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dean lock · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 11 Location: sussex

strangely there is no link from the website home page for porsche. If you search for 'porsche 996 workshop manual' at
www.google.com
the top sponsored link takes you to the download page for the manual (its 600M big!). This worked for me last month.

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dean lock · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 11 Location: sussex

100% mate. There's no Porsches shown and where was the info about OBD2 (which is the American standard)

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dean lock · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 11 Location: sussex

Hi there,

maybe I knew too little about this to not try it and it worked. I Think I would only get generic odbII fault codes but there is software from the states that says they have reverse engineered the porsche fault and diagnosis codes (i'll save that for when I need it ). The odbII connector is actually only a rs232 port (only 3 wires used or somesuch? like you get on most computers) only it has to be 12 volts , not the normal 5 volts. The obdii protocol deals with how your laptop starts conversing with the car and then once the conversation starts its just bytes man going to and fro, each with a special meaning (like everything is lol). From the serial number of my car the control module is a RoW (rest of world) control module, not an OBDII one, but it does the obdII stuff?

Anyhow enough of this Im a happy bunny now my car is fixed, I was just trying to alert other owners to what is possible and what I think will be a common 996 component to fail i.e. the early version of the MAF. I also read that the O2 sensors in may car (bosch ones) have a life of about 100K miles. Cheers

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dean lock · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 11 Location: sussex

Thanks Daz,

My porsche history is quite boring actually, In 1998 I became stupidly rich by selling my company. I imported a boxter from germany that week to skip the 18 month waiting list and ordered the new 996 c2 cab. The boxter was a bit 'girlie' (huge apologies to male owners) so I only kept it for a year. My 996 arrived 3 months after order and I have never been tempted to change perfection. I love the power oversteer and direct feel of the steering. Purists would now say I should have a coupe, gt2 or turbo but my backgound is motorbikes and I have always liked open air motoring.

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dean lock · Newbie Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 11 Location: sussex

The broke bit is mainly due to the big D word and starting another Company. So yes it does have a happy ending. I'm working on the new Company so I can do it all again. Live the dream, carpe diem and all that. Another less enlightened person might be tempted to call his ex-wife a money grasping C (insert letter here) N T. but not me.

I hadn't even looked under the hood of my car for 7 years but the last bill was 3K to do the discs and the condensers of the a/c. My diminishing bank balance forced me to look at other ways of fixing problems with the car.

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