vinceGTS

Off topic... but if you want Apple CarPlay turned on, search the forum for simaservis1108 - a lot of very positive feedback re his services and he does it for low cost.

Jim McDonald

I had same problem on my 2015 Macan Turbo with 50 miles from nearest dealer in a snowstorm and with 60 miles showing on gas gauge. Emergency release did not work. I called dealer for help and they told me that I had to bring it in. When I brought it in, they confirmed that emergency release did not work and, after charging me $380 inspection fee, told me that the whole unit had to be replaced. In total, it cost me $980. It was not covered by warranty.

Car had less than 20k miles on the clock and is always kept in a garage. A mechanism for opening the gas flap should last for more than 20k miles and, as this does not appear to be that uncommon, it suggests that the part may have been defective. I asked whether Porsche would make any contribution and they refused.

Ok, just have to chalk it up to the cost of owning a Macan, but I am not a happy chappy!

NC TRACKRAT

Jim, would you be so kind as to refer to your bill and post the part number/s of part/s used? Porsche is so crafty these days with their parts catalog, it's impossible to find anything. (I think they like it that way.)

siberian

Is there an ETKA (VDub) equivalent for Porsche?

siberian

Jim McDonald

The part number appears to be "P95B809857F Module" costing $130. Most of the cost appears to be labour, the "first hour investigation" of $380, "forcefully open fuel cap" and "Filler flap replaced" $460, and "Environmental Dispose" old parts $10.

Terry Adams

That would frost my posterior, dayyum. I guess the car was under the 50K miles but past the 4 years of warranty. But $380 inspection fee !!! "Yep, it's stuck." Gotta pay for that PIWIS one way or another.

NC TRACKRAT

Jim, thanks for posting that part number. It checks out and can be ordered on-line at various dealerships for around $120.95. I wonder if it takes an advanced degree and a PIWIS to install and program it. Oh, for simple vehicles without all the electronic "modules"! Remember manual, roll-up windows and sunroofs? Side mirrors that you adjusted by rolling down the window? Antennas that you pulled up or pushed down? Seats that you pulled a lever and either scooted back or pulled forward? Creature comforts have spoiled us rotten!

siberian

Next you're going to think COBOL and ALGOL were great programming languages and the 3270s were great terminals

siberian

2021Macan

Brights that you activated by stepping on a metal switch with your left foot? Opening the driver's side door by having to insert a metal key into the key hole below the handle? Which makes me recall my first ever car after graduating college, a four year-old used 1967 BMW 1600 with 70M miles, for which I paid all of $900. A rare but fun-to-drive car for its day, but on one extremely frigid Minnesota morning the door lock froze and I managed to snap the key in two trying to open the damn door! Getting that fixed and the key replaced cost me more than half what I paid for the car. It was more than 20 years later before I risked buying another German car vehicle, a 1988 Audi A4, which thankfully had remote lock/unlock.

jbx2

Well I started with Fortran

NC TRACKRAT

So did I. Right out of the Navy, I went to work for a little semiconductor operation on N. Central Expressway down in Dallas, TX back in '66. Started my journey with Porsche buying a brand new 912. No nothing on it, no air, no radio, everything manual. So easy to work on, so much fun to drive. Connected to the car like none of the new ones today. Our 993's come close. That's why I like 'em so much.

siberian

I started with PL/1 for about 6 years but then spent 12 years in high energy physics at CERN etc and pushed to use C (hard to use Fortran for low level network tasks or designing drivers...). I remember the famous words at a HEP Computing Conference in 87 when someone from Fermilab said "over my dead body will C come into my lab"... ahh the battles fought...

siberian

RandyL

I believe I have exactly the same problem on my '15 S: lid sticks closed, emergency release worked once but not since, locking/unlocking the car worked once but not since, now it just won't open at all. I'd really would like to avoid the excessive dealer fees, has anyone attempted to replace the failed latch mechanism themselves?

ByByBMW

This may or may not apply. Since VW owns Porsche and Audi they share parts across all three brands. I had an Audi that had the exact same problem, and the dealers response was similar to those mentioned as to cost. What I did is essentially pried the flap open luckily with no damage. Since the problem was with the release mechanism electrically, I cut the tabs off the plunger, the part that interlocked with the flap itself. That way it couldn't lock anymore. The flap stayed completely closed while driving yet was easy to open with my finger prying up the flap. Since my Audi was diesel, didn't worry to much about folks siphoning "gas" from my car, .

Just a thought and YMMV, proceed at your own risk.

wbferran

I will look in my manual, but in the meantime…… what is the “emergency release”? Thx