After reading about Nick's troubles in the other thread, it got me thinking when one is in the clear of major issues. Approaching 4000 miles and now in my second year of ownership, I would think I am in the clear now. But being my first Porsche I don't really know, and the car has never experienced a real winter. What do you guys think, is there a mileage that you are somewhat safe from major issues?

 

I would hope you are clear. My 2d anniversary is the end of the month and I am coming up on 12,000 miles. I had a serious issue at about 6k miles, but it was a strange and hopefully unique issue.

I think that the problem is that the 991 is an all new platform and the number of cars that have serious miles on them is limited. I don't think we know that we are all out of the woods yet. But with luck, we will look back and know we were good.

 

You're only safe when you're under warranty. After that anything can happen. Really, nobody can predict exactly when a part will fail.

I do think most of the issues are due to it being a new platform. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

 

I have owned 3 previous Porsches. My last was a 2004 996 TT. I only had 28K miles but no issues other than regular maintenance. I have known people to drive a 911 to 150K miles without issue. No worries!

 

Turning 1 year old this month on my 13 C2SC with just about 10K trouble free miles.

 

16,000 miles on my first 991 and now 20,000 on the second. No other issue than the change over valves (minor, now well known and documented).

By now, all the any major design flaw (car catching on fire ) should be known, so I would not worry too much. But I'd be surprised if you could already find a 991 with 60,000+ miles on the odometer...

 

7k on my 2012 C2S and no problems other than change over valves.

 

Appraching 20k miles and 2 years; no issues; all the early build car campaigns long completed.

 

Never. The older your car gets and the more miles you put on it, the greater the probability that you will have a major issue.

 

I went S, instead of Turbo, since I didn't want additional worries about Turbo issues.
So I am hoping the S holds up well.
PDK and PDCC are concerns to me, for long term reliability.
But of course, they deliver as advertised, in performance.

My dream config still would be a Turbo 7MT w/o PDCC.
Perhaps that won't exist, until the GT2.

 

Never unless you park the car and don't drive it. It's a car. Stuff wears out. It's a Porsche so it's more reliable than most cars but it's still a car