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pjslowik

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  1. Please, don't be naive. Porsche likely recommends the Mobil because they gain some financial benefit from doing so. The Pentosin fully synthetic is on their approved list, as well as VW's, BMW's MB's and others. The price is comparable to Mobil in my area and more readily available than the M1 0-40. I ran M1 0-40 on two to three times the maintenance schedule changes and still had two engines fail in 25,000 miles.
  2. My 03 does the same thing on the passenger side (US.) Guess I'll have to add that to the warranty complaint list. What I hate is that everytime I bring it in for one problem, it comes back with two! If it wasn't under warranty, I would fix it myself.
  3. ...couple thousand miles. I don't want anyone thinking only one thousand is recommended for break-in. Anyway, between the three engines, 6,000 of the 27,000 miles has been break-in driving on my car. Come to find upon installing the last engine, the dipstick tube was bent to where it could not be properly installed. I took it to a local dealer and he CHARGED me to check it out. Said it would cost another $175 to fix. He said he had to charge me because it was a workmanship problem, not warranty. So I leave the dealer that morning and later the car died. Had to be towed again. Supposedly, the dipstick left my intake disconnected after checking my dipstick. This carz gotta go.
  4. Set your multimeter to low ohms. With the car battery and component of the circuit disconnected, probe the circuit at different points until you find the lowest resistance readings between hot and gnd. You will likely be in the area of the short. I used to use this method to find internal shorts in multi-layer circuit boards.
  5. I wouldn't expect anyone at Porsche to admit to a widespread problem. They would then be susceptible to a class action. When I picked up the car a couple weeks ago, I told the service manager that maybe I should have not insisted on a NEW engine the first time, being how the rebuilds supposedly have updates. He said it doesn't matter...he's seen both types fail. Go figure. I don't mean to alarm anyone. Guess I'm kinda down about Porsche and the life expectancy of my engine. Good luck with yours!
  6. From what I understand, there was a design change to the 2.7 for '03. I think they added variocam. The intermediate shaft bearing is what failed on both my engines. The design had been changed from a double roller bearing to a single one. Porsche knew they had a problem when they installed a second NEW engine in my car at 3000 miles. The rebuilt replacement engines have reverted to the older style shaft mountings - so I have been told. I pampered my car. It failed after an easy day of touring, at about 20 mph, without any warning. I can't tell you what yours will do for sure, but I have no confidence whatsoever in driving mine and I have told Porsche so. One engine might be bad luck, but two is telling me there is something wrong with the design. Good luck with yours.
  7. Don't. That's my story and I'm stick'n to it!
  8. Picked up the car this past Friday (June 2.) Replacement motor feels good. The dealer took good care of the car, but the dipstick tube is not fitted properly and looks disconnected at the access point. Haven't had a chance to check it yet. Porsche Technical Rep called me and said I had an intermediate shaft bearing failure. He said they had been redesigned, and it was a good design, but that they gone back to the old design. He went on to explain the difference. I told Porsche I no longer had confidence enough to drive the vehicle and wanted them to buy it back. He assured me that I have a good motor now. I'm delaying my decision. Worm-bag service manager at the dealer I bought it from tried to blame it on my maintenance. Luckily the dealer that looked at the car, and the Technical Rep, could tell it was pampered - inside and out. Also, apparently, they can look in the DME and tell how the car has been driven. I love everything about this vehicle, except the reliability issues I have had. I would expect a well mintained engine, especially a premium one, to last 150Kmiles or more without breaking, especially on 9 qts of synthetic oil. Porsche is going to have to do something to reassure me. We'll see.
  9. I'm with Tool Pants. After two engine replacements and a host of other new-car defects on my 2003, I'm going to look at the Miatas tomorrow. Good luck!
  10. I bought an 03 Boxster just about three years ago. I took particular steps to break it in easily for the first thousand miles. At three thousand miles the engine had a "catastrophic failure." Dealer wanted to replace the engine with a reman. I fought with them and Porsche to get a new engine which Porsche agreed to fly in from Germany. I took the car to New York last Friday. It was a beautiful weekend there. We saw the Blue Angles at Jones Beach perform an air show on Saturday. Sunday, we went to a bbq. Monday, we took the car to Manhattan to see the Navy ships there for Fleet Week. I returned to Long Island Monday afternoon and gassed up for a return trip home tuesday (today.) One block from where I was going to stay for the night, the second engine in my car blew at 25,000 miles. I literally coasted to where I wanted to park. This morning, Porsche had someone tow the car to South Shore Porsche in Freeport, NY. The service department treated me great. They got me a rental and I used it to return my son home for school. They checked out the car and ordered an engine (this one won't be new.) There my car sits, waiting for yet another engine, 300 miles away from home. Owning several VW's, one with over 250K and all with the original engines, I'm begining to wonder if the Porsche is worth the trouble.
  11. IRA Porsche in Danvers, Mass said they would both on my 03 for an hour labor charge.
  12. Thank you Richard. I see the switch wiring on the ME 7.2 diagram, but I haven't been under the dash to see if the switch was there, although I have an '03 with ME 7.8. The problem I have is that I don't see anything for cruise on the pinout for the DME ME 7.8. I do see the DME connections for ME 7.2 though. In an earlier post, I believe you said the 03 appears to be wired directly to the IP. I don't have the 03 IP pinout, but I do have the 01 drawing. Do you know if '01 and '03 instrument panels are identical? What I'd really like is the full schematic for the '03. Guess I'll have to butter-up my Porsche mechanic with a case of beer. Thanks again. Pete
  13. I see, said the blind man...but that's not what I meant. Depin the IP side and add your own connector. From reading the posts, I understood that you needed the pins and wires as separate items to be crimped. Thanks for the clarifying pic. Now, about the clutch and brake interlocks...do they need additional mods to function like factory, or is that performed through the DME? Can you help me with that? Thanks.
  14. I don't understand why there is such a fuss over the OE wires and connectors. Why not use a generic male/female connector in place of the originals and make your own pigtail from any 20 ga. stranded wire? Better yet, I'm surprised nobody has offered preassembled patch-cords for the different years. Pete
  15. I've been trying to find the 03 wiring diagrams so I can see how that wires into the IP, but haven't had any luck. The new Bentley doesn't include 03 diagrams. I'm also wondering if the cruise cutout interlocks on the brake and clutch pedals will function without any further modification. Any thoughts?? Thanks. Pete
  16. I got my Bently the other day and it is excellent!!
  17. This is a nice post. Can this mod be performed on the 03? I understand there were some changes around then that might prevent the OBC from being enabled. Thanks.
  18. Just got mine the other day directly from Bently. This is an outstanding publication!
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