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If you read through the entire post, & count them it's < 10. For the # of these cars on the road it's peanuts. Some members have had big impacts & not had this happen, so it might relate to repeated stresses & metal fatigue on a cast part.
Exactly !! Some people just love to jump on the scare mongering boat, to them it helps justify why they they dont have one or cant get one, it's really quite sad.
Meanwhile we're all having a blast owning one of the best cars that Porsche has ever produced.
The concern is justified when the failure mode is catastrophic regardless of occurrence. This is especially the case in the designed area of operation. We are encouraged to enjoy Porsche's GT product on the race track and in the canyons. This real issue tips the risk factor scales away from what most of us bought the car for.
I'm attempting to find a solution to the problem and applaud our peers doing the same. It's just a tougher nut to crack than coolant lines, rod bearings, or the like.
It has probably been said before, but just to re-iterate: The strut tower plates are motorsports parts (.8A revision), the one on the right is from the cup-991's and the one on the left from the clubsport-981. in the street car, they attach to the side of the strut tower, just above the wheel well liner (which needs to be removed for access). The installation requires 58.5mm long bushings/washers as seen in the pictures. These won't be under load, so can be cut off e.g. aluminum. On the left, the mounting hole originally holds the washer fluid neck. If all should remain close to stock, attach the washer fluid neck to the bushing.
I have had this installed for more than a year, initially for piece of mind, later with the understanding of increased safety in the (hopefully not) event.
Looking at this modification, one begins to wonder if there isn't a way to create a "bucket" that fits over the strut top and bolts in much like what is seen here but without the spacer? It obviously couldn't go all the way around, and I am not sure if additional anchor points could be found (or added?) but I'd be pretty interested.
Would adjusting the front sway bar to the softest setting potentially relieve some stress? (street driven cars)
That would be the opposite direction. The damage is coming from bottoming out. a stiffer sway bar will transmit some force to the unloaded wheel, or if both wheels hit the same bump it wont matter except for the friction in the sway bar. Either way, it's not likely to make a huge difference.
Are these only happening on the passenger side? I'm probably wrong, but just going by memory, I want to say all instances I've seen are passenger side.
It was never my intention to minimize or dismiss these failures as one off's or incredibly rare or uncommon.
My interest is on what can done to prevent it, especially when Porsche has claimed it's not a design problem, b/c in the end it's our cars & we pay the bills, drive them, etc
Just two Boeing 737 Max 8 have crashed so far, out of how many flying? People just panicking for no reason...
You had me fooled with attempting sarcasm. But with currently only 376 in use according to Wikipedia and 2 crashes in 6 months I'd say something is not right... With 5,000 or so ordered that could mean 50 crashes every year...
...My interest is on what can done to prevent it, especially when Porsche has claimed it's not a design problem...
If this isn't a design problem, it's a manufacturing/quality problem, and regardless of the cause of the problem, Porsche is responsible for these failures occurring, not the owners/drivers of the cars.
03-12-2019, 05:06 PM
