Porsche: Clean those Rads!

[@ManinaGarage]

Are you Michael Bay now! Wow 🤩 nice work.!

[@scottyb4606]

Thanks for posting. I'm about to try this. I read on another channel that a string could be looped around those upper clips to pull them toward the center without prying. Gonna try that.

[@seanwalsh999]

I suffered an over heat and of course I then proceeded to clean the rads. I found the bottom row of the A/C condensers was rotted off of each one, I guess that explains why the A/C stopped working. I then proceed to clean the rads. There was a lot of crap, that would explain the over heat. Some of the crap was so hard it was like concrete, but after a through soaking I managed to clean it up. I saw a red light flashing and thought it was low on oil and proceeded to add two liters of oil as the red flashing light never went away. I was un able to figure out how to read the dip stick. After getting home and asking you tube what the flashing light was ,it told me that it is a low coolant light, I checked the coolant level and sure enough it was very low. So now I have to get two liters out of my oil sump and figure out were my coolant leak is, I was able to drive it home with out it over heating, but i was driving home slowly, maybe I have a loose hose clamp, leaking head gasket? I don't know, the engine compartment isn't the easiest thing to acsees especially with the hard top which is a two person job to remove, I am tempted to just store the car till the spring and work on it then, ah, first world problems.

[@a.c.e.7568]

It is unfortunate that Porsche stopped short in that respect. Sure there are all these aftermarket grills, but since I am ultra picky, I am never impressed by the installation of them. On my motorcycle, I made up some fiberglass screens to cover my rads. Bugs just wipe off and it has zero effect on engine temperatres based on the gauge. Porsche could have something similar.