Maintenance, Car Care 267
Notes on maintenance
We recommend a Porsche partner for this work.
Experienced, Porsche trained workshop
personnel, supplied with the latest information as
well as special tools and equipment are prerequi-
sites for looking after your Porsche properly.
If, however, you work on your vehicle yourself, you
must do it with great care. Only in this way is
operational reliability fully guaranteed.
Unskilled maintenance work performed during the
guarantee period may cause you to lose your
claims.
Danger!
Risk of death, injury and fire during mainte-
nance work.
f Do not smoke in the vicinity of the battery or
fuel system, and do not use a naked flame.
f Only work on the vehicle in the open or in well-
ventilated spaces.
f Take care when working near hot engine parts
and parts of the exhaust system.
f Before working in the engine compartment,
always switch the engine off and let it cool
sufficiently.
f If you have to work on the engine while it is
running, always apply the parking brake and
put the gearshift lever in neutral or the
Tiptronic selector lever in position P.
f Take great care to ensure that hands, fingers,
articles of clothing (e.g. ties, sleeves),
necklaces or long hair cannot be caught up by
the radiator fans, drive belt or other moving
parts.
f Exercise extreme caution when working in the
area of the radiator fans.
The radiators and radiator fans are in the front
of the vehicle.
The fans can start running as a function of
temperature, even with the engine switched
off.
f When the ignition is on, all cables and wires of
the ignition system carry a high voltage.
Special care is therefore required.
f Always place the vehicle on stable supports if
work has to be carried out under the vehicle.
The car jack is not suitable for this.
For information on raising vehicles with air
suspension with level control and height adjust-
ment:
Please observe the chapter “RAISING VEHICLE
WITH THE JACK” on Page 205.
f Refill fluids, e.g. engine oil, washer fluid, brake
fluid or coolant, are hazardous to health.
Store refill fluids out of reach of children and
dispose of these fluids properly.
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