PASM not working
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PASM not working
Took my car in to the local auto electrician as the battery was having problems with cold starts , slow cranking etc.
So rather than drive 250 mile round trip to the Porsche Dealer to repair i went to a local place to get it who had the supplier the battery. They tested the voltage loss and it was under .5 volts but they found the regulator was at fault and replaced it.
They had the battery out of the car charging it and put it back in and as I drove home i noticed the car was riding rough and i hit the pasm switch and nothing came up on the display and the ride would not change
HELP any ideas
So rather than drive 250 mile round trip to the Porsche Dealer to repair i went to a local place to get it who had the supplier the battery. They tested the voltage loss and it was under .5 volts but they found the regulator was at fault and replaced it.
They had the battery out of the car charging it and put it back in and as I drove home i noticed the car was riding rough and i hit the pasm switch and nothing came up on the display and the ride would not change
HELP any ideas
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i'd say they screwed something up. you should bite and just do the 250miler. no one knows elec issues like the stealerships. local indys may be able to figure it out once in awhile but for the obscure, "this has never happened to anyone in the history of ever...until me" type problems, the stealer is usu the best bet at diagnosing using the PIWIS and theyre knowledge of the brand.
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Before doing the 250 miler, you might try disconnecting the new battery they installed for a few minutes. Whenever you disconnect the battery, upon reconnection, the car always comes back up with a PSM failure message that usually clears after a few miles of driving. Now this is different than PASM, but maybe one of the modules got confused once it lost and then regained power. Once you do that, it will take a few miles for the ECU to reoptimize so the car may not seem like it's running just right. I would also assume there is a fuse for the PASM system and who knows what they did, but if they hooked the battery up backwards for a second, could have blown a fuse or two or damaged a module. Good luck and let us know what you find out.
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Yay went for a longish drive and the ECU has sorted it self out and the tip is a lot livelier changes are snappier and eager to kick down (non Chrono) and the PASM has sorted too
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Sounds like it was working just right, then! Autocrossers have long complained about PASM going full soft in corners and other shenanigans, even when in sport mode; I wonder if simply unplugging the shocks would set them all full hard and fix those issues?
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I have the same problem! They changed the battery a few weeks ago on my 997.1 CS, I went through the "PASM failure, and PSM failure" proces, but now the PASM doesn´t work, and the car feels full hard, even more than on sport mode I would say. The yellow light on the suspension button does´t turn on either, and I have no recall messages.
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I have the same problem! They changed the battery a few weeks ago on my 997.1 CS, I went through the "PASM failure, and PSM failure" proces, but now the PASM doesn´t work, and the car feels full hard, even more than on sport mode I would say. The yellow light on the suspension button does´t turn on either, and I have no recall messages.
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Full hard is the default if the system fails. This is for safety. Say you are high speed tracking or autobahn and the electronics fail...... zero electricity is full hard..... mushy is less safe.
You will get a PASM failure light whenever you disconnect the battery .... but it should go out in less than 1/4 mile of driving.
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You will get a PASM failure light whenever you disconnect the battery .... but it should go out in less than 1/4 mile of driving.
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I have the same problem! They changed the battery a few weeks ago on my 997.1 CS, I went through the "PASM failure, and PSM failure" proces, but now the PASM doesn´t work, and the car feels full hard, even more than on sport mode I would say. The yellow light on the suspension button does´t turn on either, and I have no recall messages.
Now the PASM button doesnt do anything, but pressing the sport button changes the pasm to sport and back on the center screen. But im not sure if it actually changes the damper. It was the first drive after winter and i forgot how soft is soft.
Thanks for anything