I am missing the electronics. My wheel is manually adjustable. It does not move when exiting the vehicle and I miss that feature but adjusting it for driving was not really a problem. I will be happy when the part gets here, but quite frankly it is a long way from being a problem as it stands.
Correct. We got one module to adjust the steering wheel to the position that the customer wants. It is a stop sale, until the customer comes in and the tech adjusts it to the position they desire. That works when a car comes in with an electronic steering module, that just doesn't function.
Correct. We got one module to adjust the steering wheel to the position that the customer wants. It is a stop sale, until the customer comes in and the tech adjusts it to the position they desire. That works when a car comes in with an electronic steering module, that just doesn't function.
Other cars are coming in with a manual wheel adjuster, so that will require the steering column to be replaced at some point.
I finally received 3 sun sensors today for campaign WMF4. Those cars affected have a stop sale on them. PCNA only received 400 of them to disperse to the dealerships. Here's a screenshot of the email i received last month.
Replied to you in the other thread. The campaign is WME3 for the retrofit of the electronic steering column adjustment.
If your order sheet says you have electronic steering column, but dealer says fix will never come, you can become aggravating too. Get it in writing that they will never fix it, then lemon the car under lemon laws of your state - the electronic steering column which you paid for is not working and dealer says it cannot be fixed. I once came close to lemoning a Lexus with faulty Bluetooh, though I didn't know it. All I know that on the 3rd attempt to fix it, they gave me a brand new one to drive for a week. Only afterwards I found out that it was because it was their 3rd attempt to fix (they replaced all the internal computers already, yet problem persisted) and if they didn't fix it, I had the right to lemon it. Apparently some engineer in Japan already had a plane ticket bought and was on his way to the airport when the local guys finally found the problem - a bent ground pin in one of the harness connectors.
Any idea as to why some ‘21’s that went into production back in July still haven’t been completed? Has Porsche in Germany addressed this strange situation at all in internal communications?Correct. We got one module to adjust the steering wheel to the position that the customer wants. It is a stop sale, until the customer comes in and the tech adjusts it to the position they desire. That works when a car comes in with an electronic steering module, that just doesn't function.
Other cars are coming in with a manual wheel adjuster, so that will require the steering column to be replaced at some point.
I finally received 3 sun sensors today for campaign WMF4. Those cars affected have a stop sale on them. PCNA only received 400 of them to disperse to the dealerships. Here's a screenshot of the email i received last month.
Seems like that was due to uninformed sales person... very common at these dealerships. Here is an actual WME from my invoice ( they will fix it once the parts are available ).
From what I have learned, which may be completely off the mark as I know Jack Crap about building cars, there are no components in the manual column, e.g. motors, controllers, etc. that would facilitate an easy retrofit for electronic adjustment once chips are in fact available. And so, your dealer will need to physically replace the entire column whenever Porsche coughs up the replacements. The really interesting, and frightening, part of this process (for someone such as myself that knows so little about building cars) is that the steering column is already embedded in the dash when the dash is installed in the car at the factory. This leads me to believe that steering columns are not something that are designed to be easily removed/replaced and that Porsche dealers are going to have one hell of a time making the retrofit. I am already mentally preparing myself for an extended period with a Macan loaner (I'll probably need psychotherapy if forced to spend too much time in an ICE Macan, maybe Porsche will reimburse me for therapist bills?) Alternatively, I have a conspiracy theory: It will require too much time and effort to replace the manual columns so Porsche will string us along for a while and then offer us some Taycan pen and pencil sets as compensation for the lack of electronic adjustment.
