spyhunter

Thanks again everybody for replying. . . I actually have numerous things I am going to do here and I will update everybody when I am done. . . 1) I joined PCA, I am going to talk to some PCA folks (which I'm sure a lot of you are as well). I am going to talk to PCA folks in my region and also let them check out the car and give their thoughts 2) I am going to take it to another dealer for a second opinion 3) I have a good friend who has worked in the automotive industry for 30 years coming down from Michigan to inspect the car as well in about two weeks 4) I still have to drive a comparable or newer 911 In the meantime, yes, I feel like a kid all over again, I can't get enough of driving the car. The adrenaline rush is amazing every time!!

I meant the sports shifter. . . The "notchiness" is on upshifts and possibly downshifts, but I upshift more than I downshift. I don't downshift when coming to a stop light or stop, I take it out of gear and put it in neutral while I slow down and step on the break. Only occasionally when I have to slow down for a turn and need to go into a lower gear, I will downshift, and I try to do a little rev-matching, however I haven't even thought about heel-toe at this point, I have to get comfortable with the basics first. On another thread, it was asked if the grinding was at higher RPM's or lower RPM's and if lower RPM is smooth and higher RPM is not good, then this could be the synchros. I still need to characterize that. I just don't like the feeling of gear teeth or this "notchiness" even if I don't hear any grinding. I bought this car because I want the shifting experience to be as pleasureable as possible. Everything else about the car is fantastic, the handling, the response, the suspension, etc, so I was just hoping that the shifting would also be at that level as well. I didn't buy a Porsche so it could shift like my old Jeep Wrangler did. I just don't think any "notchiness" or feeling of something rubbing against something else seems acceptable. . . I am going to go to the dealer to test drive a new 911 and I think this will really help to clarify things. If it is my shifting or "just the way it is" then I will feel it in the new 911. And if it is completely smooth in the new 911, then something is not right I would think. Anyway, thanks for the reply!!!

Hey everybody, First, it is great to be on this alias and I am glad that I have come across it. Second, I want to state in advance that I am both a novice to Porsche (I just bought my first one) and I am only an intermediate level driver. Here is my story. I recently bought a certified pre-owned 2007 Carrera 2S from the dealer. It has been a while since I have driven a manual, so perhaps I did not notice this the first couple of days when driving the vehicle. After driving for a few days I started to notice that every now and then when I shifted into second (and sometimes when I shifted into third, but less often) that I did not hear a grinding noise, but I could feel in the shifter that gears or something else were lightly brushing against each other before I went into gear. Other times the shifting would be smooth. It is almost as if the clutch was not pushed down all the way, but I am pushing down that clutch as far as it will go. Also, the feeling I feel is like a faster whirl slowing down making me think it is the gear teeth or something, but again I am not an expert on transaxles. I took it to the dealer and one of the techs drove it. They said everything was fine and that I would feel the gears sometimes a little bit harder to get into and this was normal. As far as the brushing feeling, the tech said that I had a new clutch and that I had to make sure to push it down all the way. Yeah, at first I was going to buy all of this, but after I thought about it some more, there are some red flags in all of this. First, a short shifter was installed not too long ago in the vehicle before I purchased it. Second, this is a C2S with sport chrono, sports exhaust in addition to the shifter. Yeah, kinda makes me think that someone who is getting all of that might have the desire to be more aggressive with the car. What I did see in some forums is to drive another pre-owned 911 or a new 911 to feel the difference. I did read the other forums and saw the info on transmission fluid and syncros, it is just difficult in my case because it is intermittent and I don't hear the grinding, but I can feel the "brushing" of something against something else every now and then. Am I just being paranoid here?? Is this slight brushing that I feel every now and then normal or could it belong in the grinding category?? The car has only 16K miles. Again, I am thinking of just driving another pre-owned 911 or new 911 to compare, maybe that will help as well. Thanks in advance for your help.