Complaint Review: Porsche Cars North America - Internet
- Porsche Cars North America Internet United States of America
- Phone: 1 800 545 8039
- Web: porsche.com
- Category: Auto manufactures
Porsche Cars North America Sold cars with defective motors, prone to blow out Internet
*Consumer Comment: Chris, I talked to our Porsche mechanic and he said....
*Consumer Comment: *You can do what a Toyota owner did. He put....
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I bought a 2002 911 C4 Porsche used from my best friend in late 2007. My friend had only driven the car 27,000 miles. I bought the car from him knowing that he had the car serviced by the dealer, and was never in any accidents. After I bought the car, I had it serviced regularly by a local Porsche mechanic.
The car started to lose radiator fluid, and not being a car expert, i simply added more radiator fluid. Once i hit 44,000 miles on the car, the engine seized up. seems that due to an engine/cylinder design flaw, the radiator fluid was leaking into the engine and mixing with the oil, and as you can guess, my engine seized up.
I now need a new $20,000 engine after only 44,000 miles? I did call Porsche and logged a complaint. They said there was nothing they could do, since i was out of warranty, did not buy the car from Porsche and did not have the car serviced by Porsche. However, when you look on the web, seems there is a common defect on these engines as it looks pretty common that the Porsche engines blow out from any point after 20,000 miles. Hard to believe that you buy a $100k car and the engine has a shorter life span than an American car?
Any Porsche expert you speak to claims that everyone including Porsche is aware of the problem, but everyone is afraid to take on Porsche.
Is there anyone that can help?
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#2 Consumer Comment
Chris, I talked to our Porsche mechanic and he said....
AUTHOR: Karl - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Friday, January 15, 2010
that he has seen cracked blocks on the 996 series 911's. He said that he would only recommend buying the 996 turbo, and to stay away from the naturally aspirated 996 series 911's.
#1 Consumer Comment
*You can do what a Toyota owner did. He put....
AUTHOR: Karl - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, December 29, 2009
VINYL LEMONS all over his 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid and parked it outside the Toyota dealership (off of their property) and passed out fliers, explaining that his engine was defective. He did this after the Toyota dealership & Toyota corporation would not help him.
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