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On 7/16/2020 at 9:57 AM, Nobbie said:

I’d be doubtful of Porsche producing a modern mass market sports car that you need to idle for a couple of minutes after a spirited drive.

Cough bore score cough. 

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Car has stood outside for a few weeks not used, heater controls not working, lights on but not working, think it might have just been the blower fan. Stopped and restarted engine to try and fix but took about ten miles before it worked again, had to have window open because of misting up... anyone else?

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43 minutes ago, Happy Days said:

I think its a common enough problem. Mine has done it twice - I turn the blower off completely and then back on and it comes on again.

Pretty common on the 981 and guessing the same or siilar design on the 718, sometimes turning on and off helps, sometimes just driving over a few bumps frees it up, other times it doesn't You then have to remove the small cabin filter cover under the bonnet, stick your hand into the fan and give it a little spin to free it up. Making sure the keys are out and ignition is not on or you'll get a nail manicure you weren't expecting :)

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Ok here's a new one for the Cayman 718 S. My car suffered a minor bump (low speed on the rear wheel arch which was replaced an OPC recommended repairer (used by them and also endorsed by my insurance company). Since the repair my rear spoiler has stopped working. The repairer was very transparent stating that it was working fine when they initially received the car as they had to disassemble the rear bumper and the spoiler assembly to take off the damaged rear wing. The was no evidence of damage to any internal components and in their words this was a an entirely straightforward job.

The spoiler button no longer works, there is no light. The one rather odd thing they said is that they are able to operate the spoiler when the car is connected to their service laptop.

Any ideas?

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On 4/28/2021 at 10:39 AM, Greenman said:

Do you know if it goes up at speed?

Could just be a switch issue and coincidence?  If it goes up in service mode it would tend to eliminate anything that the bodywork might to have caused (misalignment, wiring unplugged etc)

Sorry forgot to mention, it was 'stuck' in the 'up' position and curiously when the speed hits 75mph I was getting a 'spoiler failure' warning on the dash prompting me to slow down.

Anyway, update: I took the car to an independent specialist and once again they confirmed that the spoiler could be operated when plugged into the diagnostic laptop but what was interesting here was that the spoiler descended into the stowed position but would not remain there and would bounce back up again. You could hear two clicks, one as the the spoiler stowed then a second click as it redeployed to the up position (dreadfully boring this I know....).

Was shown on another 718 that had a working spoiler that only one click was heard when stowed properly.

So, bumper was taken off and the problem was that there is a magnetic contact which was covered in fine metal filings which the spoiler mechanism has to make contact with properly to enable the spoiler to stow properly. Once cleaned all went back to normal. The independent said it was highly likely that in the confines of a car body shop environment that the tiny bits of metal had unfortunately become unknowingly stuck to the contacts causing the error.

The repairers have told me that the issue was in their words "not repair related".

My only gripe now is that if the Porsche 'approved repairer' (also endorsed by the insurer) had cleaned these contacts before reinstalling the rear bumper none of this would have happened. The reason for going to an independent was that my OPC (and Porsche Cars GB) endorses this repairer as the only approved repairer in my region and hence, a conflict of interest.

I am now seriously considering making a claim for this issue. It wasn't dreadfully expensive to sort out but the principles and ethics behind this are to me, rather disturbing.

Fun fun, and not to mention, AWKWARD!

 

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Porsche Approved repairers are not staffed with Porsche trained technicians. You should have pressed them to fix the problem or talked with your insurer and possibly Porsche GB

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2 hours ago, JustCruzin said:

the problem was that there is a magnetic contact which was covered in fine metal filings which the spoiler mechanism has to make contact with properly to enable the spoiler to stow properly. Once cleaned all went back to normal.

Wow.

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3 hours ago, JonSta said:

Waiting for turbos to cool went out with the co-op horse.  Water cooled turbos never get hot like the old oil cooled ones used to.

Seriously, I perform a cool down on everything I own for the last part of every journey.

Maybe the cool down laps during track days are also unnecessary ;)

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For sure. The last part of every journey I make is a ccol down simply because I live in a town. Sitting with the engine idling at the end of a journey is totally unnecessary though. Even when turbo car owners fitted turbo timers to 'save' their turbos it probably wasn't necessary in 90% of cases.

Race car cool downs - well yeah...

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