2025 Porsche 718 Cayman

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Engine	1		0	1	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

EngineFire

Filed May 29, 2026VA

The motor experienced a catastrophic failure causing the rod to blow through the top of the engine, cutting a fuel line and causing a fire. It was later determined and passed to me via unofficial sources that this was due to a manufacturing defect where the incorrect camshaft bearings were used on specific pistons. Via online and first account conversations, it seems this has happened at least 12 other times. Those vehicles which can be found online were complete losses. Via second hand conversations, Porsche technicians said this was the first instance where the fire didn't consume the entire vehicle so they could RCA the problem.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2016

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Assessment
2025 — this page	1	0	1	Routine
2024	0	1	0	Routine
2023	1	0	0	Routine
2022	1	0	0	Routine
2021	2	0	0	Routine
2019	1	1	0	Routine
2018	0	2	0	Routine
2017	5	4	0	Routine
2016	7	1	0	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.