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We drove over to near Richmond Yorkshire with Tabatha in tow Friday afternoon after work for the bank holiday weekend, nice quiet little site.
Roast salt and pepper chicken, green beans, roasted buttered carrots, garlic and basil roast potatoes. All cooked on our Cobb oven at campsite tonight.
Yum!!!!
The reason for the food related post is that MrsRNP was a dab hand at manifold cooking on our overlander Defender, we had many the smell of delicious meals wafting from under the bonnet as we trundled along motorway and autoroutes (unfortunately the pics are pre my iPhone)
Greta's V6 runs really quite warm - you can feel heat radiating from the wings when you walk past and the manifolds area is bigger and more open than our Defender. The Prague trip wasn't the time to be experimenting with Greta but I think it's going to be a good cooking capable vehicle but for now our trusty Cobb oven continues to work brilliantly.
Posted : 04/05/2025 7:17 pm
anorak reacted
What's that in the second picture? Looks like an overheated brake drum with a wrap of tinfoil inside it. 😁
Posted : 04/05/2025 7:21 pm
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What's that in the second picture? Looks like an overheated brake drum with a wrap of tinfoil inside it. 😁
It's the 'moat' of the Cobb that can be filled with liquid to keep the main compartment moist, the fire basket is removed and scorching a waffle pattern on the grass!
Cobb cooking is similar to engine manifold cooking - two layers of tin foil with liquid inside (oil/wine/butter etc). In the Cobb they are placed round the outside of the fire basket, the chicken was on the griddle plate above.
Posted : 04/05/2025 8:15 pm
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Drove home today via the A1 and M62 - EML flagged up!!!!!
Read the code when we got home and it was the P0441 Evaporative Emissions Control. It's flagged this before and I bought a £35 genuine Bosch solenoid valve from Autodoc (Porsche £230) at the time but didn't get round to fitting it.
The valve is in the same place as the crankcase breather / PCV which I haven't done anything with since I bought the car. A genuine assembly is £360 as the internal diaphragm isn't available separately from Porsche. Luckily Chinese knock-off diaphragms from AliExpress are less than £10. I'd ordered one a few weeks ago so with the nice bank holiday afternoon weather I set about changing both of them.
I also bought 10x engine trim Dzus clips for £1.44 (Porsche are £1.44 each)
The breather assembly pops apart with careful screwdriver use, it was fairly junked up but still clear. Cleaned out and new diaphragm fitted.
The Evap valve was awkwardly sited at the back of the engine. Bit of knuckle scraping and it was changed.
Hopefully no further EML!!!
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Posted : 05/05/2025 8:16 pm
verses reacted
I wonder how much that would have set you back at a dealership for that + diagnostics.
Bit more than £500 I suspect
Posted : 05/05/2025 8:34 pm
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I wonder how much that would have set you back at a dealership for that + diagnostics.
Bit more than £500 I suspect
Probably not as much as you'd think - the Mk1 Cayenne has 'Classic' status with Porsche so is eligible for reduced labour costs and a range of Porsche upgrades - retrofit cruise control, PCM (Carplay head unit) etc.
The other good thing about these early Cayennes is that they are 20+years old, everyone has already had every problem they are likely to have and is well documented on various forums.
Posted : 05/05/2025 9:03 pm
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