Seth W

Ok, long story short. Washed the car for the first time in seems like forever (new baby will do that to you) and it looks shiny and new. Driving to a one night stay in Carmel with the wife for the first night away from the baby.

Drive down: Perfect weather, killing bugs at an alarming rate, see a 993 C4. We decide to play. After about 6 80-120 mph pulls in 5th--none of which he can match--he decides to stop chasing/trying to pull away from me. I can only imagine the 4th gear pulls!

Pull Into the hotel: valet says "wow, what a nice 928" I'm impressed the guy even knows what the car is.

Great weekend, get massages, nice dinner etc.

Drive home: Nasty stop and go traffic! Ick. Good tunes, (queen greatest hits volume 1)

Traffic lightens up. We are near the house and we remember we need $ to pay the nanny for watching the little one. We go to the bank. I park the car and leave it idling. I get the $, get in the car, and just as I am pulling out of the shopping center *poof* white smoke from left front of the car, and the clutch pedal is to the floor. Anyone car to diagnose?? ( I know the answer, I called Jim Murphy that night). I'm now stranded 2 miles from my friggin house after a 2 hour drive. I gotta go and the wife is now annoyed that her spa weekend ended being stuck in a parking lot.

AAA comes and tells me that cant tow it, to low. I hate them and they go away. I call another company and we figure out that we can jack the front end up and slip the dolly underneath it and that it will work. I get towed home. While I am waiting for the tow truck I hear this: "Holy sh-t, a brand new porsche just sitting their broken down, man that would make me nuts" I kind of laugh, 15 year old car mistaken for a new car. Makes me happy.

The tow truck driver is a very attractive women in her 40's who loves the car and takes pictures of it at the end of the tow. My neighbors, who know me all to well, see me pulling in with the tow truck and come out like somebody died--a bit funny.

Oh well, my first stuck by the side of the road. Amazing that it happened with this 928 and not the last one with 2x the mileage.

Oh, yeah, its the hose to that carries the clutch fluid and the smoke was the fluid dumping on the exhaust manifold (or something like that, it was late and I was tired).

Towing to Akkurat today.

Randy V

The infamous 'blue hose' failure...

Chuck Schreiber

Been there, Done that. Mine was in rush hr. when the light turned Green.

Consider yourself lucky Seth. It's a happy ending man. You mad it home ok.

Glass is half full!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seth W

Yes, it could have been MUCH worse.

Randy V

I've been admonished by JB via PM:

My response to Jim:


Aww, win some - lose some.

I can always count on you to keep me humble, James.

= )


RV

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Jimbo - your PM box is full - clear out all your old 'Sent' and 'Inbox' items...

Jim90S4SFCA

That's a coincidence.

I think my brain died yesterday. I went to start it up for a nice drive up the coast on a beautiful day. It cranks OK but no start. With the hood up I can hear the clicking of fuel injectors, almost like castanets.

So I think I'm due for a brain transplant this week.

Nicole

Gosh - when I read your title, I thought the car had been totaled in a crash or so... In that sense I'm glad to hear it was "just" a hose - even though I would not ever wish you or anybody else on this board to get stranded because of something like that.

We have to remind ourselves that our cars are pretty darn old by now and rubber everywhere has reached the end of or is beyond its lifespan. Scary...

Glad you and your wife are OK!

heinrich

AAA will flatbed. You just have to ask.

Robert_H

Seth,

Glad to hear it's "just" a hose failure ! How is your little Porsche pilot doing ?

Rob

Seth W

Rob:

Thanks for asking! She has her first "car" its yellow and blue and purple, has a steering wheel, horn and key (and a music thingy too). She prefers to play with the horn and the thing you roll with beads in it (don't have one of those on my car!). She is so little that her feet do not reach the ground yet so she just parks in it and beeps the horn. 7 mos old this week. She has already had her first ride in a 928, as we went to the Carlsen meet a few weeks back. She enjoys rides in the car almost as much as dad.

Dennis K

Seth -

That subject line almost gave me heart failure. I'm glad it was just the clutch hose and not something worse. A few years ago, I had the exact same failure the night before I was going to fly out to see the US Grand Prix in Indianapolis. The timing was a real PITA.

You'll be back on the road in no time and enjoying the car again.

ErnestSw

Happened to me in a 2 week old 87 S4, but it was the clutch slave and not the hose. Clutch stays on the floor and your brain does an immediate reboot. WTF!?!?

aircooler

Seth, sorry to hear about the break down. However as I read your first post I had the best laugh of my day!

If only life could be so simple

Wishing you a speedy inexpensive wrench,
Mike