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996 Turbo intermediate shaft.

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YOUR RESEARCH996 Turbo intermediate shaft.

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intermediat shaft!"£$%^&*() oh dear

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After a week or so and lots of investigating Paul at Northways discovered it was the intermediat shaft!"£$%^&*() Oh dear.
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996 Turbo intermediate shaft.

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Install rad, the service and a new battery

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Ray carried out all the work, fitted a new rad, the service and a new battery.
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Leading evidence: 'intermediat shaft!"£$%^&*() oh dear' (1 discussions report identifying this cause; no attributable repair resolution). Across 1 matching discussions, the most frequently mentioned possible cause is 'intermediat shaft!"£$%^&*() oh dear' (1 discussions; 1 report identifying it and 0 suggest it). The most frequently discussed action is 'Install rad, the service and a new battery' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.

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Install rad, the service and a new battery

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Ray carried out all the work, fitted a new rad, the service and a new battery.
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996 Turbo intermediate shaft.

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Install rad, the service and a new battery

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster
Ray carried out all the work, fitted a new rad, the service and a new battery.
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996 Turbo intermediate shaft.

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intermediat shaft!"£$%^&*() oh dear

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Reported cause · Original poster
After a week or so and lots of investigating Paul at Northways discovered it was the intermediat shaft!"£$%^&*() Oh dear.
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996 Turbo intermediate shaft.

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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

In june i finally found a great 996 turbo At Ray Northway near reading, under 50k miles, FPSH, midnight blue, metropol leather 04 model, Tubi exhaust and 100cell cats and best of all able to negotiate on cost, and a 12 month warrante... The car and sound was awsome, however had a vibrating/rattle from a heat shield. Cheched the ones i could get to.............noise still present. Whilst at R16 concours at castle coombe (3rd in class and 3rd overall) a freind said the rattle was really bad. Spoke to Ray and he said bring her back. Initial thoughts was heat shield or even ehaust baffle. After a week or so and lots of investigating Paul at Northways discovered it was the intermediat shaft!"£$%^&*() Oh dear. engine out stripped down and rebuilt, whilst it was out a full service was also carried out. People say garages are a rip off, NOT SO. Ray carried out all the work, fitted a new rad, the service and a new battery. The car had done less than 1k miles since i bought it......10k plus was the damage.....My bill £500, now if that is not customer service then i don't know what is. The car is now how it should be and now the exhaust really is awsome. I could not recommend Ray Northway enough, outstanding service.[8D][8D][8D]

POST 2Original post

Brilliant to hear good things do happen Paul[ ]

POST 3Original post

That's the first 996 turbo engine failure I've ever heard of! Very unlucky, according to everyone I've spoken too even extremely hard driven examples with 550hp, high mileage and standard internals are invincible! Glad it was made so painless for you. That could have been a gutting experience.

POST 4Original post

Rattly intermediate shafts are fairly common on Turbos. It isn't anything like the Carrera intermediate shaft - just a short shaft with a gear in the middle, running in shell bearings. When they get a bit of end float they tend to rattle, but it generally doesn't get bad enough to worry about.

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