Hi all,
Having only been in Porsche ownership for a few months, I have one issue which is really beginning to cheese me off!
The car in question is a 2006 Carerra 4s manual with 51k on the clock.
The car itself was purchased approximately 3 months ago from a non Porsche specialist dealer fairly local to me, I collected the car and a few days later I had a PASM failure message appear on the dash, I made contact with the dealer who collected the car, they diagnosed a snapped front coil spring.
We had a brief discussion and decided rather than replacing the front two coil springs for oem I'd rather have eibach springs fitted which they promptly organised. The springs were purchased from design911 and fitted by a local garage by the dealer.
I then collected the car and the pasm error appeared again on the way home, I thought the car may need time to adapt to the new ride height so left it for a few days.
Fast forward a few weeks and the fault would re appear at random, I then deiced that I would get the wheel alignment re done (the dealer already did this after fitting new the eibach springs) and the print out showed the the alignment was way out of tolerance, a bit of a relief that having the alignment corrected may fix the PASM failure once and for all, No luck, the PASM failure is still present!
I then decided it was time to book the car in with a Porsche specialist , I opted to use PH Porsche who are again local to me.
As I arrived the PASM failure message was present on the dash, the engineer plugged in his diagnostics machine as ran a scan on the car, we were both expecting a fault to show up indicating that there was a faulty shock absorber, to our surprise there are no faults logged for any faulty shocks! They only error logged was "Sport mode activation failed" which was expected as sport mode is deactivated when the PASM failure occurs.
PH Porsche spent over an hour on the car testing the resistance on each shock and have also tested the wiring, no faults found. They have suggested dropping the car off for a full days work to diagnose the fault.
I've also spoken to the supplying dealer today and he is adamant that the fault is related to having eibach springs fitted and that the PASM tolerances are not within the limits, I'm not so sure, design911 have confirmed that the springs are 100% PASM compatible and would not cause a PASM failure.
So, any suggestions on what to look for next? I'm in a bit of a pickle now as I asked the supplying dealer to fit the eibach springs, which they are blaming for the error.
I've also added a post in the wanted section for a set of PASM compatible coils springs if anybody has as set, I'll have these installed to rule that out.
So components that have been looked into so far as follows
1. Shocks - no errors present (PIWIS)
resistance check passed.
2. Wiring, Nothing obvious found
3. Battery voltage - Pass
4. Alignment- re done
5. Speed sensors - Pass
6. Steering angle sensor - Pass
Any advise on how to resolve this is much appreciated, and apologies for the essay!
Having only been in Porsche ownership for a few months, I have one issue which is really beginning to cheese me off!
The car in question is a 2006 Carerra 4s manual with 51k on the clock.
The car itself was purchased approximately 3 months ago from a non Porsche specialist dealer fairly local to me, I collected the car and a few days later I had a PASM failure message appear on the dash, I made contact with the dealer who collected the car, they diagnosed a snapped front coil spring.
We had a brief discussion and decided rather than replacing the front two coil springs for oem I'd rather have eibach springs fitted which they promptly organised. The springs were purchased from design911 and fitted by a local garage by the dealer.
I then collected the car and the pasm error appeared again on the way home, I thought the car may need time to adapt to the new ride height so left it for a few days.
Fast forward a few weeks and the fault would re appear at random, I then deiced that I would get the wheel alignment re done (the dealer already did this after fitting new the eibach springs) and the print out showed the the alignment was way out of tolerance, a bit of a relief that having the alignment corrected may fix the PASM failure once and for all, No luck, the PASM failure is still present!
I then decided it was time to book the car in with a Porsche specialist , I opted to use PH Porsche who are again local to me.
As I arrived the PASM failure message was present on the dash, the engineer plugged in his diagnostics machine as ran a scan on the car, we were both expecting a fault to show up indicating that there was a faulty shock absorber, to our surprise there are no faults logged for any faulty shocks! They only error logged was "Sport mode activation failed" which was expected as sport mode is deactivated when the PASM failure occurs.
PH Porsche spent over an hour on the car testing the resistance on each shock and have also tested the wiring, no faults found. They have suggested dropping the car off for a full days work to diagnose the fault.
I've also spoken to the supplying dealer today and he is adamant that the fault is related to having eibach springs fitted and that the PASM tolerances are not within the limits, I'm not so sure, design911 have confirmed that the springs are 100% PASM compatible and would not cause a PASM failure.
So, any suggestions on what to look for next? I'm in a bit of a pickle now as I asked the supplying dealer to fit the eibach springs, which they are blaming for the error.
I've also added a post in the wanted section for a set of PASM compatible coils springs if anybody has as set, I'll have these installed to rule that out.
So components that have been looked into so far as follows
1. Shocks - no errors present (PIWIS)
resistance check passed.
2. Wiring, Nothing obvious found
3. Battery voltage - Pass
4. Alignment- re done
5. Speed sensors - Pass
6. Steering angle sensor - Pass
Any advise on how to resolve this is much appreciated, and apologies for the essay!