PCM ate my SIM!

[DR2015]

After a whole 10 minutes of ownership of my 2003 Cayenne Turbo I inserted my O2 SIM card from my phone.

With the card correctly inserted the PCM claimed no SIM card was inserted, despite trying it a few times and resetting the igniton.

A friend took his O2 SIM card and tried the same, with eactly the same lack of results.

With a Porsche-electronic-gizmos-always-disappoint-and-I-keep-buying-the-cars-anyway shrug I popped the SIM back in my phone only to find it no longer worked - My phone said the same as the PCM. Imagine our fatalistic lack of surprise when my friends SIM was similarly dead.

So, I've ordered replacement SIM cards but I don't want to feed it another one (then I really would feel stupid).

Any other PCM users experienced anything similar?

 

[lazza]

Nope,

But I think there are some networks/SIMs that don't work in the system.

My Orange works fine, perhaps you could try an alternative network if you know someone, just to check the system.

Lazza

 

[Michael Downing]

He'll need some brave friends, Larry! []

 

[Helen Goff]

goes without saying with me as his mrs [][]

 

[pwebb]

Get a couple of sims, they're only a fiver, (or free if your bill is big enough!) and a sim copier which will store all your details in case it all goes wrong again.
I've had Vodafone with a three sims, one for the 997 one for the Cayenne and one for the mobile. All work happily together on the one account.
Peter

 

[Guest]

I had exactly same problem. When you slide the little drawer in, if the sim is not pushed down firmly enough it damages it.
I bought a cheap pay as you go sim and divert my phone to it when Im in the car , that way you dont have to take it in and out.

Paul
Cayenne Turbo

 

[Dapster]

Also, if you have a Nokia (and almost certainly every other type of phone too), you can download the PC Synch software from the Nokia website and then connect your phone to your lap top via Bluetooth, IR or USB. You can download all your contacts (as well as synch your phone calander/dairy etc with Outlook) so if you are unfortunate enough to loose your phone or knacker your SIM, you'll have a back up on your PC.

 

[Eye in the Sky]

If you are on Orange, ask for Single Number. You will get two SIMs with the same number. Make sure you want the right one as your primary SIM.

 

[yan]

Curiously I have had the same SIM in the car (996) for over a year now (never removed etc.) with no problems until I was half way through penning an SMS last week when the thing died on me as original poster: please insert SIM card. Testing it in alternative phone (lucky to have with me) it reported SIM card invalid.

Doesn't appear to be a 100% reliable phone system: it has crashed a couple of times also on me also during use but until now a re-start (Phone OFF, Phone ON) has always recovered things. Wondering if the OPC have an updated software release as it feels like such a problem...