Porsche Parts You’re going to undertake a service or repair project on your Porsche. You do the research, look at YouTube videos and DIY guides and you’re confident that you can tackle it. Now you need to get the parts.
Question is, do you go with genuine Porsche parts, OEM parts or aftermarket parts? And, what are the differences, if any between them? Genuine Porsche Parts These parts can be purchased at any Porsche dealer and/or through Porsche’s distribution network. You can tell that it is a genuine part because it will be offered in its original Porsche packaging, showing the Porsche part number and with identification labels. Any genuine Porsche part has gone through Porsche’s quality control system to assure that they deliver performance exactly as what the factory intended. Most of the time, when you purchase a genuine Porsche replacement part it will be identical to the one installed at the factory but not always. If the part has been revised it will have a newer version number where the last 2 digits of the part number changes upward by one digit for every revision. Also in some cases the new revised part will be superseded by a new part which may be made of a different material and could be slightly different as the original part, but it will fit and function as intended.
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