RE: Breaking the glass on your fog lamps. This happened to me once (I think it was probably a stone), then I found out about a fairly thick, clear plastic material made by 3M that you can cut to size and adhere to the glass. No problems ever since. On 10/10/06, joel walker <jwalker17@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > Porsche must be insane, then. > > My '82 911SC has factory foglights \below/ the bumper.......... > > you have to remember two things about Porsche cars ... > > 1. they are designed with very little compromise in the engineering. > better means better, so do it. like that. if fog lights work better > UNDER the bumper, then put the fog lights there. > notice your 1982 model has NO drink holders. ;) i don't think porsche > even considered drink holders until the Boxster came out. > > 2. Porsche owners are EXPECTED to perform certain maintenance > procedures at a regular interval or whenever necessary. like changing > the oil, rotating the tires, replacing the broken fog lights ... ;) > and it is also expected that if you can afford a Porsche, you can > afford the cost of such maintenance procedures ... and fog lights. :) > > and i really am being serious. :) > > and then there's ... > > 3. Vanagons ain't Porsches. as much as we'd like to think they are, > they ain't. :( > related, maybe. distant "tater-patch kin". but you'd never hear a > Porsche owner admit it in public. ;) > > unca joel >
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