Rushey

Hi All, Just go my first Panamera a few weeks ago, my first Porsche too! Its a 2018 Panamera 4 E-Hybrid Turismo and I love it! Original owner ticked almost every option box so it has a great spec. Bermester sound system is insane!

Made a few small upgrades:

- I got the "Full Screen" car play and software upgrades done by Servis, who did a great job. (Link)
- Added the wireless charger from Nine Volt (Link)
- Wireless CarPlay from amazon ( )
- Also got a tune done so it went from the stock 455bhp to just over 600bhp.

However, its not all been a bed of roses. In short time I have had the car I think I have experienced all of the issues that are mentioned in this forum.

- Had the "no reverse" issue once when joining a motorway. Lost all the odd gears for the rest of the journey. Was fine after turning off the car and has not happened since. It a bit of a worry as I had the same issue on my Wife's Kodiaq last year and it needed a new Mechatronics unit, which was not cheap
- Last week I had the engine check light come on when started one morning and engine was running very rough. Was like that for two days and then it just went back to normal. Only thing I can think of is that we had a significant change in weather over night as we had a bit of a heat wave so it was about 10c cooler. Though it might have messed with Fuel pressure of something?
- Yesterday I had the "E-Power not available" message. Strange thing is there was about 40% charge in the battery the previous night and it was still able to run on electric only when in hybrid mode, just couldn't put in E model. That went away after a restart also.

I do have a 12 month warranty from the dealer I bought from so at least am covered if something does go, but its still a bit of a worry. I bought a ArtiDiag800BT from Amazon also. Only got it last night do did a quick health check and it threw a whole load of codes. I cleared everything and only a few odd ones stayed (rear reading lights etc..). Will have a look at whats left later.

Anyway, good to see a active community here. Anyone have any other suggestions for an upgrades or improvements that should be done?

The only thing that constantly bugs me if having to take the keys out of my pocket to open and lock. Is there anything that can be done to get some kind of keyless access?

Here are a few pictures!

Black_on_black

Cant comment the other faults re rough running (a likely culprit is the non porsche certified power upgrade?), but the E-power not available is as it should be, every now and then the ICE will start up to circulate fluids, charge something up - I dunno, but it is normal if you’re only running in E power that like once a week or once every other week it will start the combustion engine.

Chimuel

Even the base model Macan that my main dealer loans out have keyless access. You may have Comfort Access turned off in the vehicle settings? It may also be an optional extra over in your region.





Otherwise check your options here:

PandaSPUR

IIRC comfort access became standard with the 971.2 refresh (2021) but was optional prior to that.

Andy Liu

They have smart key so you don't need to take it out your pocket. But you got to move one of your key over it. I got it and it work well

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/32568...d=c3UyE6fZUcSb

Rushey

How does that work exactly?

Andy Liu

you move one of your keys into this remote by soldering the button,

then there is a obd that you plug in. All it does is sent a signal when the car is off to the remote and the remote will sent a signal to lock or unlock based on how close you are