Morning Richard,
Hope you are well, and enjoying retirement,
Did you manage to get any feed back from the CEO and the FD at Porsche Reading concerning your article regarding the GPF issues on the 718 cars in the Porsche Post magazine March edition, you said they requested personal copies of the magazine.
It would be brilliant to get their comments, on what is now becoming a very serious emission function fault with our 718 cars.
Without Prejudice
Pauls post is very disappointing, although we where quite certain that another GPF fitted to his car would not fix his oil ash issue.
Following my post the other day regarding the recent information sent out to the the Porsche dealer network on the 3rd March this year, concerning our Particulate filter fault.
I would like to ask its author Oliver Hayward some questions, he said in the document, any further questions please email me directly, hopefully he will give me permission to contact him.
The last paragraph on his document reads as follows.
In some cases the OPF can be recovered therefore a OPF regeneration should be attempted to see if the OPF ash load is able to be reset.
If this has already been attempted or the ash load level doesn't reset when the OPF regeneration is attempted, then the OPF should be replaced and the vehicle retested.
The new OPFs (982 254 400 AF) have been modified to prevent this issue.
All vehicles with a production date later than December 2019 should already have a modified OPF and are not relevant to this document.
Well, all our vehicles were built before December 2019, and if they had shown the OPF DTC P242F they would certainly have been replaced under the manufactures warranty.
Time goes by, then all of a sudden a software ticking clock sets a warning light, oil ash load to high, and we are off.
The dealers tell our owners, its the the wrong oil used, your driving style creates a high oil ash content, and do not look for support from your Porsche Extended Warranty, because even though the OPF is not listed as an excluded part, we have decided it is excluded, because we class it as a service item.
So hard luck.
Two years on and lots of time spent proving to Porsche Technical that the OPF is not the issue to this fault, we have finally arrived at a positive conclusion, SOFTWARE.
All this upset, as been due to a known fault going back to the first year of production, and we had no idea.
Because of this ridiculous situation, many of our cars have been sold, had their OPF filters removed, tunned out, and the residual value on these cars as declined, to the point that the Porsche dealers are not stocking these 2019 cars on their forecourts in numbers.
Its unacceptable that these vehicles cannot be fixed by Manufacture who built them, Pauls car as been in 14 weeks, and still not fixed.
Engines removed and stripped down, on two of our cars, looking for internal oil contamination, to support a 100% oil ash reading that's never been correct in any of our 718s, and now two OPF filters replaced, and we still have high oil ash readings.
And what's even more ridiculous no exhaust back pressure checks have been carried out by any of our Porsche Dealer Workshops.
Its also unacceptable that any body should have been charged for the replacement of an OPF filter that was known to be a possible problem all those years ago, and to make matters worse clearly does not rectify the problem, and is still ongoing.
And I believe that anybody that has suffered financially because of this manufacturing defect, that they should be compensated.
Any feedback would be appreciated as always
Kind Regards
Dave
