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My new to me 2013 CD is my first Porsche and I'm enjoying it very much. Thanks to the forums for steering me to diesel to avoid transfer case issues (fingers crossed). I did add the VW dipstick as well.

I have some general questions I was hoping some of ya'll can help me with.

1) My car has:
8T3 Adaptive Cruise Control with Porsche Active Safe (PAS)

ACC works but how do I test PAS to make sure it works. I've had car for a few months. My car has never intervened, beeped, applied breaks, etc unless ACC was engaged. Is there a way to test it without risking an accident. I've tried but I always chickened out. Does it mean it isn't working or I just chickened out too early. How aggressive is PAS in your cars? Is there settings I can verify are there to make sure that feature is turned on? Anywhere I see to turn it on is on.

2) My rear back up camera works and my parking sensors work (rear only). But my gridlines ARE MISSING! I've turned them on and off, defaulted the PCM, generally fiddled. No gridlines, not even straight gridlines that don't detect steering angle and curve on the screen as you turn wheel. Another potentially related but generally inconsequential issue is that if I'm fiddling in the rear camera settings and manually select to display camera the screen goes black, no picture, no gridlines, no nothing. Any thoughts on this one?

Thanks,

2013 CD Blue

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Found attached in dash menu. Still no idea if its working.



PAS Settings

garrett376

What are you expecting it to do?

KBell

New to me.
I did not even know the Diesels had these options.

Congratulations on your Porsche.
Welcome to Rennlist.

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Other similar systems, when it detects an impending collision will beep or vibrate steering wheel (prewarning) and eventually if no action is taking apply the brakes to stop the car. Not sure what the Porsche is supposed to do but I had a close one yesterday and the system didn't do anything which leads me to continue to believe that it isn't working.

911-997

Congrats. You have a rare bird. Diesel with ACC is almost nonexistent. Where did you find this rare CD ?

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I didn't realize how rare it was when I was looking. It had most of the features I wanted and was close to home and I made a deal.

But I looked on AT and you're quite right. In the US, of the 53 CD's listed, I don't see a single one with verifiable ACC (the only one marked with the feature doesn't have the right CC stalk. Checked VIN anyway. No ACC.).

Found in North Jersey on a used car lot but was a Boston [area] originally. Thanks for the info, makes me feel like I didn't overpay by a grand or so. I did not do a very thorough job inspecting it before because and it was a little rougher than I expected. Replaced window switch panel on drivers side and a rear door pull handle that was broken / loose. Still can use some interior refurb and for sure dent and ding repair or a whole paint job but I probably won't do that.

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Al Faromeo

I recently got beeped at by my little piglet (2011 CD) when a car in front of me slowed down to a crawl for no discernable reason and I was slow to react.
I knew about my little piglet having ACC, but was unaware of the prewarning. Now I know. And it works.

And I can relate to chickening out when trying this - I was really slow in reacting when it happened so the car in front got really much to close for comfort.
My advice: enjoy the car, don't try this out, drive as if you didn't have it, use your eyes and ears, your intelligence and skills to do the right thing and pray you never need it.

Eskimo1

Can you try testing it with something like a beach ball? :P

vwbrd

Or maybe a wall of cardboard boxes?

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If you are still looking for a CD with ACC there is one that I found through AT. The dealer site doesn't mention ACC but vin decoder says yes:
Porsche Warwick 2016 Porsche Cayenne Diesel

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Not to bring back a dying thread but I had a close call and no beeps or braking from my Porsche. I have a steering issue to sort out first but I may bring it to a Porsche dealer to make sure the coding/pwis is setup correctly.