LanternRouge
New member
I'm gonna be cheeky and jump straight in with a plea for some tech help on my first post.
The past 12 months has seen a love hate relationship with my first Porsche.
I finally got to the bottom of all the niggles following 12 months of ownership and back and forth to the garage which finally resulted in the engine being removed for a faulty oil cooler with a leak - ouch!!!
So, for the past 6 months or so the car has performed well on some days and was heavy and didn't boost properly on other days. It was pot luck - a bit like it's owner me thinks!
I drove it away from the garage following an 'engine out' oil cooler replacement a couple of weeks ago and the thing all of a sudden started idling weirdly. It drove well but when in neutral it would rev up to circa 1100 and stay there. Took it back to the garage and the fault codes were weird enough for them to suspect it was the MAF. After a quick swap with second hand MAF from another similar model, my car had never run so good. It was performing like never before and I was confident it was finally sorted and my porsche paranoia over!. However that was short lived!
A new MAF was ordered and the following day it was taken back to get the new part swapped out for my temp loan MAF, same part number as both previous ones - 996.606.124.00. Then I drove away only to find that the idle was back up around the 1,100rpm mark. The car is running better but the idle is all messed up again. I was expecting it to settle but it simply isn't right.
It is going back in next week for another job - but was hoping someone could let me know if this sounds like a common problem when installing a new MAF? - as it didn't have the idle problem prior to the engine out job, should something have been reset maybe?
To add to the bizarreness, my in dash display brightness is now all over the place and has a mind of its own when the seat belt message is showing. Arghhhh
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Any help would be gratefully received.
Many thanks
The past 12 months has seen a love hate relationship with my first Porsche.
I finally got to the bottom of all the niggles following 12 months of ownership and back and forth to the garage which finally resulted in the engine being removed for a faulty oil cooler with a leak - ouch!!!
So, for the past 6 months or so the car has performed well on some days and was heavy and didn't boost properly on other days. It was pot luck - a bit like it's owner me thinks!
I drove it away from the garage following an 'engine out' oil cooler replacement a couple of weeks ago and the thing all of a sudden started idling weirdly. It drove well but when in neutral it would rev up to circa 1100 and stay there. Took it back to the garage and the fault codes were weird enough for them to suspect it was the MAF. After a quick swap with second hand MAF from another similar model, my car had never run so good. It was performing like never before and I was confident it was finally sorted and my porsche paranoia over!. However that was short lived!
A new MAF was ordered and the following day it was taken back to get the new part swapped out for my temp loan MAF, same part number as both previous ones - 996.606.124.00. Then I drove away only to find that the idle was back up around the 1,100rpm mark. The car is running better but the idle is all messed up again. I was expecting it to settle but it simply isn't right.
It is going back in next week for another job - but was hoping someone could let me know if this sounds like a common problem when installing a new MAF? - as it didn't have the idle problem prior to the engine out job, should something have been reset maybe?
To add to the bizarreness, my in dash display brightness is now all over the place and has a mind of its own when the seat belt message is showing. Arghhhh![
]Any help would be gratefully received.
Many thanks
