Diggermeister
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I agree, This is what I'd been told from various sources; JZM, RPM, 911v too, as well as Mike at Sports & Classic.996ttalot said:On a 996 turbo engine trust me - if someone does a money shift it is pretty obvious and normally is instant failure or within an hour of driving. Porsche say 200 hours - that is just playing safe from warranty perspective. 50 miles or one hour of running you would know generally...
...50 hours would be plenty of time for a problem to show itself.
Ken
My previous car, which was sold to be by the dealer as "original" had, unbeknownst to me, been mapped. part of the mapping allowed it to rev just past the normal limit and, therefore, into "range 2".
This was only uncovered during service work by Sports & Classic - they were seeing the count go up and wondered what on earth was going on. I eventually had is properly (re) re-mapped by Chip Wizards to prevent the issue.
It was a nuisance, because I could not sell the car when I wanted to, until the 50hrs passed, but I did at least know, for sure, there was no damage because there most definitely were not any fudged shifts.
The adoption of further rev-range monitoring on the 997 generation was a definite plus IMHO.