Quadcammer

Howdy All,
It appears 2011 Cayenne S models don't come with hood pads. It makes the hood look a bit unfinished and I'm sure it helps with heat and noise. Accordingly, I'd like to add one. There is part number 958556983100 that appears to fit based on clip locations. Has anyone added this or attempted to and found out it doesn't work?

Thanks

garrett376

I don't think any of them came with it, except the hybrid.

diamond-back

My '14 Diesel has one... my Mom's '13 GTS does not.

RAudi Driver

I'm sure it's going to work and slide right into place

garrett376

There's no doubt it would fit, but should it be installed? There is likely a reason that the relatively cheap part is not utilized, especially on the higher end models (GTS/Turbo/TurboS) where Porsche would likely have included it if it was desired.

Tom M

One thing that comes to mind is more retained heat in the engine bay which is not really desirable as the pad would act as an insulator.

RAudi Driver

The pad will save your hood paint. Put it on.

jetson8859

I just had my 11 CS at the dealer and as always they did the full vehicle inspection. One of the recommended (but not required) fixes was to install the hood insulation pad, for this very reason. They wanted $468 to do it. I ordered it online for $98 and will install myself.

deilenberger

How does that work? With 90,000 miles on my CTT without a pad - the hood paint looks just fine (as does the clear-bra over it..) What's the pad going to do for me?

alpine-al

RAudi Driver

The pad will help keep the heat from directly radiating onto the underside of the hood.

garrett376

I don't know if you measured this or not, but I'd bet the actual temperature of the hood surface on a driven (warmed up) car with or without the hood cover would be no different. But I bet you would find that the under hood temps would remain much higher over time with the engine off and that is likely what Porsche was trying to achieve considering the Hybrid and Diesel represent the economy-focused Cayenne models.

Quadcammer

I sort of doubt there would be an appreciable difference in any regard to heat. I'm more interested in appearance and potential noise reduction.

CarGuyNVA

My CTT didn't have one, I don't think the Turbo's supposed to. Why would one want to insulate the Turbo's engine compartment even more, trapping excess heat? If it didn't come with it from the factory, I ain't putting one on. Hood paint was just fine on mine also (70k miles when I traded it).

deilenberger

And this would be a bad thing because?