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The car's been inspected before and no one has ever said that they've heard such a noise.
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this happend to my car ~15k miles ago and i was told that while it is fixable it is so expensive to fix that Porsche North America just replaces the engine...which they did on my car (still under warranty)
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this happend to my car ~15k miles ago and i was told that while it is fixable it is so expensive to fix that Porsche North America just replaces the engine...which they did on my car (still under warranty)
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[SIZE=7]I have a 2000 C4 stick, about 27k miles. No history of problems.
Today the car was at the dealer. The technician (nice guy, about 25 years old or so) had the car up and told me that he "heard a slight scraping noise in the area of the intermediate shaft." The noise didn't change when the clutch pedal was depressed, so he concluded that it doesn't involve the transmission. I've never heard the noise and he said that you cannot hear the noise inside the car.
He said that there' s nothing to be done because it's too expensive to diagnose the problem and even if he could it's cost prohibitive to fix. He said it could mean that the intermediate shaft was scraping, a bearing, or something like that, or it could be some noise peculiar to this car. The car's been inspected before and no one has ever said that they've heard such a noise.
The recommendation is to drive the car until the engine fails (if it ever does). Don't have an aftermarket warranty, so that's out. I want to take the car for a second opinion (maybe an adjustment to the timing is all that this is, although the tech said that he didn't think that was it). All in all, if it's somehting in the engine, is the only thing I can do is to continue driving the ticking time bomb until the engine blows? Not something I'm looking forward to doing.
So what to do? Thanks very much for your advice.
Jax
from my limited reading, you could exam your engine oil to see if there's any metal piece in it, which would indicate inter. sharft went bad.
search by "intermediate shaft" to learn. or otherwise, drive the car to the full extent!
my friend
i hope hope hope it is not an intermediate bearing/shaft b/c if it is that a new engine is the cheapest fix!
this happend to my car ~15k miles ago and i was told that while it is fixable it is so expensive to fix that Porsche North America just replaces the engine...which they did on my car (still under warranty)
I would suggest getting a second opinion just to be ceratain!
good luck
well theres no diagnosis for a intermediate shaft if its bad its bad, (pull the trans start the car listen but then your just out 1000$ and its still there) theres no cure drive it till it stops
i have seen very very few (like maybe 2 pre 01 cars" with broken shafts
it deffinatly could be in the bellhousing pilot bearing or throwout bearing, ive seen some throw out bearings that make noise clutch in or out. Slight scraping noise u cant hear in the car doesnt sound like a failing inermediate shaft i wouldnt worry about it, youll likey get 100k more miles out of the car. I wouldnt worry about it with my own car unless i could hear it goi9ng down the road
