What was the upshot of the 981 Cayman wing fitting issues?

[PhantomPH]

I am sure this was discussed briefly but I cannot find where.

I saw a few people mentioning their rear wing was not sitting flush when down. Mine seems to have got worse lately.

I’ve tried the trick of manually putting it up and then holding the button down for a while past fully lowered (car stationary) but to no avail.

What happened when others reported this?

Here is mine from this evening, including my other half putting her finger in my gap. Wahey!

[Twinfan]

I had mine fixed under warranty. Yours looks worse than mine did and I had to have the rear bumper removed to get it lowered enough. Time for a trip to the OPC.

If your car is under two years old, get any rattles sorted at the same time. They're not covered in year three.

[FrankCayman]

I manually lifted mine until around half way.....then gave it a wiggle.....that sorted it for me. It was as if it just got a little sticky and that freed it up.

[Twinfan]

No chance of that with mine!

[PhantomPH]

I will send an email to the tech at my OPC and see what he says.

It's hardly a show stopper so I would rather avoid the trip if I can until service time or something, but probably best to get it 'on record' sooner rather than later.

[vernz]

This happened to my 2015 Cayman very early in the ownership.

Mine wasn't as bad and was only out by about 3mm or 4mm at one end, but was still very noticeable over the width of the spoiler.

The OPC were not keen to engage to say the least and seemed to suggest it was 'forum gossip' and was not really an issue.

My theory is that the spoiler remains in the correct position relative to the original set up, but the cheap low tolerance part of the assembly (rear bumper) for want of a better term, 'settles' once the car miles start being added.

It's actually quite easy to adjust from the spoiler itself by first raising the spoiler and then undoing the screws on the black plastic underside of the spoiler itself. This releases the top painted section and reveals the spoiler fixings which are basically a fairly crude threaded bar at each end with a top and bottom nut holding it in place.

I just tweaked it a bit and I'm certainly not a wizard with the spanners. There are no fiddly clips to worry about, just the screws you can see on the underside and most of the time is taken up with opening the car door and manually raising the spoiler up and down to check alignment after each small adjustment, so that it's equal across the back of the car.

I settled on a gap of around 3mm between the bumper and spoiler and it's been fine since.

I put an old towel down under the spoiler in case I dropped the screwdriver/screws, but other than making sure you leave yourself enough time to get it right, then it certainly isn't one of those fiddly jobs that you wish you hadn't started!!

[PhantomPH]

Interesting - might try that.

I emailed the OPC this morning but the guy I deal with is on hols until next week. Since it's not a pressing issue, I will wait and see what he has to say on his return.

I just asked for his thoughts on it rather than saying, "The guys on Pistonheads say...".

[vernz]

PhantomPH said:

Interesting - might try that.

I emailed the OPC this morning but the guy I deal with is on hols until next week. Since it's not a pressing issue, I will wait and see what he has to say on his return.

I just asked for his thoughts on it rather than saying, "The guys on Pistonheads say...".

I forgot to mention that the screw head is one of those star types from memory and not a regular type.

I had one in my cheap screw driver attachments set, so It's not anything unique to Porsche.

[PhantomPH]

vernz said:

I forgot to mention that the screw head is one of those star types from memory and not a regular type.

I had one in my cheap screw driver attachments set, so It's not anything unique to Porsche.

I imagine I have one of those somewhere from my days of taking computers apart. Those pesky 'OEM' screws were more common than they used to make out.

[snorbs]

They do 'gap' insurance for precisely this sort of issue... :-)
Seriously - i feel for you - pain to have to deal with this - time wasted and all.

[PhantomPH]

Update - diagnostics showed an “electrical fault” with the rear wing. New parts fitted and got the car back. Wing is not as tucked as I would like it, but it’s at least even and better than it was.

Down side is that I got stung for ‘wheel alignment’ to the tune of £150 after the health check and they also tried to charge me £125 for a/c service but when I said get stuffed, they looked at it again and it turns out my air con is not working st all, so I need to book it back in for some potential warranty work.

My OH is not amused. I’m getting it in the neck today...