OBC/Cruise enable by PST2

[Paul Fraser]

My '97 Boxster goes in for a minor service on Friday and I would like to get both OBC and cruise enabled for possible future upgrades. I've done a bit of digging around and found on Yosief's hack that they need to know:

"If your dealer doesn't know how to use the PST2 to enable the OBC, this is the reported screen path: Control Module Search, Instrument Cluster, Country Coding, Boxster USA (several screens), On Board Computer, With On Board Computer, Activate."

Can anyone flesh this out a bit (any screen shots I could take in on Friday would be a great help) or will this be enough for them to work out what to do in the event that they don't?

Is it a similar procedure for enabling cruise control on the instrument cluster?

Thanks.

PS Yes I know no '97 cruise upgrade has been done, but if I can get the instrument cluster enabled I'll do the OBC hack with a four stalk switch and see if I can get the switchery working and if that goes ok, I'm going to hunt down some cruise parts from the breakers. Sometime this decade... :)

[Loren]

Two separate items - OBC and Cruise Control. On pre-MY02 cars there is no setting for Cruise Control. Also, Yoseif's instructions are for older PST2 software the current (and last version) is 24 which is shown here.

Here are your screenshots - this is my 99 Carrera which should be the same as a 97 Boxster.

Select Boxster

Do a Control Module Search and then select Instrument cluster

Go to Modify Coding

Select On-board Computer and use the modify key >>

Select On-board computer present and press F8 to activate

Back up to the previous screen << and confirm

At this point you can confirm the OBC is set on by seeing if the outside temperature is displayed in the cluster.

[Paul Fraser]

Fantastic, Loren, thanks very much.

[Paul Fraser]

Done today on its minor service. OAT now showing, next step to do the OBC hack. Thanks again, Loren.