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Unfortunately no, they were also installed by the previous owner.
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Pulled the wood from the door and rear speaker covers and replaced with leather.
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Center console tape storage replaced with storage cubbie
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Get some 0000 steel wool and clean those exhaust tips!
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Why not just remove one of the wheels to inspect the backside for any markings or brand?
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here's mine
Yet another Arctic Silver '02
Mods have started slowly but surely:
Euro side markers
Becker Ipod cable
Center console tape storage replaced with storage cubbie
RUF pedals and Shift **** on the way
Exhaust and intake will be next
New wheels next summer, will need winter tires this year, and have some existing summer tread to burn off
Well, it's been two weeks and I've been busy with my new toy. Here she sits lowered with new rubber on 997tt wheels and clear marker lights. New radio goes in this weekend!
Removed all the poorly crafted wood grain in my '02 C4S, shipped them to classic9leathershop and see the results! Black leather with matching grey stitching. He even saved the original steering wheel and ebrake emblems. Pulled the wood from the door and rear speaker covers and replaced with leather. The only remaining wood is the shift ****. Add a iPad Mini and presto, the car looks brand new with 2013 electronic flare! If you need interior work, contact Bob Budd, he really does great work.
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Hi JB, thanks for the warm welcome. After have owning many cars and doing all sorts of modifications, I think this time I will leave this car alone and just enjoy it as it was meant to be :-) All stock ........ for now. As you probably noticed I said for now. Cheers
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Working on it. Considering all my Porsches are AWD. I have collected a couple posters. 2 Paris-Dakar 959 posters, a Cayenne/959 DNA poster, and a Pike peaks 996 Turbo poster. Need to frame them and pick where they should go.
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Here is what is the plan, need to get them framed.
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She's a beauty alright. Post up some more pics....
and, as many have noted on this and other forums, consider losing the orange lenses....
Enjoy and have fun, and watch out for smokies too....
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Actually they're multipiece wheels. The inside part that the tire surrounds, is metal, however the outer part where the spokes are is real carbon fiber.
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Unfortunately no, they were also installed by the previous owner. We've tried to figure out who made them since one of them is slightly damaged (just cosmestically, caused by a tire blowout on the way back from a car event), and had no luck. If anybody knows, I would really appreciate it. I don't have pics of the back but I have seen it when we had the one off for the blowout. All we know is that they are at least several years old, and were told they cost quite a bit, somewhere between 10-14k (and the cost they said for the bodykit is pretty accurate so I am inclined to believe it)
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I guess I should've clarified that when I said they were CF look, that I meant the entire wheel wasn't made from 100% CF. I'm pretty sure your wheels are carbon fiber wrapped but the core is still alloy.
They didn't have full CF wheels several years ago and even today, real cf wheels do not come multi-piece.
Why not just remove one of the wheels to inspect the backside for any markings or brand?
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My fault, I misinterpreted you, I thought you were saying it wasn't real carbon fiber. You are correct, they are not all carbon fiber, just partly, I should have specified that originally. And when we had the wheels off we looked and didn't see any indication of the brand that made them on the back.
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Hi,
Good to see another south african 996 C4S!
Just get mine two weeks ago, from joburg, just moved it down to Cape Town last week... Roadworthy and new tires, lot of fun!
If any time want to share some though about our new toys, drop me a e mail :
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I ll get some sound modification soon, non PSE car, little light on sound... Power flow suggest to remove cats, other option would be to get from a French company a line called ultima recital, ...
Cheers
Alex
Wow, it's very nicely modified. Those seats are awesome. Can you post a few pics from the rear. I have been thinking about going to the Turbo spoiler but am wondering how it would look with the rear light strip reflector. Thanks and you have a great looking car.
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Too busy driving it...lol
Besides, clean exhaust tips is a dead giveaway your hiding something according to the Porsche "What to look for when buying a used P-Car" handbook.
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That's odd. Really? What does it imply that I'm hiding? I clean and polish my tips every time I was my car. They look brand new... I'm hiding nothing other dirt!
Figured it was time for a picture post. Added front spoiler. The original was beat up underneath when i took it off. Added Rottec seats, Lloyd floor mats with red stitching. Falling in love with the car all over again...
Dennis, nice new ride. Hope to catch you next Saturday at breakfast.
After 9 months of sorting out and setting right a history of neglect and some pretty shade-tree work, plus doing some work addressing chronic 996 issues preemptively, my 996 C4S has a fresh tempory tag and ready for licensing.
And while the 95 993 Cab is nice, it's no match for the C4S.
