Recent Porsche guy buys R8

[sheldonsmith]

Hello to you all, I'm a new member. It's nice to join the R8 forum. Just brought home a new V10 to try. I am mad at Porsche, so I won't buy their cars anymore. I expect the Audi to be a better car.

[a7MeDiNo]

Welcome! Yah who needs a turbocharged V6 anyways V8 and V10 FTW! Hope you enjoy your car, Post pics!

[drifting]

Welcome .

How you liking the V10?

Do I dare ask why your mad at porsche?

[Fashion Cat]

They charge you $3000 to remove the GT3 RS or Cayman R decals from the side from the factory. That's more than enough to make anyone mad.

[sjenner]

Besides the R8 looks way better than any Porsche except for maybe the Carrera GT.

[ignomini]

I still think my 993 looks every bit as good as the Auto Union. Although, to be fair, I'm putting the old VW up for sale since buying the R8. They both look great sitting in the garage, but the R8 is heads and tales better on the road.

[CALBenzo]

I still think my 993 looks every bit as good as the Auto Union. Although, to be fair, I'm putting the old VW up for sale since buying the R8. They both look great sitting in the garage, but the R8 is heads and tales better on the road.

I still miss my old 993. IMO, that is still the best looking 911 to date!

[sheldonsmith]

Thanks for the welcome. I am enjoying the R8!

[sheldonsmith]

If you want to know why I am disavowing Porsche, it's because I've had three engines in the last two porsches. The new GT3 RS broke a timing chain bolt and spent three months at the dealer. They didn't repair it correctly and it was in again for a tear down.

Also, Porsche really doesn't take care of customers. This is also the feeling of a lot of my Porsche friends who have had engine problems.They no longer will buy from Porsche either! Engines have been a real issue for Porsche and they won't admit it. During the past ten or so years they have been sending them back to the rebuild factory in Germany by the boat load and mechanics just swapped, no repair work. It's just been in the last year or so that they've gone back to letting trained mechanics rebuild engines in house.

The Cayman I owned five years ago was a great car yet Porsche doesn't give it its due for racing or power because they are married to the old, old 911. It's time they awoke to the fact that the engine has to move to a location somewhere else besides the butt.

[KfabR8]

We just rebuilt my buddy's 993 engine - spun a rod bearing. The first engine was a swap out, this time we rebuilt the replacement.

Another friend of our that used to work as a Porsche Tech (He was a Porsche Meister or what ever the top tier is called - specialized in the Carrera GT and the upper end 911's) had said many times that Porsche just pulls the bad engine, sends a new one, puts the old one in the crate the new one came in and shipped it back off to Germany. They didn't rebuild, nor did they allow a rebuild.

Good to see that they're rebuilding them in house now.