GT3 KSA

You can always wait and order a .2 GT3 which i assume is the safest bet

CAlexio

My Chevy Silverado in school had these crazy oiling issues, also the 5 lug wheels which required a special English Allen wrench which always rounded the bolts.. trip to the dealer each time to change a tire... Not to mention the door seals, let me tell you about those.....

moabslickrock

Most reliable track car I've owned has to be a spec miata.

Hex

How do I tell if my rockers and cam lobes got the dlc coating? How can I date my engine? Basically how do I know when my car was built?

drdonger

Buy the 7 years 100k mile warranty. I would not keep the current GT3 beyond warranty. I plan on getting the 7 year 100k mile one for the 991.2 GT3.

Waxer

The subset of owners having serious failures on track are a very small percentage of the number of GT3s used for track work.

I know of a number of owners that regularly track their '15 GT3 and run them as they were meant to be run at the track. No issues.

07 to '11 GT3 motors had their issues too and issues with over rev concerns.

Any engine regardless of manufacturer subject to the increased stress of track and/or race conditions will have a higher risk of failure.

Case in point, Z06 track failures due to overheating, GT350 recall due to faulty oil line connectors causing fires....

No car is immune and cars in the future will have their issues too.

GT3 is a great car and will more likely than not be trouble free with street and track use as intended with proper maintenace. Of course you should make sure having a good warranty as you would do with any high ticket car.

JCtx

Easy. Open your engine cover and check your engine serial number. If it's above G05374, you have the latest upgrades. I got this info from Macca's engine failure thread (with a gazillion pages), by the way. Good luck.

Just in time

Ours lasted for a long time, it did have its own unique quirks but never left us stranded or with major problems. I could say the same of a Toyota Land Cruiser (Circa1988) that was our family workhorse. The thing was just bulletproof. That compared to my Volvo 142E (1971). I had no idea if it would start on any given day. Even after just turning it off it may have not started again! Sometimes it would go days in a row before it would fire up again. I loved the car so much that I had a beat up car (Toyota Corona) as a back up just in case, Also I once made the horrendous mistake of falling in love with a 1979 Chevy Montecarlo. Talk about unreliable. That one would actually just shut down by itself while on the highway! It required pulling aside (carefully I may add as it was under no power) waiting a few minutes and then trying to restart it. They could never find what was wrong with it. They changed every conceivable part to no avail. I dropped it like a hot potato. A relative wanted the car, although I tried to dissuade him (half harted effort I guess) he insisted. So I cut a good deal, sold him the car, and went straight to confession afterwards. Now for me the crown of unreliability was my Audi 5000CS(1984). That 5000CS broke the transmission, the torque converter, the half shafts ( several times), the power brake booster, among other things. And the most unusual: one day when I opened the car it smelled like rotten eggs...well the rear seat had melted as the battery let go the acid which ate the foam forming the seat. The dealer had packed up and left my market but left behind a service shop to honor the warranty. I sold it back to them at a horrendous loss of about 90% of MSRP after just over two years of use. The service guys refurbished the car and sold it to a third party. I got to see the car at least two more times stranded on the road. I stopped both times and asked the owners "did you inquire about the car history?" (No Carfax back then) I became convinced that the 5000 stood for 5 cylinders, 0 fun, 0 reliability and 0 resale value. Now those were unreliable ones. For years I avoided Audi at all cost.

Full disclosure: 30 years later I did get an Audi A6 with a CVT. It was a very reliable car but I gave it right back after I experienced CVT angst. Now, my DD is an S7, so far one of the very best and most satisfying cars I have ever owned. Unreliability is not in the eye of the beholder, it is when u have to call someone to come pick u up!

Hex

Thanks man. She's in the 6000's. Yehaw!

User 81423

I'm going in for a final look at a 2015 tomorrow - this is useful info, thanks all.

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452gt3

I own 2 GT3's both heavily tracked and both had engine replacements at aprox. 18k. Last one was replaced a few months ago and after 2 track events it went back for trans leak twice and I will pick it up today with a new PDK, thank you Porsche!

michaeldorian

Do you still have the car now with the replacement newer G engine? @452gt3 how is it holding up?