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Has anyone done the Porsche OEM dash cam in their 992 yet?
Out of curiosity, what’s the obsession with dash cams!? In my professional law enforcement experience, it’s a 60/40 split between the footage completely ****ing the driver and vindicating the driver (…especially with the Tesla’s; those cars tell on their driver’s). Why you’d want video evidence of your driving behavior is beyond me (…and I/we will get it the moment the car is impounded as evidence)……
….especially considering we know that road laws aren’t always followed (…especially by the self-proclaimed Lewis Hamilton’s on the forum). Skip the camera.
That’s just a friendly piece of advice from your neighborhood former State-Highway-Patrolman-turned-Sheriff’s-Deputy.
Out of curiosity, what’s the obsession with dash cams!?
For me, it’s about recording vandals who decided to mess with my ride. Tesla has a sentry mode which records anyone within a specified distance of your car and what they are up to. Id like the same for my new Porsche.
Ive had vandals mess with my last two nice cars and if I had a recording I’d at least have a shot at some justice.
For me, it’s about recording vandals who decided to mess with my ride. Tesla has a sentry mode which records anyone within a specified distance of your car and what they are up to. Id like the same for my new Porsche.
Ive had vandals mess with my last two nice cars and if I had a recording I’d at least have a shot at some justice.
Got it!
We can barely get vandals charged and prosecuted in California, even with the fairly low felony threshold of $400.00. Maybe it’s worth it in your neck of the woods.
It was very easy. Simple software download onto my laptop, hooked up the OBD dongle to the OBD port and USB cable to my Macbook Pro running bootcamp, downloaded my stock calibration file from my car (took maybe 3 minutes?), emailed the stock calibration to M Engineering. 25 minutes later, they emailed me my Stage 1 tune. Reconnected laptop to OBD dongle and OBD port on the car, uploaded the tune in 6 minutes, shut car off and that's it. Car is tuned! Had to manually lower the rear spoiler. No other codes, faults or anomalies. The rear spoiler thing always makes me chuckle... like the car got a hard on from being tuned. LOL. It is a much easier process than tuning my F80 M3 with my BPM tune. I'm sure Bootmod3 is easier than BPM on our BMWs but this M Engineering tune was super simple.
The only issue I've run into is the Macbook Pro didn't recognize the USB connection. I had to mess around w/ it a bit but I think as long as I disconnect and reconnect the old school USB cable from the M Engineering dongle, that seems to get the connection going on my laptop. Not sure if anybody else experienced this issue with their windows laptops or if it's just something w/ my Macbook running Windows through bootcamp.
It was very easy. Simple software download onto my laptop, hooked up the OBD dongle to the OBD port and USB cable to my Macbook Pro running bootcamp, downloaded my stock calibration file from my car (took maybe 3 minutes?), emailed the stock calibration to M Engineering. 25 minutes later, they emailed me my Stage 1 tune. Reconnected laptop to OBD dongle and OBD port on the car, uploaded the tune in 6 minutes, shut car off and that's it. Car is tuned! Had to manually lower the rear spoiler. No other codes, faults or anomalies. The rear spoiler thing always makes me chuckle... like the car got a hard on from being tuned. LOL. It is a much easier process than tuning my F80 M3 with my BPM tune. I'm sure Bootmod3 is easier than BPM on our BMWs but this M Engineering tune was super simple.
The only issue I've run into is the Macbook Pro didn't recognize the USB connection. I had to mess around w/ it a bit but I think as long as I disconnect and reconnect the old school USB cable from the M Engineering dongle, that seems to get the connection going on my laptop. Not sure if anybody else experienced this issue with their windows laptops or if it's just something w/ my Macbook running Windows through bootcamp.
Is the spoiler issue persistent or was it just a one-time quirk?
Is the spoiler issue persistent or was it just a one-time quirk?
It seems to happen every time I flash the car, but all you do is manually lower it once and it returns to stock programming. I always check by monitoring to ensure spoiler goes up and down at the stock set speeds.
I've considered the M-Engineering Tune if I was to get one at all. And I also considered the RaceChip GTS Black which is about $800 but takes a fair amount of work to install the piggyback and I don't think you get the level of control over aspects of the car that M-Eng gives you. I'm just not sure I'll spend the money on it. However, I'm glad to hear from someone who did it on their 7MT. Most of the early adopters here I think were PDK owners.
I've considered the M-Engineering Tune if I was to get one at all. And I also considered the RaceChip GTS Black which is about $800 but takes a fair amount of work to install the piggyback and I don't think you get the level of control over aspects of the car that M-Eng gives you. I'm just not sure I'll spend the money on it. However, I'm glad to hear from someone who did it on their 7MT. Most of the early adopters here I think were PDK owners.
Agree, that if I do decide to tune I would go with M-Engineering. I will give it a year and see how I feel. Car is plenty fast for the street but we will see in a year. I think though I am going to throw my money at the Akra slip-on. Hoping it ups the volume 20%-30% as some others' have claimed.
Agree, that if I do decide to tune I would go with M-Engineering. I will give it a year and see how I feel. Car is plenty fast for the street but we will see in a year. I think though I am going to throw my money at the Akra slip-on. Hoping it ups the volume 20%-30% as some others' have claimed.
I was setting up to buy a full exhaust, but now that I've taken delivery, the whale at full throttle over 5k rpm is insane and I don't feel the need for any more sound.
I'll wait until a few K to start buying exhaust/performance upgrades. For now, this thing is beast as is. Nothing I'm wishing for at all other than a good place to put my phone.
05-16-2022, 06:14 PM
