Haliax

How many of you have replaced your water pumps? My car is 5 years old now with 19,000 miles on the odometer and still on the original water pump.

737gdog

2019 with an in service date of August 2018, 12k miles. Original water pump.

Wing Commander

My T is 5 years & 4 months old, with around 48,500 miles on it. Still original water pump, but I did have a thermostat replaced under warranty early on.

jt3sd

Mines original - 33K miles

Oileater

When the 991.2 first came out, there seemed to be a lot of concern about the plastic oil pan as well as the placement of the turbos and exposure to corrosive road salts and the like — have any of those things afflicted 991.2 T owners? Just curious if that was typical doomsday stuff or if it is actually happening on our cars.

timothymoffat

Also posted in the 992 T thread:

After 14 months I finally got the call. Well surprisingly NOT from the dealer my initial deposit is with (still in place) but from the dealer I bought my second and current 991.2 T from. So first time up to the plate and here is the build I submitted for us to negotiate with:

http://www.porsche-code.com/PRFPIVA4

All said and done with my current car as trade (11000km), I have to come up with another $64K.CDN $26K of that is taxes. Hmmmmmmm.........

I've talked/emailed/messaged with many, MANY people on this. This being mostly 991.2 T owners I'm curious to hear your thoughts. No roasting of either car please, just honest opinions. I'm pretty sure I know what my decision will be.

spyderbret

Great color and a nice spec for sure. I keep trying to love the 992 T enough to justify the delta but I cant do it. Plus ours are more limited so there's that. I ordered my T thinking it would be a keeper and I haven't found anything to change my mind yet. I say keep the 991.2. But I'm biased.....

Alc

I’m a bit biased as well. Depending on your use, if I were to do it again on a 992 I’d probably also remove the RAS and then only do options that get it as light as possible albeit usually expensive. I am amazed they were able to get the 992 S/T lighter than our 991.2Ts…but notice they skipped the RAS.

Zylinderkopfdichtung

The turbo waste gate actuator design changed over the course of the 991.2 run. My early 2019MY build has the updated waste gate. To the best of my recollection, the change happened somewhere in the mid-2018MY. Presumably, the change was to address seizing due to exposure to the elements. There are Carrera T owners on this forum who have had that issue.

The plastic oil pan is a non-issue.

spdracerut

I'm curious.... What percentage of time do you spend in Normal mode and Sport/plus mode?

Wing Commander

Majority of time in Sport mode, unless cruising on the motorway, where I might switch to Normal mode to make the cabin a bit quieter. Switching to Sport mode is the first thing I do as I start up.

Wing Commander

I’m biased too, as you’d expect on a 991.2 thread!

Met up with a couple of 992 Ts yesterday at Goodwood.

No way was I tempted to even consider swapping to a 992.

There was a lovely Racing Yellow 991.2 GT3 there though!

Don’t know what $64k CDN is in £££s, but sounds like a big chunk of cash for questionable benefit?

My T’s a keeper too!

Oileater

Out of curiosity, are there any head to head comparisons yet that can drive the 991.2 and 992 Carrera T models?

spdracerut

Excellent info. I have a theory regarding the water pump failures. There are a bunch of rubber seals in the pump for the variable capacity function. Rubber typically degrades faster with higher heat. Running in Normal mode has the coolant about 30-40F hotter then sport mode. So my theory is that running in normal mode causes the rubber to fail because of the higher coolant temps. Running in sport will make the pump seals last longer. My theory at least and your car seems to show that.

Wing Commander

Good question! I’d love to watch/read a good review of 991.2 T versus 992 T!