Chris King wrote:
> You're probably right. I saw the Boxter Tuesday at the New York Auto
> show. It had a lid on both the front and the rear of the car, and
> neither accessed the engine. I wonder how you check the oil?
Assuming it's not in the owners manual you take it to a dealership and
pay their exhobitant prices or get reamed for the factory service
manual. I seem to have heard that Porsche in particular got fed up with
sophomoric mechanical neophites attempting to do their own work and
making the cars worse at Porsche's expense.
> P.S. I've been following the drivers side lean discussion with
> considerable interest. Spridgets suffer the same malady, even though the
> chassis and suspension are completely different (monocoque, with
> semi-elliptic springs and a solid live axle).
Early RX-7's also have this 'problem' which is usually solved by
replacing the springs with ones that aren't 20+ years old. The matter
is aggrevated by Mazda's design of putting more weight on the left side
of the car. This is fine in a RHD world but here in the US they prefer
to have the steering wheel on the left. FWIW, I learned how to drive on
the 'wrong' side of the road when my dad was stationed in Japan in the
80's. When the Celica became FWD I was in Japan. Right then I vowed
never to own one. A friend of mine had a 1979 RX-7 that began the
addiction. :)
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Tim Schuh
Network Primate
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