Engine Failure
Discussion
A mate at work has just had his boot filled with water and oil mixed up. The car is 4.5 yrs old and a boxster s.
I have read that there is a history of these things happening, his car has done 100k miles and has a FPSH.
What are his best options without an extended warranty?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
P.S. He has been told that a replacement engine is 5k, i this is cost only with no labour. I need to check wether this is new or recon.
Cheers
I have read that there is a history of these things happening, his car has done 100k miles and has a FPSH.
What are his best options without an extended warranty?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
P.S. He has been told that a replacement engine is 5k, i this is cost only with no labour. I need to check wether this is new or recon.
Cheers
poor sod. I've heard the 2.5 (1998/1999) engines can go, but not heard of many problems with them after 2000. (apart from the usual RMS).
A chap (I think off boxa.net) had his 2.5 engine go, ordered a seond hand one from a salvage for about £4.5k + couple hundred shipping, and when it arrived half the parts were missing. Got his money back but lost out on a few hundred pound shipping back & forth.
I've heard it costs about £12k (all in) to replace the engine. This said if the car is only just over 4 years old - then it's only a year after the official warranty (I'm assuming warranty for first 3 years?) If this is the case I would tell your friend to really push at an OPC to get them to replace it as a gesture of goodwill - maybe get porsche GB to help him.
If only 4yrs old, and regular porsche service history - he may get some assistance from porsche for free (maybe even the whole lot).
Do you know what went wrong with his engine?
A chap (I think off boxa.net) had his 2.5 engine go, ordered a seond hand one from a salvage for about £4.5k + couple hundred shipping, and when it arrived half the parts were missing. Got his money back but lost out on a few hundred pound shipping back & forth.
I've heard it costs about £12k (all in) to replace the engine. This said if the car is only just over 4 years old - then it's only a year after the official warranty (I'm assuming warranty for first 3 years?) If this is the case I would tell your friend to really push at an OPC to get them to replace it as a gesture of goodwill - maybe get porsche GB to help him.
If only 4yrs old, and regular porsche service history - he may get some assistance from porsche for free (maybe even the whole lot).
Do you know what went wrong with his engine?
My 2.7 was replaced under warranty and cost £9k including labour.
I have the reciept somewhere its the one thing that makes me renew my warranty every year.
Might be worth calling around some independants to get new engine prices.
Might be worth getting them to look at it and see if its repairable or not as well.
>> Edited by themaskedavenger on Wednesday 15th June 13:23
I have the reciept somewhere its the one thing that makes me renew my warranty every year.
Might be worth calling around some independants to get new engine prices.
Might be worth getting them to look at it and see if its repairable or not as well.
>> Edited by themaskedavenger on Wednesday 15th June 13:23
Have spoken to him this morning, the OPC that has the car called yesterday and said that it would cost 1k to get the engine out and find the cause of the problem. They have said that PGB will cover 50% if they deem the problem to be one related to poor manufacture etc etc.
Other wise he will have to pick it up himself.
He has been quoted 7.8k+vat for replacing the engine at an independant.........
As you have said that 750 quid warranty would have been a good bet. The qestion is is there any history of these engines going pop. The car is 4.5 yrs old with FOPCSH!!!
Other wise he will have to pick it up himself.
He has been quoted 7.8k+vat for replacing the engine at an independant.........
As you have said that 750 quid warranty would have been a good bet. The qestion is is there any history of these engines going pop. The car is 4.5 yrs old with FOPCSH!!!
I think the only way he'll have nil chance of getting any money back is if he has been exceeding the red line (as it logs everytime). Other than that, it can only be a manufacturing fault??
Therefore tell him just to keep pushing porsche for thejm to replace it free of charge (an opc are fine with this as they claim back from porsche. Dont assume they'll want his money over porsche') Also tell him to get porsche GB to assist him (letters and the like).
Therefore tell him just to keep pushing porsche for thejm to replace it free of charge (an opc are fine with this as they claim back from porsche. Dont assume they'll want his money over porsche') Also tell him to get porsche GB to assist him (letters and the like).
Not sure whether this is a similar problem to the one in question but my 5 year old boxter S has been diagnosed by porsche as having pourous crankcases with possible hairline cracks. The original diagnosis was head gasket failure, as theree was oil in the water header tank in the boot.
The car is out of warranty and I havent had much joy yet out of Porsche GB, but it is being discuseed with head office in Germany although I have been told it is likely i am going to have to stump up most of the 7-8K bill. I am not very happy about this, and would be interested to hear anybodys comments on the situation.
The car is out of warranty and I havent had much joy yet out of Porsche GB, but it is being discuseed with head office in Germany although I have been told it is likely i am going to have to stump up most of the 7-8K bill. I am not very happy about this, and would be interested to hear anybodys comments on the situation.
percymon said:
There are numerous issues with Boxster engines
porous crankcases eaffected earlier 2.5 cars
intermediate shaft failures seems to affect cars from 2001 onwards
RMS affects any of them (and about 20% of the cars out there).
Pretty grim eh!
Bugger me, I've had mine two years and the only things it's needed are service items..... I never realised it was supposed to be an unreliable heap of poo
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