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I hope this is just an isolated incident, but who can tell at this stage? http://www.planet-9.com/981-cayman-boxster-problem...
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POST 2Original post
Couldn't see if it was a 2.7 or 3.4?
POST 3Original post
Dfi been around for 7 years now so one or two cases of random failure does not equate to reliability issues more a case of random badly machined/manufactured parts which after talking to an opc tech last year seems to be the only rare problems they seem to encounter on the 9*7.2 onwards!
POST 4Original post
Ammunition for the scaremongers.
POST 5Original post
You don't know how the chap drives the car, you don't know if the vehicle lost fluids.. A little more info would be needed..
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cmoose, I think that summarizes the current situation as clearly as we can. As has been said many times before with regard to the M96/97 engines, there are bound to be many that have suffered bore issues that haven't been reported, and that will probably also apply to the 9A1 engine to some extent, but the failure rate for this engine appears to be very low in comparison.
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A good reference source wrt Porsche engine failures is www.hartech.org
POST 8Original post
Trev450 said: I hope this is just an isolated incident, but who can tell at this stage? http://www.planet-9.com/981-cayman-boxster-problem... How much more isolated does something have to be to be isolated? One 1 year old car with 5500 miles on it develops an engine problem, well, a noise, and like Porsche has done since day one it is just going to swap out the engine and replace it with a new one. No doubt the old engine is going back to the engine factory for a nice postmortem. The engine could actually be resurrected without much work and put back into service as a remanufactured engine.
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Rockster said: Trev450 said: I hope this is just an isolated incident, but who can tell at this stage? http://www.planet-9.com/981-cayman-boxster-problem... How much more isolated does something have to be to be isolated? One 1 year old car with 5500 miles on it develops an engine problem, well, a noise, and like Porsche has done since day one it is just going to swap out the engine and replace it with a new one. No doubt the old engine is going back to the engine factory for a nice postmortem. The engine could actually be resurrected without much work and put back into service as a remanufactured engine. Given that we only can judge the occurence of these 'failures' by what is reported on the forums, the extent to which this is an isolated incident cannot be evaluated due to other likely occurences not being reported.
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