Notes from 30k service

[FUHRIUS]

thought I'd post some random notes from my recent 30k service on my '01s, done at anderson-behel porsche / audi in San Jose. the car's still under warranty until oct of this year.

cost: $408, was quoted $425.

no plugs, since the 01's don't need plugs until the 60k service.

I was impressed with all the checks they did.

No damage or add'l wear reported as a result of my mods (no tire rub, no wheel bearing play, no issues from the hp bump, nothing)

Clutch looked 'very good' with an estimated 60-70% useful life remaining. I found this a bit surprising, as did the service advisor.

Brakes showed very little wear (I believe the numbers quoted were that the pads start with approx 12mm of thickness, the rears still 9mm and the fronts had 10mm)...service advisor was very surprised given the the clutch wear was so low...he said they usually see on or the other worn significantly more by 30k, depending on if you're a hard braker or a big down-shifter...I'm more of a down-shifter (which he praised) so I was quite surprised the clutch wear was so low.

Uh, you may be wondering how they guaged clutch wear? It's not part of the 30k service because it's many hoursof work to get into it...but they'd found a leak at the bell housing and thought it was a RMS leak, tore it all down and found it was the other seal in there (for the intermediate shaft, I believe)...so I told them to check all clutch parts while they had it torn apart so that I wouldn't eat all the labor to have it re-done somewhere down the road. I expected that I'd be replacing something in there...so that was a nice surprise. Having the intermediate shaft leak was not a pleasant surprise, having already had an RMS leak. The service advisor had already started walking me through the 'if it's rms again, you get a new engine' so I'll be watching closely until october when my warranty runs out. He did say, however, that if I'd had an rms issue under warranty and then had it again outside the warranty period that porsche would 'goodwill' it...we'll see.

They found some little things:
- high tone on the horn was not working...I had no idea...fixed under warranty
- a few mud flaps and plastic bits missing from the underside...he said not related to the lowering...that it 'happens on all the boxster'...recommended replacing the..around $100 but didn't have the stuff in stock...not sure if I will replace them
- recommended a brake line fluch, but I'd done it two years ago and think I'll wait a little longer to do that again
- recommended adjusting the emergency brake for $70, it feels fine to me so I passed

That about covers it...hope this helps someone somewhere sometime.