Spoiler Failure Reduce Speed
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Well this is before the warranty is applied but I just wanted to make everybody aware of what it cost to replace that front spoiler Bladder assembly that contains the sensor. I hope to pick the car up tomorrow morning.
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Just picked the car up. Got the old part too. It's still in the back of my truck. It looks like the part everyone else is saying you can buy from Suncoast, but I just took at glance in the box. I'll post pics later. Gotta go see my Mother in the hospital.
Here's the receipt and info for anyone interested. Hennessey is great to deal with handled everything with Fidelity. Thank Goodness I bought that Warranty!!
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Here's the receipt and info for anyone interested. Hennessey is great to deal with handled everything with Fidelity. Thank Goodness I bought that Warranty!!
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Fidelity Platinum with a $250 deductible. 5yr. / 60k mile
It's what I had on my old 997.2TTS also. They were great both times.
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Just Google the part number, and look for a good price. I got the part for ~$750 and it was 2 hours of labor to install. Seems to have fixed the issue for now. No need to replace the entire assembly for 5 grand if it's just the control box that's faulty.
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I had the same symptoms as Big Swole (spoiler operated manually with no issues, but failed once above 77mph ) and was intending to get the issue diagnosed by the local porsche dealer, but I was getting some modifications (exhaust, coilovers, cobb stage 2, upgrade to 21 in rims) done by an independent shop. Cut a long story short, I think the shop might have cleared some fault codes via a durametric tool and somehow the cobb stage 2 full tune is showing its true form and the spoiler loss is gone. Popped the car to 85 mph and spoiler stayed with no issues. Previously, anytime the car went over 77, it immediately triggered a fault. So far, no issues—so hopefully it is resolved. Just thought I would share in case this could be another possible fix.
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I had the same symptoms as Big Swole (spoiler operated manually with no issues, but failed once above 77mph ) and was intending to get the issue diagnosed by the local porsche dealer, but I was getting some modifications (exhaust, coilovers, cobb stage 2, upgrade to 21 in rims) done by an independent shop. Cut a long story short, I think the shop might have cleared some fault codes via a durametric tool and somehow the cobb stage 2 full tune is showing its true form and the spoiler loss is gone. Popped the car to 85 mph and spoiler stayed with no issues. Previously, anytime the car went over 77, it immediately triggered a fault. So far, no issues—so hopefully it is resolved. Just thought I would share in case this could be another possible fix.
Good to know! Maybe some won't have to have the whole spoiler assembly replaced.
One thing though..Once my car popped the code, retracted all spoilers, it would never deploy again (manually or at speed), unless I pulled the positive cable off the battery for a few mins. to clear it. Only then would it work manually until the next time I went over 77... Then like I said, after that, it would never deploy manually until code cleared again.
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Same here. Once the code showed up, I had to wait for the car to reset (ignition off for a period of time) before it would deploy manually.
if the code never showed up (i.e. never drove above 77), I would be able to deploy and retract manually with no issues.
if the code never showed up (i.e. never drove above 77), I would be able to deploy and retract manually with no issues.