Drive Mode gripe

[Porsche-Guru]

It is by design and on all current cars, Porsche, BMW, Marc, Audi, etc....

The manufacturer submits certain efficient and compliance figures while declaring their vehicles and this is usually the 'nanny' mode. It is called Efficient, Normal, Eco, Econo, Green and similar other names by various manufacturers, but essentially is the most economic mode.

By design, a manufacturer will ensure that a car always starts in this mode - so that they remain true to there compliance.

Certain cars (by coding or tinkering with their internal software settings) allow some changes to these default settings - I don't know if any such software exists for Porsche or not. (I am a newbies to the Porsche world).

Suspension settings are not part of the efficiency declarations; hence the suspension can be set as default and retained on startup.

This is also a big issue with BMWs. Thousands of BMW M3/ M4 owners have been wanting to start their cars in Sport or Sport+ mode, but it always starts in Efficient.
There is a BMW software (ESys) that allows to tinker with a lot of internal BMW software, but even with that software; no one could reverse engineer this setting.

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[gusone]

This is also a big issue with BMWs. Thousands of BMW M3/ M4 owners have been wanting to start their cars in Sport or Sport+ mode, but it always starts in Efficient.

Speaking from experience (2 BMWs back to back) and my last a 2020 Series 3 Xdrive 3.0L diesel the BMW always starts in Normal mode which is NOT ECO PRO mode. I always wished it started in Sport mode. My dealer said most of his clients wished it started in ECO PRO mode.

 

[Porsche-Guru]

Speaking from experience (2 BMWs back to back) and my last a 2020 Series 3 Xdrive 3.0L diesel the BMW always starts in Normal mode which is NOT ECO PRO mode. I always wished it started in Sport mode. My dealer said most of his clients wished it started in ECO PRO mode.

Correct, but I am sure that the BMW started with Auto Start/Stop enabled by default. Once again.... a compliance feature.

However, the good news with BMW is that you can code it to start in either ECO-PRO or Normal Mode; or last used mode; or always ECO-PRO mode; and also Start/Stop disabled or Start/Stop enabled.
ESys allows you to tinker with all these settings...

 

[ciaranob]

It is by design and on all current cars, Porsche, BMW, Marc, Audi, etc....

The manufacturer submits certain efficient and compliance figures while declaring their vehicles and this is usually the 'nanny' mode. It is called Efficient, Normal, Eco, Econo, Green and similar other names by various manufacturers, but essentially is the most economic mode.

By design, a manufacturer will ensure that a car always starts in this mode - so that they remain true to there compliance.

Certain cars (by coding or tinkering with their internal software settings) allow some changes to these default settings - I don't know if any such software exists for Porsche or not. (I am a newbies to the Porsche world).

Suspension settings are not part of the efficiency declarations; hence the suspension can be set as default and retained on startup.

This is also a big issue with BMWs. Thousands of BMW M3/ M4 owners have been wanting to start their cars in Sport or Sport+ mode, but it always starts in Efficient.
There is a BMW software (ESys) that allows to tinker with a lot of internal BMW software, but even with that software; no one could reverse engineer this setting.

Correct - I had extensive ESys coding on my M4 and indeed the startup drive mode nor the high revs on startup could be changed. My prior pt. on retained suspension settings addressed some comments re those not being retained when in fact they are as others too have confirmed. It does seem that PCM coding is a lot harder to crack which TBH might be a good thing!

 

[B61]

It's like that on our car as well. It retains suspension level (both high and low)

Same here.

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