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Hi Guys......... Heads up........Headlight platform fixings Boxster or Cayman

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YOUR RESEARCHHi Guys......... Heads up........Headlight platform fixings Boxster or Cayman

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No there are no washers corroded in place, the original part looks really well made when it was first fitted to the car back in the day and tightens directly onto the metal of the body work inside the headlight housing, and then two hex bolts can be adjusted to fit the plastic headlight platform, with the new part I was puzzled really, the part is designed to slid into the slots in the body work so why make a new part that doesn't do that properly, that would mean the new parts would be free floating along the body slots it was designed to tighten on to......I actually thought I might have the fixings for another model of Porsche, but I checked the V Pages and its the correct part number....
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No there are no washers corroded in place, the original part looks really well made when it was first fitted to the car back in the day and tightens directly onto the metal of the body work inside the headlight housing, and then two hex bolts can be adjusted to fit the plastic headlight platform, with the new part I was puzzled really, the part is designed to slid into the slots in the body work so why make a new part that doesn't do that properly, that would mean the new parts would be free floating along the body slots it was designed to tighten on to......I actually thought I might have the fixings for another model of Porsche, but I checked the V Pages and its the correct part number....
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Hi Guys thought I would share this with you, I decided to re new the headlight platforms in my Boxster 987.1 I decided to purchase new fixings from Porsche, The Boxsters body metal is 1MM and the max I can screw the new fixings down to is 2mm, The older fixings can be tightened to the metal of the body see the pics, If I was to go ahead and just replace the fixings blindly the whole platform would rattle like a skeleton on a tin roof I will apply a washer to the new part hopefully that will cure the problem, however I shouldn't have to do that........ not good really UPDATE: yes a 20mm washer with a 10mm hole rectified the issue

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Nick, Why were you replacing them? They don't look like something that would wear out.. and - are you certain the original ones didn't have a washer that's corroded in place?

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Hi Don Nice to hear from you again No there are no washers corroded in place, the original part looks really well made when it was first fitted to the car back in the day and tightens directly onto the metal of the body work inside the headlight housing, and then two hex bolts can be adjusted to fit the plastic headlight platform, with the new part I was puzzled really, the part is designed to slid into the slots in the body work so why make a new part that doesn't do that properly, that would mean the new parts would be free floating along the body slots it was designed to tighten on to......I actually thought I might have the fixings for another model of Porsche, but I checked the V Pages and its the correct part number.......Perhaps it was the quality engineers day off and a whole batch got through Thanks guys for reading my posting I hope it helps someone somewhere

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