Rossi

Hello my Cayenne fellow owners,

I recently purchased 2009 Cayenne GTS with manual transmission. The car has 32k miles on the odo.
I love the car in many ways. Precise steering, great throttle response, love the manual tranny, which took a little time to get a feel for, but I would never consider opting out for tiptronic.

I noticed that the ride is quite bouncy, sometimes harsch.It seems that the most optimum setting is Normal setting for shox and Normal setting for height. I do like to ride with the sport button on for the exhaust sound. The comfort shoc setting is the most bouncy and the sport shox setting is the most harsh. I remembering test driving one (w/tip) while back, I felt like riding on the cloud.

I am wondering if there is anything possibly wrong with my car.

Please chime in on your ride quality if you own 957 Cayenne GTS please.

garrett376

Due to your tires? Those make a big difference... throw some 18's with off-road tires and things will definitely get softer.

Andy E.

+1. The 21's offer an unforgiving ride and noise level once they start to wear.

svb

I replaced my Michelins with Pirelli Pzero Rosso NO spec tires and my ride was vastly improved.

bgsntth

I ran 255/55-18 Pirelli ATRs on my GTS, and it improved the ride, gas mileage, acceleration, and even noise appreciably. Were I to do it again I would run 265/60-18 ATRs. I put the OE21" wheels when I was not going offroad for awhile and wanted to make full use of the onroad capabilities.

Rossi

Update: after few weeks, the ride is much less bouncy. Makes me think that maybe my cayenne was not driven for a extended period of time when I bought it. It feels much better.