Just as a reminder, I picked up a new Macan Turbo in September - 21" wheels, air suspension.
After ordering it, I went to the PEC in May and drove a Turbo with air around the track. I had a great time but I did feel pretty whacked that evening and for a few days afterwards - so much so that I thought I might have given myself a bit of whiplash with some of my more extravagant emergency brakes. I let my husband have most of the second half of the session because of it. It took a day or two to feel back to normal.
Picked up my Macan early September, and only used it lightly for the first fortnight - shortish runs around the place as I was working close to home.
A fortnight after picking up the car, I drove my daughter and a packed car up to university about 3.5 hours away. I felt a bit lightheaded when we arrived. We unpacked her, had lunch, said goodbye and went to stay the night in a good hotel about half an hour away as we had a dinner with some friends that night. Got to the hotel about 5 whereupon I announced that I didn't feel great and went to bed and slept for two hours.
Drove back the next day and don't remember if I had any problems with that.
Then I again had a few weeks of working close to home so driving only about 30 minutes at a go. I did have to do one 1.5 hour trip (each way so 3 hours) and when I came back I started a thread here asking if my Macan Turbo could be making me travel sick and what I could do about it. You advised me to play with all the various ride heights/PASM settings etc to see if that helped. I've been doing that.
The week before last I was working in a town 2 hours away, so 4 hours motorway driving per day on Mon - Thurs. On Tuesday I felt a bit lightheaded at work. On Wed I felt wierdly lightheaded, especially when I was moving, and in fact I had a spectacular fall at Beaconsfield Services when I failed to negotiate some steps and really smashed up my knee. On Thursday I had to hold onto a door threshold and lower myself to the floor because I thought I was going to collapse as the whole world was swooping around me. At that point I realised I was having my first ever vertigo attack.
The vertigo lasted from Wednesday until Wednesday a couple of days ago i.e. a full week. I spent all weekend in bed with everything swooshing around me. I felt it was subsiding by Sunday night. I was working in London this week, and so going in and out by train which was OK (although I spent the night in London on Monday because I felt I needed to stay still and not travel). By Thursday I was absolutely back to normal.
Last night I came back from work and got into the macan to do a 15 minute trip down the road and back. This morning I have vertigo again.
I don't think I can ignore any longer that it is the Macan that is causing my problems. I can't believe it. I have handed my keys over to my husband and told him to enjoy it. I am left with his Range Rover 
. It isn't tenable to have a car in the household which I can neither drive nor be a passenger in without crippling myself, though. I still have an order in for a Turbo PP - I guess I will order one without air suspension and keep my fingers crossed that does the trick. Otherwise... I don't know.
. It isn't tenable to have a car in the household which I can neither drive nor be a passenger in without crippling myself, though. I still have an order in for a Turbo PP - I guess I will order one without air suspension and keep my fingers crossed that does the trick. Otherwise... I don't know. I'm SO upset. I love that car. It is a fantastic machine. But it really is making me sick.
