Originally Posted by john981

Does anyone know what the difference between POR II and POR v2.0 is? they have different names and also look different but they cost the same. Any ideas?? thanks!

https://www.icarsoft.com/Product/s-3...ft_POR_II.html
https://www.icarsoft.com/Product/s-3...ft_POR_V2.html

Originally Posted by hotrod2448

From the email exchange I had with them:


I never could register the battery so YMMV

Originally Posted by john981

On the counter for misfires of the last 10 trips, my scanner shows between 1-12 misfires per cylinder. 2 cylinders show more misfires than the others. Does anyone else see these random misfires? I don't have otherwise no codes or CEL. I have a 2014 base 981 boxster. Thank you in advance.

Originally Posted by hotrod2448

You might want to go check in on the boxster forum, this is the cayenne forum and a thread for the POR V2.0. They might have more specific info.

My uninformed wild guesses... any chance it's bad fuel or it might be time to change or re-gap plugs, check coils, etc?

Originally Posted by john981

Ups, I had overseen that I am in a cayenne forum, I had just searched for POR V2.0. I was still wondering if independent of the car type you see this misfires. I hooked up the same device on my 2018 infinti and in the OBDII modes it showed several misfires. The fuel is pretty high quality, spark plugs were changed 10k miles ago and last time the coils were checked (8 month ago) no issues. I talked to my service adviser at the dealership and he told me random misfires are normal as long as no CEL.

Originally Posted by ToreB

I coded my new original Porsche battery with my PIWIS 2. The registration is done on one page/menu in the tool, but the info on this page will still show the default configuration after registration. However, I later found out that the registered information must be read out on a different screen/menu item in the tool.
Since I thought my entered data was not registered properly, I tried to register a second time, but this was rejected. The car Gateway unit will not accept repeated registrations. I got an error message stating that the battery change procedure was not done correctly, and a new registration was not allowed. I guess the battery must be disconnected before the gateway unit will accept a new battery registration. I did not bother to try that, I had fastened the seat and packed everything away.

Maybe iCarsoft have problems supporting this functionality in their tool, and maybe it ignores or misinterpret the error message when trying repeated entering of data.
Cheers,
Tore

Originally Posted by hotrod2448

I'm starting this thread to document/discuss this tool.

I recently purchased one of these to reset the oil service light and hopefully register my new battery as icarsoft claims this tool is able to do on their website and confirmed to me in an email. They also confirmed it is able to log data which I figured might be helpful for documenting the lag issue once the heat returns. They also said they plan to add coding functionality but, I'll believe that when I see it. I was able to get it off of amazon for about $150. So far it reads all the modules, is able to display their serial numbers software versions, live data on everything I've tried to look at so far both numerically and graphing. Unfortunately I've been unable to register the battery in my 30-45 minutes of messing with it so, I figured I would start a thread and see where this ends up.

Working through the menus on battery registration it gives me multiple Ah batteries to chose from then I need to select the manufacturer (Mol, Varta, and 2 apparently generic options), enter the serial number and part number of the battery. I think once I get the formatting of these figured out we'll be in business. I purchased this battery from Batteries Plus as I believe several others have as well.
https://www.batteriesplus.com/batter...40cca/sli49agm

Of course I did not have the presence of mind to write down the serial number prior to installing and there is no guarantee that it would be in the same format as an OEM battery anyway. Either the tool or the car seems to know what the serial and part numbers should look like. It is looking for a 10 digit serial and an 11 digit part number. I've tried a few random numbers for serial numbers and a few variations of 958-611-092-21 which should be the part number for the OEM 92Ah battery and I've got a few different responses from the unit consisting of "format incorrect" and "unable to communicate".

I plan to email icarsoft tech support tomorrow to see if they have any input on this. In the meantime does anyone know the manufacturer of the OEM 92Ah battery and the format of the serial number for them? I'm assuming there are certain places for letters vs numbers and there may or may not be dots or dashes.

Originally Posted by rubenhak

I have a dumb question. Which menu contains battery registration? I have really hard time finding one on iCarSoft POR II. Thanks