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I think everyone is a little jealous of Petza914's cars, his shop, his experience, and his knowledge. I know they must be hard-earned and well-deserved. I also think most of us fully appreciate the explanations, tips, suggestions, and experiences he shares with all, allowing us to all benefit personally, too, and to be better stewards of our own cars. Many thanks!
I'll add a horror story - had my car into an independent shop for clutch/flywheel replacement. About 10 days later, as I'm putzing about the neighbourhood, I hear a screeching noise, followed by some thumping. Limped the car back to my house. Turns out the bolts holding the rear axles to the trans had loosened out - clearly not torqued down. Thank goodness I hadn't been travelling at speed or far from home at the time. To their credit, they picked it up with a flatbed and fixed it up the same day.
Moral of the story - torque the fasteners down before you walk away and do something else. Another mechanic buddy of mine I know always preached that. I remember bringing lunch into the shop, and he was in the middle of some valve adjustments on a BMW. He finished it off before chowing down. I suspect the tech on my car with the axle bolts didn't finish and went and had lunch!
You can use that paragraph from a letter I got from my area dealer today, when you rip the service manager a new keister outlet. Ask him/her which sections of this statement apply? Maybe those PCCBs, ahem, need to be replaced, along with new paint for the calipers.
Just playing devil’s advocate here, but how do you know your calipers did not look like this before you took it in? Mine could look like that now, but I never look. Did they deliver it back to you washed?
Dude with the transmission bolts, holy F@CK. Didn’t you post about this when it happened? If not, someone else had same thing happen after their Indie got a hold of it
Candiidly, I use and gave used dealerships, even for my exotics which requires transport, because I don’t trust Indies at all after several weird experiences throughout the years including onecwith a cocaine habit charging me for tons of work back in the 1980s that was never done.
Just playing devil’s advocate here, but how do you know your calipers did not look like this before you took it in? Mine could look like that now, but I never look. Did they deliver it back to you washed?.
Because I’m **** retentive about my vehicles. First thing when I got the car was to go through everything, which included changing out the spark plugs, and putting in new brake pads on all four corners. Additionally, almost every time I wipe the car down I also wipe the rims and calipers where I can reach.
I don’t let the dealer wash any of my vehicles and this time was no different.
I think everyone is a little jealous of Petza914's cars, his shop, his experience, and his knowledge. I know they must be hard-earned and well-deserved. I also think most of us fully appreciate the explanations, tips, suggestions, and experiences he shares with all, allowing us to all benefit personally, too, and to be better stewards of our own cars. Many thanks!
Couldn't agree more and I made a post similar to yours a while back. Wish I had his garage, tools but above all his knowledge of these cars which seems to include every nut, bolt and you can go down the list seemingly without many if any exceptions.
Terrible. Especially assuming they're genuine PCCB calipers. I don't think what I have qualify as a horror stories but just other examples of what can happen when as you say you take the car to the professionals. My car ran perfect but was coming up on 60,000 miles where a service of the PDK is required. I suppose you could skip it at your own peril but I always serviced my cars on schedule so I brought it in.
No problems the day I picked up the car after it was done but the next day the emergency transmission run light came on and the transmission went into limp mode. Was close enough to my house where I limped home. Flatbed back to the dealer where they fixed whatever they screwed up when servicing the PDK. Never got a good explanation of what went wrong but clearly some oversight on their part or they wouldn't have been able to fix it given how restrictive work on the PDK is.
Another one that comes to mind was a new water pump installed on my -09 C4S. Next day I noticed a small amount of coolant on the garage floor. Drove it back to the dealer, got a loaner and picked up my car the next day. Again, no explanation of what went wrong with the pump replacement. I'd file it away as sloppy work plain and simple. Would be nice if they just took a few more minutes and got the job done right in the first place.
We have a saying in construction work, “ We don’t have time to do it right, but we have time to do it twice.” It’s very frustrating.
The service manager contacted me today and had me email pictures. A few minutes later I get a call back and he says that powder coat shouldn’t have been affected by the brake fluid like it was. He’s reaching out to Porsche to see about a goodwill claim and will get back to me in a few days.
06-20-2020, 01:33 PM
