Oh crap.... HUGE cloud of smoke out the back of my car!!!
08-15-2008, 06:51 PM
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I went back and forth about it but I did buy a 5 year warranty with the car. But I had my father, the Carmax European Car Service Rep, and the Carmax Buisness guy all tell me that returning the car was the safest course of action.
If the car hits the lot again odds are it was a simple repair and I could buy the car again if I wanted to. If it doesn't odds are good there was a more serious problem and it's been wholesaled.
If the car hits the lot again odds are it was a simple repair and I could buy the car again if I wanted to. If it doesn't odds are good there was a more serious problem and it's been wholesaled.
08-15-2008, 07:01 PM
#32
Good move on your part to return it. You'll find another one soon enough and it'll hopefully be more worry-free.
Don't they buy them at the auctions? Therefore, someone else wholesaled it to them.
Don't they buy them at the auctions? Therefore, someone else wholesaled it to them.
08-15-2008, 08:27 PM
#33
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More smoke out of one pipe than the other may be signficant...
Do not know which 'side' of intake 996 AOS connects to. But if like Boxster engine it is connected to say the passenger side (just downstream of the throttle body) early on in an AOS failure episode the passenger side exhaust might emit a bit more oil smoke.
If smoke on other side of where AOS connects, this can indicate another souce of the problem: one or more valve seals compromised; failed oil scavage pump or the air flow through the intake system tends to favor the opposite side of the side to which the the AOS connects.
I think you did right thing in returning car. Walking away from a questionable vehicle is not a bad thing to do.
There is always another car.
Sincerely,
Macster.
