stout

^ Suspect this post may be the one that ages best, or is at least pointing down the right road. Question is whether Sport+ does more than Sport, and whether Sport mode is the same regardless of whether a car is optioned with Sport Chrono?

I noticed that my old Fiat Abarth run pretty herky-jerky in the morning for the first few hundred feet, even down hill or on flat ground. Curiously, selecting Sport mode smoothed everything out. Sort of like a modern choke. I did it every time the car misbehaved when cold. My guess was it richened the mixture, but who knows. If it's something like this, a fix probably wouldn't be end of world…we need to see more cards. "My car doesn't perform to its maximum when the engine oil is cold" wouldn't decrease value for me.

97supratt

They probably don't add 50hp like our porsches.

Southbranch

Not during the test - after it. News articles linked by other in this thread indicate that Porsche may have changed the transmission gearing in the vehicles it sold compared to what it previously reported to the government when it certified compliance with new motor vehicle standards. Porsche may also have made some other, more subtle changes to make its Sport Chrono production cars perform better than the Sport Chrono vehicles it used for official certification. Sport and Sport+ modes would be perfectly legal as long as Porsche honestly certified them as being in compliance with new car pollution rules. The big question being investigated is whether that actually happened.

visitador

This sounds more plausible of what may have happened, given my own experience of what the corporate culture of VW was during that period (which includes the development of the Diesel engines).

smiles11

So wouldn’t that effect every car with SC? I’m confused as to how this is only effecting specific model years.

D1coach

To further add to the confusion, my service advisor told me that not all 991.1’s are affected, only those found on a specific vin list. Mine (2016 991.1S with SC) is not on the list and is unaffected according to her. This makes no sense. PNA wouldn’t give out any information at all when I called them.

Porschejam

Why would yours be affected in any way, as it's not a car for sale from a Porsche dealership.

D1coach

SA represented that a master list of vins exists that fall within the purview of the stop sale, I suppose so they could identify cars they had in inventory or would be potential trade ins. The idea is not believable to me at this point but just reporting what I was told. Hope that clears it up.

Southbranch

The Stop Sale order that Porsche sent to each dealer included a list of the VINs of the affected used cars that the dealer had in its inventory. Perhaps that is the VIN list your dealer was referring to.

D1coach

That sounds more reasonable. Thanks

acwild70

Does that include all previous CPO cars ran through the dealership?

Jay

991carreradriver

Ladies & Gents, you are fretting about nothing. Declare your cars autonomous zones and your home free.

All kidding aside, how the hell could a GT3 not be included. The GT3 only has two settings, Normal and Sport. My normal mode is about equivalent to Sport + on a Carrera (S) SC, my Sport is another world all together. This is all very interesting and does not make much sense to me.

Southbranch

No. Those cars have already been sold and delivered, so it wouldn't make sense to list them in a Stop Sale order. However, the order is prospective: It says that all additional used vehicles added to inventory that meet the description are also subject to the hold until further notice.
Edit: See post #211 above by 981KMAN for a PDF of the stop sale order.

My991

Anybody getting offers from P to buy your 991.1 SC back direct?

BlueShell

Is it too soon for that?