Ill Start...............

I cant drive one smoothly at slow speeds. No matter how hard I try. At slow speeds it can be a little lurchy....I get lots of head toss. Is it just me?

Squealing brakes. They drive me nuts. I cant seem to get them not squealing. My neighbors all know when I come and go cause of the squeal.

Windows rolled all the way down and the air seems to zero in on my ear. I cant drive a Cayenne with the windows down more than a quarter way. Not a major problem, but it is annoying.

Is it just me, or in the rain have you noticed that when driving thru puddles or standing water that the spalsh is always on the windshield? If the window is down, it gets in the car also.

That dang unlocking remote. I set all of ours to all, just so I dont lock the car again while trying to unlock the pass side. Its emabarrasing. Every other car maker makes a keyless system that can unlock the pass door on the first try. Why cant Porsche?

With three clocks in the car, I give "props" to Porsche having one adjustment for all three. But have you noticed that the clock reads 12 something AM during the day and doesnt switch to PM til 1? I hate that.

Tire pressure monitors. Need I say more?

A pretty short list of "hates" What do you guys not like about your C's?


Peace
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The weight and options that would be standard on most $65,000 + automobiles. Front skirt and rear skirt should be the same color. True two wheel drive option, so one could bake the tires at a light next to some ricer.

 

"I cant drive one smoothly at slow speeds. No matter how hard I try. At slow speeds it can be a little lurchy....I get lots of head toss. Is it just me?

Squealing brakes. They drive me nuts. I cant seem to get them not squealing. My neighbors all know when I come and go cause of the squeal."

I have lurching when the S is cold. It diminishes when warm. I prefer engine drag to slow car, it's less work in city driving.

I have some low speed squeal once in a while when I've made many slow stops. My guess is a glaze that disappears after some harder breaking.

I have a lot of tolerance for stuff like that as long as the overall performance is good and I have dealer support. I had had Jeep Cherokes for years and I think they're good cars for what they're designed for. My last cd changer broke, the dealer fixed it and it broke again, within weeks. For 57,000 miles I had no changer, so what... life is too short for me to run after sh**t like that, IMHO. :-)

 

The water spray on windshield is real annoying. I know to be very careful with puddles especially on highway may cause accident.

 

Throttle response is awkward, and takes too long to smoothly down shift. How about a sport mode and normal mode? In a normal mode I would like to see smooth/seamless downshifts and upshifts (like my old Honda Odyssey).

On the other hand, it goes fast and corners like a sports car.

 

Torags:

The squealing brake issue is apparently resolved by a retro fit. My S recently got serviced and the dealer put a new type of brake pad on it or something like that. They are shaped differently. I really did not pay attention to the details, but no more break squeal.

 

Hmmm after 1100 miles.. my only gripe is I feel like everyone is looking at me It gets to much attention

Ok I just thought of one other gripe.. I think the transmission needs some updates... The delay in acceleration is a tad to long. while I go around the corner to enter my neighborhood im in 4th gear doing 25 mph, If I want to get on it after around a corner outside my neighborhood, I have to remember to accelerate a few seconds before normal to drop into 2nd. Its like they programmed it to save on MPG's

 

Hmmm, not a lot thinks I´m unlucky about and no guarantee issues or damages until now too.

Thing that really goes on my eggs is this damn bell which remind me wearing my seat belts on and makes me crazy sometimes - a light would be enough and don`t bother so much when I´m just ranging around. I like to disconnect the contact cable under the seat but dealer warned me to do so cuz the pyros from seatbelts in case of accident could not activate.

Smaller trouble is that the coverplate over the place for the sparewheel
is noisy on bad streets, that transmission is sometimes slow with downshifting and the VW plastic switches everywhere.

The suspension could roll smoother in the back on bad roads but if better smoothness have to be paid with bader high speed performance I better would leave it like it is.

The paintshop on the body is not proper too - I have a silver one and when sun shines on the body you can see exactly in wich directions it have been painted - there are parts with more and less paint but this is just cosmetical stuff and dont bothers me seriously.

There are a lot more of good things on the Cayenne than bad ones in my opinion.

 

Hi, I'm new to the board and couldn't resist this thread...

The brakes aren't so bad if you keep the window up, but pull up to a stoplight in the middle lane of traffic with them down and it's enough to make one cringe. My dealer has told me no fix or TSB for the brakes yet, my only recourse is to let the wheels stay a little dirty, I've found they don't squeal as bad when they've got a little dust on them.

My Cayenne has got to be the worst car for stop-and-go freeway traffic, even though its an automatic, I still get the lurch when moving very slowly. Additionally, the angle and length of the gas pedal with respect to the floor and the fact that its so twitchy at low speeds (as if the e-gas dumps more fuel with the first hint of a pedal push), all combine to make my ankle hurt if I have to drive it stop-and-go for more than a half hour. Never owned a car that actually caused PAIN to drive it under normal circumstances.

Leave the windows down and the center seatbelt in the back slaps the seat (after seeing a previous post about torn rear seat leather, now I'm worried that the seatbelt is going to chafe it).

On occasion, when making an aggressive turn the vehicle will not respond for the initial part of the turn. As an example, I made a nice right hand corner at around 25 mph (nowhere near the limits of the vehicle), upon apexing the turn I stepped on the gas and... nothing... stepped a little further... nothing... finished through the turn and then the car let me accelerate again. Its as if PSM won an argument with my right foot. No warning message on the display, just no throttle response for a blip. (Is this normal?).

My list of complaints could go on, but I'll stop here.

 

LOL I thought I was the only grown? man who messed with honda kids at lites.

 

My complaint list is not big at all.

1. When the rear hatch glass is open, short people have trouble closing it. I'm 6' 6" though, so it doens't bother me.
2. Major buffeting when sunroof is open. Worse than any other vehicle I've driven.

And a couple of minor trim things I'd like to see redesigned:
1. The grain on the dahs/doors should be smaller, like on our cars.
2. Tail lights. Make them a little smaller, and two toned like our cars. Moving the whole assembly up a few inches to cover that rear corner, again, like the cars.

That's about it.

 

I also do have the slow drive lurching esp with wife driving so be nice if they could do a reprogram of the transmission point when it downshifts(too long) much like what Dinan has done with BMW's with auto trannys. Other stuff above don't bother me-love how it handles for a heavy car. Regards. Mike

 

I agree with you Mike its a big car to turn like it does, very nimble. I don't notice the lurching too much, but I reset my drive by wire every week, if I don't I do notice a change in the pedal's smoothness in operation.

Everything else is trivial to me, no worse than any other car I have owned or leased. I love the hill start effect on my commute.

Important stuff for a daily driver (me) is its reliability and my being in tune with the car and enjoying the ride, having fun. This is way the best for fun !

 

I hate the way the rear seats fold. I thought the ML Mercedes wre bad, these are worse IMO. Germans should get a couple of Japanese SUV's or even an Expedition to see how an SUV's seats should fold up and down.

 

the weight and the intermittently choppy shifts, but I think that has to do more with careless driving. I also hate how you grow to love it so much and find excuses to go for a ride.