So while driving in sports mode...
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Hi Everyone
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Had my Cayenne S for almost a year and been playing with the air suspension depending on my mood and also traffic conditions. One question i always had in my mind is the Low / Normal mode with the Sport setting, whether will it have any effect on the wear & tear longevity of the air suspension. I just changed the front pair (there goes my new set of rims i was planning) due to a leak on one of the struts after i bought it. I always prefer the Sport settings (think i have the sport exhaust valve too) and don't mind the gas mileage since we bought it for the fun of having this functions available to us. I have owned JDM Skylines before so to have a coil-over setup with very stiff suspension is pretty a normal experienced as i daily drive them too. Since the Cayenne is DD for now, i wish you all can advice whether it's okay to keep it at Low ride height with Sport/Normal settings all the time. One thing i notice is the rear seem to be more bouncy especially on Normal setting Low ride height ( shock not so new)
Sorry for bringing up an old thread.
Had my Cayenne S for almost a year and been playing with the air suspension depending on my mood and also traffic conditions. One question i always had in my mind is the Low / Normal mode with the Sport setting, whether will it have any effect on the wear & tear longevity of the air suspension. I just changed the front pair (there goes my new set of rims i was planning) due to a leak on one of the struts after i bought it. I always prefer the Sport settings (think i have the sport exhaust valve too) and don't mind the gas mileage since we bought it for the fun of having this functions available to us. I have owned JDM Skylines before so to have a coil-over setup with very stiff suspension is pretty a normal experienced as i daily drive them too. Since the Cayenne is DD for now, i wish you all can advice whether it's okay to keep it at Low ride height with Sport/Normal settings all the time. One thing i notice is the rear seem to be more bouncy especially on Normal setting Low ride height ( shock not so new)
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Hi Everyone
Sorry for bringing up an old thread.
Had my Cayenne S for almost a year and been playing with the air suspension depending on my mood and also traffic conditions. One question i always had in my mind is the Low / Normal mode with the Sport setting, whether will it have any effect on the wear & tear longevity of the air suspension. I just changed the front pair (there goes my new set of rims i was planning) due to a leak on one of the struts after i bought it. I always prefer the Sport settings (think i have the sport exhaust valve too) and don't mind the gas mileage since we bought it for the fun of having this functions available to us. I have owned JDM Skylines before so to have a coil-over setup with very stiff suspension is pretty a normal experienced as i daily drive them too. Since the Cayenne is DD for now, i wish you all can advice whether it's okay to keep it at Low ride height with Sport/Normal settings all the time. One thing i notice is the rear seem to be more bouncy especially on Normal setting Low ride height ( shock not so new)
Sorry for bringing up an old thread.
Had my Cayenne S for almost a year and been playing with the air suspension depending on my mood and also traffic conditions. One question i always had in my mind is the Low / Normal mode with the Sport setting, whether will it have any effect on the wear & tear longevity of the air suspension. I just changed the front pair (there goes my new set of rims i was planning) due to a leak on one of the struts after i bought it. I always prefer the Sport settings (think i have the sport exhaust valve too) and don't mind the gas mileage since we bought it for the fun of having this functions available to us. I have owned JDM Skylines before so to have a coil-over setup with very stiff suspension is pretty a normal experienced as i daily drive them too. Since the Cayenne is DD for now, i wish you all can advice whether it's okay to keep it at Low ride height with Sport/Normal settings all the time. One thing i notice is the rear seem to be more bouncy especially on Normal setting Low ride height ( shock not so new)
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Actually, if you're driving fast, putting it in sport mode will save wear on the air suspension. In Normal mode, the car drops to sport height at whatever that certain speed is, like 75 mph, but then returns to normal height by itself each time you cross the lower speed threshold, maybe like 40-50 mph. In sport mode it stays at thr low height all the time so saves that up and down cycling. Plus, you also get the 1st gear start off instead of second. I wish sport mode would also keep the Tach above 2,000 rpm all the time, to prevent LSPI and lugging the motor, but it won't, so I'm constantly having to click the minus button or run in full manual mode.
Im gonna give it a try to maintain Sport for a couple of days to get that permanent sporty handling & lived with it.Just concern it won't have any terrible wear on the tyres...hehe
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I drive in Normal mode so little I'm going to do my next alignment with the vehicle set at sport mode height.
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This thing sucks..........
Gas.
If you look closely, you can actually see the fuel needle continually drop.
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So how often do you guys drive in "sports mode" vs regular setting?
I only do the sports mode by myself as the shifting is a tad jerkier and my wife won't like it.
So, I've been doing about 75% sports and 25% regular so far. But it is only week 1. For you guys who have had it a while...still drive in sports mode?
Gas.
If you look closely, you can actually see the fuel needle continually drop.
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So how often do you guys drive in "sports mode" vs regular setting?
I only do the sports mode by myself as the shifting is a tad jerkier and my wife won't like it.
So, I've been doing about 75% sports and 25% regular so far. But it is only week 1. For you guys who have had it a while...still drive in sports mode?
for me my car drives smoother in sport mode vs regular mode.
one time I floored it on the highway and saw bunch of black smoke on my rear view mirror. I hope I didn’t mess up anything. Haven’t floored it since.
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My 16CTT also goes back to the middle suspension height if I set it in sport mode, I found myself avoiding the sport for that reason. I thought that there must be something wrong with it, but I see I am not the only one.
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Mine does it when I restart it, but if it's in sport, never changes height until I shut it off and restart it. That one up and back down is many fewer than the constant up and down that it would do if set in normal mode by achieving the speed that makes it drop, then slowing to the speed that then makes it raise, then drop again, etc.
Honestly, I really dont worry about it too much because you can hear it making constant adjustments based on incline and load when you're driving it in any mode.
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It does it when is already started and I change modes on the fly, I guess I will try changing to sport, lowering it and turning it off. Doesn’t it revert back to normal when it starts again?
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Yes, each time you restart the car, it starts in Normal mode. What you may not know is that it will lower itself at a certain speed on the highway even if you don't select Sport mode just to lower the center of gravity and make it more stable at higher speeds. Then when you return to normal speed, it will raise itself back up to the Normal level, again, even if you don't do anything. Pushing the button to put it into Sport mode and Sport height keeps it there all the time until you restart the car so less up and down if you're speed is fluctuating frequently. If you rarely drive over 75, then it may not matter and stays at Normal height all the time.
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I haven't noticed much automatic height switching. Especially from a lower setting to higher. After I come off the beach sometimes I forget to take my car out of offroad 1 height and once I hit 50mph itll go down to normal mode. I don't think I've ever had my car go up a height setting (besides loading mode over 10mph)
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I haven't noticed much automatic height switching. Especially from a lower setting to higher. After I come off the beach sometimes I forget to take my car out of offroad 1 height and once I hit 50mph itll go down to normal mode. I don't think I've ever had my car go up a height setting (besides loading mode over 10mph)
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Youre saying the car goes up from the low height setting over a certain speed?
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