Glad I haven’t bothered yet, I’d find a way to mess it up....maybe I’ll have the dealer do it someday. I notice a big difference in sound between Sport and Sport+. For long distance driving, Sport mode gets tiring. I sometimes think about an after market exhaust , but don’t want the intrusive fake sound .Alrighty. Looks like Porsche either eliminated the soundactor on the 2018 GTS or moved it somewhere else. I pulled the panel and looked for it and the two studs it's supposed to mount to are there but no soundactor mounted, nor the wiring harness or plug. It was a real SOB getting the panel back in place. Waste of 10 minutes of my life.
Maybe someone with an 18 GTS will eventually be privy to where they put it or if indeed they eliminated it altogether.
If you do go to the dealer and inquire about it, be sure to post what you find out. Like mine, yours is also an 18 GTS and I doubt that mine is an isolated anomaly. The mounting studs are clearly present where the soundactor should be and there is none present, so I would assume they didn't use it on the GTS.Glad I haven’t bothered yet, I’d find a way to mess it up....maybe I’ll have the dealer do it someday. I notice a big difference in sound between Sport and Sport+. For long distance driving, Sport mode gets tiring. I sometimes think about an after market exhaust , but don’t want the intrusive fake sound .
From where does information come? Ie: how do you know?GTS doesn’t have soundaktor
Winter.zed:I know this is quite well documented already, but I created a "photo essay" for the Soundaktor removal anyway.
Documents every stage of the process.
Here:
https://www.718forum.com/forum/how-diy/16146-soundaktor-removeal-boxster.html#post139248
Removed it today. Should've done it a year ago...
Sounds better. A lot extra noise is gone, and the car is just as fast as before /forum/images/718forum/smilies/tango_face_wink.png
Sorry, I may have jumped on the wrong thread. By "well documented" I meant the removal of the soundaktor in general, is well documented not the question whether the GTS has one or not. I just realized there is an other older thread for the "noise machine" removal. Sorry.Winter.zed:
If this is a response to my questions, were your comments/instructions about a GTS?
That is what I am questioning. It seems that maybe the GTS doesn't have the Soundaktor and the post I replied to claimed definitive knowledge. That's why I asked. I don't want to tear the back end apart if there is nothing there.
Thanks!!
Not a problem at all. Thanks!Sorry, I may have jumped on the wrong thread. By "well documented" I meant the removal of the soundaktor in general, is well documented not the question whether the GTS has one or not. I just realized there is an other older thread for the "noise machine" removal. Sorry.Winter.zed:
If this is a response to my questions, were your comments/instructions about a GTS?
That is what I am questioning. It seems that maybe the GTS doesn't have the Soundaktor and the post I replied to claimed definitive knowledge. That's why I asked. I don't want to tear the back end apart if there is nothing there.
Thanks!!
I have an 18 GTS and just tore open the side panel yesterday and nothing there. Maybe mines special and the only GTS that came from Porsche without one. It's not that hard to open her up, go take the panel out and take a look see.From where does information come? Ie: how do you know?