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I bought a 1999 Boxster with 81k today. About 120 miles into my 200 mile return trip I noticed the temps were getting high and the light started blinking so I pulled over and put like 2 gallons of distilled water. I noticed a steady drip from center passenger side of the engine.

It ended up taking about 7 gallons of distilled water to finish the trip. I probably should have gotten a tow but it never actually ran very hot, just edged close to the third tick from the left.

I haven’t jacked it up yet but based on the location I’m guessing water pump. From my review of the service records it’s never been done.

I was planning on doing that and an air/oil separator asap anyway, I’m planning on driving the car on a 1700 mile round trip to the keys in a little over a month assuming it doesn’t scare me too much before then.

Anyway that’s my rambling story, questions are:

1. I’m going to do a thermostat

with the water pump,

1. anything else I should change while I’m in there?

2. ⁠I’ve basically flushed my coolant system completely. Any benefit to switching to the newer Porsche coolant formulation? I saw one for mid 2000s and older and one for newer cars at the parts store

Edit: tried to add 4 words to question 1 and managed to completely delete question 2. I think I fixed it now.

So today as I walked down towards my car, kept in a secure underground garage with key fob access only, I noticed from a distance my two front radiators were “shinier” than usual.

As I got closer I realised a lot of the fins were bent in the same direction, almost as if someone ran their fingers or a tool over them to bend them. I am 100% sure these weren’t like this on Sunday when I last used the car. These radiators are pretty new changed about 1.5 years ago when I bought the car. They did have some stone chips as usual, but not this.

Is this possible to happen on its own? I’m confused as to why someone would do this. As a grown man you’d need to be on your side on the floor to reach the spots at the top of the radiator and bend them like that.

I’m really annoyed as I was looking to sell the car soon, this seems like something I might need to replace or spend hours trying to bend these back.

I ran the car today and no issues keeping water temp at 90c, this was mostly motorway use.

I am waiting for the estate manager to release camera footage from the garage as my car is directly below camera. Still confused why someone would do this…

Any ideas as to how else this could have happened are welcome

After 3 years the new one in the video is torn so I am switching to powerflex one to see how it goes

My ‘98 boxster with 150k miles. I rebuilt a ‘97 boxster about 10 years ago and regretted trading it. Bought this one recently and it has miles, but was taken care of. It’s a good addition to the 996tt and speedster replica. It’s such a fun car to drive!

Manual of course, really love the seal grey color too.

As you can see the passenger side headlights blinker has turned yellow over the years. I've seen a couple of Boxsters with similar issues so I was wondering how people tried to fix that. Buying a new headlight is near impossible without paying a whole lot of money and used ones are usually in similar condition.

Has anyone tried my idea of using a transparent orange spray paint? Other ideas?

What the title says, I know that base and tiptronic make this the least desirable, but for a college student who has never had anything nicer than a ford ranger, I am tempted

It was too nice not to go driving, even with the gas prices. Topped off at Costco at $5.85/gal.

She deserves it

Finally got the car back after about 2.5 weeks.

There’s some bore scoring in cylinder #1 but once the plugs were removed and new ones installed the ticking went away. He thinks the plugs were removed at some point and incorrectly torqued.

Coolant system was pressurized and tested and there was a leak at the cap. That was replaced and coolant flushed and filled.

I get it and yesterday was a nice 80 degree day in the Midwest. Top down and I start driving back home taking the long way. I’m 10 minutes from home and this popped up. Argh!!!

I left the car in the Walmart parking lot and hitched a ride home. Came back 4 hours later and added about 1.5 liter of mixed coolant to get the float in the middle.

Hoping that’s it. Will try and drive it spirited again later after travel baseball.

So here’s what I had done .

1. Diagnose leaking coolant.
   2.Flush and fill new coolant
   3.replace shifter cables
   4.bore scoped engine
2. Replaced 6 new spark plugs

Total damage $3,400

EDIT!: I made a mistake.

The 91 Octane is Ethanol-free

The 93 Octane is 10 % Ethanol and it's the only place that has it in the area.

2005 Boxster.

Frostbite Falls, MN

Love the Spyder RS look but unfortunately that car is out of my budget. Looking to transform my 2022 Boxster GTS 4.0. Thoughts on the look?

Roof down and tunes playing... What song would you play in the moment?

Got my Boxster out of Storage a month ago, took it for a spirited drive and leaked coolant. Has been in the shop since.

Took it to a Indy shop that specializes in Porsches.

Getting new Numeric shifter cable installed, new coolant tank and fill, 6 new plugs and coils.

While driving it around he heard a ticking noise.

Please keep my Boxster in your prayers.