - August 9th at Lotherton Hall (no online details yet, but last year's event was brilliant)

A more general one -

Oulton Park Supercar Pageant - https://www ...

66 is no age. RIP.

Matty wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 1:11 pm
It's fine anyway, only 2.5 years more to go

It's the mid-terms in November. If the Democrats take control of the Senate and the House, he'll be pretty much neutered - not to mention the incredible meltdown he'll have will be a joy to behold!

That body is fibreglass, right? So presumably they could have designed a new body that didn't look like it was designed by a 5 year old.

Helped eldest miket swap over the thermostat on his car on Sunday morning. Whilst ordering the replacement part, I allowed myself to drift back to the good old days when this was an absolute doddle of a job > two or three bolts, swappy swappy thermostat (and possibly a gasket) replace bolts, cup ...

In the continuing subwoofer saga, sent back the underseat one as it just didn't work and bought a more recommended one. Test wired it up and it works a treat, so that's progress. However it's too tall to fit under the passenger seat (928 seats are VERY low - about 70mm of clearance), however bouyed ...

Put some diesel in the Skoda yesterday - £1.79 per litre. It was £1.70 at the weekend. At this rate, it's going to be cheaper to daily the 928.

Sub update. Decided to buy an all in one underseat sub. Wired it up, turned everything on and nothing. No output from the sub whatsoever. Sub is turning on but no sound from the unit (regular speakers are fine). I then wondered if the Bremen's sub-out was not working so tried using the amp out ...

Strangely, the best and usually cheapest place to buy genuinely Porsche parts is your local OPC, especially if you ask for "club discount". Most stuff for the 928 is special order from Germany but it generally only takes 3-5 days. Rose Passion in France have most things too but their insistence on ...

So after a lot of fucking about, I've failed to get the sub working. The head unit is outputting a signal, but the amp doesn't seem to want to drive the sub. I suspect the amp might be duff. Fired an email off to the supplier to see what they have to say.

Noticed the fans were coming on as soon as ...

Yeah, I tried to convince myself of that too, but things like two week turnarounds on ECU repairs, older fuel injection systems, etc make me nervous.

That and now, a 944 might feel like a slower, less practical Z4C.

I'll probably still keep looking at them though :lol:


Mike at JDS Porsche ...