2008 Porsche Cayenne
This year drew an ordinary 42 complaints for a Porsche Cayenne — the model's median is 55. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.5% of them mention next, against 0% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Porsche Cayenne, which began in 2003 and ran to 2010. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 42 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 55 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- next — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (47.6×).
- causing — 16.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the model's other years (5.4×).
- diagnose — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 0.5% across the model's other years (19.8×). Owners wrote it as: diagnose, rough, engine rough, rough idling.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
ON JUNE 3, 2017, I HAD A WARNING LITE FOR LOW AIR PRESSURE EMIT ON MY DASHBOARD. I PULLED OVER TO THE NEXT SERVICE STATION AND APPLIED AIR TO MY TIRE. ONLY UNTIL THEN DID I NOTICE THE SEVERE CRACKING AND ROTTING OF THESE TIRES THESE TIRES HANKOOK VENTOUS S1 WE…
COOLANT DISTRIBUTOR BARB CAME UNGLUED CAUSING LOSS OF COOLANT ON HIGHWAY. CAR WAS IN MOTION ON THE HIGHWAY. THIS IS A COMMON ISSUE AND PORSCHE HAS UPDATED THE PART HOWEVER WILL NOT WARRANTY THE DEFECTIVE PARTS STILL ON VEHICLES.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V446000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 08V076000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 22V656000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Porsche Cayenne was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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