CSK 911 C4S

Just dropped off the C4S for a "cooling system fault" and on the lift was a 918 in for it's 2 year maintenance and quite a few service bulletins.

The service alone is estimated at $8800 and it's been on the lift for over a month.

Ouch and Ouch.

DerekS

Let us know which changeover valve your cooling system fault turns out to be!

Mine was the sound symposer.

Code

If the dealer is keeping my car for over a month just for regular maintenance they better offer a deep discount and GT3 as a loaner.

wassy

what does cooling system have to do with sound symposer?

surquhar

Pretty sure if you had a 918 in for service they would give you about anything you want.

Hurricane

LOL...."pick anything on the lot..."

CSK 911 C4S

I'll give an update when I pick it up.

The car still drove and sounded like everything was working correctly.

Engine temp was normal, heat worked....... etc....... so we'll see.

The 1st one that went early on in my car's life was for the heat.

BlackBeauty

I had the coolant service done too and they replaced my vacuum lines - PSE now sounds A LOT better!

CSK 911 C4S

Well the 2 valves they replaced were connected to flaps on the air box.

All fixed no more error message.

erko1905

We must be going through the same progression of changeover valve failures.

My first one was no heat as well, go that fixed few months ago. It's now in for the "cooling system fault", exactly as you described, all temps are normal, car can be pushed no problem.

Let's see if mine is the air box too I guess.

They gave me a manual base 718 Cayman loaner and man is it horrible.

DerekS

When that error throws, it's usually a changeover valve. There are 8 of them and it could be any number of non-cooling related things.

It's a dumb and misleading error message.

dgoldenz

$8800 seems like a minor inconvenience if you can afford a 918. Being without the car for a month on the other hand...

*991*

If you can afford a 918 Im sure the guy has plenty of other cool rides to drive in its place

captainkirk

I am assuming here that the dealers have to bring in special techs from Germany or in US who are authorized to work in a car like the 918.

skiahh

When I started looking, one of the sales guys said there is a color - Liquid Silver - that, should it need to be repainted, the body panel(s) or entire car would have to be shipped back to the factory to be done right! Yikes!!