what did the dealers actually do/replace?

 

Yep, done today. They replaced the center locks with ones that don't say "500nm" on it. If your wheels weren't tightened to spec they may replace wheel, hub, and/or rotor, but this would be a very rare occurance. See more info here:

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforum...ck-recall.html

 

just got a call from the dealer regarding the AB01 recall, here is the result:

getting all 4 corners hubs/hubcarriers replaced.

the dealer states that they saw abnormal wear that warranted replacement.

fyi the car has 5800 miles since Nov 2011 and have 10 track weekends on it.

each time i would personally inspect grease and torque the CLs to the higher 440 ft/lbs as suggested. I never saw any wear or abnormal anything....

don't really know what they found, but getting 4 new hubs....parts just need to come from Germany

dealer is Ray Catena in Edison, NJ

 

I had AB01 Update done this week on my 2010 GT3 - 18,400 miles on the car, no track time. The only parts listed on the work order was the central locking screw (000-043-301-42) plus some Optimoly Paste and a Workshop Manual.

The dealer had previously inspected the wheels for wear and found none; they confirmed that when they serviced the car this week. I believe that with the higher torque on these locking screws, Porsche is also using a moly lubricant.

I lost a wheel once on a 1985 Testarossa backing out of my garage - that was a serious problem that Ferrari never properly addressed, they were working hard to ignore a problem that many people had with that model. Later cars had wheel locks on their hubs. I believe that Porsche is doing the right thing in this case, and I have no concerns with their solution but then again I don't track the car. I will also make sure that the wheels have been properly torqued.