The Wretched Excess SUV, Cayenne Turbo S

Will pick the car up today, they replaced a bunch of coolant fittings and pipes, but sadly not the water pump.  However, in a huge win, they're replacing the instrument cluster for me.  Shortly after it showed up, I noticed that the lower pixels on the gear indicator display weren't working.  If you gave the top of the binnacle a light smack, they'd pop back on.

The dealer took a look, agreed with me, and initially told me it wasn't covered under warranty and would be $5800 to replace.  Thankfully, when my usual service advisor called me back the next morning, he told me that they'd verified it and it was indeed covered under warranty.  So I'm currently waiting for a new one to arrive from Germany, which should take 3-4 weeks.

CPO coverage is a huge win here; the coolant stuff and the cluster were probably $8000+ worth of work, and I've still got 2 more years of coverage.

Had a few minutes after work yesterday and before I had to take my son to soccer practice.  Time to knock out a few small jobs on the CTTS, starting with the hood struts.

I opened the box and only found one hood strut, uh oh.  Checked my order and somehow I hadn't ordered two, doh!  Well, let's replace the one that has oil barfed out of it and see what happens.  Thankfully the hood stays open now and I'll order another hood strut on my next order.

Up next was replacing the cabin air filter.  Someone had been in there before as there's supposed to be a screw holding the door closed and it was missing.  I suppose that's good in that the air filter isn't 9 years old!  It was still fairly dirty, so glad I replaced it.  Last thing was removing the detested locking wheel lug bolts with regular ones.

I still need to replace the diff and transfer case fluids, engine air filters, brake fluid, swap the correct tow harness on and install the tow module and put the summer wheels/tires back on.  Then it should be good to go...

The past ten days have been tough.  Lost my sister last weekend, this Thursday had to head out of town for her funeral.  That's the first bad thing.

I was on my way to drop the dogs at the trainer, driving in the left lane in a 75mph zone when I saw something running fast in the median.

It was a turkey and it really, really wanted to get to the other side of the freeway.  Sadly it ran right in front of my car and I just annihilated it.  
 

Cracked the bumper, broke the license plate mount, parking sensor, fog light and might've damaged the belly pan.

Already contacted the body shop, they're going to look at it this Friday.  Insurance claim made and they've paid, but didn't cover most the damage.  When I pointed that out to them they said to have the shop do a supplemental claim.  Ok....

Then the third bad thing was I got to the airport, walked thru security and got the beep and red light.  Hmm, my belt went thru the scanner?  TSA guy pointed at my pocket, I looked down and saw I'd forgotten to leave my favorite knife at home or in my car.  

Sigh, into the trash it went.....

Got the car back from the body shop.  USAA was good to deal with, they replaced the front bumper cover, fog light, radiator duct and trim piece.  I can now get PPF put on the car, since the paint on the bumper cover is new and I've touched up some spots on the hood.

Time to finish off the rest of the maintenance.  I replaced the front diff oil, Porsche put the fill plug on the front of the diff, right near the front subframe.  Really stupid spot for it, especially since there's a perfectly accessible spot for it on the inside rear.  Oh well, got it done. While I was underneath the car I noticed a stain on the belly pan and a drip of some sort of oil on the drivers front of the motor.  Looks like power steering fluid, so I called the dealer and made an appointment.  Hey, it's under warranty and I need them to code the tow hitch module anyways.

After that I swapped over the other hood support, changed all the wipers, then pulled the rear bumper cover off (again!) and swapped over the tow hitch harness to the correct one.  I installed the tow hitch module and hooked it up.  Then I went to flush the brakes and things got weird.  I've been doing this job for decades, never had an issue.  Opened up the first bleeder, fluid came out normally.  Went to open the second bleeder on the same caliper and no fluid came out.  Hmm, strange.  Pulled the bleeder and blew it out with compressed air, it's clear.  Same thing happened tho, no fluid came out of the caliper.  Moving to the other three calipers, same thing.

Now there's no way all these caliper bleeders are blocked.  With the Motive hooked up and one bleeder opened I gently hand pump the brake pedal and all of a sudden brake fluid starts flowing out.  WTF?!  I need to get more fluid to complete the job, but this baffles me.  Thoughts?

Swapped over to the summer wheels/tires and set the TPMS.  Mostly done on this, just oil changes etc going forward.

Gave it a quick wash since I had everything out washing the 996.  Closing in on my first oil change on it.

Any idea what happened with the funky brake bleed?

In reply to jfryjfry :

I'm waiting to see if my wife buys me a scan tool for my Bday, which is this weekend.  If she doesn't, I'll buy it and re do the brake bleed and bleed the ABS.