I have a 2010 Panamera Turbo with 15k miles and I drive the car on bad Chicago roads.
My front suspension is making rattling noises{like a loose bolt} sounds like cheap car with regular
suspension.
I had two diffrent dealers look at my problem and they couldn't find anything but they recognized the rattle.
I think the dealer didn't like to check the air suspension because they never had
this problem before and it is a big job.
I contacted porsche and they will check my car again on january 4th.
Is anybody here in the forum that has similar problem?

 

Havent heard of this kind of problem. Mine is rock solid. Are your wheels oem? Does putting the car in high mode/sport/sport+ mode change the symptom?
Stupid question:
Are you are definately sure its not comming from the cabin? My aluminum door panel made an annoying rattle before they fixed it. I only located the problem by pressing panels around the car. We have poor roads here too.

 

I may have the same problem. I first noticed it after a new tire and 4-wheel alignment and with 3 people in the car. The passengers didn't notice it but they are not as "atuned" to the car as I am.

Later that night I heard it going over speed bumps in a parking lot. So the next day I called the dealer and told my service advisor about it, asking him if anything in the alignment and other things done could have left something loose. He told me to bring it in. On the way down there I noticed the light for the stiffer shock absorber setting was on and I turned it off so they wouldn't blame it on that. The service guy jumped in the car and told me to point out what I was hearing. We went to the third floor of their storage garage and they had a series of speed bumps designed to test for rattles. I couldn't duplicate the problem and I was rather embarassed about wasting his time. It seemed to have cured itself.

Or so I thought. It intermittently pops up and seems to be more pronounced with a down bump or dip than with an up bump. And it definitely is more likely with 3 or 4 people in the car than with 1 or 2. I figured if it was a flaw in the air suspension, the computer would indicate a failure with a dash message, the damn thing knows everything else that's going on.

I trade the car in February so I can probably leave the problem for the next person if it isn't a constant annoyance.

 

My car has factory 20 inch rims.
Same symptoms in sport/sport plus mode.
Jmmk couldn't explain the problem better.

 

Yes. I have a 09 Panamera Turbo with exactly the same disturbing noises in the front suspenison. It has 8k miles. The Porsche dealer says the cant find anything wrong. Have you solved the problem?

 

Porsche changed upper and lower control arm on my suspension .
Problem fixed after a lot of *****ing and waiting.
This repair was warranty but it cost Porsche 6k.

 

what dealer would you recommend in chicago. i to have some minor issues that i would like resolved, but would like to take it to an good dealer.

 

Thank you, this is most useful info.Here is a picture of my friends car, wintertraining.

 

Is this at IceForce or Camp4?

 

I couldnt go here because of a business trip last weekend. Do they really make you sign a 5000e own risk insurence? I was 2 weeks earlier driving Audi S5s on a track and flew of the track and broke the whole front end and grille of the car, Audi paid everything. This would have been relly expensive for me at the Porsche event.

On the OP, I have had every other fault on my car, waiting for this to happen...just got my failed horns fixed.

 

Mine is a 2010 turbo with 20 wheels , on small bums or road irregularities ,
The wheel would have a bounce back,or an aftershock. This got worse and worse ,when finally , manhattan changed the upper and lower control arms .i now ride with 42 psi cold pressure , and tires set to 20 inch heavy load (faster than 100 mph) it's not perfect ,but barely acceptable .
I've had a simile issue with BMW and they also play dead and pretend it does not exist . I hope you find this info helpful

 

A year ago I told my dealer I would sell the car if they did not fix this. Then they changedtwo link arm for the PDCC, and the sound dissappaired. They told me the new arm had rubber bearing in the one end and uniball in the other - the old one uniball in both ends. I have don 40 laps at Nurburgring since then - and a simular but much loeer noise have come back. They cant hear it, find it or fix it. Anyway, the car is fantastic as a crusier and go Nurburgring easily BTG on 8 minutes. Tkae a look on this:


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