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Are any people her doing their own oil changes ? I would never take my car to one of the 5 min. places, and many times going to a dealer is a pain on you know what ( not even the few $ that it cost, just the time ie. you have to fit your schedule to theirs ). In order to do an oil change on the Cayman, does the car have to go on a lift, or can one just drive up onto a ramp and work from under the car. As for the change fequency, I am not a big fan of the stretched periods - even with syntetics I would not push it over a year or 15,000Km.
I refuse to believe that engine wear isn’t increased a lot by leaving the break-in oil in for 20,000 miles per the manual. I plan to change oil after the first 1500 miles if I can figure out how to do it. No instructions in the owners manual. I assume the car should be level when I pull the drain plug and that the plug will be to low to allow an oil drain pan to be used unless I jack the car up. If ramps under the rear tilt the oil away from the drain plug then the only solution is to get the car up on 4 jack stands. So the question is how to jack it up one corner at a time to get it on stands and where to position the jack and stand in the same corner to transfer weight from one to the other. Maybe someone can clue us in.
Good question, it sure can't hurt to change the oil every 5K, and it woul dbe nice if we could just do it ourselves, however the filter should be changed at the same time as the oil or isn't that just defeating the purpose?
Although the owners information packet states 20k for the first service, if it were mine I would schedule the first change at 1000 miles and then every 5000 thereafter.
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This was also discussed in an earlier thread called 'Maintenance cycle' you might want to take a look.
mPollard - One of the big issues with the new water-cooled engines introduced with the first generation Boxsters and the 996s is the rear main seal leakage (identified in the PCA tech forums as the RMS problems) problems that a good number of these cars have had and Porsche has had trouble finding a fix for until just lately.
For everyone new to the cars, I would you take a swing now and again over to the PCA site (pca.org) and click on the link at the top called 'tech section.' You don't have to be a PCA member to read the wealth of information there, but you do have to be a member to ask questions. Take a look through the Q&A for the Boxster sections for sure, and also through the 964/993/996 section for info on break-in, tires and such, too. There's even a section on interiors/exteriors. You can also search each of the sections by subjects such as 'break-in' , 'oil' 'tires' etc. and get a huge amount of information. You'll learn a lot about Porsches in general, and your newly arriving car in particular, since (like it or not) it's derived from the 987 Boxster, with some parts from the 997 parts bin, too.
brad
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If Porsche says 20K, then I'm sticking with that. I figure they built the car, warranty the car and they should know the car. And I don't really want to be bothered with changing it more often. I'll warm it up, drive it a little easier for maybe 500 miles, and take it in for it's scheduled services. When the warranty is up, I'll get rid of it - hoping they will have DSG transmission, more HP, and lighter weight car by then.
It can be rather expensive to KEEP a Porsche past the warranty period. Items such as brakes, clutch, engine mounts, etc. can add up very fast. I would recommend an extended warranty if you want to keep your new Porsche past the warranty period. Even though I make more money now during my peak earning years (57 yo), it still feels like things cost more than they used to (I know they do), even relatively. So maybe a Porsche isn't that much more to maintain than another good car.
If you go to the Porsche website and search you can find that they have the service manual on line. They do not have th Cayman yet but the Boxter is in there. It is not cheap, its something like $100 per chapter or a year for $5,000. As I am a mechanic when I get the Cayman, hopefully by the end of this year, I will be slowly downloading it.
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Is that 35mph corner 45, 55 or a ..... corner?
