2013 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet Long-Term Road Test

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2013 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet Long-Term Road Test

Check Engine light in the long-term 2013 Porsche 911 Cabriolet

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greenpony

Whoa, flashback! Through the '90s my dad drove an '89 Accord with a tachometer that looks eerily similar to this. I guess you don't mess with a good thing, huh? http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2739/3561/6846780002_large.jpg

isaacl

nice, its displaying check engine message 1/1.
so, its leaving room for more than 1 message you can cycle through apparently. thats....forward thinking.

fordson1

I hear Porsche will sell you a color-to-sample check engine light for only $500. Joking aside, instead of having the yellow check-engine symbol showing up in 3 separate places a couple of inches apart, maybe it could give you the actual DTC? Failing that, maybe Dan Edmunds could let you use his fancy OBD II code reader so you can get an idea what's up before taking it to the dealer. The idea of walking into a dealership (that just charged me five hundred bucks for an oil change) having absolutely no idea what is causing my CEL is kinda nauseating to me...even with a car that's under warranty. You just track tested it, and all that max accel rate, max rpm, max speed reached, max lateral accel, max yaw rate, max decel, max coolant, IAT, EGT, oil, tranny temps, etc. are sitting there in the ECU and readily available to them. Plus your story on the test is online - "sir, we have reason to believe this vehicle was used in a motorsports event..." Good times.

agentorange

I wonder what vacuum hose was dislodged/not put back during that expensive service.

zcalvert

apparently it means "everybody overreact before knowing precisely which one of a million things it could mean"

fordson1

I suspect agentorange is right. The side benefit of your oil change taking 3 hours labor is that it doesn't get put back together correctly.