Originally Posted by CYKBC (Post 14704881)

Perhaps you got the .2 engine, an upgrade for your troubles courtesy of Porsche :D

Thanks for sharing and enjoy!

Originally Posted by Mech33 (Post 14704905)

Thanks for sharing. How long was your car down for service?

Originally Posted by tstafford (Post 14704906)

Porsche steps up once again. Recurring theme - they deserve our business and loyalty.

Originally Posted by TRAKCAR (Post 14705300)

FWIW.
Mine initially used 200cc per track day, then 100cc then a little every few track days and now it doesn't use oil anymore between 3000 mile intervals.

Originally Posted by Forestek

Despite the scary title of my thread I hope I will not get you all scared and worried about your RS :rolleyes:

In April 2016 I took delivery of my 991 GT3RS, I did a very careful breakin during around 1000km under 4000RPM and gradually increasing RPM to reach red line at around 2000km with oil change just after. Yes I was careful and it didn't bother me that much to be honest I was just enjoying every minute spent in my car :). I was running stock exhaust until around 5000km then I put a SW bypass and at 10000Km I put GMG side delete, that was the best sounding car ever :).

Once I started to use the engine properly and revving the car, I noticed an excessive oil consumption of about 1L/1000km in normal use and up to 1,5L for a 4 hours track day with always a smell of burnt oil in the car. Everybody was telling me, don't worry the car has still low mileage it will go away. Fine... up to the moment it is not fine anymore :crying:, after 13000Km done roughly 70% on road and 30% on track my car was still showing such high oil consumption, up to the point that I couldn't go the drive without oil refill in the trunk!! The good side was my car was always running on fresh and clean oil :).

I took it to the Porsche dealer and they told me to do an oil consumption test in order to follow the PAG process, driving up to 1000km and do not add oil and stop when it's flashing red, I did that and I could only do 600Km before it shows the red message and don't drive the car anymore (1.4L oil consumption in 600km of road driving).

Car back to workshop and they started to do basic diagnostics, camera in cylinders didn't show much oil and no damages, car was smoking a little at cold start, all these evidences were sent to PAG in Germany and 2 days later they notified me that they will change my engine!! Without further investigations from the dealer. The dealer thinks it could be the piston rings, don't know and I'm not sure if I will be able to know one day. I have to say that I felt relieved to get a new engine.

They said after looking at my engine fabrication date, it was an "early" production engine, they decided to change it, I understand that several upgrades went into the RS engine (lubrication, material...) through the short production, I'm therefore happy to get an "updated" engine even if they gave me what they call a "reconditioned" engine which look completely new to me, together with a 2 years warranty extension on the car. They were not able to explain me really what a "reconditioned" engine is but after fighting for 2 weeks I had couldn't get a fully new engine.https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/rennlis...5e0ea9fb2d.jpg

I'm not sure if I'm an isolated case or if there are more RS "early" engines with issues but despite the inconvenience of missing several track days I have to say that I'm very pleased how PAG stand behind their cars and how quick they reacted to provide me an engine (2 weeks including Xmas/NY break).

I just wanted to share my story and the big learning is DRIVE YOUR CARS TO THE MAX WITH A BIG SMILE because if I would not have done that, I would have probably never seen that issue and I'm sure it will have showed the day after the warranty expire :).

Kenny

Originally Posted by TRAKCAR (Post 14705116)

Seems that stuff did go wrong with maybe a handful of RS engine replacements the last 30 months, but Porsche hasn't given any that I know of a hard time about a new engine.
Fingers crossed mine expires before I run out of warranty, so I get a bit of extra warranty time out of it.

Originally Posted by Mika911 (Post 14705448)

Originally Posted by TRAKCAR (Post 14705300)

FWIW.
Mine initially used 200cc per track day, then 100cc then a little every few track days and now it doesn't use oil anymore between 3000 mile intervals.

Originally Posted by GT3 KSA (Post 14705617)

Glad to see it worked out. Hope to see you soon ~ Tarek

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