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I saw this post about the PDK "reboot" to sort of clear out the memory or settings that PDK stores, and I have to say it transformed my car completely, it got rid of every little low speed thing it used to do! it drives completely smoothly, and took away all the odd noises and jerky stuff, power delivery seemed smoother and shifts seems much less abrupt. Hopefully this works for others, I had alway heard the early cars were a bit stiffer on shifts, but this procedure seemed to smooth out everything.
The PDK controller is adaptive. If the procedure above resets it to some defined state it will change its current learned maps, which represent the car driver's driving style. Thus the question is, why do this? Is there something wrong in the learning mode? If not, and the controller is reset, the controller will no longer be aligned with the driver's driving style and it will have to relearn again to go back to the same controller state prior to reset...
I have trouble believing this really does anything. Seems like a sequence of events that wouldn’t be that unusual to replicate in the normal course of daily driving. Anyone else tried and feel it really works?
i may give it a go just for kicks when I have time since I recently acquired my car, so it didn’t learn from my driving anyway, at least originally. I always assumed that over time PDK would continue to adapt to most recent driving style. Not to mention that I drive in manual mode most of the time...
There is a trick to reset your throttle body by turning you key on and off and holding up your right arm. So it is already established that Porsche has these resetting tricks... I did the throttle body reset. What did that do for me? Nothing. Overall, I doubt resetting this kind of stuff would hurt anything, so why not try it? It has some entertainment value at a minimum. I could see resetting this before tracking your car or leaving the track. Is this a big deal? Doubt it.
There is a trick to reset your throttle body by turning you key on and off and holding up your right arm. So it is already established that Porsche has these resetting tricks.
Your post made me laugh out loud. I installed a Cayenne Sirius module in my PCM 2.1 MOST loop several years ago, which works great. However, every now and then it freezes up on ignition, blanks out the data portion of the screen, and won't let you change the channel. The solution is a cold boot by first turning off the PCM, then turning off the ignition and removing the key. Next, you have to hold the key at arm's length as far away from the ignition switch as possible (I use my left arm with the door open) for a few seconds before restarting the car. I think the PCM won't do a full cold boot unless the key RFID is actually out of range. This procedure works every time. My wife always looks at me funny when I kill the car right after starting it and fling my left arm out the door. Generally, if I switch off the PCM every single time I turn off and leave the car, it will cold boot next time it is switched on and won't have this problem.
There is a trick to reset your throttle body by turning you key on and off and holding up your right arm. So it is already established that Porsche has these resetting tricks... I did the throttle body reset. What did that do for me? Nothing. Overall, I doubt resetting this kind of stuff would hurt anything, so why not try it? It has some entertainment value at a minimum. I could see resetting this before tracking your car or leaving the track. Is this a big deal? Doubt it.
Peace
Bruce in Philly
The ECU reset does reset the throttle body actuation. That makes sense as it corrects for mechanical wear.
05-04-2019, 02:30 PM
PDK "reboot"
