Boxster S Rotors badly gouged after "Specialist" rear wheel bearing replacement

[jhandy]

the cable goes on top of the arm, with no tension.

[fooksm]

To add some extra historical info:

Once the engine work was done, the car went over to the "Porsche Specialist" to have the air suspension fitted along with new rear wheel bearings as they were found to be totally shot (I bought the car with IMS failure so had never had the chance to drive it.)

Once they had fitted the air suspension and bearings, the car was driven to the bodyshop to have the stone chips sprayed out but they turned the car around and took it back because the handbrake system had "collapsed" so it needed repair.

They repaired the "collapsed" handbrake at some cost to me and finally returned the car to the body shop where I picked it up from last weekend.

Now it sems to me that a "Collapsed" handbrake system is a very rare thing to happen and that the chances of it being a total coincidence that it happened after the "Porsche specialist" did their bearing and suspension work, are zero.... Especially when you see the photo of how the handbrake cables run from the rear wheels towards the handbrake itself and if I had to fix such a strange failure then I would at least take a few minutes to try and work out how/why it happened in the first place. My daughter (7) could have spotted that the way the cable runs UNDER the suspension arms at both sides, looks totally wrong so my question is... How much negligance does a "Porsche specialist" have to show, not to be able to spot such a glaring error?

Sorry for the rant but I have to let off steam somewhere.

[DFW02S]

That stinks for you especially when the repair is done at a distance like that. Tough to eyeball a guy from a few hundred miles.

Did you really put an air suspension on it?

[fooksm]

Originally Posted by DFW02S

Did you really put an air suspension on it?

Sure did... Only way to get it up my driveway without ripping the front spoiler off. :ah:

Video of air suspension in action here

[madmods]

LOVEEEE the GT3 rear bumper mate. Can't believe I have one sitting in my garage waiting to be painted and fitted.... picked it up in south china Dong Guan (the capital of bodykit manufacturing). Now that I've seen your ride, I am so going to get things rolling this weekend (thanks for the pressure haha!).

and the suspension kit is just amazing btw. Luck on the braking fix mate... if really it's their fault there are no reasons they won't make it right to you no worries there. Likely to take a few days to settle... give them time to think about all this and to get back to you (a week seems reasonable).

[fooksm]

Originally Posted by madmods

if really it's their fault there are no reasons they won't make it right to you no worries there. Likely to take a few days to settle... give them time to think about all this and to get back to you (a week seems reasonable).

I'm off to Spain with the family for 2 weeks so they have 2 weeks to decide what the right thing to do is.... One thing is for sure though... The brake cables didn't jump from one side of the suspension arm, to the other, on their own and anyone with even the remotest clue would have looked at how the cables currently feed past the suspension arm and against the wheel rims and seen that it just doesn't look right.

It's all fun though.

[beandesign]

I have a 2001 Boxster S and my brakes just did the same thing (posts gouging rotors). I have quite a few mm before I even get close to the wear sensors on the pads, but have a groove exactly like your first post.

Did you ever find out what really caused it? Was it the wheel bearing, a mis-aligned post, crappy pads or do these things just do that?

You are the only other person I can find that's had this problem. Any ideas?