Overheated to 250, died on side of highway, left stranded

[986_inquiry]

Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310

Inquiry, The valuable lesson is to not ignore idiot lights, one can blow and American engine the exact same way, overheating is after all overheating. Your wedding pal mechanic was flat wrong regardless of maker.

I had a shop to use free to rebuild my 986 but I was physically unable to do it, which was THE ONLY way that made economic sense on a 10+ year old car. If you pull the trigger, at the end of the journey you have another engine without knowledge of driving history and still laden with the faults the company has since tried to correct, just my two cents. If I had done that and had another failure I'd have been close to paying far more than half a spyder (with initial purchase included) and still have a roller.

Regarding the "kick to your balls" while you are currently fetal. What happened in the past seemed a bit ugly to me too but people are humans and the best we can do is learn from that and try to be a better man next time. I would remind the poster that grinding a lesson into another person is also tossing a big negative boomerang, best not to have too many airborne at once. Good luck.

Oh I did not ignore any lights, every time a light came on I either brought the car to the shop or called mechanic and described what was happening. I did as told, unfortunately the person I was asking was not the expert they claimed to be.

So the lesson I learned was call the actual Porsche experts and listen to them... or call two Porsche experts maybe

And... am I grinding a lesson into someone? Sorry if someone feels that way, I'm trying to grind it into myself really, I certainly learned my lesson and just posting my story, I hope it doesn't feel like i am rubbing something in someone's face because that is not my intent