where are the Porsche cayenne expo builds?

[G_fresh]

I do like the Lexus lx450's but there soo over priced now. (a SUV with 200k for 12 grand:Wow1 really.......
just dunno. I wont do anything for a while so I got time to think about it.

FYI, got my LX450, 200K, SoCal for $5K... I didn't see other private party ones ones for much more than that...

 

[CORDSIG79]

Cordsig79, WELCOME!!!

We just got our '04 S with 64k on the clock for under $17k.
Slush fund is a great idea - we just replaced the front lower control arms.
The next battle is brakes and rotors all around.

Last night we were heading out and it started acting funny (like a single cylinder skip or the throttle position sensor crapped out)
then the engine light came on and we headed back home and took the Ridgeline (wife very disappointed lol).
The Cayenne would still do 70 on the hway but it wasn't begging you to do triple digit speeds like it usually does ;-)
Glad to have another advocate on the forum!

Cheers,
Mark

Sounds like you need new coils and plugs would be a good idea while you are in there, your OBD2 reader will probably say misfire on bank 1-8....but change all of them or just the one? Your call.

Just as an fyi, from reading around, it seems the Turbo S OEM replacements are much stronger on the control arms than the S and Turbo's replacements. Next time you swap, I would look up that replacement part, go look up Cole on 6speedonline. He did the swap and typed up a thread on it.

 

[GroupSe7en]

It was the coil on #5 - just fixed the one and runs great again.

Brakes next!

I'll try to get a pic or 2 posted.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[GroupSe7en]

jluck - pull the trigger, you won't regret it.

I don't know about you, but this is my DD 99% of the time - it's a blast.
The thing is on rails in the corners, and tries to trick you on the highway into thinking your still doing double digit speeds.

Get one - just get one.
Even my wife loves it. How many wives LOVE your ExPo vehicle?

I'm doing research into tires now.
Wanted to go with 17's and 265/65's but I've got the BIG silver brakes and the 18's are the smallest rim that will fit.
My Porsche guys are trying to figure out if I can fit 275's because they can be found for 18 inch rims - who knows?

*whisper* just get one.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[CORDSIG79]

It was the coil on #5 - just fixed the one and runs great again.

Brakes next!

I'll try to get a pic or 2 posted.

Cheers,
Mark

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforu...iy-front-rotors-and-pads-for-the-cayenne.html

 

[zolo]

Just wondering whatever happened with this topic?
VW or Porsche both are awesome and seem damn nice to travel real far, on dirt roads or tarmac.

I also wanted to add, That we do a lot of Porsche work here at my shop and we currently have a Cayenne with 240,000 miles on it. Still tight, runs strong, and all we have really done to it are some coils and a brake job.
Owner has stated that it has been pretty worry free. So I wanted to drop that positive spin on these rigs. Cause 240,000 miles is lot for any vehicle.

 

[CORDSIG79]

If you are in Cali, I probably can assume whom the owner is from the other forums. he also has a track 911 turbo with 300k plus miles......oil brakes and tires only as well.

The cars are well built and if you maintain them, you will not be doing major overhauls every 150-200k miles.......just more maintenance. I have mainetance schedules from the factory out to 200k plus miles from what I remember.

 

[zolo]

Nope GA, But a lot of the later cars we work on have been bomb proof.

We have a GT3 DD customer. He owns a slew of hot cars and DD the GT3. Its so simple fast and well made its amazing.

 

[DanKunz]

I am all for someone tricking out a Porsche for overland. I love different.

 

[CORDSIG79]

Hi all the main issue I think really is the steel suspension needs to be able to get to 9-10 inches of clearance to really go crazy.

The Cayenne with Steel is about 8 inches.........Jeep Wrangler X(which I owned at the same time as my Cayenne, is 8.8 from factory). My wrangler fell apart in the exact same time I owned the Cayenne and the Jeep had only 94k miles and the same loving service I gave my cayenne.......only the cayenne did not eat up 2 coolant systems......radiator, thermostat, cracked head gasket eventually and the cheap interior falling apart........but the jeep was a basher if you needed a car to rub down trees on a trail.........it did not have the same traction control as the Cayenne nor the stronger engine. i had inline 6's on each, the Cayenne having the VR6 setup.

Not sure if the Cayenne setup is compatible to a either a body lift or suspension lift........and how the drive shaft is angled.........someone previously noted it, might not work.

Ground clearance: 8.54-10.75 inches http://www.autotrader.com/research/article/39116/2006-porsche-cayenne.jsp

The 10.75 inches for air is in line with factory jeep front clearance.

I guess remove front and rear valence like that GORM rallye cayenne and I think you got it.

And attach a lower guard. (1k)


However, I see these 2wd and 20 year old plus Turbo diesls cars with a mild lift and a/t tires making treks on Expo. They all have decent interior room, roof rack for field essentials, and just gas and go with extra gas and spares attached.

I think a barebones stock V6 Cayenne with steel, can go most anywhere but rocky trails and deeply rutted backcountry log roads/fire roads.

To gut one this young is still a bit out there when considering light overlanding/camping.

And I see them in the 15k range, a jeep with that age and mileage would be 5-8k range? I sold mine for 7700 last year to car max......

Definteley cheaper to keep the jeep running but it was unrealiable as a DD once issues appeared.

I am sure a good jeeper on here could and would keep one going so please dont take it as a knock against Wranglers, more like a bump up for Cayennes for reliablity (V6) eating tires oil and gas only with strong drive train, center/rear diff and 250 hp.

 

[Packy]

I also looked into an overlanding/off-road Porsche Cayenne, especially after driving a 2010 Cayenne Turbo on a off-road course at Porsche Driving School in Alabama. With victories in the Dakar (with a 959 off-road/rally racer!) and in the very tough transsyberia rally it is easy to picture a very kewl overlanding rig that most, if not anyone has, and the pride of having a Porsche with you in the wilds.
I am a lover of Porsche for my entire life, and would love to develop an off-road Porsche 911 C4S for light short-trip overlanding, but when it comes down to it, an off-roading Cayenne presents certain issues: one being cost of custom construction bursh guards, tow points, cargo racks, and so on. There just isn't any outfitter making parts for an off-road Cayenne. The other being the lack of Pre-2011 redesigned Cayennes ordered with the full off-road kit, normally the Turbos are fully kitted out, but their rigs bar some off-road tyres being fitted and the air intakes and filter are not able to the task of certain conditions. Most Cayennes were ordered by people wanting the crest, name, and speed....not overlanding, which is a frakking shame. Then there is the really bad news, if a breakdown happens in the wilds. The complex nature of the Porsche bars local shops having spare parts or even the knowledge to fix something, then there is the reliance of the Cayenne on electronic systems to achieve off-road ability, Gods forbid if the air suspension fails!
The Touareg is a good choice in place of the Porsche, and there are off-roaders that use them, and VW did test the egg on some tough trails, VW even offered an off-roading school to fully allowing their owners to use their eggs to their full abilities. But it as some similar issues, not to mention the bad VW reliability history on the Touaregs. But most eggs, especially the V8s and V10 TDIs have the full off-roading kit on them as standard equipment, unlike the Porsche. Like the 2011 Cayenne, the redesigned egg is a soft-trail AWD wonder, that is more fit for bad weather than bad trails, which is a frakking shame.
If you have the cash, the ICONs are a great, hard off-roading rig.

 

[getlost4x4]

having driven a twin turbo version. DO IT!!!!!!

The air suspension is also a very nice feature, i never had the chance to take one off road, but i would guess they would be decent. Defenatly not a Land Rover, but decent for fire roads, desert driving and high speed romps.

 

[Deleted member 13060]

It was the coil on #5 - just fixed the one and runs great again.

Brakes next!

I'll try to get a pic or 2 posted.

Cheers,
Mark

As you can afford it or as the coils fail one by one replace them all. There is/was a TSB/campaign on the early coils. The last two digits on the part # started out as "00" in 2004. The last set I replaced had a final set of digits reading "08". That means Porsche has "upgraded" the coils 7 times........ Eventually they'll get it right

One customer with a 52,000 mile Twin Turbo took the reciept for coils and plugs from our shop and went to Porsche who wrote him a check for the parts and labor.....

YMMV RON

 

[GroupSe7en]

WOW Ron, I hope they've gotten it right - I can't afford to replace them all the time!
I'll have to ask them at the shop which coil they took out...

Still trying to kill all of the little gremlins running around in this truck.
Tomorrow's task is to figure out why the fuel gauge, and the outside air temp went belly up at the same time, as well as the LCD in-dash display going dim. P-I-A, but I still LOVE IT!

No build on this beast for a while due to major funding cutbacks of the spousal variety.
Though, we're trying to see if I went to 19" rims if the Michelin 275/65's would fit.
There's nothing for the 18's larger then the 255's. I can't go smaller than the 18's because I've got the BIG silver brake calipers.

updates as they happen...

Cheers,
Mark

 

[CORDSIG79]

WOW Ron, I hope they've gotten it right - I can't afford to replace them all the time!
I'll have to ask them at the shop which coil they took out...

Still trying to kill all of the little gremlins running around in this truck.
Tomorrow's task is to figure out why the fuel gauge, and the outside air temp went belly up at the same time, as well as the LCD in-dash display going dim. P-I-A, but I still LOVE IT!

No build on this beast for a while due to major funding cutbacks of the spousal variety.
Though, we're trying to see if I went to 19" rims if the Michelin 275/65's would fit.
There's nothing for the 18's larger then the 255's. I can't go smaller than the 18's because I've got the BIG silver brake calipers.

updates as they happen...

Cheers,
Mark

The coils tend to fail around 30-60k miles in the V8, depending on climate too. My v6 experienced issues at 110k miles. I assume you could do a rolling change out and their are non OEM coils that others have used that are 35 a piece. OEM are 65 I think....

Mark, have you measured the battery? My LCD screen was flickering and I was getting 4WD error from time to time, along with other electronic gremlins due to low power......And yes the car still would drive and you could manually overide these errors in the field if need be by removing fuses or manually shifting the transmission, the manual has all of this...

I measured my Cold cranking amps, it came in it a 250.........should be 750 for V6 and 800 plus for V8's.

Quick trip by Batteries Plus and I was able to score the V8 version battery for 120 bucks and install it......under the drivers seat in the parking lot.

We are noticing on the forum that fuel pumps are usually end of life around 100k plus or 5-6 years........just a trend. But apparently they have 2 fuel pumps so the truck runs once cranked and its easy to detect which one is not working through a simple fuse removal test and engine crank. The instructions are spelled out on how to replace and the main pump is about 300 dollars.