cbzzoom

Say you start up your car in a parking lot and you get the dreaded "clank clank". You shut it off and call for a tow.

1. Do you tow to the dealer or your indie?

2. Do you let the local mechanic R&R the engine failure, or do you just get it immediately boxed up and sent to Jake?

Topaz330ci

Take out the engine in the parking lot, slap it in a friends pick-up, and drive it to Jake's that same night (wherever you are).

Macster

The Boxster (or the Turbo) I have the car towed to the dealer.

For the Boxster I'd get a quote on having a factory replacement engine installed. If the price was too high (and I don't know how high is too high -- I have over a $30K chunk of money sort of set aside for this sort of thing but I'm not going to put $30K into a 9 year old Boxster) I'd see if the dealer/service department would be interested in installing an engine sourced from a salvage yard.

For the Turbo, I'd have the dealer/service department handle the problem. Car is under CPO warranty until June of this year.

Sincerely,

Macster.

fbgh2o

To my indie to be removed and sent to Jake...

Flat6 Innovations

It happens both ways here.. Usually the person wastes time and money if it goes to the Indy shop first, if they can't repair it.. Nothing is worse than us getting cars shipped in, with pieces everywhere.. We can deal with it, and we do.. But the shipping costs more and the job is complicated.

There have been times when Indy shops could not repair something but charged the customer for replacing the entire engine, just wasting more of our time and adding costs on this end as well.

If it made a clank more than likely its outside the scope of most others to repair.. I hate to say that and we are trying to train people, but most just aren't grasping the differences in these engines very well.

If parts are hanging out of the engine, it doesn't take a specialist to determine that it is toast, so those cars don't even need to come this way unless someone wants a fully upgraded FSI engine.

Shark Attack

Pull it home to my own place and drop the engine MYSELF and see whats up... Weigh my options and go from there.... Would look for another used engine and if I could not find one....

If the car was paid for, May buy engine from jake
If car isnt paid for, part it, pay it off and start over.

ivangene

Call Chris Powell at Chris's German Auto in Bellevue


Jake will confirm this location as the best around this area

Flat6 Innovations

Chris has a great team! Jason attended our M96 101 Engine Assembly Class in 2010 and was impressive!

ltusler

And don't forget, its also an opportunity for an upgrade! You know, while you're in there.

mpd425

I have CPO so to the dealer, When the CPO expires to Steinel's Autowerks

Pac996

I'd blame you

Flat6 Innovations

Yep.. Like yours.
Lon had a big clunk and the engine shut off.. We found a two piece crank inside :-)
He got a great big "Upgrade"!

ivangene

2 piece crank...was it from a LWFW or just lucky

ltusler

It did have a LWFW, but it had about 10k racing miles before failure so who knows. If they fail you just have to deal with it, just like any other car out there. No point in crying, put on your big boy pants and handle it.

ivangene

Agreed... I was more curious about the failure if it was some issue that has been determined as a potential issue, or something unknown - I gotta get me some of them big boy pants