W8ssa's New toy two days old

[ph1l5]

Well its been 48 hrs of bliss, its been driven around, washed more times than I care to remember.
And now has some new bits on such as private plate, and some other additions.







Now as its his first time with this sort of car it was decided to have Stabilisers fitted

[john_r]

Is it broke?

[ph1l5]

Yup

[john_r]

ph1l5 said:

Yup

Care to elaborate?

Broke as in something wore out (expensive); broke as in went bang (really expensive); broke as in he crashed it (really really expensive!)?

[w8ssa]

john_r said:

Is it broke?

YUP
Alternator has gone, so its at the garage having some first aid and waiting for a call to get my car back

[ph1l5]

Sorry im not 100% sure on how it all happened but the alternator is being replaced I know that much.
hopefully the owner will be along soon to explain how his P + J came to a grinding halt.

[w8ssa]

ph1l5 said:

Sorry im not 100% sure on how it all happened but the alternator is being replaced I know that much.
hopefully the owner will be along soon to explain how his P + J came to a grinding halt.

Was driving along cruising at 50mph all of a sudden the ABS failure appeared on the dash and the car began to die. I quickly got it to the hard shoulder and called the garage who I bought it from 2 days ago!
They came up turned the key and BANG ..... burn baby burn the alternator went!

Its now being fixed and im sitting here bored out of my brains waiting for the call to say, ur car is fixed ........ still waiting ...........

Edited by w8ssa on Tuesday 22 April 13:54

[GolfGT_Girl]

you sure you was cruising at 50mph? lucky it wasnt any faster. Hope you get the car back soon, like the number plate and its too clean!

[ph1l5]

was, I think its fooked and needs a new engine.

[AngryS3Owner]

ph1l5 said:

was, I think its fooked and needs a new engine.

that doesn't sound good, I assume it'll all be covered by the garage anyway, but what a bugger.

[ph1l5]

er yes we hope so they are kicking up a fuss.

[john_r]

Blimey, thats not good - are they a Porsche dealer so they can plug into some diagnostics and find out what happened or what caused it?

[xllifts]

ph1l5 said:

was, I think its fooked and needs a new engine.

Trades and Descriptions act will cover this not fit for purpose (of HOOOONing)
If they give to much grief get on to T S office and let them write a nice letter, worked for us when a crankshaft pulley sheared off and killed the engine on a Don't laugh Rover214 we had.

[Turbofun]

sorry to hear your about !

PS. It looks like your neighbour has a BLACK 997 turbo - "Git"

[Dave B S3]

Gutted hope you get it sorted
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[Wacky Racer]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[john_r]

Wacky Racer said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

That does not make good reading; hope it gets sorted ok.

I would also get a print-out of as much history as possible - if you did over-rev it say once, but the car has an ECU history that shows regular over-revving or worse, then you have a good argument that it was 'ready to blow' when you brought the car...

Good luck!

[touching cloth]

Fook!!! best of luck mate

[Jderh]

Hope you get it fixed soon!!

Other than the broken part, very tasty motor that is!

[Nickyboy]

ph1l5 said:

Well its been 48 hrs of bliss, its been driven around, washed more times than I care to remember.
And now has some new bits on such as private plate, and some other additions.







Now as its his first time with this sort of car it was decided to have Stabilisers fitted

Never realised i had deliverd parcels to a PH'er before lol Stoke Poges IIRC??