Date:         Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:09:30 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: F/you think we have problems? Try owning a Porsche 928
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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they are and were a black sheep of the porsche family.
when they were new and current..
they had advertisements claiming the door-to-door travel time in a 928
on the Autobahn was faster than the door-to-door airplane flying time
over a distance of something like 250 miles.

you sure don't seem many of them on the road.


On 1/11/2013 4:29 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> Changed the subject...
>
>    Wonderful cars, but.....
>
>    ....an absolute nightmare to keep everything functioning
> properly....perhaps why you can buy them cheaply...Porsche dealers often
> refuse to work on them, if perchance an owner had the cash to keep taking
> it to the dealer every time something didn't work properly.   Before I
> gutted my 91 928GT and turned it into a dedicated racecar, it had over 80
> relays in the 'power center' alone, which of course was located directly
> below the heater/ac compressor and in the passengers foot well.
>
>     Still, when working properly these cars are capable of Autobahn speeds
> in comfort and control at a now remarkably low initial cost....   During
> the 3-4 yrs I had mine in street form, it probably was 100% for only a few
> days.....It almost always was amazingly fast and accurate on the highway or
> racetrack, but you would close a door and the alarm would go off, or move
> the heated seat and the traction control light would illuminate, really
> weird stuff...and often interconnected in insidious ways so you simply
> couldn't "unplug" the offending system without disabling some other
> essential function that should have been unrelated.....  The workshop
> manual?  14 full volumes!   3 full books on the electronics alone....a
> nightmare...  Called the "German Corvette" by the 911 gang, who hated them
> and treated them like the black sheep of the Porsche family....
>    Don Hanson
>