maverick

Curious, anybody else had their spoiler fail? Mine has been doing it intermitantly so shes going to the dealer in the morning.(4,700 miles)

eclou

Have not heard of this yet. Perhaps just an electrical contact.

Coochas

OK, I have to ask,...how do you know when your spoiler isn't going up at 75 mph? It's sort of like the light inside the refrigerator thing.
Or is it stuck in the deployed position?

AAHTT

There is a button to deploy and retract the spoiler even with the car stopped and you can actually see it deploy in the rear view mirror when driving, I do.

Coochas

I know there's a button silly!
For the life of me, I cannot see it in my rear view when it is up.

jhbrennan

On a C4, you're right, you can't see it but on a TT you can see whether it's up or down from the driver's side mirror.

AAHTT

I can see the top of my spoiler in the rear view mirror, just barely but it is there.

cabman4007

Interesting,, for the life of me I cant see it up.. Maybe because it only goes up slightly.

Next time I up over 75 mph I ll check it out.

thanks for the info.


don

funcars

Interesting timing... I got the spoiler failure msg yesterday while driving home from a quick shopping trip. Power cycling the car removed the "info" msg. Then I manually actuated it via the button, and saw it rise a tiny bit in the rear-view mirror. The next button press lowered it.

Of course, I then got to 75 on a deserted country road to test it again, and now it seems to be working fine. Let us know what you find out from the dealer. I expect mine will eventually need the same repair.

whyb2nd

no issues here and I do play with the manual mode often.

Coochas

D'Oh, of course.....me bad, wasn't thinking!

TT Surgeon

Funny. I've had the same thing intermittantly, got a psm fail at the same time once. Took it in Friday, they replaced a faulty sensor relay. I see a pattern guys, when's the recall?
Better to take it in and get it documented at least.

maverick

You get a chime and then the red warning display indicates rear spoiler failure. It has happened several times and the manaul button wont ovreride it. I popped the hood and closed it firmly and then on restart it worked. She sits a fair amount so not sure if thats a contributing factor. Dropped it this am and got a nice Cayman loaner. Will le tyou know what they find, hopefully not the dreaded "cant replicate customer concern"

TT Surgeon

On mine they found a relay in the passenger side door that was loose, apparently it feeds the spoiler and other crap in the rear of the car. Mine did the exact same thing as yours.

maverick

Final input from dealer is "cant recreate customer concern" They checked her out and said the computer had no hard failure codes which means apparently it may have been erased after subsequent successful operations. They checked the hydraulics and the electrical relays and connectors and said all was in order. Will report back if it happens again. Maybe shes just telling me to drive her more