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YOUR RESEARCHCan you query the 996 OBD II for driver abuse? Well...
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Can you query the 996 OBD II for driver abuse? Well...
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When I checked my engine with a PST 2 I had a few thousand (yes thousand) overrevs that the rev limiter cut out.
Can you query the 996 OBD II for driver abuse? Well...
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I inquired, "Why are you replacing the motor when the driver has been abusing the car?" He said, consider this as an indication of how well Porsche stands behind their customers, both good and bad, or words to that effect.
Can you query the 996 OBD II for driver abuse? Well...
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The second kind are overrevs caused by downshifting to the wrong gear or failure to put the clutch in during a spin and running the engine backwards.
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I inquired, "Why are you replacing the motor when the driver has been abusing the car?" He said, consider this as an indication of how well Porsche stands behind their customers, both good and bad, or words to that effect.
Can you query the 996 OBD II for driver abuse? Well...
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I am just fresh back from my local Porsche dealer (Hoehn Motors in Carlsbad, CA). I looked back into the service bays and there is a 2002 TT car with the motor coming out. I was saying to the service advisor, I am glad that I am not paying that bill. He replies, that is a warranty replacement for a complete motor...it seems the driver had been on the rev limiter over 100 times and he had exceeded red line quite a few times as well. In the process, he blew the motor
The complete documentation of the driver's bad behavior was all available from the OBD II on board computer. I inquired, "Why are you replacing the motor when the driver has been abusing the car?" He said, consider this as an indication of how well Porsche stands behind their customers, both good and bad, or words to that effect. The service advisor added, they intend to show the print out to the offending driver and inform him that abuse of the car is reason for Porsche to potentially void the warranty.
Back to the OBD II printout for a moment, I asked, since the car is at the dealership, why not print out the codes on my 97 Carrera, it too has OBD II.
The Service Advisor and a Technician, both told me that data of this sort cannot be captured on the 993 cars. The first year they could do this was 1999, the first year of the 996.
And so goes the myth that you can check out the mechanical history of a 993 with a query of the OBD II system. On the other hand, this is great news for those contemplating the purchase of a 996 car. An OBD II query should be mandatory for a PPI, in my humble opinion.
The DME records two types of over revs. The first type is the kind that the rev limiter cuts in and stops giving stark to the engine. These are considered harmless since the rev limiter saved the engine from harm. The second kind are overrevs caused by downshifting to the wrong gear or failure to put the clutch in during a spin and running the engine backwards. Most engine damage is caused by the second type. When I checked my engine with a PST 2 I had a few thousand (yes thousand) overrevs that the rev limiter cut out. I(I think these are actual spark kill cycles so hitting the rev limiter just once may produce several hundred counts). My type 2 overrevs were zero. Again, it's the over revs that the DME can stop from occurring that do the damage.
