Internal engine damage to my boxter 2001

[Burg Boxster]

Originally Posted by BYprodriver

Not at all familiar with the "promoter" label, but I don't see how it would be possible to have as many posts as you do & not be aware of the excellant reputation of JFP in PA. His frequent posts are as helpful as anyone's on this forum.

100% agree, JFP in PA has an EXCELLENT reputation and is a very valuable member of the forum.

[Jake Raby]

Looks like we have a few more vendor haters in the forum.. Thats fine by me, I've learned how to use those stabs as positive energy for my program.

Anyway, this "promoter" says that nothing has been posted to date that proves this issue is anything more than a failed AOS. I believe the shop doing this work may not have the direct experience with enough of these cars not to go straight to the AOS as the culprit and then go from there.

At the tail end of last year we saved an engine for a person who posted on the forum with the exact same symptoms, he thought the engine was gone and he was ready to buy my reconstructed solution, but we saved his engine and he didn't have to..

Get several other opinions on this before you do ANYTHING other than change the AOS.

That said, no one has called me with these symptoms in several weeks, so I do not believe this person has reached out to us as of yet..

[litteng]

Jake the original poster is in vancouver bc canada , which is about 2800 mi from your location,

no its wait and see time till he posts an update with the diagnosis

[s86]

As a number of you suspected, it turned out to be the AOS - much to my HUGE relief!

After writing into the forum and doing some research, I called a second shop that I have dealt with over the years. After hearing my description of what happened, they immediately concluded it was the AOS, they said 90% of the time that is what it is. I took it them, they have repaired it, and I am back on the road with it running perfectly!

Jake, I hope that you are right that the smaller shop simply didn't have the experience.
But after doing the research and calling them back, I asked if it could possibly be anything else and they were adamant that it could not (at which point I had it picked up). However, they were very keen to sell me a Boxter for $18,000, (a car the same year as mine that had had the same "issue" ), they had placed an S engine in it. They would make me a deal on my car for parts – in the neighbourhood of $2,500 – would have been a sweet deal for them, with a $150 replacement part!

I thank you all again for your invaluable input

[The Radium King]

good news. please feel free to post the name of the company that tried to do you wrong, as there are a number of us in BC who would benefit from this info. you can PM me if you don't wish to make it public, but sharing info like this is one of the reasons we gather in this forum.

[s86]

This forum has helped me so I would like to give back...

My car has been serviced by MCL for 95% of it's life, they are great, but expensive.

In search of a more affordable alternative I had Jakobs High Performance Porsche Specialists (North Vancouver) do my 96K service. When I had this AOS issue at 110,000km I had the car taken to them... there in began the nightmare diagnosis that lead to my posts on this site.

So, I gave Stuart at Wiessach a call, they had serviced my BMW 635 CSI many years before, and despite the fact they were backed up in service by almost two weeks, they took my car in on Friday pm and had it back to me Tuesday morning after a long weekend.


I hope this information is helpful to others in future!

[thstone]

Good news on the AOS (compared to an engine replacement) and thanks for following up to let us know how it turned out.

[pushrodracer]

I have an '01 with 110k on it and it started smoking and running rough .We replaced the AOS and no better running.There was no water in the oil and it was due for an oil change thus we changed the oil only to fin d out upon filling with fresh oil it running onto garage floor.We found a cracked filler hose between remote filler and the block .We replaced the hose and car runs like new. Good luck.

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by litteng

Jake the original poster is in vancouver bc canada , which is about 2800 mi from your location,

no its wait and see time till he posts an update with the diagnosis

We shipped a car back to an area about 100 miles from the OP's location two weeks ago... After you have provided specialized services for vehicles from Russia, everything else seems pretty "local" thats on the North American Continent.

Glad to see that this was the AOS, unfortunately a large number of people that don't enlist the proper shops to carry out work on their M96 powered Porsche buy new engines when they really don't need them only because of a 150.00 part.