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YOUR RESEARCHCan you not leave a 996 unlocked?
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I garage my car, when I originally purchased I locked it , and since I drive it every 6 ish weeks the battery was always drained, because the locked car the alarm actives and uses battery.
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I garage my car, when I originally purchased I locked it , and since I drive it every 6 ish weeks the battery was always drained, because the locked car the alarm actives and uses battery.
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Weird question, but... Can you not leave a 996 unlocked?
I picked up a 2001 Carrera today and once I was done aimlessly joyriding in my new toy, I parked it in my garage with the windows down and doors unlocked as I have all of my past older (read: pre-1988) Porsches and went into the house. I came out not long later and noticed that there was a tiny yellowish light on in the roof-mounted courtesy light housing, as well as the frunk and engine cover button lights lit up near the driver's side door-sill. All other interior lights were off. I waited and waited but the lights never went off... it was only after I locked the car with the fob that those lights finally extinguished.
And that's when I discovered that the car had a motion sensor inside... reaching in the open window with the car fob-locked resulted in the alarm going off and nearly giving me a heart attack.
So now the car is fob-locked with the windows up in my garage.
All I wanted to do was park the car open to the air in the safety of my garage but it wasn't having it... so did I do something wrong?
Locking the car puts it in sleep mode
If you leave it parked unlocked for a week, you will have a dead battery since there are several sensors that still run, and the A/C blower still moves some air
I am not sure the light remaining on when unlocked is normal. I leave my car unlocked in my garage (with a battery tender) and do not have any courtesy lights remaining on.
In my experience the lights stay on for many ?6-8 hrs but do go off. I would also not leave the key in the ignition as it drains the battery even more, as I found out when I first got my 03 996.
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Discovered the Owner's Manual hidden deep in the frunk and it answered my question. The lights are apparently "Orientation Lights" and stay on as long as the other key-out functions (windows, stereo, etc) do... two hours according to the book.
In the end, the car appears to be working as designed, I only needed to read the manual to learn this. Too bad the car doesn't have a convenient glove compartment to keep it in or I would have probably found it before asking the question.
2001 996 Owner
I garage my car, when I originally purchased I locked it , and since I drive it every 6 ish weeks the battery was always drained, because the locked car the alarm actives and uses battery. After 2 batteries, I stopped locking the car, much less issues, windows up roof closed and that's it. I do put on trickle charge on occasion, maybe 2 x per year for a few hours. just my thoughts
It does, but the manuals won't fit into it when they're all in the vinyl pouch. Plus that's kind of welfare having the manual hanging out in view, I think. Wouldn't a glovebox be handy? Funny that my 70's 911s all had them... this is progress?
