This is HOW I lowered my Cayenne Turbo for Less than $125 ...
#1
07-03-2010, 08:53 AM
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: French - Montreal Canada
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This is HOW I lowered my Cayenne Turbo for Less than $125 ...
Hi Folks,
I've been running this setup for 1 year now and I am ready to share the result. My suv is an 04 CTT that has Air suspension and ride quality control (normal, sport, comfort). I hope you will like it...
The trick to lower the cayenne is quite simple. It can be resumed in one phrase. All you need to do is to go to the dealer (if they are mods friendly) and ask the tech to rewrite the cayenne height value in the suv computer. What this does, is let say, the normal height of the cayenne is set at 250mm (guessing a numer here), well, the tech needs to reprogram this number to a lower setting, something like 225mm. What this does is it will trick the ecu (sort of) and telling it that the truck normal height is 25mm lower than the oem settings. This will set the suv standing to a lower point immediately.
Once you lower the cayenne suspension to Low, it will be 25mm lower than the oem settings.
The con about this is if you want to go higher, you will always be 25mm lower than the oem maximum elevation level. For a year now and have not found other real negative things to this.
It took my service dept 40 minutes to do the thing, it can be done easily in 1 hours and you will need to realign the camber if you want, or do a full alignment.
All the ride quality settings are working perfectly as well as the height control.
So for $125 roughly, you can have a lowered cayenne
Might not be as good (and I don't know why) as the $2000 module, but this will save you a lot of money....
Please perform this mods at your own risk, I cannot guarantee results will be the same for all suv, but it worked flawlessly for me for a year now...
Cheers
Bo
I've been running this setup for 1 year now and I am ready to share the result. My suv is an 04 CTT that has Air suspension and ride quality control (normal, sport, comfort). I hope you will like it...
The trick to lower the cayenne is quite simple. It can be resumed in one phrase. All you need to do is to go to the dealer (if they are mods friendly) and ask the tech to rewrite the cayenne height value in the suv computer. What this does, is let say, the normal height of the cayenne is set at 250mm (guessing a numer here), well, the tech needs to reprogram this number to a lower setting, something like 225mm. What this does is it will trick the ecu (sort of) and telling it that the truck normal height is 25mm lower than the oem settings. This will set the suv standing to a lower point immediately.
Once you lower the cayenne suspension to Low, it will be 25mm lower than the oem settings.
The con about this is if you want to go higher, you will always be 25mm lower than the oem maximum elevation level. For a year now and have not found other real negative things to this.
It took my service dept 40 minutes to do the thing, it can be done easily in 1 hours and you will need to realign the camber if you want, or do a full alignment.
All the ride quality settings are working perfectly as well as the height control.
So for $125 roughly, you can have a lowered cayenne
Might not be as good (and I don't know why) as the $2000 module, but this will save you a lot of money....Please perform this mods at your own risk, I cannot guarantee results will be the same for all suv, but it worked flawlessly for me for a year now...
Cheers
Bo
#2
07-03-2010, 11:11 AM
I've have had mine lowered with lowering links found here http://www.adjustableairride.com/ .
I think I only paid like $250 for them when I bought them, billet aluminum fully adjustable pieces. My car is slammed as low as the car will go without the computer freaking out.
Ive had them installed since the car got to my garage when new, I installed them in less than an hour. I prefer them to the $2000 modules, my kit gives me the adjustability of coil overs for less than $300.
I think I only paid like $250 for them when I bought them, billet aluminum fully adjustable pieces. My car is slammed as low as the car will go without the computer freaking out.
Ive had them installed since the car got to my garage when new, I installed them in less than an hour. I prefer them to the $2000 modules, my kit gives me the adjustability of coil overs for less than $300.
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#3
07-03-2010, 12:15 PM
Hi Folks,
I've been running this setup for 1 year now and I am ready to share the result. My suv is an 04 CTT that has Air suspension and ride quality control (normal, sport, comfort). I hope you will like it...
The trick to lower the cayenne is quite simple. It can be resumed in one phrase. All you need to do is to go to the dealer (if they are mods friendly) and ask the tech to rewrite the cayenne height value in the suv computer. What this does, is let say, the normal height of the cayenne is set at 250mm (guessing a numer here), well, the tech needs to reprogram this number to a lower setting, something like 225mm. What this does is it will trick the ecu (sort of) and telling it that the truck normal height is 25mm lower than the oem settings. This will set the suv standing to a lower point immediately.
Once you lower the cayenne suspension to Low, it will be 25mm lower than the oem settings.
The con about this is if you want to go higher, you will always be 25mm lower than the oem maximum elevation level. For a year now and have not found other real negative things to this.
It took my service dept 40 minutes to do the thing, it can be done easily in 1 hours and you will need to realign the camber if you want, or do a full alignment.
All the ride quality settings are working perfectly as well as the height control.
So for $125 roughly, you can have a lowered cayenne Might not be as good (and I don't know why) as the $2000 module, but this will save you a lot of money....
Please perform this mods at your own risk, I cannot guarantee results will be the same for all suv, but it worked flawlessly for me for a year now...
Cheers
Bo
I've been running this setup for 1 year now and I am ready to share the result. My suv is an 04 CTT that has Air suspension and ride quality control (normal, sport, comfort). I hope you will like it...
The trick to lower the cayenne is quite simple. It can be resumed in one phrase. All you need to do is to go to the dealer (if they are mods friendly) and ask the tech to rewrite the cayenne height value in the suv computer. What this does, is let say, the normal height of the cayenne is set at 250mm (guessing a numer here), well, the tech needs to reprogram this number to a lower setting, something like 225mm. What this does is it will trick the ecu (sort of) and telling it that the truck normal height is 25mm lower than the oem settings. This will set the suv standing to a lower point immediately.
Once you lower the cayenne suspension to Low, it will be 25mm lower than the oem settings.
The con about this is if you want to go higher, you will always be 25mm lower than the oem maximum elevation level. For a year now and have not found other real negative things to this.
It took my service dept 40 minutes to do the thing, it can be done easily in 1 hours and you will need to realign the camber if you want, or do a full alignment.
All the ride quality settings are working perfectly as well as the height control.
So for $125 roughly, you can have a lowered cayenne
Might not be as good (and I don't know why) as the $2000 module, but this will save you a lot of money....Please perform this mods at your own risk, I cannot guarantee results will be the same for all suv, but it worked flawlessly for me for a year now...
Cheers
Bo
#4
07-04-2010, 11:59 AM
You are still very limited with lowering your Cayenne this way. You can get a max of 20mm - 25mm of lowering out of your vehicle depending on the model year.
#5
07-04-2010, 12:01 PM
Hi Folks,
I've been running this setup for 1 year now and I am ready to share the result. My suv is an 04 CTT that has Air suspension and ride quality control (normal, sport, comfort). I hope you will like it...
The trick to lower the cayenne is quite simple. It can be resumed in one phrase. All you need to do is to go to the dealer (if they are mods friendly) and ask the tech to rewrite the cayenne height value in the suv computer. What this does, is let say, the normal height of the cayenne is set at 250mm (guessing a numer here), well, the tech needs to reprogram this number to a lower setting, something like 225mm. What this does is it will trick the ecu (sort of) and telling it that the truck normal height is 25mm lower than the oem settings. This will set the suv standing to a lower point immediately.
Once you lower the cayenne suspension to Low, it will be 25mm lower than the oem settings.
The con about this is if you want to go higher, you will always be 25mm lower than the oem maximum elevation level. For a year now and have not found other real negative things to this.
It took my service dept 40 minutes to do the thing, it can be done easily in 1 hours and you will need to realign the camber if you want, or do a full alignment.
All the ride quality settings are working perfectly as well as the height control.
So for $125 roughly, you can have a lowered cayenne Might not be as good (and I don't know why) as the $2000 module, but this will save you a lot of money....
Please perform this mods at your own risk, I cannot guarantee results will be the same for all suv, but it worked flawlessly for me for a year now...
Cheers
Bo
I've been running this setup for 1 year now and I am ready to share the result. My suv is an 04 CTT that has Air suspension and ride quality control (normal, sport, comfort). I hope you will like it...
The trick to lower the cayenne is quite simple. It can be resumed in one phrase. All you need to do is to go to the dealer (if they are mods friendly) and ask the tech to rewrite the cayenne height value in the suv computer. What this does, is let say, the normal height of the cayenne is set at 250mm (guessing a numer here), well, the tech needs to reprogram this number to a lower setting, something like 225mm. What this does is it will trick the ecu (sort of) and telling it that the truck normal height is 25mm lower than the oem settings. This will set the suv standing to a lower point immediately.
Once you lower the cayenne suspension to Low, it will be 25mm lower than the oem settings.
The con about this is if you want to go higher, you will always be 25mm lower than the oem maximum elevation level. For a year now and have not found other real negative things to this.
It took my service dept 40 minutes to do the thing, it can be done easily in 1 hours and you will need to realign the camber if you want, or do a full alignment.
All the ride quality settings are working perfectly as well as the height control.
So for $125 roughly, you can have a lowered cayenne
Might not be as good (and I don't know why) as the $2000 module, but this will save you a lot of money....Please perform this mods at your own risk, I cannot guarantee results will be the same for all suv, but it worked flawlessly for me for a year now...
Cheers
Bo
#6
07-04-2010, 05:49 PM
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: French - Montreal Canada
Posts: 551
Rep Power: 43 What do you mean by limited ? We tried many configuration and you can lower to any level as you wish. At a certain point, the lever Led just kept flashing since it cannot find it's way down. But let me tell you, I was able to get the truck as low as "wheels in the fender" style.. I doubt you want to go lower...
Cheers
bo
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#9
07-05-2010, 01:55 PM
I know about this trick in the VW and Audi worlds as you can reprogram them with the Vag-Com. Unfortunately the Durametric software does not allow that kind of recoding. I really wish the Vag-Com guys would start supporting Porsche!
#11
07-06-2010, 02:42 PM
Mis-information from the guy saying you can only lower max of 25mm. My ride links definitely let me adjust the link length by 2cm which equates to about 50mm in height = about 2 inches. Got mine for ~$170.
#14
07-14-2010, 10:05 AM
bump! anyone try this yet? next time I get an oil change, I was going to ask one of the mechanics.
