Got DME report on 2006 S, report is

operating hours counter 5198.30h
range 1 - 14947
range 2 - 1084
range 3 - 43
range 4 - 0
range 5 - 0
range 6 - 0

operating hours counter reading at overspeed
range 1 - 5455.100h
range 2 - 5423.600h
range 3 - 5423.600h
range 4 - 0.000h
range 5 - 0.000h
range 6 - 0.000h

How does the above look, it means little to myself but why is operating hours below the operating hours of the overspeed recordings?

 

For me it looks ok. My general rule is nothing above a 3 and you are fine. I know others here are less tolerant of 3 rating but there isn't a lot there and in general looks like it has lead a pretty pampered life.

What colour is it?

 

Can you explain the operating hours and operating hours of over-revs seemingly not adding up?

How can the over-revs operating occurance be higher than the actual operating hours, to me makes no sense so I am either missing something or something is not quite right?

 

No agreed not able to explain that one. Looked at my cars DME report and the hours of the last over rev in range 2 was less than the total hours on the car. Would certainly go back and ask them about it.

How many miles on this car? Is it about 100k?

 

50,000 miles

 

Did you get a copy of the actual report or did OPC just give you the numbers? Something is wrong with the hours - I've not seen a 997 with 5000+ hours on the engine - over 100000 miles?? Usually what this report means is that the engine has total operating hours of 5198.30 and that the last overrev in range 3 occurred at hour 5423.60 - not possible. Get the actual report and post a copy here.

Just saw the post with 50,000 miles...average MPH 10 - driven by old lady very slowly during its life or lots of time idling.

 

Just checked, zero mistakes operating hours counter is 5198.300h and car is nearly 8 years old (registerted Sept 2005) 50,000 miles.

 

Did the offer any reason why the last time it registered an overrev it was at a higher operating hours than the total registered?

 

I shall have to ask, because I just asked for report, but the numbers don't mean much to me but when I looked at them at home, made no sense.

If my calculations are correct it means car has been driven nearly 2hrs every day for its life or there abouts, so daily driven and well used which is good, just numbers don't add up.

How do you work out average speed?

Is it possible for their to be a glitch as 10mph average don't add up.....

 

With the information you provided, average speed would be total miles divided by engine operating hours or 50000/5198,3 = 9.62 mph - I've not seen an average this low before which would make me suspect the numbers provided to you. It's not impossible to have such a low average but it would tell me this car probably never saw a highway.

 

Looks like someone missed a shift at some point. Doesn't look too serious but you should see when that happened. If it was awhile ago then I wouldn't worry about it. If it just happened recently it could have been on a test drive by another interested party. If the latter, damage might not reer it's ugly head for awhile.

 

Range 3 is more likely rev limiter - usually get hits in ranges 4,5 and 6 with missed shifts.

 

Averaging 10 MPH to me is not a car I would go after, that is a TON of hours. Just me, too many questions marks, I would not buy it unless they could explain a lot.

Looks like it lived its life in bumper to bumper traffic.

 

^^^ Start up your car and floor it straight into the rev limiter and you'll likely see some revs in range 3. Also keep in mind that at 7,200 rpm's, there are 360 ignitions per second so that over rev was just over 1/10 of a second. Will not affect warranty (unlike ranges 4-6).

Ranges 4-6 are mechanical over revs and are caused by 'money shifts'. Here's how: run it up to the red line in 3rd, shift to 2nd and dump the clutch. You should hear a loud screeching sound as you lay down some rubber dave

 

The total record must be wrong. Car has more miles than most dme we see on the board. Looks like a typical over rev recently on a test drive! Without any range 4 and low 3s, I wouldn't worry about it. I would be more interested to know if the spark plugs had been changed recently. Probably due and it's expensive.