2010 SHO PP. Splurged and bought it new (wanted one nice new car before the kiddos came along). This car has had a pampered life that every car would aspire to. Only spent a couple nights outside the garage, just one track day when it was about a year old with a half dozen runs, meticulous care and maintenance. Its just shy of 80,000 miles and......Looks like the PTU is about done. Since the twins came along, I haven't had time to keep up on here or I could have seen it coming and maybe prevented it.
The wife and kids were on the highway last fall when they just about gagged from the smell, had to open the windows. When they got home I drove it and everything seemed fine, so I assumed it was a vehicle in front of them. Well...two months later (next time I drove it) it was whining. I did some research on this list and apparently the smell was the PTU giving up and boiling what was left of the sludge that used to be gear oil out the vent, onto the exhaust and getting sucked into the HVAC.
I needn't have bothered wrapping my drill in plastic when I drilled the PTU to tap a drain plug, as NOT A DROP of oil came out. I don't really have the 2 grand to get it fixed right now, so I'm gonna try to limp it along for a while. I had the car up on jack stands (all 4 wheels), so I ran it in drive and flushed it 5 times with ATF. At least it wasn't thick at the last. Filled it back up with 75W140 along with a little ATF and have about 200 miles on it so far. Not sure how much longer I'll get out of it.
Where is the recall??? No way a major drive train component should fail at 80000 miles on a pampered car.
The wife and kids were on the highway last fall when they just about gagged from the smell, had to open the windows. When they got home I drove it and everything seemed fine, so I assumed it was a vehicle in front of them. Well...two months later (next time I drove it) it was whining. I did some research on this list and apparently the smell was the PTU giving up and boiling what was left of the sludge that used to be gear oil out the vent, onto the exhaust and getting sucked into the HVAC.
I needn't have bothered wrapping my drill in plastic when I drilled the PTU to tap a drain plug, as NOT A DROP of oil came out. I don't really have the 2 grand to get it fixed right now, so I'm gonna try to limp it along for a while. I had the car up on jack stands (all 4 wheels), so I ran it in drive and flushed it 5 times with ATF. At least it wasn't thick at the last. Filled it back up with 75W140 along with a little ATF and have about 200 miles on it so far. Not sure how much longer I'll get out of it.
Where is the recall??? No way a major drive train component should fail at 80000 miles on a pampered car.
