Posts posted by elfenix
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8 hours ago, pepper brooks said:
I comes deflated and collapsed so it will fit on the compartment. They give you a compressor that is powered off the car battery. Compressor fitting only fits the spare, and there is a bracket holding the tire in the bay that has no obvious way to unscrew it. There is a solid bracket that has no screw on top. I couldn’t figure out how the hell to operate it. Crazy. Looked on line and didn’t see anything for our year. Only the early models. I’m going to ask the dealer to show me how to use it next time I’m there. No way that shit needs to be that complicated.
i kinda thought so. more a reminder for people who don't have german engineering in the spare tire well
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1 hour ago, pepper brooks said:
Well after 15 years and probably 350k miles on porsche vehicles with no spare we had our first ever flat tire yesterday on the way to rosemary beach. We were a bit east of lake Charles. The cayenne turbo actually has a spare. However, my lord you’d need to have an advanced engineering degree from a German engineering college to work just getting the spare tire out of the vehicle, then hook up a compressor to the vehicle battery to fill the 50 mph donut. Luckily, I was 1/4 mile from an exit that had a truck stop. Made it there, and called a road side assistance. Guy showed up in 5 minutes and was able to plug the tire. Paid him, and hauled ass. Total delay was less than 30 minutes. I’m going to put a tire plug kit in the cars and a compressor that hooks into the internal power sources in the cars. Luckily it wasn’t a totally blow out, just a puncture. Pretty easy to deal with overall. Of course, that was because i didn’t actually have to change the tire and figure out the complexities of the equipment that came with the vehicle.
reminder to check the pressure in your spare every couple months
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Formula 1 2019
in Other Sports
"oh that's great news"
I dunno what to do about this race. Maybe no wings and floors. That'd be entertaining.