danc

Bought this 2005 w/ 45K miles Boxter 2.7L from a friend. They had the clutch, pressure plate, fork, throw out bearing replaced about 150 miles before I got the car. While it was done by the friend's master mechanic (instead of dealer), I have been pleased by the job as it feels fine...nothing wrong for the 400 miles I have put on it so far. Well, I guess I didnt notice the 3200 vibe thing before I bought it, probably because of quick acceleration testing :-), but am now pretty bummed about this happening every time I am cruising along in this sweet spot of 3-3.2KRPM... Brought it to the porsche dealer so they could do a 1.5 hr ($180) checkout, and mentioned this vibration. The guy who signed me in and took my keys seems to know about it, and said it was normal and related to the cam...something about a spot where acceleration/decceleration "decision" is made. I just kinda frowned... When I got the car back, they had relpaced the air filters, but nary a word was written about checking/debugging a vibration problem. When I got back to work, found this forum info and forwared it to this guy at the service desk. Told him to ask his techies and get back to me. Nothing in more than a week now. Hmmmm....something smells here..... Anyway, just letting people know I too suffer from this, and when I get time, will defintely be trying the exhaust adjustment ! The other thing, the flywheel, is not something I wanted to hear. Makes me thing of the recent Boxster article (Nov 2007) in R&T or C&D (forget) where some porsche dealer service manager was suggesting any clutch job replace the flywheel too - perhaps he was thinking of this problem !!! Well, has there been anyone else who has had success with the exhaust adjustment ? Please ? :-/