Off-road spec Porsche Cayenne S 957
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Tough as old boots.I ran 300,000km on mine from new including 50,000km towing..deep winters and desert heat, made no difference.
One expensive item was camshaft lifter which had to be replaced at about 200,000km.
I sold it for peanuts to a neighbour a couple of months ago when my new Cayenne GTS arrived. It is still going just fine. I am sure you will have a lot of fun with yours.
One expensive item was camshaft lifter which had to be replaced at about 200,000km.
I sold it for peanuts to a neighbour a couple of months ago when my new Cayenne GTS arrived. It is still going just fine. I am sure you will have a lot of fun with yours.
ATM said:
I've had mine for a few months now and it's been fantastic.I describe it as the best daily driver I've ever owned.
It's in "my garage" on here, but as there have been no costs yet, it's of limited use.
One thing I would say is that the standard spec on the V8sD is not brilliant, so there are cars out there with a wide variety of kit.
This one is nice (and quite rare) in red with the sports design kit but it doesn't have air suspension and it only has the basic seats and despite what the advert says it doesn't have 4 zone a/c or the heated windscreen.
Price wise it's OK, I paid £1k less for my 60k mile car but I don't have sports design.
Check out the service history, the transfer cases on these are made of cheese, most have now been replaced under warranty (Porsche were even replacing them as goodwill with no warranty at one point) if it's not had one then keep £1500 in reserve as it's when, not if (there are cars that have had 3 or 4 cases though the final re-design seems to have sorted the issue.
Edited by K50 DEL on Thursday 4th August 16:22
I'm having some ABS problems and not sure where to go with it. A brief re-cap. ABS was fine, replaced discs and pads all around. During the job the car slipped off the jack and the front left disc landed on the floor. This was still the old disc, fitted the new one and I went for a test drive. I had an awful brake judder coming from the front left, worse than I've ever had before. It also seemed to upset the abs as I remember the front right wheel feeling crunchy like the ABS was doing something.
I didn't believe a brand new disc would be warped so I assumed I had damaged the hub. I changed the wheel bearing and hub, after doing this the ABS light is on. Judder was the same, replaced the disc and it was fine, all my issues were a brand new warped disc. Seems like it was a coincidence the car dropped onto the ground on that corner. Now my issue is the ABS. I replaced the sensor assuming I'd damaged it while fitting the bearing. Getting the old sensor out wasn't easy, ended up drilling it out and picking the bits out with a screw driver. Still had the ABS sensor problem with the new sensor. Same fault code.
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I decided to take the hub back off for inspection. The wheel bearing has the ABS pick up ring built into the back of it, it's under the seal. There were flakes of rust stuck to it, these had come off the end of the driveshaft while trying to pick out pieces of the old wheel speed sensor.
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I assumed that would be my problem but on having put to all back together it's still exactly the same.
This is what the speed sensor output is like. If the wheel being wasn't fitted correctly I'd expect no signal rather than one that drops in and out. I've since tried another wheel speed sensor which is the same.
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I'm starting to wonder if I'd got a brand new wheel bearing that's got a dodgy pick up ring in it or something. Also, the front right brake caliper is still crunchy on the ABS the first 2 times I use the brakes, it then goes. This seems like odd behaviour to me, and it was doing that right at the start with the dodgy warped disc before the ABS was on. If anyone has any input on this I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I'll probably change the wheel bearing again just to rule it out, it's not a job I want to do twice.
I didn't believe a brand new disc would be warped so I assumed I had damaged the hub. I changed the wheel bearing and hub, after doing this the ABS light is on. Judder was the same, replaced the disc and it was fine, all my issues were a brand new warped disc. Seems like it was a coincidence the car dropped onto the ground on that corner. Now my issue is the ABS. I replaced the sensor assuming I'd damaged it while fitting the bearing. Getting the old sensor out wasn't easy, ended up drilling it out and picking the bits out with a screw driver. Still had the ABS sensor problem with the new sensor. Same fault code.
PXL_20220619_155353225.MPI decided to take the hub back off for inspection. The wheel bearing has the ABS pick up ring built into the back of it, it's under the seal. There were flakes of rust stuck to it, these had come off the end of the driveshaft while trying to pick out pieces of the old wheel speed sensor.
P8181331P8181332I assumed that would be my problem but on having put to all back together it's still exactly the same.
This is what the speed sensor output is like. If the wheel being wasn't fitted correctly I'd expect no signal rather than one that drops in and out. I've since tried another wheel speed sensor which is the same.
cayenne abs sensorI'm starting to wonder if I'd got a brand new wheel bearing that's got a dodgy pick up ring in it or something. Also, the front right brake caliper is still crunchy on the ABS the first 2 times I use the brakes, it then goes. This seems like odd behaviour to me, and it was doing that right at the start with the dodgy warped disc before the ABS was on. If anyone has any input on this I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I'll probably change the wheel bearing again just to rule it out, it's not a job I want to do twice.
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