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Alex Postan

Alex Postan

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My drive slopes up hill and, since I don't like to reverse out into the street, I reverse all my cars in. I have now stalled it four times attempting to let the clutch in and to trickle it in on tickover - I have a horror of slipping the clutch. All my other cars (including my 2.7 Carrera) can handle this fine but not the Cayman. Furthermore, if the reves drop a bit trying to reverse in, definite sounds of pre-ignition. Looking at the hand book, it seems that reverse gear is considerable longer than 1st. This seems odd, was the gearbox designed by an Italian Tank specialist?
Anyone else have this problem?
 
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My drive slopes up hill and, since I don't like to reverse out into the street, I reverse all my cars in. I have now stalled it four times attempting to let the clutch in and to trickle it in on tickover - I have a horror of slipping the clutch. All my other cars (including my 2.7 Carrera) can handle this fine but not the Cayman. Furthermore, if the reves drop a bit trying to reverse in, definite sounds of pre-ignition. Looking at the hand book, it seems that reverse gear is considerable longer than 1st. This seems odd, was the gearbox designed by an Italian Tank specialist?
Anyone else have this problem?
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Alex

I've experienced the same with a my 2.7 Boxster. You'll get used to it.

JCB..
 
Yes indeed and it makes an awful noise if you stall it!

As I said you get use to it and you just need to give a few more revs. I haven't had it happen for about 4 years now.

JCB..
 
I reverse my boxster 987 into my garage (uphill) and still stall it now even though I have now had it 6 months (though not as often as when I first got it!). Worst bit is my next door neighbour who is a nosey bas**** shakes his head as if to say "nice car shame you cant drive"!![:(]
 
It is also a "feature" of the turbo, in case you are interested.
You do get used to it, put people tend to think you are incompetent at the start.
The real problem on the turbo is if you give it some revs and let up the clutch, it bites reasonably suddenly and you move quite quickly.
I guess it applies to all the rear/mid engined water cooled cars to a certain extent.
 
When I collected my Cayman it pre-ignited (pinked) every time I pulled away under load with insufficient throttle (ie low revs). My 997 was just the same, though I had few problems with previous Porsches. I was told that my 997 had to be filled with high octane fuel, but given that the Cayman has a lower compression ratio, I had hoped to be able to use ordinary unleaded. Now that I use super unleaded, the problem is very much less.

Incidently, depite the recommendations on the filler cap and in the handbook, my car was delivered with ordinary unleaded.
 
All these cars seem to be very easy to stall in reverse. I gave up trying to reverse up a relatives steep driveway in ours. Very embarrassing [:'(]

 
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