Originally Posted by Mech33

How about $160 for the AWE wind diffusers? http://www.awe-tuning.com/awe-tuning...-wind-diffuser

Originally Posted by Mike in CA

Settings for the radio should be remembered by each key. If you haven't turned the radio off with both keys, and are repeatedly swapping keys, that could be the problem. In case you're unaware, you have to press and hold the volume button to turn off PCM, just pressing the button mutes the radio but doesn't turn it off. But maybe you know all that. A tip: if you don't want to have to turn the PCM on and off every time then select the Aux or Disc input for radio. PCM will come on but you won't get anything over the speakers.

Originally Posted by MaxLTV

Excellent - I'm getting those. I'm not a fan of how they look but better than buffeting.

Originally Posted by Mech33

Yeah I wish they were made of the same black plastic trim material rather than CF.

Originally Posted by MaxLTV

The problem with turning off PCM is that it turns off navi and cell phone integration as well. I'd love to be able to have music muted by default but the rest of the PCM on. But it's not specific to GT3 and ultimately not a huge deal.

Originally Posted by MaxLTV

Ok, my top one is not a big deal, but it just bogles my mind how what a bunch of idiots need to make this product to have this issue. Basically, whenever I shut off the car with radio off, when I start the car the radio is on. WTF???!!! I have to remember to turn off radio before every track session or otherwise it starts to make weird sounds on track, sometimes making me think something broke.

But pretty much anything related to PCM or however Porsche calls this POS is just a source of frustration. Sometimes navigation system screams at me and sometimes I can barely hear it, and there is no logic to it that I can decipher. How do I make it show all gas stations on the map? Why does when I have my jukebox on shuffle, it plays Bob Marley at least 20x as frequently as Radiohead? I literally have "Easy skanking" on every other drive, and 5 times while I get to Thunderhill (2 hours) but I have not heard most of Radiohead songs once since I got the car. It's still better than my wife's possessed Cayenne, which sometimes combines my memory seat settings with her mirror setting and otherwise, so I guess it's a Porsche thing. Never had issues like that in any of BMWs.

But from the feature standpoint it's 1) comfort access or whatever they call it when you do not need to find the key to start the car would be nice - I have not used keys in other cars in many years; 2)sometimes windows do not fully close when I open and close the door quickly (it lowers the glass a bit but does not fully raise it back) - I had bird crap get into car via this crack once; 3) why not have a feature to push brakes so that one could change centerlocks without a brake depressor - it's so easy to make and would make changing wheels easier and faster; 4) brake pads taper in stock calipers - not much, but still, with such an awesome brake system otherwise, why did they miss that? 5) no red (or yellow) stripe on the steering wheel - it's cheap to add, but why not just have it there? It's not vanity - helps to see steering angle better on track vids. 6) sport mode for exaust not sticky - I have to push this button every time - could it just remember the setting? track suspension mode is sticky, which is completely counter-intuitive. 7) when stock seat is adjusted for my body, I cannot fold it forward because it bumps into the ceiling, and also the integrated headrests are dumb because they prevent use of any harnesses with sport seats - not an issue for me because I have aftermarket seats, but WHY??? 8) buffeting at speed with windows open - unbelievably bad, makes driving with open windows a pain and recording any sound at track with inside mic impossible.

Anyway, as you can see from the list, everything is very minor and almost not worth mentioning, although mildly annoying at times. Everything except PCM, which is truly a B-grade high-school computer science project, and maybe buffeting (I'd pay $5K for an option that would get rid of it, if one were available).

Originally Posted by 1pvr

Agree that the radio default to on when the car is started is most annoying. Same as on my Cayenne. Asked my service department to see if it can be programmed to default to off or last position, but it can't. I rarely listen to the audio in the car, so default off would be nice.

Originally Posted by golfnutintib

Many good points here - I especially echo the stupid thing with the radio always playing when you turn the car on - true with all the recent Porsches. It's irritating.

Originally Posted by Mike in CA

Geez guys, read my post #36 just above. There's a simple solution to this issue.

Originally Posted by MaxLTV

Mike, you are right - switching it to Aux or some other non-active input should solve the issue. I'll definitely try it. Not a perfect solution because it's not tied to the volume ****, but I'll take it. It's so annoying to me mostly because if one of our product managers created something like this, it would have been a disaster - we'd have to work nights and weekends till it's fixed. When you have millions of users with the "complain button" just one click away, things like this cause an almost physiological allergic reaction.