manual spoiler switch

[stvsxm]

hi,   new to me 1999  euro spec 996 .  runs and drives fine.   yesterday friend of mine drove it.   came back with spoiler in the up position and locked there .  nothing in the owners manual that talks about this.   I have driven it very fast quite often and never noticed it either up or down and have no new warning lights on dash.   some sources say there is a manual switch somewhere  in the foot well but I can't find it...  anyone know what I'm  talking about or where it is so I can put this thing down ?  ... or is it suddenly broken ?     I thought I read somewhere that it was airconditioner related  but I can now find no such reference.  any suggestions ?

[Loren]

 

Check fuse D8 (15A).

 

[stvsxm]

will do and report back.   thx.

 

turns out the answer was right there in your drawing...  the switch is right there where you clearly marked it.... I had the fuse cover off because the hore went off full time the other day and I had to pull the fuse  ( orings near air bag im told )   and I never put the cover back so he must have hit it w/ his foot when he got in.  I   activated it  to go down and down it went like magic.    another satisfied customer and thank you.

Edited March 25, 2018 by stvsxm

[judgejon]

welcome to the forum.

glad this was an easy fix for you.

sometimes....well, sometimes for somethings there is an easy answer.

Cheers,

ps:  the switch actually comes through the fuse box cover, unless it was optioned to one of the blanks up on the horseshoe around the radio/ac.

Edited March 25, 2018 by judgejon

[stvsxm]

23 minutes ago, judgejon said:

welcome to the forum.

glad this was an easy fix for you.

sometimes....well, sometimes for somethings there is an easy answer.

Cheers,

ps:  the switch actually comes through the fuse box cover, unless it was optioned to one of the blanks up on the horseshoe around the radio/ac.

 

well ... as soon as I FIND the fuse cover from where I threw it in haste the other day, ill find out.   whats funny is that I was in the car w/ my girl friend who happens to be an extremely hot german woman and we were in the middle of a very swank resort when the horn thing happened... so there I am on my knees grabbing at the fuse panel which, because its a euro car, is in german... so there SHE is , standing next to the car , in this tight exquisite  knit dress  translating the fuse locations for me  all the while horn screaming... something out of a monte python movie...  but it was funny.

[judgejon]

wir brauchen ein video deiner abenteuer.    und von deiner freundin auch.    

the switch is in the fuse panel, and comes through the fuse panel cover.

I'll try to attach a photo of cover and fuse panel.