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On my CTT, the HID lights, when turned on, start out by dipping and then gradually raising up to predescribed level. Some time ago, I noticed that the passenger side light does not do that, It just turns on and stays put, while the driver side headlight still goes through its startup routine. I want to solve this and wanted to see if anyone knows what the problem may be. Thank you for help.

Waiting for parts. Turns out the coils still under warranty so getting them exchanged. Just got the oil pressure sensor. Will try to replace this week if all arrives here.

I think I figured it all out. 2 separate issues here - ignition coil(s) going bad - oil pressure sensor intermittent (twice now in a month) not reading All grounds are good, ran voltage drop tests at various components including alternator, no issues. Good solid ground. Once coil needs replacing. Possibly up to 3. Replaced all my plugs and coils 1.5 years ago (28k miles). Ordered ZSE042 rev 14, but after they arrived, revision received was 06. Only one of the coils was ZSE042 latest revision. Was really surprised to see coil go bad after only 28k miles. Old rev can help explain it. There are 2 other coils that I removed and cleaned, that are running ok now, but have seen misfire on them. Plugs were already replaced regardless. So on the coil, so far so good. Mad cannot drive my car though (well, can if I reset the codes each time, but they do come back every 60 miles or so). Oil pressure sensor will be swapped asap. Should be easy, and I do not want to run chance of this not working right. As to the electrical, I had a dealer look at the car about 2 weeks ago. It was a routine 'hey can you scan and tell me buddy what you think needs doing'. They said sure. The genius who 'looked' at it, left a rubber tube of some sort, inside bay. Does not belong to car. After couple weeks being there, the tube moved and just happened to relocate to where it was touching the manifold. Hence the smell. Was strict coincidence for all these 3 things to come together. At least I have resolution to this. Still, have to wait for the coil, which is a bummer. Will update again after swaps. Thanks so much to all who helped. You ever heard of 28k coils needing replace? wow, talk about short lived.

So far, took apart the GND and PWR terminals under hood. Cleaned well to have good contacts. Put back together. Cleaned the batt terminals and connections well in trunk. Waiting for oil pressure sensor to arrive. Then I will put car up, replace sensor and get a good look at the GND strap from alternator to engine. Also planning to use snake camera to trace the power cable under hood, where it disappears from jumper terminal, into the side fender hole. Hoping to see something that can cause my symptoms, but doubtful since if the PWR wire was shorted to chassis, I would be burning fuses left and right, and if not, then would have a nice warm light show. So far, after last car reset, no issues, no codes, no nothing. Drove it about 60 miles so far, in normal mode, sport mode and sport plus mode. Even did a launch to try cause something to surface. Nothing. No errors, etc. Last thing I did today before going to work, curiously, was disable reversing camera in PCM. Why? Well, over last month or so, it sometimes quit working, and interestingly, only if you read codes, you can see PCM code for reverse camera, saying open circuit. My assumption is camera may be going. Need to find way to get to the camera to remove, and inspect or replace. Anyone knowing how to do this will be awesome. FSM does not have good info (unless I am not looking in correct place). Thanks.

there is a way, some experienced it but not on custom hood. I cannot help but do search on hood will not open, hood not release, cannot open hood, and you will find the posts. Look on few forums, I do not remember which ones had the info.

As additional info for upgrades, Porsches are made as individual cars, not line cars. Means that every car travels through assembly with paperwork, that tells assembly folks what to put in. Harnesses are customized to only attach options you chose. So, many upgrades you choose limit the car to what is there at time of purchase, because afterwards, it would be cost prohibitive to add something. Way of the Porsche, but thats the way we love it.

On my Cayenne turbo, the highest upgrade I could get was Bose. Got it. On my Panamera turbo, the highest upgrade I could get was Burmester. Got it. Between the two, Burmester is hands down superior, in all aspects, level, tone, dynamic range, etc. Wow. My kids are wowed with their friends, and that should say something, as today, kids are only impressed by social media BS.

UPDATE: I took the battery itself to an auto parts store Oreillys. They put a load tester on it. Comes out as good. Asked them what the voltage read. They tested again and showed me - 12.59V. WTF. So I go home. Originally used a small 20 dollar DMM. Took out my good 400 bucks DMM. Measure voltage across batt terminals. Reads 12.6V. So the voltage on my batt is good, the batt is good too. I am at a loss now. I wont drive car until the oil sensor comes and I get a chance to crawl under car. Appears that the cluster was showing correct voltage. No new errors were detected last time I scanned for them, today am.

Do you have advice on PD? Never really did pd on electrical and not familiar with ground locations on PTT. If you can help with info will be great. Thank you in advance. I appear to have 2 issues observed: - oil pressure sensor - voltage regulation levels or grounding Here is what happened and what I did so far: Got the issues initially due to cylinder misfires. Replaced plugs in affected cylinder (7). Next day got similar but for cyl 5, 6. Replaced 5, 6 with new plugs (now total 3 swapped - 5, 6, 7). Next day, driving home, get cylinder misfires. Park in lot near autozone. Scan codes, cyl 5, 6 misfires. Cleared all codes from car. Try start car, now get error oil pressure fault, no oil pressure on cluster. Shut off car, repeat again with same error. On third time, car starts and oil pressure appears on cluster and shows ok at about 1.2bar. Turned off car, scanned codes, none, cleared anyway. Now, car wont start (batt on cluster shows 11.1 v). Try turning over maybe 5 times. On last try, try turn key, power appears to die (cluster goes blank, no turn over). So I think batt bad. Disconnect, reconnect batt in trunk. Nothing. Smelled insulation burn smell from engine (under hood, near driver side shock area). Went to autozone. Got sales guy get batt from store, with boost cables. Go to car, connect new batt to boost terminals in car. I go into cabin to turn key, while sales guy looking at hood. I turn key, car starts, sales guy said he saw a small puff of grayish smoke in area of front driver shock mount where there are many wires. Smell was there for short time but disappeared. Batt volt on cluster was saying 12.4v or similar. Car now is running fine. I drove home about 15 miles. No issues or errors. Connected multimeter to battery in trunk. With car off but acc on, Shows 18.1V. Expected 14.5V. Cluster shows about 12.5V Started car, batt shows across terminals 18.5V. Cluster shows 12.6V Stopped car, no more insulation smell. Disconnected batt from car, checked voltage across terminals. Shows 18.4V. wow, should not be this high I am thinking. Left disconnected overnight. Now checked voltage across batt. shows 17.5v. still too high. So now, car in garage battery disconnected. Oil pressure sensor ordered on way. Need to get a good idea on how to pd the grounds, and check where voltage regulator is on this car to see if bad. Anyone who can help thank you very much in advance. So far, for oil pressure sensor, ordered replacement to swap. Praying it is not the oil pump...lets not go there now. You think ok to drive the car? My worry is the 18v on 12V systems.

My ctt lately has been acting up. When I drive it, all doors lock as requested by settings. When I park and open front driver door, the trunk wont get unlocked as expected. I have to go and open one of the rear doors, which will automatically unlock the trunk lid. Also, the easy entry/drive system not acting right. The seat wont slide into place when I start the car as expected. Someone told me that there is a switch inside the driver door, which detects door open/close, and is the reason that the entry option plus trunk lid unlocking dont work. They had that switch replaced in front door. I have no idea which switch they are talking about. I wanted to find out what switch they are talking about, so I can get it swapped out. The symptoms can easily be explained by the switch faulty (since open/close not detected, seat/trunk actions wont happen as programmed). Thank you for help in locating the component. I am sure I can get PN for it from parts catalog. Just need to locate what part it is I need to replace.

I am at 150k miles, all highly cared for, soft miles (lol).

Recently, I noticed that there is a noise coming from the front wheel area. Namely, it looks like noise related to either the front driver axle, or the front steering knuckle bearing. My question is, does anyone know a good way to isolate and test to determine which one it is? Some test or check that will tell me it is the wheel bearing vs the axle. The noise that I hear is an increased noise sounding like road noise, but I know it is noisier than before, substantially. The noise gets more pronounced at above 60mph. If I was to describe the noise more, it would be a low sounding hum like sound, which increases and is especially evident above 60. It does appear to be coming from that front driver wheel area. Hope this helps describing. Help is greatly appreciated.

Panamera Door Panel Removal I found this and it is a great info on how one can remove door panel on the Panamera. This vid shows details on what to watch out for, what to do. If you find yourself wanting to replace any of the switches on the doors, get behind he panel, this vid shows it all. Enjoy. Author ciaka Category Panamera (970) - Common Fixes and Repairs Submitted 05/06/2019 07:38 AM Updated 05/06/2019 04:27 PM

I believe the valve cover gasket kit will come with 2 valve cover gaskets, 2 spark plug gasket sets (one set for 4 plugs, total two gaskets for 8 plugs), plus two seals for camshaft adjuster caps. Will cost about 100 bucks total for oem.

I have an 05 CTT, and it has the feature where once door opens, seat and steering wheel retract to make space. Once driver climbs in and closes door, steering wheel and seat move back into desired pre-programmed position. Well, the steering wheel moves just as always, but the seat does not move anymore. I have to reach and press the memory button to move the seat manually into pre-programmed position, but it does not slide back when I open the door to exit car. Does anyone know where the issue may lie, and where I can start troubleshooting? Greatly appreciate help. Thank you.

Good to hear resolved well. Also glad you have a tool to pull codes is something goes south. Take care and thanks for posting up wih resolution.

Each tire has abs sensor that plugs into the control arm. One of them can go bad. Also, if anyone replaced the hub bearing, and installed new bearing backqards. You would get bad abs too. Just throwing this out in case work done on it.. check connections by unplugging and plugging after you spray with electronics cleaner on each wheel.

i would ensure emergency blinkers are on and engine is off when you clear faults in all modules.

Awesome. I will prolly use safety wire or whatever is thin enough to make it go through. Thanks a bunch fellas. No need to spend money where there is no need to spend money. Awesome place here.

I noticed both my washer nozzles in the CTT are starting to act up. The spray coming out appears to look like it is not spraying evenly. Wonder if they can get clogged up, and what the solution can be. Do they need to be replaced? Has anyone tried to fix successfully? Have not really tried to remove and play with them yet. Hope someone has experience with them here. The washer nozzle part numbers is: 955 628 077 01 Thank you for any help.

how hard was it to get to the horns for replacement? What needs to come out to get to them and swap? Easy? Hard? Thanks.

CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO THE CATALOG ONLINE. Choose car model, then year, then gen, click Display button. Save file as PDF. Open PDF file in Acrobat reader and you have access to all the part numbers for your car. Enjoy.

Try to reset PCM, or pull battery cable and leave off for an hour or two. Hope this helps.