06Turbo

Not trying to create another coolant tube explosion post, just giving everyone an informational heads up. My 02 TT is for the most part a DD. (As long as it's not raining, which doesn't happen really all that much here in SoCal)
I do however enjoy the weekend spirited drive in my backyard Angeles Crest Highway and occasionally the Santa Monica mountain roads. With that being said, I have always had the explosive coolant tube epidemic in the back of my mind while on those spirited drives. Well............, with 72K miles it happened.
But it happened while I was driving home from work at 9pm. Sitting at a stoplight!!! I wasn't driving the car hard, and it was plenty warmed up, about 30 minutes of highway driving worth. Sitting at a stoplight, I noticed steam in my rear view mirror. As I'm watching the temp gauge, the low coolant warning appears and the temp rises. I was able to cross the intersection and pull over and turn off the engine before the temp gauge moved much more.
At the rate of how long it took all those things to occur, and by looking at the trail of fluid, my thought was it was a water pump failure. Apparently not.
Again, just informing people who may have that same worry hiding in the back of their mind. I don't track my car, and the burst happened while I was sitting at a stoplight. I knew that it would eventually happen, I just figured it would happen while pushing the car hard up the hill or downshifting around a corner. Not while sitting at a stoplight.

ScottKelly911

Thank god it happened while sitting at a stoplight! You got lucky. But yep, this is something that I still can't believe Porsche never recognized and took care of. I guess we need people to die as a result for them to do anything about it. Age of the cars doesn't matter as it is an inherent design flaw, eg. GM's ignition switch problem that went all the way back to I believe the late 90's or very early 2000's. But I'm glad you're safe and it didn't happen on Angeles Crest or Stunt Rd. or similar roads where it could have been fatal to your car or yourself.

fung0001

http://www.vindecoderz.com/EN/Porsche/911%20TURBO/problems-recalls-complaints

i could comfort myself that it is a 2004 tt😪

Freddie Two Bs

How do you mean?

Third-Reef

Which of the fittings came out? I was just wondering as I did not pin the two under the oil cooler due to time constraints when I did mine. I would like to think those are less prone to failure, key word there " like"

cbracerx

Ditto - very curious about which one was the naughty fitting.

ALLUC

in the link the 04's had the fewest reported incidents.

06Turbo

This one!

Third-Reef

Thanks for the shot. i pinned that one, its fairly easy to get to.

splitime

Reporting to NHSTA as others recommend?

Vendetta NY

Ugh... sounds familiar. Good catch before catastrophic damage.

As splitime mentioned, it's recommended that you report to NHTSA.

Repeating the conventional wisdom here, best to address this issue either the next time owners drop their engines, or when one or more fittings begin to weep or fail, whichever comes first.

-V

Dock

Is it believed that the NTHSA will reopen the investigation they have already conducted?

Carlo_Carrera

That is a statistical anomaly. I would not bet my life on it.

06Turbo

Filled out the form on NTHSA this morning

Hosewater2

There were fewer 2004 models out there in the first place:
http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/9...t-gt2-gt3.html