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Originally Posted by Eric Coffey
Hmm, I was under the impression that the "blue dot" indicated a remanufactured engine case.
I thought those were only used/sold under Porsche's remanufactured engine program though (typically used for warranty replacements I believe) and never installed on new production cars.
Are you sure you have the original engine there?
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It turns out that MANY Porsche owners in the early 2000s received BRAND NEW cars with blue paint on their engines. The word from the big U.S. Porsche tuners/engine-builders, based on the info they've managed to squeeze out of people at Porsche AG is that the blue paint means that some component failed during initial quality control tests, and that the engine was remanufactured before being installed into a BRAND NEW car. According to some sources (I'm hesitant to name names out of school), they've found evidence of cases that were WELDED from the factory in blue-paint cars (but never cars WITHOUT the blue paint).
There's a thorough thread about it over at Planet-9. Ken (known as K-Man) apparently did a LOT of homework to accompany his own legal action against Porsche and the dealership that sold him his car. A lot to read through on this thread, but it's informative:
Do you have a Blue Paint Engine?