I love it when I'm lucky

[Pinepig]

Wife and I took a nice drive yesterday in the Boxster from the Sacramento area, hwy 16 to 49 then 88/89 into Lake Tahoe for some lunch and then 50 home. The coolant light starts flashing about 2 miles form home ( need coolant warning ), never got hot, topped it off. This morning I got in it to drive over to the shop ( about 2 1/2 miles ) to put some work in on my new 74 2002 and noticed the coolant never warmed up and it was leaking coolant when I arrived. Threw it on the lift and sure enough the water pump is done and slinging coolant.

Found parts local and had it done by 2pm, didn't get jack done on my 74 but hey I could have been loading the trailer up on the back of the Yukon to go get the damn Boxster today instead. Surprisingly changing the WP on a Boxster is a fairly easy job, I would have never guessed.

 

[PricklyPete]

I envy you.

 

[manimal]

So glad it was a water pump and not the intermediate shaft going on you. What year is your box?

I have a first gen that I absolutely love!

Any mods?

My fave is still the desnorkle mod since its free!!

BTW have you had to do a RMS or a lnengineering IMS retrofit?>

 

[KIAman]

Woo hoo for a local!

I live right off HWY 16. Did you happen to pass a small municipality called Rancho Murieta? That's my home.

My bimmer is already over the mileage for typical water pump failure point. I've already purchased the electric water pump ($500) and the thermostat ($100) and lower hoses ($60) but I don't think I need it considering the hottest part of the year has already passed and I've been beating my car up like nothing else and it doesn't complain one bit.

Preventative maintenance or wait till it breaks?

 

[Pinepig]

No mods on the Boxster, 2001, they are pretty good cars bone ass stock. If I want to blow the hair back harder I've got a T-bucket and my turboed 75 2002. The Boxster's job is to be a reliable appliance.

Went right by RM, I used to spend a lot of time at the airport there when my main time waster was flight instruction.

Depending on what BMW you have when the pump goes it will take the fan clutch and radiator with it so it's best to swap it out now before it costs you a bit more.

 

[PricklyPete]

Woo hoo for a local!

I live right off HWY 16. Did you happen to pass a small municipality called Rancho Murieta? That's my home.

My bimmer is already over the mileage for typical water pump failure point. I've already purchased the electric water pump ($500) and the thermostat ($100) and lower hoses ($60) but I don't think I need it considering the hottest part of the year has already passed and I've been beating my car up like nothing else and it doesn't complain one bit.

Preventative maintenance or wait till it breaks?

I waited till I had a coolant leak which ended up being the water pump...but decided to replace the whole cooling system (radiator, upper/lower hoses, thermostat, temp. sensor, water pump, and fan clutch). It wasn't all needed, but now I feel like I can forget about those components for the life of the car (I'm at 84K now).

 

[manimal]

No mods on the Boxster, 2001, they are pretty good cars bone ass stock. If I want to blow the hair back harder I've got a T-bucket and my turboed 75 2002. The Boxster's job is to be a reliable appliance.

Went right by RM, I used to spend a lot of time at the airport there when my main time waster was flight instruction.

Depending on what BMW you have when the pump goes it will take the fan clutch and radiator with it so it's best to swap it out now before it costs you a bit more.

The mods on my boxster right now have cost me a grand total of 20 or 30 dollars. The Desnorkle is just removal of a sound abatement device thats jammed into the air intake to restrict growl which was deemed too loud by the Swedish government IIRC.


The painted calipers cost me 20 minutes and a bit of elbow grease to sand down the calipers.

Cool thing about the snorkle is its removal makes the intake sound like a real porsche and opens up throttle response and a few BHP and Torque while your at it.

free power isnt too bad is it?

I do agree that the boxster is just fine bone stock as well!