GTChamp

My 2020 GT4 is my first Porsche. I came from racing Hondas so I'm a bit confused about the recommendations from the dealer service shop.

Is this right for a 3 year service?

Car has 8,000 miles and has had an oil change each year. Last year, I also had my shop do engine/cabin air filters and a brake fluid bleed along with my normal oil change.
Dealer recommends:
oil change (makes sense)
replace wiper blades (?)
replace remote battery (? i can do this myself in 30 seconds)
replace spark plugs (? is this normal for 8,000 miles?)
engine air filter replace (? every year?)
cabin air filter replace (? every year?)
Total $2620

The maintenance seems excessive for a car seeing less than 3,000 miles/year. But I must admit I'm a Porsche newb and happy to do whatever it takes to keep it running for a loooong time.

GrantG

Spark plugs time out to prevent the steel plugs and aluminum heads from corroding and fusing together. Porsche prohibits putting any anti-seize on the threads which prevents this in some other cars.

Snowy999

Sorry I only have the 981 schedule which is attached.

This is way more than 'required', you can find then schedules on line.

I do brake fluid and oil and gear box every year and plugs every 2 (I do a little track and a fir bit of AutoX).

Battery and wiper blades is a ten minute job.

Snowy

GTChamp

So it seems I should definitely do the spark plugs. What do you think about the engine and cabin air filters? Yearly seems like overkill to me but I'm used to ultra low maintenance Hondas.

Snowy999

I think it is overkill but if you track the car surely worth having the airfilters cleaned. Not a tricky DIY job though just a bit painful (remover some trim and rear carpet and in 981 the ECU and access). Again I think 718 is similar but I don't KNOW for sure and will let others chime in.

There is the other aspect, doing this shows a future buyer that the car has been meticulously serviced and cared for !

TXshaggy

I’d follow the three year service maintenance schedule from your service handbook.

Sure, dealer will always propose “more”, but up to you to decide to elect for those options. I always pass on the optional additional stuff

burnergt4

FYI cabin air filters are an easy 20 minute DIY (the one in the passenger footwell is mostly just a pain to access, but by no means something that I'd pay shop time for)

VVG

In my opinion it is not such a straightforward thing in terms of servicing based on time vs miles. Most of these cars will end up being serviced on time and not miles. Part of what needs to be factored is how hard the car has been driven, how many stop/start cycles has the engine seen and also how is the car stored. I would say it is a fair bet that most of these car are stored fully garaged. As such, if the miles are low, I don't think extending the time based interval by a year or maybe even two is a problem. If you track often, of course, you may need to service even more frequently than what the service manual indicates.

the6

For the 982, the interval for spark plugs is actually four years or 30k miles, which ever is first.
Source: Maintenance booklet (there are pictures in this thread: https://rennlist.com/forums/718-gts-...l#post17428911)

BoxKing

Source that I saved from another RL member.

fueledbymetal

​​​​​​This was going to be my response.

Tommy928

I just got done with the 3 years service at the dealer and all they did was changed the oil. My tab was $440 out the door.

aus

My dealer wants $1,500 for an oil service!!
I wonder if just loosening the plugs free and tightening them would prevent seizing.

MrFunk

If they are recommending you pro-actively replace the battery in the remote, I'd question everything else on that list too.
You can do most of those yourself (as you know).

If you're tracking the car - and if most of those 8k miles are track duty then I'd do the oil change, plugs, and engine air filters... Still hard to believe plugs would need to be done with on a car with 8k miles on it.

GrantG

Even if zero miles, they need to be changed according to the applicable schedule (aluminum and steel fastened together with no anti-seize or other insulation permitted):

Galvanic Corrosion