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Tobias Toft
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Hi folks, I've been dealing with an incredibly frustrating mouse problem for a while, and today I noticed that they'd been at it again and chewed through a wire in my engine compartment. The car runs fine however and no warning lights are on, so I'm wondering which wire the mice cut this time? It's a brown pair, it has a plug that looks like a sensor plug (see photo, apologies for the dirty car), and I have no idea where the other end of it goes. The previous owner installed a backup camera so I have some extra wiring back there, but this one looks like it came from the factory. Does anyone know where this wire goes? Cheers, Tobias
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Correct!
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Wanted to close the loop on this one, in case other people have this issue. I managed to get the car hooked up to a PIWIS II tester today and it turned out my instrument cluster was configured as an RoW cluster despite it being in imperial units and sold in the US. I suspect that since the car was originally sold without OBC there was no reason to change the region coding on it when it was manufactured. A quick configuration change to 'US' with the PIWIS II (it had to be done in Development mode) fixed the issue, and now my OBC is much more usable.
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Amazing, thanks Loren! Sounds like a good excuse to go on a longer drive 😉
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Thanks Loren! Both sound like very plausible explanations (as far as I know the cluster is original to the car, but I could be wrong). I'm in the Bay Area.
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Here's an animated gif of me cycling through the different screens in the OBC. Notice the speed gong screen showing 125 MPH, I set that when I was going 77 MPH. FWIW, the digital speedometer shows the correct speed when driving, so the conversion issue seems to be isolated to the OBC readout itself. Strange...
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Apologies, I have to correct myself: I went for a drive last night and realized that my OBC temperature readout is in fact in Celsius. So, everything is read out in metric numbers but the labels in the LCD display are in imperial units (MPG/MPH) except for temperature, which is shown with a ℃. My current hypothesis is that my OBC firmware is configured as a non-US unit but the actual gauge cluster hardware is US spec. Does this seem like something that could be fixed by someone with the proper Porsche diagnostic tools? Sorry if this is confusing — I'll post some photos soon!
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Hi everyone! I have a strange issue with my OBC that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else on the various forums: The OBC on my 2000 996 C2 is showing everything in mph (as it should, being a US car), but the actual numeric values are interpreted as (or rather, not converted from) km/h. In other words, if I'm going 60 mph on the highway and reset the average speed display or set the speed gong via the OBC stalk, they'll be set to 96 MPH (which is the corresponding numeric value in km/h). The temperature display, however, is showing the temperature correctly in Fahrenheit. Has anyone seen this before? It should be mentioned that I activated the OBC myself with a Durametric cable after installing a new 4-stalk unit. The stalk works fine for navigating the OBC so I don't think it's a wiring issue, it seems more like a software configuration issue. Did I miss a setting somewhere in the Durametric interface when I activated the OBC? So far I've tried to switch the mph/kmh units in the gauge cluster back and forth but it doesn't affect the OBC. I've also tried resetting it by removing the battery, also to no effect. 🤔
