Fullyield

Since it is a MT, you might want to check your overrevs in the ECU. If he registered an overrev, it may effect resale and strengthens your complaint.

detansinn

Upload the video to YouTube as unlisted and share the link here. I have to say that I am skeptical — taking it redline in the first two gears? Is that based on sound or does your dashcam show RPM? Let’s see the video.

As for “afford it”, most SA’s certainly can. Most of the techs that I know have garages full of interesting cars. Heck, one of them that I was chatting with had a Ferrari. Being a Porsche tech is a good gig. If you’re the kind of person that walks around thinking that other people can’t afford your 992, get over yourself.

If you can’t trust a tech to drive your car, how can you trust them to work on it?

Quadcammer

Some service advisor making $200k cant afford a new 992 unless hes an idiot. A tech...not a chance. A 996 or something, yea no big deal.

Vicbastige

Null hypothesis. What if they wisely invested some money and hit it big? What if they inherited? what if their partner makes $200K too and also enjoys the car?

You know what they say about assumptions...

Tupper

2 things:

1. If you drive to the dealer to service, you’ve warmed up the engine. So if somebody takes your car for a joyride, even if the engine has been off for an hour or so, it’s still not going to be a cold engine.

2. Why on earth would somebody do this at a Porsche dealer, when they are probably servicing 911’s all of the time? I kind of figure that the novelty will long ago have worn off for these service techs?

detansinn

This 100%.
I'm calling BS until a video is posted.

Jimmy-D

I would take the Video in and sit with the Service Manager and the Tech., in question, to review the Video. I would stress to his Manager you want this to be a learning experience. I would hate to cause some one to lose their living.

I would then ask to have the engine checked to make sure there were no over revs generated and I would want to be present for the test.

I would then ask to have my next (2) Services taken care of.

SamD

Something else to consider, would you want to return to a service shop where they know you complained about one of their own?

wingless

IMO, this should not extend beyond a dealership discussion. It has already gone far enough (too far).

Quadcammer

Sure, same goes for the mcdonalds cashier but, in general, nobody in the service department, save for maybe the service manager, can afford a new 992. There will be outliers and they will not be the ones to go beat on a customer car because they know where their bread is buttered.

moomin

I dropped the car off at 10am, the oil change was done at 3pm, so pretty sure it was cold. He ran the car for 2 minutes before gunning it.

As for ppl calling bs and asking for yeh YT video. I have it uploaded and I’m sending it to the manager tomorrow. I feel like the right thing to do is to let the dealership try and fix the situation before naming and shaming them.

Finally, I’m not angry about someone driving my car hard. It’s made for that. I’m angry about it being leaned on cold and in a reckless manor, 82 in a 30 is dangerous.

Tupper

^ That's why I always hang out at the dealership whenever I get an oil change. I never drop it off and leave.

In ensures that the job gets done more timely (customer is sitting and waiting), and less likely they will engage in shenanigans knowing that the customer is sitting in the service waiting room.

Plus my Porsche (and now my R8) have/had loud exhausts. So any backroad shenanigans by the service tech will get a lot of attention

Quikag

82 in a 30? Post the Youtube video and also send the video to the local police.

3rdpedal

On Saturday I went to pick up my son from a test he had to take. Last second before walking out the door I decided to take the 992 over my SUV. As I got off the highway and came up to a light at the end of the ramp, 2 lanes wide, I was in the left lane a two "homeless but not really" young women were "washing" windshields, the "service for a handout". They each had a water bottle with some soap or spit in it and a squeegee most likely stolen from a gas station. They were walking from car to car cleaning windows. I politely waved the one off in my lane not to clean my windshield and she moved on. The one in the other lane was careless with her squeegee as she moved from car to car and next thing I knew I heard the thing bang against my passenger quarter panel right in front of the rear tire. I was furious at the little C. I was screaming in my car. She had a momentary oops/horrified look but ultimately was too stupid to really care, and given her station in life, enough said. As I drove off I was ticked off beyond belief that some reckless little idiot could do that, ruining my day and damaging my car. When I arrived to get my son I got out and sure enough found a small scratch on the body just above the stone guard. It is not the first minor minor blemish on the car. It has 9k+ miles and I drive it hard. Luckily any front end damage has been absorbed by the PPF not the paint, but there is a very minor scratch in my spoiler from something hitting it while it was up at speed. At least I don't have any curb rash.

I decided to let my anger go and realize that there was nothing I could do. Getting worked up over it would not solve anything other than put me in a bad mood. Why should I let this ruin my weekend.

ATXGuy

I have an R8. The car at idle reverbs through the building. It is actually very useful in tracking the car around the dealership without staring at it.

@OP what is the fix for this? Refund the cost of service? Fire the tech? I am usually at a loss for things like this that are wrong but have not manifested in an issue.