Hi,
My Sport and Sport Plus buttons suddenly stopped working a couple of weeks ago. They don’t light up when pressed nor does the engine performance change. I thought it might be a battery problem so I replaced the battery with a new H8, but still nothing. I did replace my
PDK
fluids a few months ago but I doubt this has caused anything. The car runs great in normal driving mode.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Hi - welcome to Planet-9, the Friendly
Porsche
Forum..
You question (and first post) actually belongs in a technical area, so I'm going to drag it over there.
I think you'll need a
Porsche
-specific diagnostics tool (or a dealer visit or private shop with a
PIWIS
) to diagnose this. Did the car come equipped from the factory with Sport/Sport-Plus? Typically if it did you'll have the useless stopwatch wart on the top of the dash. If it was retrofitted (which could be done) you'll likely not have the wart (you're missing nothing useful..).
What year/engine is your 987? I'm assuming 2009 or newer since you mentioned replacing the
PDK
fluids and you nicely titled the thread with the model number.
When you did the
PDK
fluids did you do the adaptation-reset? Where you tell the TCU to forget everything it knows about your driving habits? Once when I did that my Sport/Sport-Plus disappeared - but only for one key cycle. I stopped the car, restarted it and it was back.
The reason I suggest a diagnostics tool is you want to check if the ECU/TCU see the action on the Sport/Sport-Plus buttons. A good diagnostics tool (not an OBD-II tool, that would be pretty useless) If they don't then wiring or the switch assembly itself should be looked at. It also would tell you if the ECU/TCU think Sport/Sport-Plus is installed.
I guess it's possible some low battery condition might have caused the car to forget it has Sport/Sport-Plus, if that's the case you'll have to visit a dealer to get it reinstalled. It's married to your VIN# - and the enabling code for it comes from the
Porsche
computers (maybe in Atlanta, but more likely Germany).
OK - moving this thread - hang on... and when you get a chance - please visit
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- introduce yourself, and show us some photos of your car that we can ooohhhh and aaaahhhh over.
I’m having similar issues with my
987.1
sport button, I suppose I’ll need to get the code from
Porsche
for my Sport button. My battery was disconnected for a long, long time. Seems odd to need to do that if it was originally installed and no modules have been replaced.
While my sport/sport plus buttons work and illuminate in the center console, I don’t get the dash notification near the digital speedo. Is this a
PIWIS
coding issue?
I'll make that "probably.." based on my experience turning the sport/sport-plus/
Launch
Control lights on on my steering wheel using my
Foxwell NT530
. Local shop wanted $275 to turn the light out. I paid about $160 for the
Foxwell
and DIY in about 5 minutes. You might ask if anyone near you has a
Foxwell
or a
PIWIS clone
and could help you out.
Before you throw money at
Porsche
- if you can find someone with a
Foxwell
tool, or a
PIWIS
- it's worth checking to see if the Sport/Sport-plus button is turned on in the ECU (I think that's where it resides..) The system may know the code but just turned it off for some reason. A dealer is going to charge at least 1 hour labor (over $200 now in NJ) to hookup to it and troubleshoot it.
