Tranmission Whine
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wedgepilot
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Mine too, although it' s only really noticable on the overrun.
At a 944 Technical Talk a couple of years ago at Porsche Reading, they said that they all did it from new. People used to take them back and complain.
Guest
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My S2 whines as well, and all the 944/968 I have been in whine except one : the S2 of a friend which was fitted with a £800 new torque tube ... [&:]
May I add that the transmission whine definitely does not prevent the cars from performing as they were designed for, far from it, as everybody here I suppose will have noticed [
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May I add that the transmission whine definitely does not prevent the cars from performing as they were designed for, far from it, as everybody here I suppose will have noticed [
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Kevin Welch
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The time to worry is when you start talking back!!! [ORIGINAL: Roger Mills
I must be lucky, mine is very quiet [
Until you let the clutch out in neautral and the release bearing starts to talk to me [
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I think you have been lucky!
200K conflicts with what Porsche say (see post further up the thread).
I'm pretty sure of both of my 944's milages, and both of those whined (I rather liked it - at 140 on the Autobahn it sounded like a jet taking off !)
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I disagree.
It has more to do with the 'how many miles has your car done thread'.
The reality is the majority of 944's are clocked and clocked again, as much by private owners as the trade.
The cars themselves are built as you know like the proverbial brick s**t house so they encourage such action. Sadly the gearboxes do show wear hence all these 95k 944's with noisy axles, when in truth they are 200k plus cars.
The delusion of owners of these cars is remarkable, if my 944 whined I would not be happy unless I had paid the cost of a rebuild less for the car.
Sum up, if they whine they are worn and really should be fixed.
The Crow.
It has more to do with the 'how many miles has your car done thread'.
The reality is the majority of 944's are clocked and clocked again, as much by private owners as the trade.
The cars themselves are built as you know like the proverbial brick s**t house so they encourage such action. Sadly the gearboxes do show wear hence all these 95k 944's with noisy axles, when in truth they are 200k plus cars.
The delusion of owners of these cars is remarkable, if my 944 whined I would not be happy unless I had paid the cost of a rebuild less for the car.
Sum up, if they whine they are worn and really should be fixed.
The Crow.
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I have owned and my family admittedly extended, eight 944's over the last 14 years.
Funnily the cars I looked at in the late eighties had all done big mileages then 100k plus - why they were cheaper hence my interest. Those same cars nearly a decade and half on all seem to have been stationary or have actually gone backwards! Perhaps that explains why the gearboxes whine??
I have owned and my family admittedly extended, eight 944's over the last 14 years.
Funnily the cars I looked at in the late eighties had all done big mileages then 100k plus - why they were cheaper hence my interest. Those same cars nearly a decade and half on all seem to have been stationary or have actually gone backwards! Perhaps that explains why the gearboxes whine??
Guest
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Sure service history is useful but when these cars routinely commanded values of 12k plus the difference between high and low mile cars was considerable.
As a consequence service histories were forged and trust me plenty were, mostly be the trade.
Slightly more difficult now and less incentive to do so cash wise so my experience is private sellers are at least as bad at simply clocking the car and inventing a storyas to where the book went. Stolen is a favourite!
I also reckon turbo cars were generally less used, more 2/3rd car than lux and S2.
As a consequence service histories were forged and trust me plenty were, mostly be the trade.
Slightly more difficult now and less incentive to do so cash wise so my experience is private sellers are at least as bad at simply clocking the car and inventing a storyas to where the book went. Stolen is a favourite!
I also reckon turbo cars were generally less used, more 2/3rd car than lux and S2.
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