Centrelock recall
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There's about to be a recall announced for the centrelocks on 2010 GT3s. (Early 2013 in the US, assume Europe will be in line with this too)
It's only at preliminary notification stage but it will apparently involve new rear hub parts for these cars.
Cars fitted with centrelocks will have to begin following a stringent maintenance schedule going forward too. No details on what this involves. Could be inspections, could be lifed parts.
The reasoning is that Porsche have determined that owners driving "unlawfully" can subject the parts to loads and stresses approaching that experienced in racetrack conditions resulting in the need for the changes.
Work is expected to take 11 hours.
OPC are unlikely to know about this yet, its just a heads up.
It's only at preliminary notification stage but it will apparently involve new rear hub parts for these cars.
Cars fitted with centrelocks will have to begin following a stringent maintenance schedule going forward too. No details on what this involves. Could be inspections, could be lifed parts.
The reasoning is that Porsche have determined that owners driving "unlawfully" can subject the parts to loads and stresses approaching that experienced in racetrack conditions resulting in the need for the changes.
Work is expected to take 11 hours.
OPC are unlikely to know about this yet, its just a heads up.
Edited by fioran0 on Thursday 6th December 18:26
fioran0 said:
There's about to be a recall announced for the centrelocks on 2010 GT3s. (Early 2013 in the US, assume Europe will be in line with this too)
It's only at preliminary notification stage but it will apparently involve new rear hub parts for these cars.
Cars fitted with centrelocks will have to begin following a stringent maintenance schedule going forward too. No details on what this involves. Could be inspections, could be lifed parts.
The reasoning is that Porsche have determined that owners driving "unlawfully" can subject the parts to loads and stresses approaching that experienced in racetrack conditions resulting in the need for the changes.
Work is expected to take 11 hours.
OPC are unlikely to know about this yet, its just a heads up.
Owners driving "unlawfully"!! Made me laugh, on a closed track day didn't really think unlawfully came into it!!
It's only at preliminary notification stage but it will apparently involve new rear hub parts for these cars.
Cars fitted with centrelocks will have to begin following a stringent maintenance schedule going forward too. No details on what this involves. Could be inspections, could be lifed parts.
The reasoning is that Porsche have determined that owners driving "unlawfully" can subject the parts to loads and stresses approaching that experienced in racetrack conditions resulting in the need for the changes.
Work is expected to take 11 hours.
OPC are unlikely to know about this yet, its just a heads up.
Owners driving "unlawfully"!! Made me laugh, on a closed track day didn't really think unlawfully came into it!!
Edited by fioran0 on Thursday 6th December 18:26
majordad said:
Do you mean GT3 RS and other 2010 Center Lock Models as well ?
I have seen something else that mentions a number of affected cars that is surely too low to include the other centre lock models. Remember that the gen 2 GT3 is unique in being the only narrow bodied car to have centre locks - the RS, GTS and Turbo S are all built on the wider chassis. It is thus quite plausible that only the standard GT3 is subject to this.MogulBoy said:
Just read the news post where CH speaks to the engineer who mentions a 15,000km life on the centre-lock hubs for those who track their cars.... It will be interesting to see the fine print.
Here is a cut and paste."Single stud wheels are a problem, will you stop providing them?
"We will continue with that. I know with the GT3 we had to modify the torque rating and we changed to new nuts with 600Nm, and if you run the car on the race track, you will eventually have to change the hubs every 15,000km."
But people forget and then you have problems."
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