You guys ever see this before? 2006
Porsche Cayman S
window working backwards.
video of window
Wow. That's a new one to me.
I don't think the window is working "backwards", but I'd guess the switch that tells the car that the door is closed has failed. With this, the window would go back up because it thinks the door is already closed... that's my guess, at least.
Not sure where this switch is, but probably in the door locking mechanism (the one that holds the door closed/locked when closed).
I know on VW this module fails often, usually causing electronic lock problems... but I'm guessing it's probably a same/similar part that has gone bad. On the VW it's an all-in-one thing, but wasn't too expensive there.
Porsche
tax may apply, of course.
I think this is correct as the dome lights go out immediately when I open the drivers side door. They stay on like they should if I open the passenger door. Thanks for the info schwinn!
Dome light
Do you guys suppose it could be this switch? I can't find anything else that would be a door closed sensor.
OK I think I have it now.
I saw this video and thought I would give it a try.
wrong car, right problem
As it turns out this didn't work for my car, but after messing around with the door latch I see that this is the issue.
When I move the door latch mechanism around there are three distinct stages and I can tell there is some sort of return spring that has given up the ghost.
So I am going to try replacing this entirely enclosed assembly.
Snippage of some good content
This seems to be the answer to almost all the door and alarm issues people encounter in Porsche cars. The damn latch assemblies just love to give up the ghost... my Cayenne is going in next week for it's annual "which latch assembly failed now".. slowly working our way around the car replacing them. Costs a lot more on the Cayenne since I won't go into those doors - WAY too much stuff in there..
Update:
I've replaced my door latch assembly and everything is working again.
I was surprised to find a non
Porsche
part already installed, this job has been done before on this car.
Some things to note, it is a moderately difficult job getting into the
987.1
door internals.
As some have suggested I removed the outside handle and I think this is necessary, if nothing else just to understand what is happening in there.
When reassembling you have to get the door latch assembly to mate with the outside handle in the physical lock assembly and the outside latch attachment ( the most difficult part) while also lining up the handle backing plate and putting these free floating attachments though the backing plate holes all at the same time. This wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to do this reaching up into a near blind area, but you do.
All in all, once you see how things work, it's just a question of lining everything up and getting it back together.
There are many fragile plastic parts you have to deal with in this job and my only casualty was the mirror adjustment dial assembly. One side of the super fragile plastic that holds the tiny delicate metal clip that keeps it in place broke on me. Should be an easy fix once I get a new one.
That's another couple few hundreds of bucks I've saved being a DIYer.
the cat looks like its admiring the car!
p.s. the door card clips are also fragile and its good to keep few around....
Yeah I had a few break, or maybe they were already broken from the last time this latch assembly was replaced.
My boys love the
Porsche
.
