NiteJav

Did Porsche hire some ex-Ferrari guys to work on the assembly line? We normally see this sort of thing out of Maranello.

markow

any supporting statistics that more ferraris than porsches burnt down? ferrari had an issue with the F458 but it was just a glue which did not stand the heat, it was not an engine problem and ferrari reacted much more confidence inspiring than porsche.
my feeling is that we see this rather consistently from porsche.

SamFromTX

Perhaps looking at solid data rather than anecdotal evidence before calling statistics BS may help you. Here:
http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports...s-and-patterns

waiting for PDK

I had no idea there were nearly that many vehicle fires.

62 million registered in the U.S. divided by the 287,000 fires means roughly 1 in 216 gets flambéed every year.

(It will be interesting to see how far off track I've taken this thread...)

TurboS

Fahrt Feuer

Doesn't sound good...

MMH78

it will be interesting to see whether cars catching fire in the report are new like Porsche or old vehicles with high milage

darth g-f

Maybe it's time Porsche offers a nomex interior.

Burnt orange should make a come back soon.

raclaims

It's interesting that none of the 991 race cars that I know of have caught fire.

chuckbdc

Thas because the nature of the relationship between street cars and race cars is marketing not components.

993GT2

It happened here in Brazil too:

http://diariodepernambuco.vrum.com.b...-empresa.shtml

http://es.vrum.com.br/app/301,19/201...go-e-con.shtml

Flat6 Innovations

Looks like the verdict and solution is in on the GT3... It should make it onto the forums as soon as owners get the phone calls.

I am researching now to see if the effected components are shared with the non GT3 engines.

CAlexio

What's the scoop?

Tacet-Conundrum

Seems like a Fluid's leak somewhere, just like with the 997 GT3 Catastrophic Coolant leak, but that was coolant and that generally only causes folks to spin out at the Track!

At least Porsche Engineers can go over the wreckage of the European cars catching fire; especially if they happen in Germany - don't the wrecked cars generally get dropped off at the Manufacturer's or is that just a Mercedes Benz thing?

Flat6 Innovations

Is rather not spill the beans that came down to me this morning... There may be some variations of the story that are not completely written in stone yet.

I'd expect that you guys will be hearing official word this week.

Is rather not start the rumor mill, but we have seen this with other modern Porsche engines. Not the fires or exact scenario, but the primary mode of failure.

My source said new crate engines for everyone... Don't hold me to it, or ask for details, but I could see why they'd need a new engine with this mode of failure.

alpine-al

It seems that you are the only 3 Rennlisters who haven't been following the Stop Sale thread, which has had ~40,000 views in the past 3 days. Info on the fix first appeared at 11:23 AM EST this morning (page 172).

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