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It’s the Porsche nightmare you never want to happen!
Two engine-warning lights suddenly come on your treasured GT3 Touring and you’ve got to immediately get it to the dealer in case the engine explodes!
That’s the scenario TheCarGuys face in this week’s episode, and you join them for a 3-month odyssey involving a broken GT3, delays, bad news, more delays, and of course an ENORMOUS BILL at the end.
What started as a simple sensor fault in November 2021 rapidly descended into an engine-out undertaking and 3 months of pure pain for TheCarGuys. But, it was all on camera, and so you are coming along for the ride.
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Should have ticked the carbon fibre mousetrap on the options list.
🤣🤣🤣 comment of the day.
AAAAAAA WITH THE PORSCHE BRAND
That option was removed to save weight and the owner was charged 2k for the privilege by Porsche factory.
I had the exact same issue with my 991 GT3 (kept garaged but in a rural location). Away overseas and kept getting alerts for the interior sensor; I came home to find the passenger seat had been attacked by a field mouse - the little bugger had chewed through the leather to get to the 'stuffing' - perfect bedding; mouse droppings in the engine bay, boot and passenger foot-well. The car went into Porsche for inspection and seat re-cover. Thankfully no wiring damage and £2.5K later the seat was re-upholstered. I bought a heavy duty car tent for the garage and a stack of mouse traps (turns out they like peanut butter and Nutella). I had my revenge.
Impressive that the even car ran with all those sensors inactive.
Yeah I can’t believe that either, well done Porsche
You took the words right out of my mouth 👍
There’s German reliability for you!
Seriously.. the car is like, well we can't read from all these sensors.. so just don't go crazy.
must of them are there for show only as diesel gate clearly showed
This was sneaky funny! 😂 You are a good sport about it too. Not sure what I’d do in that situation, but I would hope to handle it with the humor & class you showed. Glad your GT3T is back on the road 🎉
That's why you should always tick the very reasonable £1800 vermin delete option (but the Burberry cap variety isn't included)
Thanks for sharing. That was one scary mouse with dramatic video effects. Gave me the shivers!!!.
Surprised that just 2 days outside caused so much damage. Was there a cover on the car? I found previously that a covered car which is not driven give mice a greater sense of security.
I leave my Porsche only in a tightly sealed individual garage space with mice poison pellets that I count out and monitor to ensure no mouse is eating them, along with an electrical mouse noise device that plugs into the wall outlet that makes a sound humans cannot hear but annoying to mice. Also having dried up urine in disposed plastic lids under the car and around the garage. Can not be noticed by humans but may be easily detected by mice with stronger olfactory sense during winter storage. I check on car every couple of days, knock on the window, and start and run to get oil up to temperature about every 3 weeks in winter. No problems yet in 10 years of ownership.
Mate. EXACTLY the same thing just happened to my MX5. Well, not exactly but I started it and it would just die. It would run for perhaps a second and then die. It had fuel, it had spark, couldn't work it out. Had it taken to Mazda, they found a mouse nest in the air box. First time it has ever happened to me. Thankfully the buggers didn't chew through my wires but a real eye opener.
P.S. Peppermint oil, mixed with water and sprayed in the engine bay is supposed to keep them away....
I was actually expecting the bill to be much higher, especially if they had to remove the engine. What do you think the cost would have been if this was a Ferrari? Is this covered by your insurance?
More and No.
@@zakelwe i have had this happen to friends porsches, their comprehensive insurance covered it.
@@bryanachee7133 That is correct. Comprehensive covers that!
Yeah I'm actually impressed with how cheap that was for a full engine out job and all the repairs to the wiring loom, and with £170 an hour labour
@@bryanachee7133 Yep, in Switzerland our insurance covers this.
Oh dear, nightmare. A company I once worked for lost network connectivity to an area of the site. It was down for a while. Turned out a mouse had eaten through the fibre cables!! Turned out the guy who worked in there had been feeding it 🤷♂️
8:00 the labour cost is just unbelievable 🤦
I remember watching a video from the guy from obsessed garage. Same thing happened to his gt3 a few years ago. Glad all is sorted though, many happy miles ahead!
Yeah, me too, I just posted the same. I remember him parking it in a big blow up tent thing after that!
Sadly becoming more common. Two years ago I had a mouse in my car, two actually I think. I was driving down the road and heard a horrible crunching noise under the dash. I thought the fan for the HVAC vents had died, unbolted the housing underneath figuring I had to change it and instead found mice cut in half. They chewed through the cabin air filter which unfortunately for them was above the fan and boom, dead. They came in through the air intake in the front. Other than that though no damage.
I had the same problem on my 991.1. Fortunately, as my car was being looked at for another issue, my local Porsche centered spotted the start of a nest before there was any serious damage. The problem is you can't see into the engine when you lift the rear engine hood. I have now laid out mousetraps and bait in my garage, which I check daily and which have caught a few mice over the past few weeks. I have also tried the peppermint spray. So far no further problems but pleased be warned I think this might be more common than people realize.
Same here, I have 4 mousetraps in my garage with peanut butter as bait, and have caught several in the past year. I have a 981 Cayman but how do you spray the peppermint spray? On top of your engine cover, or from underneath into the engine area as much as possible?
Good to see you back mate! WTF that f#$king mouse. Better check the other cars!!
I just got to say. I love the fact that this car is dirty, gets driven all year round by the looks of it. And that it lives outside some of the time if not all of the time. Just great!
My 997 C2 was attacked by mice last year too. Bill? £23,000!
Great video 👍 sorry about the bill though, crazy repair job
Sorry and shocked to hear about this, especially in the UK. Didn't figure rodent car damage was that probable, and you only left the car outdoors for a few days...
Kind of makes sense to place some preventative bate boxes and mouse traps around anyone’s garage. Glad the GT3 survived the ordeal 👍
I had a feeling this was going to be mouse related. I knew it was a real issue but £6k??? Is that stuff covered by fully comprehensive insurance? Scary. Interesting vid.
I have a Macan and birds pecked at the rubber seals around one side of my sunroof and one side of the fixed panoramic panel and Porsche Swindon quoted £2,200 for the repairs...and said it would be some time as the rear panel is on back order. Makes your £6k engine-out seems rather good value!
Sorry to see this. A mechanic told me the wiring looms have a sugary ingredient in the coating which vermin like to feed on. I’m glad I watched this video. I wasn’t expecting a mouse to be the culprit. Love the editing on your videos.
Thanks for the info!
Frightening, I've had problem with mice in my loft on many occasions, chewing through my cricket gear, they will chew anything to prevent their teeth geting longer and longer.
They can also cause enormous damage to house wiring, so I'm not surprised they did that to your car, but it's a testament to Porsche that it was still driveable and the wiring didn't burn-out completely.
Had a nest in my old 308 years ago, luckily without any of the other damage!
Couldnt stop laughing when you revealed what caused the issue lol. Squatter moved in and carried out some renovations lol
I heard from a mechanic at the local dealership here in Southern California. I guess it is really common and he told me that it isnt covered by warranty
So sorry - glad all is back to a proper state!
Great video! What a story!! You need to get a couple of Jack Russel Terriers. You won't have that problem again! I have two... no more vermin in our house now!
I’ve had a similar problem in my W211 AMG. I noticed leaves and debris in my engine bay and suspected a mouse was starting to build a nest. I put two Victor snap traps and killed two mice within two days. All of my cars I don’t drive daily have mouse traps in the engine bay. I catch them once or twice a month but no nests. If the bait is gone and no mouse, that means it was a rat. So far no nests and no damages.
I felt bad for pressing the like button! That’s an epic piece of bad luck. Glad she’s back to her old self and you can enjoy her again, though.
Welcome to 22 again Damian. The joy this car gives , just had an upset morning
Informative Video, Mr. DB.
Two questions come to Mind;
1) What did the Mouse Drink?
B) Where did it Poo?
It’s just how my mind works, it’ll bug Me till I find out……😀
Wow. I literally had a mouse nest in the front bumper of my .1 RS just captured in time by RPM last week. They said it’s a very common problem on 911s 😳
This is increasingly common happening to VW as well. The reason is thought to be down to a change to more environmentally friendly coating of the wires to something rodents find very acceptable to recycle.
Absolutely true one of the let’s go green benefits of plant based coatings that are irresistible to rodents. Massive problem in North America that the manufacturers take no responsibility for, let’s coat all the lumes in peanut butter and see what happens???
Honestly, this environmental bollocks will be the death of us all. I mean that quite literally...
You have to admit the mouse has exceptional taste in cars though.
Do you need to mouse check the rest of the collection?
In the words of Admiral James T. Kirk:
- "MOUSES!"
That's why I have 2 cats, they eliminate anything in my yard that has a tail from mice, rats to squirrels and possums...
Mouses like Porsche, too - incredible story ! Thanks for sharing this experience with us …
Wee rascal. Sounds like you need to drive the GT3 more. Good to see you back 🤘
More common than you think, a couple of years ago I had a mouse that chewed through a plug lead on my Cayman. Came up with the same scary warnings. Most of cost was labour to find the fault, cost about £500 ! Garage now rigged up with traps.
Great attitude! Nice one, Damian 😊
Thanks! 😃
Had rodent damage on my Audi A6 a few years ago, chewed the cam belt part through. When the engine was started the pulleys chewed the animals.. Lots of pressure washing at garage, head off, valves checked, reassembly..... Insurance paid out!
That’s why a regular pest control inspection is important. I feel your pain.
Thanks for sharing. Just ordered a pack of mousetraps for my garage!
😂😂
Thats very funny, same thing happened to my dads old Citroen DS here in Cape Town.😅
Time to buy a few mousetraps for the garage. A lot cheaper than £6k. Regards and nice to have you guys back.
I have a cat called. Clarence. He looks after my 911. U should get one/two....
Dude, your face in the intro said it all!!! The good lord wouldn't have thrown something as freakish as this at you if you couldn't handle; it certainly stings, but thankfully it wasn't anything catastrophic, and now you won't have any nagging doubts that something like that could have caused in your noggin if you weren't sure of the motor, but now you can give it some real BEANAGE!!! I'm in the commercial insurance biz, and I'm definitely going to speak with my underwriters at all of the carriers we trade with to see if they can create a mouse product on their auto policy forms so this doesn't happen again!
Had the same thing happen on a new Ferrari 328 GTB back in the day when mice got up and under the dash and ate through the instrumentation loom.Very,very sympathetic main dealer repaired with no labour charge !! Since then i have always kept traps baited with chockolate but was amased that the same thing had happened again last year to my 981 Spyder - but it only resulted in a part consumed pollen filter - better chocolate and more traps reqd.
I remember a couple of years ago Matt Moreman with Obsessed Garage had same problem with his Porsche GT3. I am going by memory but seems like it caused over $13,000 in repairs and again going by memory only seems like insurance helped out(????). Anyway, unreal that much damage could be caused but once a harness/cable is chewed threw...yep! Sorry it happened, this is one of my favorite cars in your collection for sure. Stephanie in Georgia.
Thats an amazing amount of damage in a short time. But the waiting time was perhaps the most amazing thing here.
That's just ONE of the crap things about owning a Porsche - getting somebody to actually look at it and work on it. So many go wrong, the Porsche specialists and dealers are inundated with work and can literally charge anything. They are total garbage.
@@blackporscheroadster6415
Dude. This car got eaten by mice. Its not like its a reliability issue. They got a lot of work to do. But there is a general problem with parts and distribution going on now. Hence the insane price of things.
My dealer ALWAYS provided a loaner. Usually another Porsche. Otherwise it is an insurance issue that rents the car while in the shop.
@@captain_context9991 I owned Porsches for 11 years, so I think I know more about them than you. My engine imloded - so do you think that is a 'reliability issue'. Ring up a Porsche specialist and it takes weeks/months to get any job done. Parts for Porsches have always been expensive.
@@stanislouse4168 Only idiots go to Stealers. They provide a loan car, to soften the blow of their ridiculous charges.
happened to me as well with my tractor, left it parked during winter, in spring i check oil level, give the engine a few cranks and then try to start it. all of a sudden the engine seized and the starter motor could not turn the engine anymore, checked that the starter motor was good and it was and when i looked into the intake gallery it was full of corn, a mouse thought that it would be a good idea to deposit corn into the intake gallery if the tractor and when i tried to start the engine the combustion chambers got filled with it. it took me 2 days to take the engine apart, clean it all and start it back, lucky i didn't bend valves or pistons, i only had to buy a head gasket but that mouse gave me a lot of truble
I know the pain! One of my DB9 airboxes was eaten into by a mouse who then set up home inside. To replace it, they only come as a pair, was £ 850 + labour. Luckily there was no wiring damage.
I remember the exact same thing happened to the Obsessed Garage guy to his GT3 in Florida a couple of years back. Mouse eating the wiring and the whole harness had to be replaced.
That gives me shivers and triggers a movie ...LeMans? -No! its more Alien.....sorry to learn about the mouse carnige!
But what a car
Someone I know had the same problem with the x6m came to £18k as done the whole wiring loom even the seats wouldn’t work luckily he’s insurance company paid for it
Incredible!
Holy my mouse!!! That was a complete episode of "Mouse family of DooM" :-) I hope it drives great and really only makes you smile from this moment on. We have cats so the mice are kind of in a defensive in our yard and around garages.
My old Spitfire is in getting some bodywork done and the guy called me to say the floor pan was covered in mouse droppings. At least there’s hardly any cables for them to eat through but still left quite a mess.
I had the exact same issue a few years ago on my 987.2S. Left fan wouldnt stop blowing 24/7 with a red « engine compartiment » warning when I’d start the car. Took it to porsche center of course, they first wanted to replace both front and lateral fans and suggested that it was maybe a DME relay issue. But I knew it would solve nothing cause it seemed very specific to that fan blowing all the time. Then I suspected a faulty temperature sensor in the engine compartment that could have fallen in the engine bay due to a bad rubber joint maybe. So we opened the compartiment and found mice feces. And with the light we saw that the wire connecting the left fan was bitten by a mouse and almost dead . So all we just did some very basic welding and the fan instantly stopped blowing. And 0 problem from that moment on.
Guys at Porsche didnt even check that part of the car, I had to do it at a car electrician. Cost me around 20€ with less than 30 min of labour.
Whoa. Crazy . Thats hard to take. Glad it is sorted.
I once had the same problem with a customers E92 M3. The car required a complete engine loom and ECU, cost heaps to fix. Hey only had it parked for two weeks!!
Son of a mouse! 6k!😬
I had a stray kitten climbing on top of my e34 engine once for warmth, luckily she was screaming her head off from cold and hunger so I was able to find and catch her before anything happened, cost me for sour cream.
I used to work for Toyota in the US, this was a very common issue, we would get a mouse car in every month or so.. Turned out they seem to like the rubber wiring insulation..
Good to have you back; you were missed last friday.
Speeking of ‘missed’; where the flipping flip is Jason? Bring him back. If necessary, kidnap him (not really ofcourse)
👍
That’s not as bad as I thought. My friends Ford pickup here in London also had mouse damage. His car was always broken and he sold it for a later version
Have you run in that Lotus yet? I'm waiting to the review with all the revs.
Totally missed this videos when it’s come out? I’m here 8 days later???
Dang. I had same issues…twice with my 3RS! I actually started a channel called Rat911 to document my rat fighting journey. Took it down after two vids. LOL. I keep a rat trap in my wife’s 911 and found a dead rat after we smelled something funky in the AC. Decomp with maggots. Stuff of nightmares. 😳
I work at a Honda dealership and I know how destructive rodents are to cars, most cases insurance coverage takes care of it, but 3 months to wait seems a bit long unless they were seriously backlogged with work, and parts on back order often hold up the process
Don't park it and give a mice a home for the winter,,, driver it and shake or burn the mice out hahahahaha
Where’s the beans??!! Haha needed some driving in this video.
The engine fault light is yellow/orange so you shouldn't be too scared. The most serious faults trigger a red light. For example and as far as I know, transient issues such as pollution or unexpected change in fuel quality (requiring big changes in AFR) will light up the check engine light.
"Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste, an' weary winter comin' fast, an' cozie here beneath the blast, thou thought to dwell, till..."
Poor mousie. ;)
Better get Rentokil in, in case the blighter brought his family along to live in the rest of the cars you have.
You weren't tempted to have a peak at the engine bay to see if it was something obvious before going to Porsche?! Keep up the good work ❤
You’ve not looked into the engine bay of a modern Porsche 911, have you?
@@TheCarGuysTV ah good point!!
Saw your car parked up outside Porsche Bournemouth on Saturday, must’ve just been before you collected it. Thought you were in there spending money on a new toy, not cleaning up after a mouse!
A mouse...common in stored garages. (Wires have chemical in them that mice and rabbits love)Well you best move and inspect all your other cars my friend.
You used to move them round a lot you . Unfortuantely they will be in more than 1 of them.. oh and buy a cat or 6 to live the the garage..
£6k thats cheap could have killed the engine. (I would have trailered it to Swindon as they are your garage.wouldnt have been 3mths then I bet)
Glad it's OK now . Thanks for sharing . Cannt wait for more drive video's now then. 😎👍
Pausing to boil the kettle.
This one sounds like it going to be fun...
😎
Time to get a cat for the garage. 😻
Yep a great BIG Ginger Tom with legendary fight worn tatty ears and a massive mouse hunt mortality-rate😂
Wow that was a shocker. Get the mouse caught and take it to the vets to remove its teeth 😬
You are so lucky that it didn't catch on fire. Basically a tinder box. Glad to hear you and the car are ok. Could have been a lot worse.
Ouch. That’s a sore one Damian!
Wow! But flipping heck, it looks so so good……
I’ve got 99 problems but my 911 isn’t one. 😬
I was straight out checking under bonnets after that! Ouch 🤦♂️
When the sensors go out and that limp goes active just like on my CRX or Hondas its a blessing and not a curse it Gets you home and not get you stuck. That is part of its high reliability I trust you process of Porsche. Trust it and then bring it in. Man those freaking pesky mouse's they did the same to my TSX I had to Swap out the Fuel injector cables and wires. Not only that but they get all up on the engine and they piss and Shit in there have to get it washed too. Ahh I hate those freaking mices,.
Love your Porsche, so subtle.
Ouch
I always keep a couple of mouse traps in the garage. My father had to have new loom in his nearly new Rover years ago. They are a nightmare.
What a terrible way to spend money , really feel for you . I tend to leave mouse poison in little heaps in the corner of my barn . Will be topping up the piles tomorrow!
WHATTT that is unbelievable!!!! I still can't believe this isn't a joke
Had a rat (not a mouse) chewing several wires in my mercedes 190d, luckily it wasn't as much damage as the Porsche, I noticed when one day I turned the car off and took the key from the ignition, and the engine kept running! But I was very lucky, it was "only" a 400€ bill to repair it!
You get a couple of cats guarding the cars in the garage from mice.
OMG 😱 that is the unbelievable 6k
I was not expecting that…..
Dang, that's crazy. That mouse went to town
That’s brutal!
OMG! 😱 Damian you need...a couple of Pussy cats to stop this in future! I thought it seemed oddly un-Porsche like for such enreliability. Scay indeed...you need a pumpkin with a mouse cut into it next Halloween.😆
I had a similar message and it turned out to be a high pressure fuel pump (about £1K). Have you installed a mouse trap now?
Lmao I had the same thing with a forklift truck, so I fixed it and coated all the wiring harness in Grease thinking that would stop them doing it again, it lasted about a week before the mouse of the wiring and the grease 😂
😂
We had a 993 and a 991 done to a similar degree. Now have traps EVERYWHERE.
I was initially, what ? 3 months, ffs. (Then I got a electric Genesis car add before the great reveal,….while watching a Porsche vlog 🤣) Horror upon Horror, but in the scheme of things ,and I can’t believe I’m saying this , I think that was a reasonable bill. Informative great episode……for us viewers