Please keep us posted as to how it all goes. Thank you.

 

Scott thanks for the update. 36,000 miles is the highest mileage we have seen even if most of those were on the street. It does seem quite possible your other issues were linked with the wear on the followers.

Just for clarity, they shipped you new heads with Cams/followers etc?

 

so do i need to worry if I have a '15, I love my car, its like I just got married to Taylor Swift and now you tell me she might need a vagina transplant

 

Better than a sex change LOL

 

Well I'm gonna throw in my hat to provide a solution, too.



Putting my mad skills in woodworking to work I'll make rocker fingers from the hardest Ebony I can get. That otta do it, no?

 

What was the cut off date for problem engines. Did it get into the '16s

 

2022

 

The told me that I was going to get "new heads" so I expected completely assembled heads to show up in a box. Take the old off, put the new on, and in-and-out in a couple of days. The tech explained to me that, to get to the head bolts, you'd have to remove pretty much everything. The last time I did a valve job was on a '66 Mustang. For that, pull off the valve covers, remove about 10 bolts/head, and pull them off. These heads came in Heathkit form. It was quite a pile of boxes and the tech is assembling them one component at a time.

Scott

 

The ones in our car seem to be made of particle board! Lol.

Maybe lignum vitae would be a better wood.

 

 

Sorry this happened to you Scott. Nice they are giving you a new wheel. I've been looking for you around town, but this explains it. Fingers crossed for you as well. Hope to see you on the road this weekend! Who's doing the service?

 

Just out of curiosity when (miles) did the air system faults start?

Good luck and thanks for your post!!

 

Based on my read of this thread, off and on, approx. 1- 1.5% of GT3s built for each year. Data is thin for 2016 MY.

 

Hey guys, remember (many pages back) when I asked for the warranty wording, and I was just told by the few who replied: 'GT3s are covered!'? Well, glad I didn't take your words for an answer. I'm no lawyer, but with the language posted on newer cars, I'd bet my houses Porsche is absolutely covered against tracked cars. Chris's case is unique in 2 ways: First, dealer disassembled his engine assuming it was covered. That by itself is probably a winnable lawsuit (at least for the head change) if it came to that, so lucky him. And second, few of us buy $750K worth of Porsches in less than 2 years, so he has the upper hand on a goodwill case. And with both of those things in his favor, Porsche still gave him a hard time, even under warranty. Every smart person here should assume his newer GT3 won't be covered under warranty if tracked, and hope for the best if it craps out. But unless dealer makes the same mistake and starts working on the car, your only hope is goodwill. And that's under warranty only IMO. I don't have a penny in the stock market, so wouldn't take that risk either. But thanks to Macca and all others for posting here. Hope Porsche is listening, and next time they develop their engines (especially GTs) properly. The new 2016 Cayman GTS should serve me well a few years. Hopefully the GT3 will be well sorted when it's time to trade, to consider it. Take care.

 

Yes, all the parts come is a jumble of boxes and the heads are rebuilt by the technicians at the garage. When mine got done, the technicians said that this was the first time they were required to do a GT3 top end build. All other times it was a simple engine replacement which they had done 5 times before. They told me that rebuilding a GT3 top end is a long'ish, complex task. To make sure that everything was done correctly, a GT3 engine specialist was brought in to help.

So if I was you, I would ask your dealer what experience the shop has previously had doing a GT3 top end rebuild and were they going to get any advice/help from elsewhere.