Porsche Transmission Care: Ensuring Smooth and Efficient Performance
Transmissions have an undeserved reputation for being expensive and time-consuming to repair. This is rarely true and is only likely to happen if your transmission isn’t serviced regularly.
These are a few signs you need to visit your Porsche center for a transmission service.
Signs You Need a Transmission Service at Your Porsche Center
Transmission Leak
Transmission fluid plays several vital roles in the transmission. It provides the essential hydraulic power that allows gears to change smoothly and efficiently. It protects all components with a friction-resistant coating, allowing them to work at high speed without suffering damage in the process. It also cools hot components, helping prevent heat-related damage.
The transmission has a tough exterior which prevents most damage, but transmission seals and gaskets can shrink with age and the fluid will leak. The fluid is easily noticeable, as it is bright or dark red, with a slightly sweet smell. If you spot a leak, we advise against driving as a lack of fluid can result in transmission damage. We’ll fix the problem and refill the fluid.
Strange Noises
A Porsche transmission should be silent as it shifts gears, meaning that any sound must be due to a problem. Humming, buzzing, whining, or clunking noises all sound scary, and they do mean you need to contact us ASAP so we can investigate. These sounds are usually very difficult to identify when the problem starts, but they will become louder as the problem continues.
Humming or buzzing noises are usually caused by a lack of transmission fluid, which means a leak, as we saw above. A whining sound can be caused by a fault in the torque converter, the transmission section that connects the transmission to the engine. Clunking sounds can represent damaged gears or bearings. Our technicians will examine our transmission and repair it.
Illuminated Engine Light
Dashboard warning lights provide a heads-up that something is wrong. Sensors are connected to every important system and component. These sensors receive instructions from your computer and continually supply information enabling the computer to make decisions. The sensors also monitor their connected component and inform the computer immediately if something is wrong. The computer then illuminates the relevant warning light.
The transmission doesn’t have its own warning light, as it works symbiotically with the engine to move your Porsche. If a transmission problem develops, it reduces engine efficiency, and the drop in efficiency triggers the warning light. We’ll connect your computer to our diagnostic system to identify the issue then we’ll fix it and the light will go out.
If you have a transmission problem, contact us immediately at Porsche Warwick in Warwick, RI.