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Yeah getting it a few days before chistmas. Early present ;) And i agree with you. New engine ( and clutch) should definetely help on the sales price.

Status of my car is that they are replacing the engine. No news on root cause of the fault unfortunately. Good neews is that the insurance is covering it and in the end of the day it seems like a pretty good deal for me. I have also ordered a clutch replacement since my clutch was so hard I usually think its broken every few times some days pass without driving it. In total I get a new engine and clutch for 2000 $ of which half is the amount i have to pay for the engine because of some speciel conditions in the ensurance policy. Cant be too sorry about that can I? Do you guys think this will make a significant change for the value of my car? I would personally love to get my used porsche with a new engine and clutch.

I think you are right, it is the cv joint boot. They replaced 4 of them and they are made of plastic.

Its taken a long time ( nearly a month) but the diagnosis that I got yesterday was that the intake valve at cylinder 1 is broken. Besides that the cam shaft have timing issues with cylinder 1, 2 and 3. I am no car expert but they tell me they will look deeper into the engine on monday to decide whether it can be fixed or whether to replace the engine. The thing is that fortunately my car insurance will handle the costs and for my own expenses it should only be around 1000$. I am in doubt as whether the repair they did a couple of weeks before this happened might have caused this? I dont know what the difference is between drive shaft and cam shaft. But they did as written in my first post: - Change of gaiters at the drive shaft (not a car expert but it sound to be around the engine) So could this have been caused by the Porsche mechanics when they repaired my car?

Hi guys I am getting it towed to a porsche dealer tomorrow (dont ask why i waited so long, its not in my hands). I do not know what to think but to hope for the best. I am just dissapointed in Porsche who had the car in for a major service and repairing not so long ago.

The sound is a little hard to explain but a little like this when i was pedaling the gas Right now the car is locked up somewhere in Copenhagen, Denmark. I cant get to it right now and i actually have to get it towed to a porsche dealer tomorrow. Worst thing is the waiting time and not knowing whats wrong with the engine.

Hi infocusf8 The thing was that it was pretty dark and raining quite heavily at the time so I didnt se any black smoke if there were any. The oil light warning wasnt on the display. I was on the highway and when it happened i knew i should stop and I did that. The motor was running and i did try to pres pedal and move slowly ahead but engine was chopping. I checked the engine oil on display (didnt think of the stick since it was dark and raining). When I put oil in I tried to move ahead a little again but same thing, chopping from engine, so i turned off the engine. This was the point where i realised running the engine further could harm it. I did let it check for motor oil again after refilling 1L and after one hour (cold engine) I could se that the oil was above half on the display. What is the CEL? The only warning light i saw was the "Check Engine - go to workshop" yellow warning. EDIT: CEL must be check engine light right? BTW thanks I appreciate your views

Hi everybody I had a misfortunate experience with my model 2003 986 boxster s yesterday. The car has manual transmission has driven 82.000 km or approx 51000 miles. It is the first time it hasn’t driven me all the way home. I had to stop on the highway when the motor suddenly did chopping sounds. I could see that the motor/engine oil had run out and my initial thought was to refill oil so that I could move on. Unfortunately that didn’t help. The motor could turn on but the display showed a yellow warning like ”Check engine – go to workshop”. I had the engine running a few mins and drove very carefully a few meters’ but it was still doing the chopping sounds and I turned off the engine. The exhaust had a smell of something burning. October this year (last month actually), I did a major service at Porsche and they found a few things that needed to be fixed. - Change of gaiters at the drive shaft (not a car expert but it sound to be around the engine) - Fix rattle sound from exhaust. Fixed with screws and a welding - Oil leakage (had a leakage like this done at last year’s service) I got the first two fixed shortly after the service but the leakage wasn’t fixed. They told me they had washed the spot where they thought there was a leakage but couldn’t se anything to fixed. They asked me to come back after 2 weeks and some driven miles, so they could check again. When I came back I was told there still wasn’t anything and that they didn’t have to do anything about it. Yesterday as already mentioned the engine oil had suddenly run out? Isn’t that strange? I can’t do anything about it until Monday, since everything is closed until then where I live. I am afraid the engine is messed up, any of you guys with more car/Porsche knowledge can give me a hint as to what can be wrong?