Articles under 997

How to Store Your Porsche Over Winter

Solving Winter Storage Problems

Unfortunately, the time arrives when you must put your toys away for winter. As the days shorten, many Porsche owners face the prospect of storing their car and not using it over the winter months. Winter storage raises many questions and there are a variety of ideas as to how to approach it.

Recommendations for Porsche Storage

We work with many professional shops that offer storage and maintain car collections that are stored in pristine condition and ready to be driven at a moments notice. So, we assembled the best advice on how to store your car for the winter.

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Choosing the Best Engine Oil For Your Porsche

Evolve Your Thinking to The Best Oil For Porsche

The choice of Porsche engine oil is critical for performance, wear protection, engine life, and emissions efficiency. There’s a lot of noise about Porsche factory-approved oils A40, C20, C30, and C40 for example, and many personal opinions on the oil brands of choice, oil weights, and additives used. However, until now, no one has challenged the real underlying shortcomings of the synthetic oil in your engine. Porsche wanted to know if there was a alternative to petroleum-based oils.

Tested By Porsche – Best of the Best

More than 32 different oil manufacturers, including the largest well-known brands, tested their oil for the Porsche approval. Evolve’s oil produced superior results that exceeded all other tested oils.

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Porsche Flat Battery – No-Start and Battery Draw Problem Solving

How Healthy is Your Battery? Diagnosing the Flat Battery, No Start or Battery Draw Problems on Your Porsche.

Good battery goes flat? – no power or weak power after overnight parking? Finding a draw on a battery that causes it to go flat or have very weak power after a relatively short period e.g., overnight parking, can be a real pain in the you know what! Finding the problem can be a long drawn out and frustrating process – often this can also be expensive because of the hours involved to establish the source of the problem.

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Porsche Technical Q & A – October 2020

Porsche Technical Q & A – Highlights of the Most Recent Technical Questions We’ve Answered – Some, No One Knows the Answer to Yet!

We receive thousands of visits every month to our common problems pages. We encourage you to contact us if you don’t find the answer to your particular issue and we do our best to try to find a solution.

We receive hundreds of questions every month in this way and we try to gather them together to identify any trends. The type of question varies dramatically from what appears to be design issues on new cars, to very unusual mechanical behavior. Here are some of the issues that have come up most recently.

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Porsche Diagnostic Trouble Codes – OBD2

Porsche DTCs, Fault Codes or Trouble Codes – How to Make Sense and Take Advantage of those OBD2 Codes on Your Porsche.

So, you’re working from home, bored and hooked on Amazon shopping. You decide it’s time to get one of those fancy new DTC OBD2 code readers and do a spot of that there mechanic stuff yourself – how difficult can it be? You plug in, read the code and there’s your answer – simple, right?

“This little thing will save us a fortune in repair bills, babe,” you proudly announce to your wife, as you rip open the box and head for the garage. Let’s see what that check engine light on the Porsche is really all about. You got this, no worries, right?

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Perfect For Kids Like Us This Weekend

Free Digital Live Tour of Porsche Museum

Lock down and social distancing has made it difficult to pursue typical weekend activities – no news there! However, here is an opportunity to do something a little different this weekend and it comes with the possibility of being cool!

This Sunday, May 17th, Porsche will offer a free digital guided tour of their museum in Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart. This presents a wonderful opportunity to score a series of good relationship points during these difficult times. Read Full Article »

Porsche 911 997 – Awesome if You Can Find One

911 997.2 Quickly Becoming A Rare Commodity

As we rapidly approach the 992, the older 997 is now the Porsche 911 that falls into the “should be a bargain” category. However, while the earlier version is an awesome car and has a reasonable supply available, the later 997.2 seems to be rare and increasing in value.

Any 911 from 2009 through 2011 is bit harder to find — the economy was in free-fall after the housing bubble burst and the banks stole all our money, 401K and then took billions of tax Dollars as a bailout gift – not many people rushed out and bought a 911.
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