johnm

Yeah, some of these guys just pull up in a truck and try to fit the windshield in 45 minutes or less! I watched them do a car once and they looked like a pit-crew at Indy. Not a good thing. One small slip and your A-pillar will need a full repaint. I go to the dealer to have it done and pay the 200 buck surcharge. The same truck pulls up, the pit crew comes out, and the service manager threatens the living hell out of them. Now, the dealer is on the hook and you don't want to ***** them off! I think it runs 1100 bucks at the dealer in the northeast. (My cousins S5 just got delivered with a huge gouge in the windshield and the dealer 'swears' that they can buff it out! If they are successful, I will post the results and the technique) If only porsche would spec the same glass as everyone else, this would be less common of an occurrence. There must be some benefit to the soft glass, but no one seems to know what it is!

sadly, there is not much you can do. The rule of thumb is that if you can feel it with a fingernail, it cannot be polished. You may be able to minimize the scratch by professional polishing, but this can leave a haze or even distort the glass. Porsche has the unfortunate trait of putting some very, very soft glass on their cars. By the time you have 3,000 miles, the windshield will be so pitted and cratered, that you may not mind the scratch! I just factor in a new windshield every two years into the service costs of the car. (I am also in the northeast, and there is plenty of gravel and stones to do the damage!) I got quite a bit of good info at the Autopia detailer forums. Cruise on over and do a search for your problem.

The guy from fabspeed posted that it is an artifact from the DSLR he was using to video the car runs. Maybe he did not want to admit to an illegal mod to the brake lights, but that is what he told us!

LOL, how could anyone compare a rebadged VW Toureg to a 911??? (no disrespect intended, but rather-"shock") Maybe I assume that the allure of a porsche is that they are all track-ready devices with a motorsport history, rather than how cool it seems to drive around the Mall parking lot in a "Porsche". I am sort of hoping there was a misprint somewhere and you meant "Cayman"....

from a scientific standpoint, I think we first have to consider the fact there are well documented case of carbon buildup in non-dfi engines as well. There are pictures of this type of issue that predates the widespread usage of DFI in non diesel engines. So, we have fact #1, and that is that non-DFIs have this issue as well. Another issue: Most of the horror pictures are taken of VW/audi products such as the VW sourced Cayenne or the ubiquitous 1.8/2.0 DFI-turbo motors. I believe that a few plausible theories are floating around now concerning the EGR valve and the angle of the injectors. If they were all this bad, why would VW continue to produce the design. The liability would be too great, would it not? I am also not convinced that the technology itself is faulty, but rather the application of such technology in certain vehicles or circumstances. We are seeing the vast majority of new vehicles move to this technology, which was mass produced since 1998 in the japanese market, and then went on to become the entire european market in recent times. The companies that are investing in this technology would have noted these doomsday issues long ago and would probably avoided the systems, in the way that Rotary engines became curiosities in the 70's, but eventually fell from the face of the earth. (sorry mazda RX-8!!) So we have 20-30 million of these systems on the road today and scarcely a new car can be found without the tech. Engineers are just not that silly to ignore such problems if they were inherent and unavoidable by design. We have also not seen the massive number of vehicular failures that this theoretically flawed technology should in fact be producing! More so, we just see a dozen of the same type of photo from 2 models of cars repeated 7-8 million times on web forums! As an aside, since the majority of drivers today lease their cars, I wonder if they are using Tier-1 gasoline, as is recommended by the manufacturers.

jcnesq, I had same thing happen to me. You can get the ipod back to life. Make sure you let porsche know about this issue because it is happening to lots of people. I got my ipod working by trying about a dozen restart procedures and connecting-and reconnecting it to my mac. Then did a restore on the device. Now, I just have the problems that the OP mentioned above. When I start the car, the ipod is not recognized...but I hit the play/pause button a few times and all is well. You don't have to pull the cable out and mess up the pins prematurely......