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Hi,
Has anybody out there ever replaced a car battery on a cayenne Turbo?
Or is it advisable to take it to the main or independent Porsche Garage?

What sort of signs should I be looking for? At the moment when I switch the engine on
The PCM looks a bit dim and I start to get warning signals from all the lights i.e. check dip beam, side light, cornering light,
And some times the indicator starts flashing really quickly.

After a few miles every thing goes back to normal and I think is because the battery charges up.

If any body can shed some light on this subject I will be most grateful
 
How old is the car ?
Mine gave out around 5 years.
Assuming your car is the same as mine "S" full instructions in the owners book.
It is a bit of a fiddle but worth a try.I modified the bolts that hold the seat down
when i replaced mine which was worthwile as i had to have it out again this year.
The originals were those "star" bolts for want of the correct name .So have a look
at them and see if you have the tool first.After that it is removing bits of plastic
tipping the seat back and lift the batt out

I do not take much notice of the warning as most seem false.
Why not charge the battery up fully in situ and see if t you get
the same symptoms when you take her out again ?
 
Many thanks for your reply, Yes my Cayenne is 5 Years old, how can it get the battery fully charged first?
And if I need to replace it my self which one should I go for VARTA or BOSCH? Or is there a Porsche Battery they recommend.

Porsche want to charge me £425 to change the battery because it takes about an hour and a half to change it.
According to them.

They charge 120+ vat p.h. labour....... which I replied ''they must be rocket scientist to be charging that much money''
 
Typical Porsche I'm afraid..... Pay peanuts, you get monkies.... pay a fortune, you still get monkies in my experience.Personally for something like that I would either do the job myself or take to an independant
 
just wondered as when i looked under the bonnet last week, where is the battery located ???, did thave quick look in the boot as well,as i know some german cars tend to be in the boot area. anyone give me some info ???? thx
 
ORIGINAL: Tailor_Mike

just wondered as when i looked under the bonnet last week, where is the battery located ???, did thave quick look in the boot as well,as i know some german cars tend to be in the boot area. anyone give me some info ???? thx
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Depending on the age of the car, if its a later model (still 955) it is under the passenger seat, I believe if its an earlier model 2003ish it also has an additional battery, which I think is in the rear somewhere. Tells you in the handbook how to access it. If you need to charge it you can access the 2 terminals in the engine compartment on the passenger side, under the plastic cover next to the wing.
 
thx for the reply.

so gather if i needed to jump start someones car or mine, i could attach jump leads to the terminals under the flap in the engine bay to the right hand side??? do they fit under there, seems bit of a tight space.
 
Yea but you only connect the positive lead, the negative lead should be connected to an earth point i believe on the engine, something to do with power surge, think it will prob tell you in the handbook
 
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