It took Porsche a 12 months and five months to provide you with a fix to the recall and stop-drive order it issued for each single Carrera GT built. The suspension failure–related recall addressed a selected propensity for control arms to corrode and fail, which may lead to a crash. When you are one among the oldsters who own a Carrera GT, be sure you get booked in for service, because Porsche is able to fix the difficulty.
Now that Porsche has a fix — and because it took so long to get here — the German automaker is offering not only to repair each twenty-year-old supercar freed from charge, but to throw in $3,240 value of “complimentary maintenance to bring the vehicle to roadworthiness after not being driven.” This features a brand latest set of Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 N-Spec tires. Bonus!
With these cars trading hands within the seven-figures, the NHTSA-instituted stop-drive was making some owners pretty antsy to drive the cars they paid for. Once we first reported on this back in April of 2023, everyone assumed this may be a traditional quick recall, nothing to fret about. In January of this 12 months it was made quite clear that this wasn’t to be the case, with an estimate of Q3 2024 for the parts to materialize. Now, as Q3 2024 nears to a detailed, these cars are once more being made whole.
Why is Porsche offering to repair rarely-driven two-decade-old supercars owned exclusively by the well-heeled? For one thing, it’s good PR for Porsche to treat its most fervent supporters with kid gloves. For one more, it’s really bad PR for Porsche if any of those wealthy dorks go driving around on worn suspension or old tires (or each) and go get themselves killed in a fireball crash. That is a bit of bit promotion and a bit of bit self-preservation.
Don’t worry everyone, Doug DeMuro can finally drive his Carrera GT again. Porsche and the federal government said it was OK.
This Article First Appeared At jalopnik.com
