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Old 08-26-2020 | 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by kuma1416
OK, maybe a dumb question here, but why should there be any "rubbing" at all? Shouldn't everything in there be solid and in place without any jiggling, making the pads unnecessary? It seems like the pads are a stopgap measure for an engineering flaw.
Porsche does a lot of seemingly dumb or baffling things. You get used to it
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Old 08-26-2020 | 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by koala
My thought process on this is that the gas tank is intended to rub against the firewall, otherwise, why would they place those thin pads there? Realistically, if it wasn't intended to rub against the firewall, there would be no need for pads and the tank would have enough of a gap that it could never touch anything.
sometimes it’s difficult to account for material expansion over time/temps and variation in fuel that might cause the tank to expand a bit more. Foam around gas tanks is pretty common. Cars a pretty complex and pretty difficult to account for 100% of things.

i mean they have putting engines in the worst location for over 50 years so my guess is they enjoy trying to engineer around poor engineering decisions. Lol
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Old 08-26-2020 | 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by koala
Porsche does a lot of seemingly dumb or baffling things. You get used to it
unfortunately the wallet never gets used to it..
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Old 08-26-2020 | 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by barncobob
unfortunately the wallet never gets used to it..
They denied me a new transmission, so, in a roundabout way, probably saved me a lot of money as I don't think I'd buy a new Porsche now
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Old 08-27-2020 | 12:13 AM
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NHTSA fellas. Enough complaints and they might do something to help people out. Even the old hoopties didn’t have gas tanks flapping in the breeze.

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Old 08-27-2020 | 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by NF4710
NHTSA fellas. Enough complaints and they might do something to help people out. Even the old hoopties didn’t have gas tanks flapping in the breeze.

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I agree, this is the first time I hear gas tank flapping around. It should be stable for safety purpose.
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