[Regajohn]

Visited this and many other Porsche forums many times, but I guess I never joined 968 forums. Anyway while driving home about 11 p.m. last night at 40 miles an hour the tach goes to zero ... lights come on and car wouldn't restart. After leaving it in a neighborhood i Ubered home and did a little research and discovered the DME issue on this forum. There was a link to a PDF that talked about making jumpers and someone commented that their car died and he didn't have any wire so he connected the three posts by wrapping a paperclip around them and shoving the DME back into its receptacle. Anyway I tried it this morning ... and ... :-) it worked !!!!!! Unfortunately I missed a great breakfast drive this AM, but I also missed out on an expensive wrecker and a potentially big repair bill.


Thank you all & have a great weekend.


John

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[94SilverCab]

HI,

 

We love to hear that this site has saved you money/time/trouble

 

That's how I found Forums in the first place, AFTER paying $235 for diagnostics and a new DME Relay, and found out it was a $25 part that everyone knew about.

 

Jay

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[tejon007]

Regajohn,

 

Welcome. 

 

The DME relay issue is pretty easy to fix - - unless you're in the middle of nowhere when it sticks on you. 

 

Happened to me on my drive back from Tennessee to Nevada just a couple days after I bought it.  I stopped in Colorado at a friends house, left the car there for a week and returned for the final portion of the drive home, but it wouldn't start.  I figured out it was a bad DME relay, but where to get one? 

 

SO I think it's not a bad idea to have one in your trunk or glove compartment along with extra fuses, etc...just in case.  (BTW, I put in newer fuses that light up when blown, so you can easily figure out which one to replace)

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[az968]

I carry a spare DME relay ($80) and a 53 ($20) relay in my car along with fuses. Figured cheap insurance. Read that on this forum some years back. Extra alternator belt too. Extra heater control valve, the older one after upgrading to the metal one. Glad the 968 has so much trunk space for my parts warehouse :-)


What's in your wallet, er, trunk?

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[Bulti]

Welcome John!

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[Rap]

Welcome!

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[blau]

There is also now a solid-state DME Relay which should never have issues with solder cracking, etc. People have been using them across 944/968/911 for 2-3 years now with no reported issues.

 

http://www.ftech9.com/new-products/993-ssr

 

Also a version that primes the fuel pump prior to starting:

 

http://www.ftech9.com/new-products/993-ssr-pp

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[Ryan]

Blau,

 

Good find on the solid state kit. Not expensive either.

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