Air Suspension - is this a fault?

[peter7]

Mines a 14 with air and 85k miles I leave it for 6weeks in my garage when I’m away for winter break ,always as level as I leave it ,my son has an X 5 and his was doing that ... we changed one air bag ... not too difficult .. fixed the issue . Not sure how it would be to do the same job on the Macan .

[Kleynie]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. I dropped my car off at OPC for some warranty work. Drove a Macan loaner back and switched it off, the air suspension didn’t drop.

Mine has air suspension and rides fine but it does drop virtually as soon as I lock the doors. Thought it was normal as air compressor must switch off but noticed the loaner car has not dropped at all in the two hours it has been parked.

@lookalike50, did you ever get yours checked out? I’m thinking of contacting OPC to ask them to check mine whilst it’s in.

On a lighter note, I can confirm the 2.0 Macan does have some sort of launch control (I.e without the message in the MFD)

The car will rise when you turn the ignition off to ease your exit, then once the doors are shut it will fall back to its original height. I believe this can be turned of on the PCM, but cannot remember how.

[Nuclear Nick]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. I dropped my car off at OPC for some warranty work. Drove a Macan loaner back and switched it off, the air suspension didn’t drop.

Mine has air suspension and rides fine but it does drop virtually as soon as I lock the doors. Thought it was normal as air compressor must switch off but noticed the loaner car has not dropped at all in the two hours it has been parked.

@lookalike50, did you ever get yours checked out? I’m thinking of contacting OPC to ask them to check mine whilst it’s in.

On a lighter note, I can confirm the 2.0 Macan does have some sort of launch control (I.e without the message in the MFD)

The car will rise when you turn the ignition off to ease your exit, then once the doors are shut it will fall back to its original height. I believe this can be turned of on the PCM, but cannot remember how.

That's news to me. Where did you get that from? Why would the car 'rise to ease exit'? For a lot of people that would make it more difficult. Mine does move after switching off but I believe that's the system shutting down until next switching on when the self levelling reactivates.

[lookalike50]

The suspension does sometimes inflate/deflate when you exit the car, this is normal and to the customer does appear somewhat random. I'm sure the Porsche engineers have been very meticulous in determining why and when this is triggered, and who am I to judge. Providing the level is even across the car you probably haven't got a problem.

The issue I had originally was that the front-left suspension appeared to totally collapse after 2-3 days of inactivity when compared with the front-right. The OPC confirmed there was a leak in the Air Spring and replaced it under warranty. Outside of warranty and I'd have been looking at £760 + 4 hrs labour. Oh, and I also had the use of a Cayman T for a week.....every cloud and all that!

[Kleynie]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. I dropped my car off at OPC for some warranty work. Drove a Macan loaner back and switched it off, the air suspension didn’t drop.

Mine has air suspension and rides fine but it does drop virtually as soon as I lock the doors. Thought it was normal as air compressor must switch off but noticed the loaner car has not dropped at all in the two hours it has been parked.

@lookalike50, did you ever get yours checked out? I’m thinking of contacting OPC to ask them to check mine whilst it’s in.

On a lighter note, I can confirm the 2.0 Macan does have some sort of launch control (I.e without the message in the MFD)

The car will rise when you turn the ignition off to ease your exit, then once the doors are shut it will fall back to its original height. I believe this can be turned of on the PCM, but cannot remember how.

That's news to me. Where did you get that from? Why would the car 'rise to ease exit'? For a lot of people that would make it more difficult. Mine does move after switching off but I believe that's the system shutting down until next switching on when the self levelling reactivates.

I got that from observations from my own car. I have mine set on low level constantly and it seems to rise to a higher level when getting out, then it sinks to the low level again when the doors are closed. It has sat for weeks over lockdown with no movement whatsoever, so no leaks.
I do seem to remember a setting in the control screen to activate this, and I think it’s in conjunction with the drivers seat moving backwards for entry/exit?

[Nuclear Nick]

The car will rise when you turn the ignition off to ease your exit, then once the doors are shut it will fall back to its original height. I believe this can be turned of on the PCM, but cannot remember how.

That's news to me. Where did you get that from? Why would the car 'rise to ease exit'? For a lot of people that would make it more difficult. Mine does move after switching off but I believe that's the system shutting down until next switching on when the self levelling reactivates.

I got that from observations from my own car. I have mine set on low level constantly and it seems to rise to a higher level when getting out, then it sinks to the low level again when the doors are closed. It has sat for weeks over lockdown with no movement whatsoever, so no leaks.
I do seem to remember a setting in the control screen to activate this, and I think it’s in conjunction with the drivers seat moving backwards for entry/exit?

Yes, I have mine set on low too. It 'settles', or adjusts slightly when I switch off after parking in the garage, so on a level surface, but it doesn't significantly rise or fall overall. I'll check, but I think the comfort entry and exit only adjusts the seat and steering wheel, even on air suspended cars and I don't recall a setting for the suspension to adjust too.

[dangezza]

I wasn’t aware that air suspension played any part in the comfort entry/exit system too. I know the seat drops and steering wheel lifts up.

I will probably ask OPC just to check the system since it’s with them although it looks like it could be normal and part of the levelling as my house is on a hill so although the drive looks flat to the eye it is far from it.

Car is in to check rear door handle sticking and what feels like a judder/hesitation when reversing into my drive when car is warm. I expect they will fix the handle with some lubricant and not manage to recreate the judder feel. It’s a 2019 model so don’t believe they are affected by the transfer box issue.

When I visited I did open the door to quite an oil slick and the way the car park was jam packed it looks like they’re fairly busy.

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Didn't realise that 2019 model isn't affected by the transfer box issue. Is that confirmed?

I expect they will fix the handle with some lubricant and not manage to recreate the judder feel. It’s a 2019 model so don’t believe they are affected by the transfer box issue.

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[dangezza]

Didn't realise that 2019 model isn't affected by the transfer box issue. Is that confirmed?

I expect they will fix the handle with some lubricant and not manage to recreate the judder feel. It’s a 2019 model so don’t believe they are affected by the transfer box issue.

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I read somewhere that the updated transfer box was fitted from sometime in 2018 onwards and haven't seen any reports of people with 2019+ models having the issue. I could be wrong.

[Rarecolour]

Didn't realise that 2019 model isn't affected by the transfer box issue. Is that confirmed?

I expect they will fix the handle with some lubricant and not manage to recreate the judder feel. It’s a 2019 model so don’t believe they are affected by the transfer box issue.

426BCB18-A44D-45CD-B78B-24F2C66E9EB4.jpeg

I read somewhere that the updated transfer box was fitted from sometime in 2018 onwards and haven't seen any reports of people with 2019+ models having the issue. I could be wrong.

I didn't realise the transfer box was updated, I thought I'd read that the new cars have the remote breather located in a better place (higher up to stop water ingress).