More Reconditioned Porsche Parts Will Meet Stuttgart Automaker’s Stamp Of Approval

If you’ve ever bought car parts, you know that rebuilt or remanufactured components aren’t a particularly new thing. That’s part of the reason that if you buy, say, a new alternator, you get some cash back if you bring your broken one in. It’s because that broken one still has good parts in it, and those can be reused for another part in the future. Remanufactured parts don’t always come from the original manufacturer, though. Porsche is changing that by expanding its rebuilding plans in order to improve long-term parts availability, reduce material costs, and maybe reduce parts prices. So even after the combustion 718 Cayman goes out of production, you’ll still be able to get parts, and they hopefully won’t be too expensive.

Porsche’s Current Remanufactured Parts Program

The German automaker already rebuilds a fair number of parts. It says “around 20” different part types are currently available in remanufactured form. They include transmissions, starters, alternators, and even navigation computers. Porsche emphasizes that it thoroughly cleans and tests components to make sure they’re still up to snuff, and worn components of a part are replaced with new ones.

Porsche’s Expansion Plans

Porsche is working on adding more components to its remanufacturing program, and making them available sooner. Among the parts it’s planning to add are headlights, active spoiler components, other vehicle computers, and, apparently, charging flaps. Porsche says it’s integrating the idea of remanufacturing into the development process of new cars and parts. So it should become easier for the company to salvage components from broken or worn parts, and reduce the amount of new pieces that need to be produced.

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There are some obvious benefits to remanufactured parts. Naturally, the more parts that can be reused, the fewer new parts and raw materials and energy need to be used. Porsche estimates that the greenhouse gas emissions of remanufactured parts can be a full half of what new parts would produce. In fact, the company also estimates that the reduction in materials use could be as high as 80% for some parts.

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Of course, less energy and fewer materials should also translate into reduced financial costs for producing these parts. That should definiely save Porsche money, and hopefully some of those savings will be passed down to owners, though Porsche conspicuously did not say anything about that. The other thing that Porsche noted was that more remanufactured parts should help improve the long-term availability of parts. So even if certain components go out of production, using good old ones could keep them on shelves for longer.