When i park on the very end of the parking and always some *** is gone park next to me.

 

TPMS,,, Had new sensors installed 1 month later same problem is back. Add air when all tires have the correct amount of air.

 

when you just wax your car and the birds decide to use it as a freaking TOILET!!!

 

and it's always a freaking TURBO DIESEL PICK UP TRUCK!!!

 

Stop double parking

 

Three things to mention:

1) Having to be careful with the 2 switches on the air conditioner-they appear to be rubber coated and I have seen many 997.1 cars with peeling and flaking issues on these switches. I am talking about the fan switch and the switch to adjust the tempurature. Cannot buy new switches separately to fix this common problem! Some 6speeders have suggested using a black sharpie to cover up the defects. I am very careful not to lean on them too hard or clean them with anything wet because they can get sticky.

2) The Tire Pressure Monitoring System. Pain in the ---. On a 997.1, the wheel sensors fade as the batteries inside the sensor get old. This triggers the awful amber tire warning on the dash, red exclamation point warning on the dash and the words "TPC Inactive" on the dash computer. Had this problem on my 2007 and I eventually had to get brand new sensors installed on each wheel and the problem went away. There are many posts on this topic. Heard batteries on sensors last 4-5 years so it is common to replace these on 2007 and 2008 Turbos.

3) The car at idle is very noisy and chatters. I did research on this and it is normal for this engine. Called "timing chain noise". The original Mezger flat six's crankcase-with an intermediate shaft and chain drive for the camshafts-always made this noise. Porsche engineers never came up with a fix for this, probably because they would have to fix every Turbo out there with this issue

 

so far in Stockholm parking far away always leads to someone parking very close, but its usually someone in the same situation i.e. AMG Merc's etc so its been ok for me

you just dont want some crap piece of s**t next to you, you know they dont care if the scratch it or worse drives into it. I wish there was a law for cheap cars not parking next to nice ones, but this is a socialist country so thats not going to happen.

I had a friend who ended up renting two spaces for his Z4, just to get the family buss next to him in the garage further away.

 

I have an m3 and twice now, some dick at Costco will push a buggie right up against my car. No damage, but the jerk is probably sitting in a car spying on my reaction. I hope it doesn't get worse with a Porsche.

 

There is a light sensor for the dash. And it works like mikestyle described. In all markets.
Number 15 in this picture (taken from the manual)

 

It is confusing - my understanding is that the lights have to be on for the sensor (number 15) to work. So if his Canadian DRL's are on all the time then I can see why the instrument lights switch on and off. This is also from the manual:

When the car lights are switched on, the instrument

lighting for light dials switches on and off

automatically depending on the ambient brightness

 

That's how my car works. The dash light stays off until I turn on the parking lights or headlights, doesn't matter how dark it is outside.

 

It gets worse...

 

I agree, confusing. But what you pasted from the manual makes sense. That is how I experience it too in my car.
Please note this goes only for 'light dials' , so not for the 'dark dials' ?

Anyway, I only wanted to say there is indeed a light sensor and I suppose an electronic engineer could use it to rework the system featuring automatic headlights.

But I am happy with the way it is.

 

The placement of that light sensor is not ideal for an automatic headlight sensor, I think the ideal placement would be somewhere by the windshield.

 

That goes without saying !!
But it is the only one available in the car and it would be a solution for member mikestyle.
The only drawback I see is that the lights would come on sooner as the sensor is hidden from direct daylight. Not a big deal imo.