What did you do to your 987 today?

Used a ceramic coating product on the cowl below the windshield wipers, which had faded to a light gray color. Used CERAKOTE® Ceramic Trim Coat Kit - Quick Plastic Trim Restorer. Quick and easy using pre-moistened applicators. It's supposed to last for 200 washes. We'll see.

For now, just did one coat as I was running out of sunlight.

Before and after pictures below.

alfaporsche said:

Used a ceramic coating product on the cowl below the windshield wipers, which had faded to a light gray color. Used CERAKOTE® Ceramic Trim Coat Kit - Quick Plastic Trim Restorer. Quick and easy using pre-moistened applicators. It's supposed to last for 200 washes. We'll see.

For now, just did one coat as I was running out of sunlight.

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I, quite a few months ago - used regular ceramic sealant on the same cowl section while I was doing the entire paint finish on the car, and the difference was dramatic, it basically looked new. Mine wasn't quite as faded as yours was though. It's held up since then fine, but I think for Christmas I received the same CERAKOTE trim coat kit, and tried it.

I thought the Cerakote coating is softer and thicker than the standard ceramic coating made for painted sections of the car. Good thing? Bad thing? Really no opinion. Being adventurous - I had just cleaned my wheels and decided to try using it on the rims. It took close to a day to fully harden (it was a bit cold when I used it, which isn't recommended), but when done, it left a nice looking clear coating on the rims that seems to shed brake dust much better than the old and probably etched factory paint on the rims. So far no peeling or other issues with it.

I do still have most of it left, so I intend to redo all the plastics in the frunk and the trunk, and perhaps the black plastic on the door sills (after trying to buff off as much of the scuffing as I can.) IMHO - it's a good addition to the fanatics finishing/detailing supplies, but as usual, try in an inconspicuous area before trying to treat a visible area, make sure it's doing what you want it to.

PNW987.1CaymanS said:

I had a slight washer fluid leak. It seems to have stopped for the time being. I will have to check for that same issue next time I have the front driver's wheel off the car. Hopefully it isn't too difficult to dig into the fender liner.

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The fender liner was not difficult to remove, 5 torx screws and 3 10mm plastic bolts. However, there are two fasteners that are hard to see/find. One is a torx screw under the rocker, just behind the wheel opening. It is very close to the jacking point, so it may be hidden depending on where your jack stand or lift pad has been placed. The other is a 10mm plastic nut that is in a recess up in the wheel well, at about an 11:00 o'clock position as you look at the well.

The liner is actually in two pieces, you only need to remove the rear piece. It covers about 2/3 of the well.

To remove the washer tank, there's a 13mm bolt up at the top. Then the tank is held by two large rubber grommets that press into steel flanges just ahead of the door opening. They are in there pretty tight, it took me a lot of wiggling and pulling to get them free. Then there are two electrical connectors: one in the middle of the tank for the level sensor, the other towards the bottom for the pump. The rubber feed tube is just a slip-on fit to the pump. Finally there's the fill tube at the top, which is again a press fit into a large cone-shaped rubber grommet in the tank.

As usual, installation is the reverse of removal. Pressing the tank's locating grommets into the steel flanges is a challenge, as they are very tight and the working room is minimal.

I had a washer tank leak and I hunted it for a few weeks. Turns out for me it was the motor itself. It looked perfectly fine from the outside. On the inside... it was not fine.