I asked my local Indy to run a DME report for my Spyder. He gave me the report below. Is this complete, or is there data missing? And what does the report tell me?

DaveGee

 

I would expect to see different data.

Over/revs per range 1-6.

ia there anything else?

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No, just the one page. I think others are missing.

DaveGee

 

13214/446=29mph average speed which is perfect and what I'd expect. Wondering where ranges 2-6 are, since it only seems to show range 1. My guess is there's something weird with the computer, but that is a minty report, you'd typically see range 1 and 2 on there. No concerns at all with only that small amount of range 1s.

 

A DME should have ranges 1-6 on the report. It'll show the # of occurrences that happened in that range and how many hrs ago since the last occurrence. So if you have 600 hrs total on the car and 5 occurrences in Range 2 and the last of those 5 happened 400 hrs ago, that's a good report card. Ranges 1 & 2 are generally not serious - they basically count the # of hits on the rev limiter. You don't want that # to be big, but your engine isn't technically being hurt by those. The issues start in Range 3 and get more serious with each higher Range and how recent they occurred. Now we're starting to talk about potential money shifts. You want low occurrence #s and many hrs ago. These will be in 3 & 4. You get occurrences in 5 & 6 and generally you have a sick engine or it's got extra ventilation in the block side and missing key components.

So a typical good report will be a cascading event with occurrences in R1, less in R2, hopefully only a few in R3, none in R4, and defn none in R5 & R6.

 

This is a great report.

There is another version that will show the full diagnostic on the car, whether any system runs a fault. For example, on my Boxster S it showed everything was fine except for a door lock issue.

On the overrevs, you should get the full range from the dealer. I read this to mean there was nothing in ranges 2-6, but I'd get it on paper.

By the way, it's not unusual to get a ghost range 5 or 6 reading that you know is false because it shows a single or two ignitions high up with nothing in ranges under them.

Any buyer would know you drove this like a granny Dave. 🙂

 

Thanks for all the feedback guys. I get it now. I also have the report below from 2022 which is a more complete picture.

My granny would be proud.😉

DaveGee

 

Yup, you hit the redline once, way to go! Now add $5,000 to your criminally underpriced asking price.

 

498 ignitions above red-line. Range 1, so just above.

Each revolution is 3 ignitions on a flat six engine. So 166 revolutions. We don't know the precise RPMs this happened, but let's assume 7500 to make math easy.

166 revolutions/7500 RPMs = .022 of a minute. .022 of a minute is 1.3 seconds over red-line in the life of the car...

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Dave I don’t know how you managed to keep off redline with the Spyder, I’ve never driven a car that pulls so hard right up to redline and unless I’m watching the tack its almost inevitable to hit the rev limiter when you’re really getting on it.

 

I drive with my eyes closed.

DaveGee

 

 

There’s another bit beyond what others have already said about ranges. That’s the flash count. Less of an issue I think on this gen, but on 2008 and below you could overwrite the DME. I was on deposit for an orange cayman s sport but it had all 1’s across the rev range and showed multiple flashes. It was a sweet car but I passed not knowing the track history. (Was clearly tracked). So get the full Porsche dealer report and you’ll know.

 

If car has 447 hours and the last over-rev occurred at 364 hours, that was about 2.5 years ago or 2,500 miles ago. A buyer should have no concerns resulting from the DME report.