Cab bips after locking

[WeekendWonder]

If everything else is closed except the cab top is open, do you get a bip after locking the car? I think I used to but it recently stopped!

Edited August 27, 2007 by WeekendWonder

[wross996TT]

No, the audible sound is only if a sensor is open or busted..you come up with some very interesting questions? Do you actually lock the cab with the top down?

[Kim]

..you come up with some very interesting questions? Do you actually lock the cab with the top down?

I do that routinely and often roll the windows up before doing so. This makes the car lot harder target for those "just curious" in the parking lot. Also, miscellaneous, but not valuable, items left on the floor or back seats are not nearly so vulnerable .... as one would have to do considerable reaching to get at them.

Porsche obviously anticipates that the car will, at least sometime, be locked with the top down .... as they provide for the interior motion sensor to be disarmed in this state .... lest a passing bird set it off.

[WeekendWonder]

No, the audible sound is only if a sensor is open or busted..you come up with some very interesting questions? Do you actually lock the cab with the top down?

Thanks - The wife uses the word 'interesting' when I'm boring her to tears with what I've just been doing to the car for the last 3 hours! Don't think she means it though ;)

It's my first Porsche and still very much in the honeymoon period - despite realising she's got hairy legs and bad table manners.... I am trying to mould her gradually! Hope to get the essentials out of the way and start on the handling and performance shortly!

I choose to lock with the top down but, I can also see the POV that it's quite futile for some siuations!

Used to get a bip from just having the top down and took it to be like when you leave a window open or such-like.

Had just fixed a prolem with the clamshell not pulling down enough (driving rod disconnected from securing hook on one side) hence water got in to the cabin under the back seat. Unfortunately during that process the clamshell got stuck and stopped working/got out of sync. Eventually got it to sync up again using the manual method. Since everything started working again, no more bip when just the top is open!

Either the top was never properly sync'd so never got to the 'end' of its cycle or (less likely) there is a sensor telling the car how well closed the clamshell is and that wasn't quite making it because of the disconnected rod/hook.

Fixing stuff by accident sure is better than breaking stuff by accident! :D

[wross996TT]

I meant no harm in my comment and it is quite good to get to know your new car...I would really suggest always closing the top and locking. It is much safer (from weather, birds and passerbys) and it prevents the top from getting permanent wrinkles (which would not go well with hairy legs). Get the SmartTop and you can close it with one touch while you are parking...that is the beauty of automatic tops!

Edited August 29, 2007 by wross996TT

[WeekendWonder]

I meant no harm in my comment and it id quite good to get to know your new car...I would really suggest always closing the top and locking. It is much safer (from weather, birds and passerbys) and it prevents the top from getting permanent wrinkles (which would not go well with hairy legs). Get the SmartTop and you can close it with one touch while you are parking...that is the beauty of automatic tops!

No worries - actually what I mistakenly read in to your post was that if you were leaving it parked with the top down you wouldn't bother locking it... ultra-laid back kind of attitude! B) but now I understand...

It does look cool on the drive sitting there in between uses with the top down on nice days , but I'd never leave it too far out of sight or over night for the good reasons you stated already.

[Kim]

...I would really suggest always closing the top and locking. It is much safer (from weather, birds and passerbys) and it prevents the top from getting permanent wrinkles (which would not go well with hairy legs).

During the spring through fall period, I routinely leave my top down for weeks at a time. AFter 5 years, I've had no problems with "permanent wrinkles" in the top .... and I've never seen anyone report such problems here.

As for putting the top up and locking any convertible, it should only be done in the best of neighborhoods. In any other environment, a locked convertible is simply a challenge to certain types to pull out a knife and show you that they could have gotten in if they had wished to. This is a philosophy I have followed through my 40+ years of owning rag tops. If I have anything of value in the passenger area of the car, I either carry it with me .... or lock it in the boot. As above, leaving it out in view is just another invite to lose it .... and encounter a $3000 top replacement at the same time.

Just my 2 cents,