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Originally Posted by insite
we are dealing with a man who's SECOND-HAND car is NINE years old, and we don't know how many miles are on it. his issue is the classic cylinder wall D-Chunk; it happens on a very small number of cars.
until failure mode and effects analysis is done by a forensic engineering firm, this is heresay. this problem can be caused by overheating the car. if the man's coolant tank blew and he continued to drive the car with the warning light on, the water jacket would empty and the metal matrix composite in the cylinder walll could break down and cause the chunk. this would be an example of how he or the previous owner could be liable.
porsche replaced all of the engines that suffered the sleeved block failures, regardless of warranty expiration. FYI, this porous block fix was an acceptable manufacturing work around. they had a problem with one of the sleeving machines that was not detected until many engines were already sold. again, this guy's problem is the D-Chunk. this can be caused by a LOT of things, MANY of which the owner would bear responsibility for.
the computer does record type II over-rev events, but it doesn't record lots of other information that would be required to PROVE this was due to porsche's MMC design. as for the records? IF the car was dealer serviced, they will have records. there are just too many things one of the owners could have played a roll in to conclusively burn porsche IN THIS CASE.
i personally believe that engine failures in cars this expensive should be UNHEARD of. i also believe in good faith effort to resolve these types of issues when they do appear. porsche did fix all of the slipped sleeve blocks as well as many d-chunk and IMS failure cars, even if they were out of warranty. the d-chunk issue, IMO, is the hardest one to PROVE porsche is at fault for. this guy won't win in court. at best, he'll get a settlement.
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What difference does it make if the guy is the first, second, or tenth owner? The way I see it what matters is the upkeep and the mileage. True, it doesn't say the mileage in the article, but that just means that we don't have all the info. He might very well have a very low mileage vehical that was always maintained to specification. By the way, the car is 9 years old now, but if you read the article again you will note that this happened in October of 06'. So it was only 7 years old when that happened.