We just completed our cross country drive, and we are now residents of Evergreen, Colorado. Our new house is at roughly 7,500 feet of elevation, a far cry from Indiana.

The first drive in the Cayenne after getting here yesterday produced a previously unseen error message about the air suspension. I turned the engine off and restarted it, and I then cycled the suspension through a down/up cycle. Everything seems to be fine now. Could the altitude adjustment be the issue?

 

I doubt it. Everyone seems to have a different scenario. Some think it happens when it's hot, some when it's cold. No real pattern as far as I can tell.

I've had the warning intermittently for over a year now. So far, it always goes away.

 

Interesting. This is the first time we have seen it. It hasn't appeared again since I cycled it yesterday. I'll keep my eye on it and ask the dealer about it when it goes in for the next service in a few thousand miles.

 

I got it once while driving in the cold and rain for several hours..... Never came back

 

Good luck in the new Area, I just relocated to hot arid Austin.........

MOLD allergies are killing me.

 

Watch out for cedar fever!

 

I have a license plate cover that says "This boat runs on GAS, Not Friendship".......

Now I did sell my boat but the license plate does still seem fitting .

 

I live in Oklahoma. I've had my '04 CS since new. I got my first such warning last fall when leaving Taos, NM (high) for Oklahoma (low). The experienced tech at my dealer, who I trust, couldn't replicate the warning nor find a fault code in the computer.

Since then I've had it occur on a random basis. Sometimes 2 or 3 times in one day, sometimes weeks go by and no error message. I've never been able to tie it to a specific event or condition - hot, cold, pothole, you name it. The tech and I have agreed to just wait until something visibly breaks.

Sometimes I will hear the compressor running when I start the car and the warning light will come on. Other times, not.

I too at first thought it must be altitude related but I have found no support for that theory.

I believe I started a thread on this issue last fall. You might find it or other posts with a search on "air suspension" or something similar. Let us know if you get to the bottom of it (so to speak).

 

Off topic........

What is the typical cost of repair of air suspension? I never opted for it because I got the base. And frankily it still one of the best handling cars I have had.

My mechanic mentioned to me that its adjustable and needs to be retightened every 60k miles.......any truth to that?

 

My dealer didn't perform any type of service on the air suspension when it was in for the 60K service.

 

had it once coming back form Tahoe NV , snowing at the time.,

never happen again when I am back to sea level

 

I had the air suspension warning message pop up in the past.

The culprit was a low capacity battery (5 years old).

Battery was replaced and the problem was solved.

 

My battery is only 2 years old, so I doubt that's it. I just found it strange that the only time it happened was on the day that we drove from the flatlands into the mountains. I'm still convinced that it is an altitude issue. It hasn't happened again since I cycled it through all the levels.

 

If it becomes a recurrent problem, consider trying this solution:

http://www.renntech.org/forums/index...004-cayenne-s/

 

Thanks for the link. Think I may have to rebuild mine.