Kaydee

V valley lake

bolts found!

I own a ROW (Rest of the World, South Korea to be specific) S 2011 4.8 V8.
I started to see coolant level low warnings more often, so I took it to a mechanic.
With intake manifold removed, I was able to see the engine as the above.

There were no recalls regarding coolants, so I have never taken my car to a dealer to fix anything related to coolants.
The engine is vanilla, and it is the very first time removing the intake manifold.
Does this mean that ROW V8 models are sold without the adhesive problem?

jaustin

^ are you the original owner?

Kaydee

Yup since 2011
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Come to think about it, it IS a second time that the manifold is removed, as we have had variocam recall here in Korea.
Regardless, my dealer did NOT touch the coolants.

AnAlbumCover

very odd, any chance that thermostat housing/ y-pipe has a manufacture date on it?

Kaydee

I'll check with the mechanic tomorrow and let you know if we find anything.

- ADDED -

Unfortunately, we couldn’t find any manufacturing date on it

I also asked this to the Porsche dealer, but they couldn’t find anything about it in the vehicle history database.

CTT-QTR

I believe the coolant pipe issue/recall is only applicable to the US-Spec vehicles. Never heard of any recalls related to coolant pipes here either in my region. Original owner of a '12 CT with over 170,000 Km and I never had any issues with the coolant system in our extremally hot climate.

jaustin

very odd... seems like we like our glue over here till it fails.