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Terrible day, Poorly 997 and 10 hours to recover. Help !!

Sorry to hear about you experience mate.

Do you think this happened because the car doesn't get driven daily?

With some of the stories coming up on the forum at the moment it is leading me to think these cars have to be driven every or something happens.
 
Mine is a C4. Although your drive to the front has an electro magnetic clutch. Even so, the car can't put any srive to the front wheels if the rars are locked up. If the car would push along the floor in neautral then possibly not the diff. as this is a permanent drive with the wheels.
 
in my opinion all roads lead back to the clutch,

gearboxes dont just 'go' unless the fluid drained out of it and you dident realise,

if its the gearbox, its a terrible advert for the marque
 
Geezer 911 said:
Sorry to hear about you experience mate.

Do you think this happened because the car doesn't get driven daily?

With some of the stories coming up on the forum at the moment it is leading me to think these cars have to be driven every or something happens.

Quite possible. Always had little issues bringing it out of SORN, like air con re-gas, square tyres, Rad leak, I have read they like to be used, but I doubt that has anything to do with this failure.
 
Palladium said:
in my opinion all roads lead back to the clutch,

gearboxes dont just 'go' unless the fluid drained out of it and you dident realise,

if its the gearbox, its a terrible advert for the marque

I hope it is the clutch, because I have been saving this little lot for a rainy day, and it rained yesterday, rained real hard !!

 
get it put in by a proper specialist, people who do them all the time

tognola will do that and make a proper job of it
 
Get it diagnosed first though :lol:

Chucking clutches at gearbox faults may get a bit pricey in the long run.

Back to my diff. problem - we never understood what caused it.
 
Palladium said:
get it put in by a proper specialist, people who do them all the time

tognola will do that and make a proper job of it

It was put in by a Porsche specialist and trained Porsche tech last time ! I'll wait to see what the issue is first :thumb:
 
ok, but remember 'specialist' can be anything

i think you will be back on the road in no time :thumb:

good luck with this
 
Boba, that pic of the Sachs parts reminds me of me :floor: :floor: a positive spin on things , having things ready for more mods :thumb: :thumb:
 
Sounds like clutch or DMF, if they have a DMF?

Had one go in a RAV a couple of years back & it would still bind & crawl forward on level ground. Nothing on a slope tho.

I've also had a gearbox go with no warning in the past. Just cruising along & then a massive bang & lost 4th & 5th.
It was still drive able enough to get home & had to be held in reverse, but prior to it, there was no warning & no noise of any kind.

Not much help i know, but my money is on the clutch in your motor...
 
Just checked the car to push it around the drive and it still has forward and backward movement in gears but just creeps on a flat. All gears go in fine all nice and smooth.

Strange :?:
 
Clutch is favourite I think.
 

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