nah come on now , its a hi perf vehicle and i trully drive the crap outt've it just the way it was meant to be driven , so if once and a while something goes wrong as long as they stand behinf theyre product and deeliver i have no isssues !!

much more than i can say for some other nameless manufacturers!

NEIL

Still, you'd think it would be more reliable and/or better engineered to take the punishment given it's intended design and function.

Still in shop , looks like turbo's are backordered fml....

prolly another few weeks hopefully buy the end of the mo , will keep you guys posted !

NEIL

just got herr last nite , feels strong but could just be in my head since i was drivin the 7 for close to a mo !

new turbo's , cleaned out cats and muff's , although i still kinda smell the damn smell so ima give it a couple of days then see what they wanna do if the smell don't go away !

NEIL

still have the smell , still burning oil , still have oil dep's on rear of car !! muff's were blk tues got a car wash and had em clean on mon afternoon and i wasnt even driving the car hard !

went to the dealer yest , let them know they gonna see about replacing the exhaust , the tech was like just beat it hard to burn everything up , i was really 100k car unaceptable !

anyway this'll be the 3rd time in shop for the smell , so i mentioned lemon law and he said he'll see what they say

fml...

NEIL

When I got mine a couple months ago, the service manager told me to order a case of oil. They go through oil. Oil for the turbos comes from the motor. So low oil means no oil to the bearings in the turbo. So you HAVE to keep these beasts topped off with Oil.
Also someone said "that would be a fun job post warranty" Youre right it would be costly but really having replaced two Turbos in my 1997 911 Turbo, I think this one would be easier given the turbo is on top of the motor. ON the 911 the turbos are below the motor and I had to remove the whole exhaust system to get to it.

But thanks! THIS IS A TOP TIP (as they say on Wheeler Dealer) Pay attention to your OIL and keep it full at ALL times. The first things that are going to suffer is peripheral items away from the motor that need oil, when the oil gets low!

Not sounding good................. let us know how this tunrs out & good luck!

Cheers,

Ok so im back in the shop again , its been like a week so far !

looks like the oil dep's on the rear of the car were not oil its unburnt fuel , which would also explain why it takes the car forever to turn over , which ive been telling them since this all started that the starter was bad !! maybe a bad injector or someshit , theyve opened a puma case w bmw and are working on it once again !

ive also insisted that they replace the entire exhaust from the headers all the back to the mufflers as thats most likely where the burning smell is coming from and they agree ! so hopefully this will be the end of it and maybe i'll be able to get better than 9mpg but i doubt that ! lol

i'll keep you guys posted

NEIL

full exhaust headers all the way thru has been approved , now they just working on fuel isssue !

The Cayenne may be your only other option :)

Only kidding, hope they sort it out!

Cheers,