The dealer did it for us when we first picked up the car but the memory has been erased. The owners manual isn't clear and I am having trouble storing the settings to each key. Anyone know how? Thanks.

 

It is NOT tied to the two keys in the Panamera like it is (was) in the 911. Instead, it is tied to the two memory buttons on the door.

To set: adjust the seats and mirrors the way you want them for button 1. Push the button marked OFF until the light goes out. Next, push set and button 1 until you hear a "beep." Next, adjust the seats and mirrors the way you want them for button 2. With the light still out on the OFF button, push set and button 2 until you hear the tone. Push the OFF button until the light comes back on. This is to make sure you don't accidentally change the settings.

To use: press the OFF button to turn out the indicator light and push one of the buttons marked 1 or 2. Turn the OFF button back on. Any adjustments you make with the OFF button lit, will not be stored in memory.

Caution: When you are setting button 1 or 2, you are setting everything else that the memory controls at the same time you are setting mirrors and seats. This includes radio volume, preferences in locking, lighting, clock preferences, TFT and PCM configurations, radio choice buttons, alerts and bluetooth and navigation volume, and probably more I'm not thinking of right now. So make sure you have those preferences set the way you want them or they will change when you hit the set and number buttons.

Mine is a 2010, but I don't think this changed in later models.

 

We have 2011 P-car and I agree with these instructions with the addition of (it seems): once you have everything set and "assigned" to a door button (1 or 2) as described in the previous posting....get out of the car and lock it with one of the keys. Then, unlock the car with the other key and go through the same procedure with the second key. Each key then seems to "take a set" to the preferences.

 

If each key takes a set of 2 positions, does that mean you can have 4 memory settings? Because each key can have a its own position 1 and 2 !!??

 

Doesn't work that way. The key itself stores some functions when you lock the car, if you have the comfort memory package, such as multifunction display. They are also stored on buttons 1 and 2. However, the key stores the position of the seat, mirror and steering wheel that was present when the car was locked, not the preference set in button 1 and 2. Coincidentally, it might be the same in one instance, but the key only remembers where the seat, mirror and steering wheel were when it was locked last. To retrieve the memory settings stored in the door you must hit 1 or 2 when the OFF button is not lit.

An example: let's say you take the car in for service and the mechanic moves the seat way back. If he locks the doors and later returns the car to you, the key will place the seat in the mechanics position every time you get in after unlocking until you reset it with one of the buttons. Try it. This is all covered on page 40 and 41 of the owners' manual.

 

See above: The key's memory is for the position of the seat, mirror and steering wheel that were in place when the car was last locked. It doesn't know what the preference buttons 1 and 2 have stored. Those remain the way you set them unless you purposely or accidentally change them, but they are activated by the key, not by the buttons. However, if the settings are in use, the key will remember the same thing the buttons do if you lock, then unlock the car. This is not really as complicated a process as it seems to be to explain, so maybe you get it, maybe you don't.

This is the case on my 2010 and I would bet big money it is the same on later versions since I can see no reason to change it.

If you ever had a 911 where the car's memory remembered the key, you will recall that the instrument cluster indicated which key you were using when you inserted it. That doesn't occur in a Panamera. Why would that be? Because the car doesn't remember the key, the key remembers the car.

 

I hope I am not making this topic more confusing. Let's say you use key 1 to lock the car, it remembers the seat position at time of locking. Later on, if someone uses key 2 to unlock, moves the seat, locks it with key 2. If I then unlock the car with key 1, the seat will automatically move to the position that was stored in key 1. Am I correct?

 

whatever key you use when u set it the first time when u leave is what it remembers, so if you lock it with, let say your wife's key, but when u go out you use your key it sets it to yours, not your wife's key, because you are using yours, now I hope I didn't confuse u.........

 

Oh well......

 

That's right. Remember it this way. The buttons on the door have their own memory, but it is not used unless you push the button while the light is off on OFF. The key has its own memory and it uses that when you unlock the door. That's two different memories in two different places. Usually they would be the same, but they can get out of sync, either accidentally or purposefully.

 

This is definitely confusing, but I think I get it. Basically, when you unlock the car, the seats and mirrors will go back to the position left by that key the last time it was used to lock the door. That is regardless if the other key was used in between. Correct? If correct, does the off button have to be lit or unlit?

 

If its like the system in my wife's 2012 Cayenne, it is the least intuitive, most over-engineered memory system I have ever seen and requires mutliple steps to set the key. I learned this only after wiping all of my seat, mirror, PCM and car setting multiple times. My M3 is far easier.