Ever sit back and think about some of the constraints encountered while working on your car!
Porsches are nice cars but the design for maintenance is non existent. Really bad. It seems like everything you do is much more complicated than it needed to be. Some of my observations on a Turbo:.
Jack up the car....
There is no “real” good place to jack it up with a floor jack.
Take off the front wheel and look at the front hub. Five big diameter lugs on a cast disk attached by 5 small diameter bolts? WTF? What happened to something being only as strong as its weekest link? Throw that out the window. Cant get the stinking dust cover off. Tool required. Nobody makes one.
Take the bearings and seals out to remove the rotor. That’s smart!. Rear is a little better.
Forget taking your distributor cap off to take a look inside...The Intercooler has to be removed and you cant unsnap or snap the hold down clips back on the cap. Pull the wires out of the distributor cap to get it off and on...brilliant!
Just stay away from the left side of the engine compartment. It defies the laws of physics and thermodynamics. Multiple objects occupying the same space at the same time and every edge is sharp.
Throw away the air cleaner plenum. It's the size of a washing machine.
Don’t put a quart too much of oil in the tank. It will inhale it in the intake and will be farting smoke for a month. Cant get it out either. It will smoke at will and at the worst times. Don’t drive up to a window of a drive through. Oh nice car! EeeeUUUU!
You have to giggle when you see how to replace the alternator. Its like pulling the N1 section of a turbofan engine and squirming and twisting to remove (5) little 4 mm bolts that hold on a guide vane that has to be removed inside the engine plenum to get to the wires to remove them. These guys have never heard of a connector
Fan pulley...Better have 6+ shims or the whole works will self destruct and grind a slot through your base backing plate. Weird!
Spark plugs replacement is an art. Its like pulling a tick from your horse’s groin while ridding it.
Valve adjustment is and art...This is and issue...Could easily be much better. Its truly a job for an orthodontist.
Fix an oil leak. .It will start somewhere else.
The car clunks where there is nothing physically possible to create a clunk?
Front end?????rear end??? Wont clunk unless your driving it with a nosey buddy who cant help but say “what was that? Jack up the car on jack stands and nothing has any play, struts, sway bars, trailing arms… yank, pull, push, spin nothing loose, what the hell is that clunk?
Did you ever see what holds on your emergency brake shoes...Its a frictospringprobegrabulator.
German engineering
What have you observed about your cars that seem silly?
Bob