Porsche Owners Thread - If you own one or just like or hate them! :)

Maccy · 10 Jun 2019 at 10:34

Dis86 said:
Bah. That's sucks. It really takes the shine off things.

Yeh it does a bit, more of a ball ache that I'm probs going to have to take a day off to get it sorted

Maccy · 10 Jun 2019 at 18:52

Well it hasn’t leaked any more coolant today whilst I’ve been at work, just topped it up with some water before I set off tomorrow so will see if it loses any more in the meantime.

tom_nieto · 10 Jun 2019 at 20:32

@Maccy - hope it’s nothing serious. Any drips under the car?

theone8181 · 10 Jun 2019 at 22:06

I'm sure when I had my 996, there were about 4 or 5 different revisions of coolant cap, might be the case here (although how they have issues I don't know).

Maccy · 10 Jun 2019 at 23:04

tom_nieto said:
@Maccy - hope it’s nothing serious. Any drips under the car?

Yeh a bit, this was it parked up after an hour or so last night:

Can’t really tell today because of the insane amount of rain we’ve had!!

@theone8181 the coolant cap is ok I think, doesn’t appear to be leaking from there, so I’m guessing it’s a split in a hose or the tank?

wedrum · 10 Jun 2019 at 23:13

Ah balls Maccy..
How far is the garage? I would speak to them first before driving it anywhere. They may want to arrange a loader.

theone8181 · 11 Jun 2019 at 07:32

It could be the header tank, had that weep on mine too. Wasn't that much to fix IIRC, however i had mine done at a local garage rather than at porsche so YMMV

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Maccy · 11 Jun 2019 at 08:04

wedrum said:
Ah balls Maccy..
How far is the garage? I would speak to them first before driving it anywhere. They may want to arrange a loader.

Only 18 miles, I think it will be fine to get me there this morning.
Most suggestions after reading up online point to the tank cracking or the water pump.

Maccy · 11 Jun 2019 at 10:43

So the coolant level had fallen below minimum again this morning before I set out, I risked it anyway and got to the dealer ok. By the time I got there it was leaking quite a bit more from a pipe/hose near the exhaust so they were able to identify it pretty quickly.

Have left the car with them, they're going to get it fixed and will drop it home to me on a flatbed tomorrow or Thursday. Oh and they paid for my Uber home

Raymond Lin · 11 Jun 2019 at 12:29

Maccy said:
So the coolant level had fallen below minimum again this morning before I set out, I risked it anyway and got to the dealer ok. By the time I got there it was leaking quite a bit more from a pipe/hose near the exhaust so they were able to identify it pretty quickly.

Have left the car with them, they're going to get it fixed and will drop it home to me on a flatbed tomorrow or Thursday. Oh and they paid for my Uber home

They didn't lend you something for the time being?

Maccy · 11 Jun 2019 at 13:18

Raymond Lin said:
They didn't lend you something for the time being?

I've still got the Up and I don't really need a car in the week as I'm either in London or working from home, so not a big deal.

They were initially looking around for things to lend me but nothing was taxed!

Maccy · 12 Jun 2019 at 19:10

I have it back!

Apparently a pipe and connector had some scrapes and were damaged, supposedly caused by me. I don’t recall going over anything that would’ve damaged it so at a bit of a loss how it happened, either way it’s resolved!

Dis86 · 12 Jun 2019 at 19:12

Maccy said:
supposedly caused by me

Rubbish.

wedrum · 12 Jun 2019 at 19:14

Oh they pulling that one

Raymond Lin · 12 Jun 2019 at 19:14

where was this "part"?

Maccy · 12 Jun 2019 at 20:04

I’ll have a look tomorrow when it’s somewhat dryer outside and report back!

Yurka · 13 Jun 2019 at 06:57

Getting back to this with a photo of what I mean

Yurka said:
Odd question, can someone who has a 918 seat with harness, see if their driver side middle left harness, tail end of the belt, is secured back to the seat please. I'm not sure if mines caught or meant to be there.

The section I'm holding onto is the middle harness tail end which seems to be attached or caught to the buckets, is this the same for anyone else?

https://imgur.com/a/mHOocUD

PS trying to sort image out!

Maccy · 13 Jun 2019 at 10:18

I'm glad I took a before photo underneath, I'm not sure I can see these infamous scrapes they're talking about but what do you guys think?

Left image was taken just now, right image was taken on Sunday:

I don't think the pipe they're talking about has been replaced, if you look closely at the image on the right there's a drop of liquid sitting on a block that's behind the tube, I've circled it below:

This is where it was leaking so I think they've fixed it somewhere else and have passed blame onto me!

theone8181 · 13 Jun 2019 at 13:23

Maccy said:
I'm glad I took a before photo underneath, I'm not sure I can see these infamous scrapes they're talking about but what do you guys think?

Left image was taken just now, right image was taken on Sunday:

I don't think the pipe they're talking about has been replaced, if you look closely at the image on the right there's a drop of liquid sitting on a block that's behind the tube, I've circled it below:

This is where it was leaking so I think they've fixed it somewhere else and have passed blame onto me!

Looks like they cleaned it and that about it lol. If there was a new pipe i'd expect it to be pretty shiny and looking new.

Edit unless the leak is/was coming from above and they've changed a pipe up there.

Raymond Lin · 13 Jun 2019 at 13:26

I don't see any new parts...cleaned up a bit and that's about it.