2005 987S 20,000 mile report - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

MikenOH · 10-30-2006, 06:43 AM

at 5K?

I ask since it seems pretty amazing that two different Porsche trannies would fail with in 20K miles. I say that because I have not not seen any other reports of faiures with this transmission on either the 997 or 987 or Cayman boards.

Which makes me wonder if there was a transmission replacement; sounds more like it might have ben opened up, worked on and then put out back together. Two similar failures in two different transmissions sounds odd as heck. Was there a significant difference in the shift feel when you got the new tranny? I would think the linkage would be stiffer compared with a unit with XK miles on it.

Brucelee · 10-30-2006, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by MikenOH

at 5K?

I ask since it seems pretty amazing that two different Porsche trannies would fail with in 20K miles. I say that because I have not not seen any other reports of faiures with this transmission on either the 997 or 987 or Cayman boards.

Which makes me wonder if there was a transmission replacement; sounds more like it might have ben opened up, worked on and then put out back together. Two similar failures in two different transmissions sounds odd as heck. Was there a significant difference in the shift feel when you got the new tranny? I would think the linkage would be stiffer compared with a unit with XK miles on it.

I could be wrong here but my local service guy told me they do not repair trans internals. They swap out the box entirely.

That could be a dealer decision or Porsche, I don't know.

The other possibliity is that any failure of the new transmissions from the new supplier is shipped out for analysis.

Since Porsche had a bad batch of new engines years back with the Box, it is not unheard of that they might have the same issue in year 1 of the new transmissions.

eslai · 10-30-2006, 12:30 PM

The dealer told me that they do not repair the transmissions, they send 'em back to germany whole. I'm pretty sure that they replaced the tranny twice--the regional manager was pretty pissed about it so I'm pretty sure.

Randall--didn't even know that the counts existed when I picked up the car. In the future I'm pretty sure I'd do what you suggested!

Car's at the dealership today getting the new shock installed. My service guy also had to reset my stereo (which had locked up completely this morning) for me by pulling a fuse. Niiiice.

10-30-2006, 12:39 PM

[QUOTE=eslai]Randall--didn't even know that the counts existed when I picked up the car. In the future I'm pretty sure I'd do what you suggested!QUOTE]

I wonder if these rev-counts are time & date stamped in the DME?? Like Randall suggested, they may have happen prior to your purchase. It would be interesting to see the print-out from your dealer, Eslai.

DVST8 · 10-30-2006, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by bmussatti

I wonder if these rev-counts are time & date stamped in the DME??

I'm pretty sure only the hour of the most recent incident is recorded.

MNBoxster · 10-30-2006, 02:51 PM

Hi,

Porsche was not allowing Dealers to do any repair to either Engines or Transmissions. That has relaxed slightly with some internal repair now being done by the Dealerships. I do not know whether they have the option to do it or not.

But, for the type of failure Eslai experienced, even under the new rlaxed rules, the Dealer would not be able to service it, remove and replace only...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99