Porsche 924 Scheiße - ein Rätsel ist gelöst!

[N Dentressangle]

22 minutes ago, captain_cal said:

Bit late now but I have a good one of these in my front room for some reason, £20 if you want it.

Ta - I'll see if it leaks / breaks and let you know!

[N Dentressangle]

6 hours ago, Asimo said:

The very earliest 924s had the rear torsion bar tube/subframe assembly mounted solidly to the body.  The road noise heard inside the car was severely criticised and the rubber isolation mount modification was hurriedly introduced. I can't see it getting an MOT with these suspension mounts missing. They do need to be there as they transfer the torsion spring torque to the body.

Given the lead time on the ones from Design911 is October, plus they're over £100 for the pair has given me thoughts. A chap on the 924 FB page actually made his own:

I reckon I could do that.

[tooSavvy]

Ooh.... Some *SparklyStick action required 😁

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[N Dentressangle]

7 minutes ago, tooSavvy said:

Ooh.... Some *SparklyStick action required 😁

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Too right, when this is the alternative 😨

[tooSavvy]

17 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

Too right, when this is the alternative 😨

Would the rubber be, sort of.... Boat rubbing bumper or those stop blocks, on the back of lorries 🤔

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[jim89]

2 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

Given the lead time on the ones from Design911 is October, plus they're over £100 for the pair has given me thoughts. A chap on the 924 FB page actually made his own:

I reckon I could do that.

Is that wot he made or wot he had to copy of?

[N Dentressangle]

I think the one on the right is the one he made. The rubber bit on the left is what remains of the original.

Obvs mine won't look anything like as nice 🤣

[inconsistant]

4 hours ago, garethj said:

I’m sure you know this, but run a jump lead from the battery to the earth points on the inner wing and see if anything works better.

Agree with the earlier post about ignition problems can look a lot like fuel problems, on mine there was a problem with the ignition coil that I could never entirely solve, where the correct part number for the car didn’t work but some Lucas coil did.

A really nice car to drive; feels old enough to be not modern, but easy enough so traveling isn’t an ordeal.  I did 75 miles a day in mine and it was very engaging.

I also had to swap out the fuel tank which meant dropping the transaxle so you might as well change the clutch… Barclaycard’s profits were up that year, and only me and the garage knew why.

Happy days

[N Dentressangle]

Can't really beat pop-up headlights, can you? 😎

[Pauly.22]

I had a pasedena yellow 924 about 6 years ago. 
 

never got it on the road, wiring had been  messed with and sold it a classic VW garage  

yours looks great. Wish pop up headlights were still a thing on new cars. 

[Alusilber]

VW/Porsche have a nice logical part numbering scheme which gives you a clue as to the origin of the part.

Anything starting with 477 was designed specifically for the 924

931 for 924 Turbo parts

937 for 924 Carrera parts

Anything else starting with a 9 was probably borrowed from another Porsche model

Anything starting 171 is a Golf Mk1 part (or 191 for Golf Mk2 parts)

Anything else starting with a 1 will probably be from a VW aircooled model

Anything starting with 0 is generic VW fasteners etc.

 

 

[N Dentressangle]

8 hours ago, Alusilber said:

VW/Porsche have a nice logical part numbering scheme which gives you a clue as to the origin of the part.

Anything starting with 477 was designed specifically for the 924

931 for 924 Turbo parts

937 for 924 Carrera parts

Anything else starting with a 9 was probably borrowed from another Porsche model

Anything starting 171 is a Golf Mk1 part (or 191 for Golf Mk2 parts)

Anything else starting with a 1 will probably be from a VW aircooled model

Anything starting with 0 is generic VW fasteners etc.

 

 

That's immensely helpful - thank you.

[N Dentressangle]

Progress today:

• Fitted the new battery clamp that arrived. Who knows where the old one went? Why do so many cars I buy have lost battery clamps FFS?
• Changed the air filter for a new Bosch one. Old one was grotty and didn't fit properly.
• Changed this manky ignition switch for a new Febi Bilstein one:

It was cheap because it fits loads of other VW stuff. The old one needed a wiggle to keep the car running after it was started, so definitely been an ignition switch for too long.

Tomorrow might bring a handbrake cable, and should deffo bring a decent used radiator. Baby steps...

[N Dentressangle]

On 24/08/2025 at 11:46, N Dentressangle said:

Ta - I've joined the owners' club, so will see what advice and discounts can be had.

On another note, it seems the guide tubes I need are a bit weird. It looks like they bolt on, rather than just being a slide-in tube. Here is what my backplate looks like:

and here's the backplate of another car someone's breaking in the US, showing the guide tube bolted in using the bolt you can see below the handbrake cable in my pic above:

Mystery solved - the missing parts are Beetle Handbrake Cable Support Brackets, p/n 113-609-637+638, available for a tenner the pair on Ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186330864381

Result!!!

[tooSavvy]

😮... Seems they're on Tyneside ^ ^ ^ , 'from Newcastle' 👍

GuddGudd

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[N Dentressangle]

2 minutes ago, tooSavvy said:

😮... Seems they're on Tyneside ^ ^ ^ , 'from Newcastle' 👍

GuddGudd

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they'll be reet canny, then

[tooSavvy]

56 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

they'll be reet canny, then

 

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[auntiemaryscanary]

 

8 hours ago, N Dentressangle said:

Mystery solved - the missing parts are Beetle Handbrake Cable Support Brackets, p/n 113-609-637+638, available for a tenner the pair on Ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186330864381

Result!!!

I can't recall who it was up thread that gave the cross reference codes, well the start codes, but they must've saved you a fortune on parts or at the very least given leads on alternative sources.