1) The Panna cupholder looks like the
Cayman
, but it is different.
2) The internal parts look even more the same, but the middle flap/door (the part I needed to move form one to the other once I found they are different) is also different and not swappable.
3) When you take it apart to try to swap the doors before you find out you the little springs will fly out.
4) On the Panna one the pivot bar is separate left to right so after learning you have to hold both springs on the side you are pulling out you get it right on the second side.
5) On the
Cayman
it is one bar so you have to hold each spring as you pull it out, which you will learn as soon as the first spring you are not holding goes flying.
6) The Panna springs are bigger and easier to find, and the
Cayman
springs are smaller and vanish into this air.
7) You can not use the extra Panna springs to put the
Cayman
back together.
8) When you do start trying to put it back together you will find that the little gears that make the slow opening work, are actually replaceable without disassembling the unit.
9) The seller on Ebay won't take back the disassembled Pana cup holder
Overall it was an educational day.
Anyone have a 987
Boxster/Cayman
cup holder in any condition as ling as the center door latch is working?
Experience teaches you things you'd often not want to know..
I've had those sort of days - the "why the heck did I start this job" sorta day.
I feel for you.
You've hit a very sore subject with me.
Porsche
cupholders.
You would think that in the 18 years since
Porsche
came out with this
stupid and totally useless cupholder
that comes out of the panel over the glovebox, that they in their great German engineering minds, would have redesigned this piece of crap. I guess they haven't because in their minds you should be
DRIVING, NOT DRINKING COFFEE
.
But crazy American that I am, do like to drink coffee while relatively driving slow and not on the racetrack doing DE or autocross.
I ordered the Rennline cupholder that mounts to the side of the center console. Haven't installed it yet as my detailer has had the car all week redoing the xpel film that some newbie did for the prior owner. He had the whole car done, not by the dealer but someone else. There were places where he rolled the film under the edge or removed the item, did the film and then replaced the part. Yet other areas like behind the mirrors and the in the door handles to it looks like a 6-year-old had done the film. Edges didn't even meet and dirt got into the area and made look terrible especially since it's a white.
Anyway, that's 2 things off my, "I want to scream or do harm to someone list". Thanks for reading, I needed that at 5am. I started on the computer at 2:30 am and I need coffee without a cupholder right now.
I took apart a directional indicator L/R switch from a Suzuki 125 @ age 11. Spring loaded; it went ping like a Don Martin satire drawing. I was wrenching even at that age, simple things anyhow oil changes, disc brakes. Even so, it took me the better part of three months to reassemble that correctly. I didn't want my dad to think me an idiot for taking it apart so I didn't ask for help.
Ha, sounds like me when I was about 13 and managed to let the pull start spring coil out of the lawn mower in a failed attempt to "fix" the the fact that is didn't pull the cord all the way back in when released. I struggled with that thing for days trying to get the Genie back in the bottle and functional before my Dad figured out I had made the mower useless.
Filed under: stuff you couldn't look up in the school encyclopedia, but the saying you learn from your mistakes is true. Now, even practiced, I will chart out maintenance far before it's going to take place. Review the procedures, layout the tools, like a surgeon. Like my dad's pal had in his shop: M.D. (motor doctor) fake college sheepskin.
The part about looking for a working flap is serious.
I am sure a few people replaced the cupholder for other reasons like it springing open to fast.
