17turbo

Anyone know if it is possible to have the rear and front spoilers stay up or down? I prefer them extended and I don't know if I have to adjust it each time or if there is a way to always have them up by default unless I choose to put it down?

Rams86

There is no way to keep them permanently down but you should be careful about the potential damage you can cause to the front spoiler by keeping it down. The bladders are exceedingly expensive to replace if damaged! personally, I think driving around town with the aero deployed looks kind of silly, especially to other porsche drivers

17turbo

Ok thank you I just feel it gives it a more aggressive look, that's all.

Hothonda

On the '14-16 you can extend both manually - not individually- and they stay down (extended & up in back) until you push the button to retract.

They even stay extended after the car is shut off - when you restart a message appears to warn spoilers are extended.

There's no mfg notice I have ever seen about having them down being bad for the front bladder. Obviously if you hit something it's on you.

Maybe the '17 is different......?????

17turbo

Hey, no I think your right but I believe once you start moving they retract because you are at lower speed. I am not sure. I noticed when I was walking toward my car that the spoilers were up and then when I reached my destination they were retracted. So I am not sure if they retracted when I turned on the car or when I start moving?

Hothonda

When I park in the garage and the console indicator light is on, they are extended when I shut the car off. They remain extended when I restart....in an hour or a week.

As far as I know when the light is on they are extended on my '15

Regarding what other Porsche owners think, I agree on the regular 991 it looks goofy extended all the time (or any time for that matter), but on the Turbo looks great.

gary k

In sport plus on the 2017, both spoilers are extended. When you turn off the motor they stay extended. When you start it up again, they retract because you revert to normal mode. You can always control them manually with the console switch.

allans

^^^ I'm told that on the 17s they cannot be manually kept down. ?? Anyone know different? Allan

soulsea

Sheesh, are you guys saying you can neither keep the aero permanently deployed or the auto/stop permanently off on the 991.2s?

Those would be major issues for me ... I don't want to go through a whole button pushing protocol every time I get in my car, I want it to remember how I configured it and just get in and go.

RCorsa

Is this for real? I can't believe you would have to deploy them every time. I keep mine deployed almost always. Just looks better IMO

soly20

That's right. On my '14 991 TT they stay extended if you do it manually, even after you turn off the car and start it again whenever...

17turbo

Thank you, I guess this answers all our questions. We got to figure out a way to override this, perhaps if there is a way to have the default setting on the car set to individual? Can we do that?

stealthpilot

When you say down do you mean in low-speed or high speed position? If the front bladder is more vulnerable in the low-speed position then that is bad design given that the low-speed position is when you are most likely to scrape the front (e.g. coming out of a parking garage).

whtS

Best to let the car do its thing. At certain speed they are deployed because of the porsche engineering. I have extended mine for S and G but that front spoiler is pretty low and in harms way if a squirrel that couldn't make it across the road is in the way