Cayman 987 2 years service?

[jhrfc]

Hi
I will have had my cayman for 2 years in October. (and will have done somewhere between 35-38k miles)
Just trying to work out from the maintainence booklet what servicing will it need.

So after 1 year and 20k miles i had intermediate maintainence done (even though i now see the book says this is not needed until 30k miles or 2 years [] ) .

Leaving that aside, as far as i can see maintenance, is not needed until 60k or 4 years, so ok there.
The only thing i can see is a two year change of brake fluid. There is a check drive belt at 40k but i will be under that.

So, what do i do? Just have the brake fluid and maybe the belt checked. That will definitely take me to the end of the 3rd year at least.
there will then be a lot of 60k stuff coming up, maintainece, spark plugs, drive belt, pdk oil. But funnily enough my finance finishes then, so i may be able to get porsche to do that , if i flip the car round for another.
Any thoughts? Have i got this all wrong?
Thanks
Jon

 

[tscaptain]

I think you will find it is due a major service at 40k miles irrespective of age - at least according to the service schedule I just looked at on the Porsche website! Why not call your PC and ask them?[]

 

[Motorhead]

Jon, For your 987.2 I think that you'll find that the service interval is every 2 years/20k miles, whichever comes first. It looks as though you have a high annual mileage, so I'd go for the full 40k mile service when it's due irrespective of the fact that you had the interim service a year ago. Not sure about the brake fluid service though. The fluid's hydroscopic (absorbs water), so I'd have thought that every 2 years would be sufficient. As Cap'n says, probably best to check with your PC, especially if you've got an extended warranty in force. Jeff

 

[jhrfc]

That's weird. i just looked at porsche uk website and indeed it's says 40k miles. But the book with my car it quite definitely says 60k miles. i will take it in and ask why they are different. Could'nt be porsche uk trying to bring forward revenue could it? J

 

[tscaptain]

Methinks you are looking at 30k KM and 60k KM - not 20k and 40k miles? On the Porsche website download the km/h pdf and see if it tallies. As Jeff says the intervals on these (and the 997s) is 2yr/20k miles (intermediate) and 4yr/40k miles (major) which ever comes first. I think your car may well tell you soon it need a service![]

 

[jhrfc]

I would suggest the same in your shoes, but i can read! [] Maintainence :

Intermeadiate :

 

[Motorhead]

Agreed Jon, But you've missed out page 2 on both services (more items on the full 4 year/40k mile service) and the "Additional maintenance" for spark plugs and drive belt check plus a couple of other items required no later than every 4 years. Jeff

 

[jhrfc]

Hi, Yes, there is a second page, but it's still all stuff do be done at that service eg 30 or 60 k miles. And the additional maintainence items i can see for 40k or 2 years is belt check, and brake fluid change. Cheers J

 

[tscaptain]

ORIGINAL: jhrfc I would suggest the same in your shoes, but i can read! [] Maintainence :

Intermeadiate :

Really? [] Well the way I read those pages is .......intermediate maintenance service at 20,000 miles or 2 years which ever comes first, maintenance service (major)at 40,000 miles or 4 years which ever comes first, intermediate at 60,000 miles or 6 years which ever comes first and so on. The only reference to the number 30,000 is the first intermediate service - and that's kms! And the first major is at 60,000 kms.........

 

[jhrfc]

Ok, I'm really startying to think i must be going mad now. You can click a bigger version, the text relating to the figures clearly says mls how can that mean anything other than miles? J

 

[tscaptain]

The text says 60,000, 120,000, 180,000,240,000 KM then a slash like / and then 40,000, 80,000, 120,000, 160,000 MILES. So they are covering both the km (before the slash) and miles requirement (after the slash) in the same long line. If I was a gambling man (which I'm not!) I would put my house on the fact that the car is due a major service at 40,000 miles![]

 

[flat6]

Trouble is, you're reading the mls at the end of the line and missing the km half way across the line. Everything to the left of the km is km and everything to the right of the km is the same repeated information, but in miles as per the mls you are seeing at the end of the line. So in line with what everyone else is saying, it seems you had a minor at 1yr / 20K miles because you crossed the mileage threshold before the 2yr time threshold. With each service interval, that is what you do and now you'll look at whether 40K miles or 4 years comes first.

 

[jhrfc]

jeez, what a berk i am! thanks, so i better start saving, they can can blooming well let me have a 991 while it's in! mind you doing the maths probably 6 months or so away. J

 

[tscaptain]

Phew! I'm glad we've sorted that out! It's not too bad. And you should get a member discount[] http://www.porschefixedpriceservice.co.uk/other-models.aspx BTW, should there be any remaining shred of doubt that page clears up the intervals![] (Click on the Cayman tab........[])