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Originally Posted by StewC625
Ages ago (1985) I was working in sales for a Porsche dealership. I sold a 928S on a Thursday, and the customer came to take delivery at 9:00 AM on Friday morning - gorgeous jet black 928S.
At noon, the guy's car arrives back at the dealership on a flatbed truck, dripping a big puddle of oil out of the bottom of the engine. The guy is ranting about the quality of the motor and how it "just broke".
We put it on a lift and the oil pan had several outward-facing rod dents in it and a front-to-back split in the pan that was leaking oil.
Well, even back then, Porsches had a rudimentary ECU that retained the highest rev's. The techs got the revs out of the ECU and discovered the engine had been revved to 10,200 RPM - this on a car with a 7000 RPM redline and no rev limiter.
Confronted with that evidence, the guy confessed that not more than a mile from the dealership, he pulled alongside a guy in a 911, took off to drag race him and missed his 2-3 shift completely - revving the engine to the destruction point.
Car abuse isn't only the domain of stupid dealership people.
At noon, the guy's car arrives back at the dealership on a flatbed truck, dripping a big puddle of oil out of the bottom of the engine. The guy is ranting about the quality of the motor and how it "just broke".
We put it on a lift and the oil pan had several outward-facing rod dents in it and a front-to-back split in the pan that was leaking oil.
Well, even back then, Porsches had a rudimentary ECU that retained the highest rev's. The techs got the revs out of the ECU and discovered the engine had been revved to 10,200 RPM - this on a car with a 7000 RPM redline and no rev limiter.
Confronted with that evidence, the guy confessed that not more than a mile from the dealership, he pulled alongside a guy in a 911, took off to drag race him and missed his 2-3 shift completely - revving the engine to the destruction point.
Car abuse isn't only the domain of stupid dealership people.
- Irish
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