New error screen! This one is unfamiliar to me

[tchavei]

Some months ago, I had the nuisance of having a compressor failure with some, out of the norm, warning messages. First I got a driving mode error, then a chassis low error, and finally a chassis error overall. Since not all errors were reported on the forum, I thought my car had be special to get all those messages

Well, guess what? I got another error I haven't seen reported anywhere (albeit I admit, I've been busy driving instead of following the forum in the last months so I might be outdated. Correct me if I'm wrong).

Background:

Got up early saturday morning (I blame this for the error by the way. I NEVER get up early on a saturday. Car must have been surprised by the change of routine). Started the car to be welcomed by this:

which roughly translates into: "Instrument panel damaged, Assistance needed".

Since I was in a hurry and no time to grab another car, I just went with it. About 10 seconds after that message appeared, the instrument cluster dimmed out to minimum making it very hard to see any elements, including speed.

What was even more surprising is that the date was set to 00.00.2000 and the clock started at 0:00. I kept driving and the error persisted. Every 15 min it would beep and show the error. I was already mentally preparing to contact Porsche on monday to see what is going on.

When I arrived at my destination, I parked the car for 3h and to my surprise (or maybe not, since that usually fixes stuff), when I picked the car again, everything was working properly. Drove without an issue, used the car several times on Sunday and even today, everything still worked.

Hope it's one of those gremlins that won't return.

Cheers

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[Caraholic]

I would still take it in to see what they say. Hopefully it doesn’t turn into something more.

 

[Tooney]

Maybe these are related?
Possibly same as:
Instrument cluster faulty - inspection necessary
or
Instrument cluster defective - service necessary

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/instrument-cluster-faulty.6707/#post-96232

Old TSB: Complaint – Instrument Cluster Temporarily Black: Re-Programming Instrument Cluster Control Unit

 

[anonymouse]

Had that twice and it just went away of its own accord, never came back

 

[whitex]

Had that twice and it just went away of its own accord, never came back

Did you car come with the Self-Healing Instrument Cluster option? ?

 

[hifi239]

Frankly I'm impressed that it told you it was about to fail, and then went dim. Like it was feeling faint!

 

[tchavei]

Frankly I'm impressed that it told you it was about to fail, and then went dim. Like it was feeling faint!

Indeed. It was very strange.

I kept thinking "Why on earth do these gremlins always happen during out of routine trips?"

I mean, I never had the porsche death screen during normal commute. Only when doing a trip. This screen also happen during a change of routine.

Maybe my Porsche's soul is a soul of habits and doesn't fair well with sudden changes ?

 

[snstevens]

One thing I've noticed is that whenever I use a microfiber cloth on either the center control panel or the PCM screen on the top, especially if I do so when the car is starting up, bad things happen. Sometimes the screen will freeze (this happened on the main PCM screen once), and it may have played a role in a failure of the Homelink module (two Homelink buttons - right door and left - appear on the lower left of my PCM screen every time I get in the car).

Do you remember touching either screen as you got into the car? Perhaps rubbing either one with a cloth?

P.S. I now only clean the screen from the passenger door side of the car - seems to keep PCM from waking up to fast.

 

[tchavei]

One thing I've noticed is that whenever I use a microfiber cloth on either the center control panel or the PCM screen on the top, especially if I do so when the car is starting up, bad things happen. Sometimes the screen will freeze (this happened on the main PCM screen once), and it may have played a role in a failure of the Homelink module (two Homelink buttons - right door and left - appear on the lower left of my PCM screen every time I get in the car).

Do you remember touching either screen as you got into the car? Perhaps rubbing either one with a cloth?

P.S. I now only clean the screen from the passenger door side of the car - seems to keep PCM from waking up to fast.

Honestly I don't think so. Actually I made sure not to touch anything as I have the habit of flipping the car into sport individual mode when I enter the car and this time I was parked on a sidewalk and was in lift mode where I wanted to stay to be able to get off the sidewalk without hitting the car bottom.

I mean I parked with the car lifted and wanted to get off the sidewalk without having to touch the lift button on the instrument panel

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