Originally Posted by MrNurse

600LT reliable? Absolutely not lol...

Originally Posted by malmasri

The first failure happened on Wednesday afternoon on a 991.2. RS.The car puked oil from turn 2 all the way to the bus stop, lots of smoke, I looked at the car, no damage except a melted lic plate frame, and lots of oil covering the back bumper....no one knows what happened to it ,but the driver had power and kept driving until they red flagged all of us.
The second failure happened on Friday afternoon to a 991.1 RS with many many track miles. The car lost power and puked oil and coolant at turn 2. The driver pulled off quickly because the car was dead, no engine parts or any metal was ejected.
That is all the information that is available for now.
I know one of the drivers very well, so if he does provide more information and doesn’t mind it being published, I would follow up here.
l am baffled at the new RS catastrophic failure ....

Originally Posted by mmuller

Cam tensioner broke and cracked open the case spewing oil everywhere is the diagnosis from a Porsche dealer. All will be fixed under warranty.

Originally Posted by GrantG

That's the first I've heard of this failure. When you say cam tensioner, do you mean timing chain tensioner?

Originally Posted by mmuller

Yes, my bad, cam chain tensioner broke.

Originally Posted by mmuller

Yes, my bad, cam chain tensioner broke.

Originally Posted by Gofishracing

Your cars ran Great at LRP..

Originally Posted by MrNurse

600LT reliable? Absolutely not lol...

Originally Posted by tgibrit

thanks for posting, good info. Hopefully we can keep the thread on subject and not have it devolve further into another Mac bashing thread.

Originally Posted by mmuller

The .2 RS is a customer of mine. Recently caught up with him when I heard it was his car that had caught fire.

Cam tensioner broke and cracked open the case spewing oil everywhere is the diagnosis from a Porsche dealer. All will be fixed under warranty.

Originally Posted by mdrums

I was at my local dealer yesterday and a GT Silver .1RS was in service with the PDK dropped. It broke at the track and was towed in I was told. Porsche rep was in reviewing it when I was there and I was told that the PDK was fine but something in the flywheel broke. They didn’t think Porsche was to cover it sighting track use.

Makes me re-think all this taking mine to the track.....very bummed to here this. Wish I knew more about the outcome.

Originally Posted by mwar99

Seems hard to me to deny a warranty claim because of track use with a car that is sold as a track oriented vehicle and part of the paperwork given with the car talks about track usage and the changing of the maintenance intervals because of it. Be interesting to hear if it's denied and why they would deny that claim. Plenty of the cars that have had issues have been on track when parts failed and they were covered. Not sure why this would be an exception.