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981 Cayman GTS Upgrades

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jel2284

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Hi everyone,

I am relatively new to the club, and I bought my Cayman GTS in August last year. For the most part I love it - particularly the balance, handling and noise! Lately, though, I have been toying with the idea of engine upgrades. Don't get me wrong the car is not slow any means, but it would be nice if I could extract a little more power / torque from the engine without compromising reliability. Am not looking to spend huge amounts of money or do major work like engine changes or turbocharging!! Thinking of things like plenum/throttle body upgrades, ECU tuning and possibly exhaust changes. I have no experience tuning cars though, and am also concerned about warranty and how that might be affected if the car is tuned.

Can anyone comment on the above?

Thanks in advance.

Best wishes,

John.
 
do jens 380 BHP mods to it, job jobbed.

join Ehresmann Automotive on face book, for the graphs and info.

 
Thanks for the info. What are the implications on servicing and warranty? Am assuming these mods are detectable so could open me up to problems with my Porsche dealer?

 
keep it stock then, that's the choice :).

they are only bolt on parts so no engine work, you can always put the car back to oem.

a 385PS GTS though, be an amazing car.

Servicing would be the same, warranty is harder as one has to prove the parts you fitted broke the car.

So if your seat broke you would be on a warranty ok, if your gearbox broke then no chance.

Modded is fun though and you end up with a very fast car.

 
Thanks for your reply again. I must admit, it's very tempting. I can see with not much more power, these cars would be close to perfect! I had an SLK55 before this - nice engine, but not a patch on the Cayman as a package in any other way. I just miss having that little bit of extra power that the V8 had. I will email Jens and do a bit more exploring. In the meantime I'd be really interested to hear from other people who have done light modifications and how their Porsche dealer has reacted.

 
Agree with above - no point in anything less as you prob wouldn't notice the difference!

 
MrDemon said:
Servicing would be the same, warranty is harder as one has to prove the parts you fitted broke the car.

So if your seat broke you would be on a warranty ok, if your gearbox broke then no chance.
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With respect I do not think all of the above is correct. On the Modified section of this Forum we warn members that any changes whilst the car is under warranty may well result in denial of a warranty claim. We may think it is unfair but members have posted here that Centres have advised that fitting radiator grills will cause warranty issues. Replacing batteries is another favourite particularly now with the battery specific charging routines.

It is not the case that Porsche need to prove a causal relationship between modification and failure on car that is under extended warranty as this is a contract and outside the scope of EU block exemption.

On factory warranted car's I would suggest you are at the mercy of your Centre's warranty claims controller. Porsche audit warranty compliance so Centres are not entirely able to use full descretion. If the parts are equivalent replacement then you should be OK but modifications are by definition better than equivalent.

My car is so modified I recognised at the beginning I could not look to warranty for fixing issues.

Porsche dealers' PIWIS can gather a great deal of data about car usage and events but with a factory code that Porsche AG will require for any drive train failure they can extract further data AND detect whether any changes have been made to the ECU.

Modify your car, it is great fun but bear in mind engine ECU modifications can be detected as can the more obvious exhaust manfold, plenum changes.

Ralph

 
am new to this but I would say modified cars can be awesome however if you want or indeed need the warranty the safe bet is to leave standard

 
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