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My experience with a 996 cab is limited to a test drive a few months ago.
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Can anyone with a little more experience of the 996 cab hardtop comment on whether squeaks and rattles are normal over uneven roads? Fine on good A / M roads but the normal quality of British B roads it is quite noticeable!
My experience with a 996 cab is limited to a test drive a few months ago.
Since it was a brand new demonstrator, I presume it is fairly representative and was on a reasonably well sorted car.
I noticed that it was definitely less stiff than the coupe and that there were more creaks from it, which is perhaps what you might expect.
I drove on dual carriageway and minor roads. On the smooth stuff it was not noticeable.
I don' t recall whether it had a soft top or hard top fitted, but based on this I am not surprised by what you say.
Rgds, Stuart.
Took my car into the local Porsche garage last week with the same problem and they seem confident that it can be fixed. I pick it up tomorrow afternoon so I will let you know!
Good News, picked the car up this morning and during the 10 miles or so to work, not a creak or sqeak to be heard. Porsche Chapelgate told me that when new everything is obviously tight but after things loosen up a bit then they start creaking. My car is 11 months old and has 3200 miles on the clock and when I took it in it sounded as if the hard top was so loose it was in danger of falling off!!
They told me that it should remain pretty tight for a long while[
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That was the good news, the bad was that a mouse had eaten away some of the linings causing water ingress into the driver' s footwell and consequently not covered under warranty![
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I have a Boxster and have just bought a second hand hardtop. I know that the Hardtop will need adjusting to fit my individual car.
On the boxster, there is a panel that can be removed to expose adjustment bolts. This panel is by the fastening handles either side. I will get this done after it' s been painted.
Wether or not it' s the same on a 996, I don' t know! [
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