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Originally Posted by porsche4life View Post
That’s like the M3 my parents had. I spent a good amount of time looking for the starter on it one night while I had it on the lift and finally concluded that the damn thing must be magic. Damn thing is wayyyy up in there and buried. Good thing we never had to worry about it!
Many modern cars, even some Porsche models have the starter under the intake, buried in the V of the V8 engine. From what I heard it is common on cars that have the engine stop at every stop light. I have no idea where it is on the Macan. It is a 4 cylinder engine so I don't think it is buried in there. It does have the engine off at a stop feature, but we turned that "feature" off on the first day. The first time I ever drove the Macan I went around our very short neighborhood and the engine quit. I started cussing at the cheap pos that can't run, then when I let off the brakes, it started. I remembered that "feature" and we had to read the manual, but that is turned off. I guess if we did lost of stop and go traffice in a mild climate, it might make sense. Not for our driving.
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