I ow, yet have not seen my 2003 C4 since August 2008. My Porsche dealer took the car from me after various attempts by a Porsche specialist to fix an intermittent electrical failure of the instrument cluster. To cut a long story short I live in Dubai where I purchased the car second hand with only 20kms on the clock,one owner with full service history. I had an independent inspection done by Porsche which it sailed through, no problems. Several enjoyable months of driving later, the instrument cluster one day freezes. Dials freeze and some, not all warning and lights within instrument cluster remain on. Despite several attempts of changing the clusters, fuses, plugs and pins behind the cluster (at my expense, manufactures warrenty lapsed and cannot be renewed in UAE) my independent dealer gave up and passed the car onto Porsche. Porsche took the car back in August as previously mentioned and have been working on it ever since. Since the car is not under warrenty Porsche were very good and took the case on and provided me with a hire car (not a porsche) at their expense. 8 months later Porsche have just informed me that the only option left is to replace all the wiring in the car since they have established that the main harness has had some changes to it in the past (not by them) and this could possibly be the cause to why there is a surge in the cluster causing it to fail. Pinched wires, re-grounding of earth wires and all major components have been checked even the engine has been out. It will take 6 weeks for Porsche in Germany to hand make a new wiring harness since they are different on every car depending on specifications I have been informed. I just want my car back to enjoy again but not sure whether to take the plunge and go for this option. What do I do? Do I have a choice?
What would you do?
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