Will occasional overrevving lead to engine damage

[richardheeley]

ORIGINAL: Mark Bennett

After a couple of years of ownership, mine said 65,536 of one, and zero of the other (the downshift one). This with only a few hundred hours of running. The last would have been 2 min before droppiing the car off at the OPC for the service.
The Porsche Centre were quite concerned at my driving, and would not accept that I had knowingly hit the rev limiter just a handful of times. As I knew I had not hit the limiter (nor anywhere near it!) on the drive to the OPC I knew it was wrong. "No" said the OPC... "That's impossible"...
I think I then worked it out I would have hit the limiter once every 30 seconds or something, and they still insisted it was right...[&:]

Unfortunately this is typical of the approach of modern day mechanics. As I discovered with my faulty PASM, if the computer says so, it must be true. It never seems to occur to them that software can have bugs in it. And the idea of believing a customer over a computer is unthinkable.

 

[THX911]

ORIGINAL: richardheeley

ORIGINAL: Mark Bennett

After a couple of years of ownership, mine said 65,536 of one, and zero of the other (the downshift one). This with only a few hundred hours of running. The last would have been 2 min before droppiing the car off at the OPC for the service.
The Porsche Centre were quite concerned at my driving, and would not accept that I had knowingly hit the rev limiter just a handful of times. As I knew I had not hit the limiter (nor anywhere near it!) on the drive to the OPC I knew it was wrong. "No" said the OPC... "That's impossible"...
I think I then worked it out I would have hit the limiter once every 30 seconds or something, and they still insisted it was right...[&:]

Unfortunately this is typical of the approach of modern day mechanics. As I discovered with my faulty PASM, if the computer says so, it must be true. It never seems to occur to them that software can have bugs in it. And the idea of believing a customer over a computer is unthinkable.

Computer says noooo....

 

[Guest]

Having recently brought a boxster i will relay my limited experience.....

I brought a very high mileage 98 2.5... the previous owner drove 60miles a day to canary wharf.. and to quote him 'i dont push the car, i rarely go over 3.5k revs'... i obviously did not believe him for a second... but still brought the car...

As per previous posts the car seemed to hesitate at around the 3k rev mark.. cleaned the maf and air filter which helped... but was still hesitant.... in my irritation i thrashed the nuts out of the car... redlined every gear hit limiter couple of times... ( Great sound.... [] )... anyway cut a long story short, the next day jumped in the car to go to the station, and i kid you not the car pulled like it should, engine was extremely smooth and in traffic car was easy to control revs stayed constant... absolutely perfect.... now really enjoying the boxster, not thrashing it as hard as i did at the weekend, but still hard enough... loving it....

anyway, moral of the story... its a porsche... drive it hard... its obviously not good for the car to spend its life doing 60 miles a day in traffic without a blast at the weekend....