Originally Posted by boobernackle

The cost is around $455 with about 10 hours of labor from the info I gathered from here. Look on page 12 for more info.

On a side note, I think you all are confusing the distinction between a tester pushing a car hard and actually "abusing" a car. It's not that I don't like my car, far from it, but just the way Porsche seems to brush off a lot of issues that need to be fixed with the car.

Finally, when you have problems like the trunk clunk that happens to so many of us, it makes you wonder how they pushed this car. The smoke issue can only be discovered by owners when pushing a car hard enough, which most of us won't do to our cars. If we all did, then the petition would probably be 3X longer.

Bottom line, if this car was pushed as hard as it should be, then clearly this problem would have been taken care of, along with other issues, from the start. I see this as a MAJOR problem, not a minor one and is too clear for "abuse" not to uncover.