{"id":302244,"date":"2010-02-10T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=36744"},"modified":"2010-02-10T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:39:16","slug":"if-you-own-a-porsche-be-careful-where-you-service-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/302244","title":{"rendered":"If You Own A Porsche, Be Careful Where You Service It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/if-you-own-a-porsche-be-careful-where-you-service-it\/boxster-crash-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Boxster-Crash-4-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"2008 Porsche Boxster\" title=\"Boxster Crash 4\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36745\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dennis Culver \/ newspress.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A south Florida woman learned the hard way that your local garage may not be the best place to take a mid-engine, rear drive sports car.  Nanelle Wehmann dropped her 2008 Boxster at the local Shell station for \u201croutine maintenance\u201d, which apparently included high speed road testing by the station\u2019s owner, Kenneth Kasten.  Kasten lost control of the vehicle at a high rate of speed (although I\u2019m doubting the Florida Highway Patrol\u2019s estimate of 163 mph) and flipped the car into a mangrove swamp.  Not seriously injured, the mechanic fled the scene and was found hiding in a nearby parking lot.  He\u2019s been charged with reckless driving and leaving the scene of a crash; apparently, being a jackass is not against the law.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-36744\"><\/span>I\u2019m all for supporting local business, and God knows I\u2019m not a fan of the service quality most dealers deliver.  Still, I seriously doubt I\u2019d bring a Porsche to a local garage unless they specialized in the marque.  Did Wehmann learn a valuable lesson here?  Apparently not, as she plans on bringing her vehicles back to the station in the future.  \u201cI have no reason to think I wouldn\u2019t,\u201d Wehmann said, \u201cit\u2019s a well respected place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s hoping she doesn\u2019t own a Bugatti Veyron or a McLaren F1.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-press.com\/article\/20100128\/NEWS0117\/100128007\/163-mph-Porsche-test-drive-results-in-south-Fort-Myers-crash\">news-press.com<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.insideline.com\/straightline\/2010\/02\/mechanic-launches-customers-porsche-into-the-mangroves-at-163-mph-hides.html\">Straightline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/V4IqwBLH5V-WVYOk8TxS4fVqJzU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/V4IqwBLH5V-WVYOk8TxS4fVqJzU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/V4IqwBLH5V-WVYOk8TxS4fVqJzU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/V4IqwBLH5V-WVYOk8TxS4fVqJzU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Dennis Culver \/ newspress.com A south Florida woman learned the hard way that your local garage may not be the best place to take a mid-engine, rear drive sports car. Nanelle Wehmann dropped her 2008 Boxster at the local Shell station for \u201croutine maintenance\u201d, which apparently included high speed road testing by the station\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}