Gilbasa

S has 102K miles on it. Never had any problems before. About once a year I needed to top off the coolant, other than that it just ran perfect! Had I been driving it and not my son, the motor would have been saved. It's important to teach your teen drivers what to do in case of overheating problems. My mechanic said had he just pulled over would have saved the motor. Expensive lesson! I will say this car had been the best car I've ever owned. It does so much, and has been very versatile in it's use. I was sure I'd get another 100K out of it!

911SLOW

Positive thinking in its finest form.

Porsche should cover the motor under the extended customer loyalty warranty, if not to keep a rare seal grey cayenne S on the road , just for this post; No questions asked.


Bravo.

seankrider

I'm going all-in, without looking at my cards on this one: I call coolant pipes, and I'll even predict your engine survives. This line above screams 'hairline fracture' to me, starting at the 40K - 50K miles mark. 7+ year-old car, 15K/year, probably developed slowly over the last three or four years.

(If I'm right, BTW, Pops sells me his/her car, instead of to Lewis' widow's current cougar bait.)

Do you have an actual estimate of how far and how long he drove it like that? Are we talking 2 or 3 minutes to a nearby exit, or 30 to another city? A few miles, or a serious distance, under stress, to really heat it up without anything to cool it down? Would your son have known to look at the water temp or oil temp gauges?

If your mechanic is right, your son had to have seen some other messages, like "Oil Temperature High", etc.?

Couldn't agree more. You and me both, on the 200K mile goal.

ltc

Lewis' widow?

I believe you meant to say Larry's widow.
BTW, I prefer "man ho", but cougar bait has potential.

I asked Larry, the world's foremost P!g Whisperer about the engine.
He just muttered "paperweight".

seankrider

^^^ ah, yes, Larry's widow. I sometimes get all these characters mixed up.

Gilbasa

My son had been driving the car all day. He went through a half tank of gas that day. He was driving back to Newport from Chino Hills and had pulled over in Anaheim when the "add coolant" light came on he added three bottles of water to the resevior and said the temp gauge had climbed to the 3/4 mark. As he was driving home he hit traffic on the 73 and that's when things started to heat up again. Once he merged onto the 73 and out of traffic the needle swept up to the top of the temp gauge (this is when he should have pulled right over) instead he drove an xtra 3 miles to try to make it home. This is when the motor started to steam and smoke. When he exited the off ramp it died about a half mile later and had to push the car into the pavilions shopping center. So it was the let three miles that did it in!

seankrider

Ouch...

pokerjarvis

Is the verdict in yet?

seankrider

Slow Guy

Unfortunately an excellent opportunity for a (expensive) lesson in automotive maintenance/upkeep.

Best of luck with the repair.