Engine Failure Class Action

[MikenOH]

Originally Posted by insite


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.
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As a former owner of a '99' model, I have followed this issue closely from when it was first discovered. I know Porsche was replacing the engines that failed with in the warranty period n/c and even if it was a bit our of warranty the reports I heard were either a comp[lete free replacement or a shared cost approach.

Having said that, I've seen posts on this and other boards of owners with the same model year, built in that period where the sleeved blocks were supposed to have been used, with failed engines with low miles on cars that were several years past there warranty period and got zip from Porsche. These were garage queens that just weren't driven much that suddenly went bang.

You've made a definitive statement that Porsche fixed all these cars N/C to the owner. What facts is your statement based on ? Do you have any info from Porsche on this? I ask since I've never seen anything publicly said about this from Porsche.