neanicu

Also,check out P-tech channel and be sure to like,share and subscribe for professional Porsche repairs.


Part 2. Enjoy!

NelaK

That is a great video and you can really tell that the technician takes pride in his work.

phatz

Would love to see the interior of the owners home

deilenberger

Very nice, once part #2 is on-line, we'll copy them over to the DIY subforum.

neanicu

If you read the Porsche tech answers in the YouTube comments section you will see that he states : " This customer hasn't had the car long. It wasn't maintained well for a long time unfortunately. "
So the previous owner is to blame...

deilenberger

Anyone know what dealership Porsche Tech works at? Be worth seeking him out I think for some work you really want done right.

neanicu

He works for Loeber Porsche,out of Lincolnwood,Illinois...about 20 min from Chicago.

NelaK

I watched his other videos and I hate paying people to do things I could do myself but I'd be comfortable paying him.

Having said that, he's a dealership tech and probably earning flat rate. The system is rigged against him and that standard of service. I'm not even sure how a flat rate tech has time to be filming themselves or how his service manager is okay with him 'wasting' time on capturing video and cleaning as he works.

Petza914

I believe when he started this initiative a couple years ago he had the full backing of the dealership to do it and I think he does some of the more lengthy video work after hours. Why would the dealership allow this - for the same reason a bunch of you said you'd like to seek him out to work on your cars - generates service business for the dealership and improves their reputation.

oldskewel

Absolutely. It's a great and rare show of effort and ability. Certainly not what I would normally expect from a dealership.

19psi

I doubt there's a single flat rate for "fix water leak." I'd guess he got paid for removing left seat, removing right seat, removing front carpet, removing rear carpet, cowling, wiper assembly and so on. If he's good, he could have had the equivalent of 16 hours in an 8 hour day. That was a lot of labor and it would be interesting to see what the final bill was...probably close to what that neglected/high mileage 04S is worth.

It seems I now have 2 recalls that need to be done on my Cayenne and I had no idea this place existed. Even though I avoid going through/near Chicago at all costs, Loeber seems like a winner and worth the elevated blood pressure to get there.

Crocodon

From the comments: “I believe the total cost was around $2300. It was 13 hours of labor.”

neanicu

Part 2 is up :


Enjoy!

v10rick

Why would any car mfg. have spliced connections in a body wiring harness? Did the wire spool run out so they spliced instead of scraping the harness?

Based on the MSRP this should not happen IMO.

A Ford Fiesta yes, Cayenne no.

deilenberger

They aren't simple splices.. they are junction points. The only reason MSRP might come into play is we probably have more of them in a Cayenne that is heavily optioned out.

In my '11 CTT - I tore into that harness to see if anything odd was going on (and can say that the 958 splices are really quite waterproof as far as I could see..) And I found that there were junction splices for things like control circuit computer buses. Three wires joined together for one side of the bus, and three other wires joined together for the other side of the bus. The basic path was from front to back parallel to the door-sill, but the 3rd set of wires went into the harness, were bundled up, and when I pulled them out - they went off to another part of the car running parallel to the firewall. If they were simply splices - the splices wouldn't be uniform, and in looking at reports from 955/957's that have problems - it's typically the same color wire at about the same location for the splice.

It appeared to me to be intentional engineering. One difference on the 958 splices - they used a cover for the splices that was heavy clear shrink wrap with a plastic filler that flowed around the wires when the shrink wrap shrank, (say that 3 times fast..) A lot of the newer waterproof splice connectors use this sort of scheme - something that melts inside the shrink wrap encapsulating the wiring. I replaced two of mine mostly because I accidentally cut one of them while cutting the friction tape off the bundle. I dissected the one I took out - and there was no sign of corrosion on the wire or junction, and I know this wire had gotten wet a number of times when the HVAC drain plugged up.