Martin Hurst
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I took delivery of a gleaming midnight blue 997 "S" on 22 December last year - to all intents and purposes I am delighted with the car but there a couple of things that are niggling me and, as its my first Porsche, I don't know whether its just me or whether there is anything wrong with the car. So far I covered just 2,000 km so the car is hardly run in.
First off I had a problem on the day I collected the car as after about 25km of tooling around I suddenly lost reverse gear. Luckily all forward gears were still present and correct and the garage fixed the problem after about 45 minutes (although I was a little miffed to have a problem with a brand new car). However, I still think that selecting second gear is very stiff, even when warm it never slides in particularly easily. Is this normal? It could be that it will loosen up once its fully run in.
Secondly, there is a definite flat sport in the acceleration. Between 3,000 and 4,500 rpm when under gradual acceleration there is a marked hesitation - almost like the car is 'missing', . The "problem" isn't there under hard acceleration. I am also not sure but occasionally the car seems to be running on five cylinders for example when sitting at the lights - but I can't be sure on this one.
Finally, it often smells very hot when getting out, almost like there is something oily burning. There is no overheating. In addition, I have taken the car on two relatively high speed trips on the autobahn (speeds up to 220 kmh - winter tyres!) and there doesn't seem to be any worsening.
As I say I am new to the brand so can't be sure that there are problems or whether "they all do that guv".
Migration info. Legacy thread was 22698
First off I had a problem on the day I collected the car as after about 25km of tooling around I suddenly lost reverse gear. Luckily all forward gears were still present and correct and the garage fixed the problem after about 45 minutes (although I was a little miffed to have a problem with a brand new car). However, I still think that selecting second gear is very stiff, even when warm it never slides in particularly easily. Is this normal? It could be that it will loosen up once its fully run in.
Secondly, there is a definite flat sport in the acceleration. Between 3,000 and 4,500 rpm when under gradual acceleration there is a marked hesitation - almost like the car is 'missing', . The "problem" isn't there under hard acceleration. I am also not sure but occasionally the car seems to be running on five cylinders for example when sitting at the lights - but I can't be sure on this one.
Finally, it often smells very hot when getting out, almost like there is something oily burning. There is no overheating. In addition, I have taken the car on two relatively high speed trips on the autobahn (speeds up to 220 kmh - winter tyres!) and there doesn't seem to be any worsening.
As I say I am new to the brand so can't be sure that there are problems or whether "they all do that guv".
Migration info. Legacy thread was 22698