# Service bulletin No. 41\-20

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10176852
- Published by NHTSA: 2020\-07\-01
- Manufacturer's number: No. 41\-20
- Manufacturer's date: 2020\-06\-18
- NHTSA component: EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE

## NHTSA's summary

Instructions on how to perform a PVTS Software update in the event that a car will not start.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10176852-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10176852-9999.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Electrical system, Equipment and accessories, Labels and manuals, Software

## Vehicles listed

- 2017 PORSCHE 718
- 2016 PORSCHE 718 BOXSTER
- 2017 to 2019 PORSCHE 718 BOXSTER
- 2016 PORSCHE 718 CAYMAN
- 2017 to 2019 PORSCHE 718 CAYMAN
- 2012 to 2020 PORSCHE 911
- 2010 to 2011 PORSCHE 911 \(997\)
- 2012 to 2017 PORSCHE 911 CARRERA
- 2020 PORSCHE 911 CARRERA
- 2012 to 2013 PORSCHE 911 CARRERA 4
- 2012 PORSCHE 911 CARRERA 4 GTS
- 2012 PORSCHE 911 CARRERA 4S
- 2012 PORSCHE 911 CARRERA GTS
- 2012 PORSCHE 911 CARRERA S
- 2010 to 2013 PORSCHE 911 GT2
- 2019 PORSCHE 911 GT2
- 2010 to 2011 PORSCHE 911 GT2 RS
- 2018 to 2019 PORSCHE 911 GT2 RS
- 2010 to 2016 PORSCHE 911 GT3
- 2018 to 2019 PORSCHE 911 GT3
- 2010 to 2011 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS
- 2016 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS
- 2019 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS
- 2016 PORSCHE 911 R
- 2011 PORSCHE 911 SPEEDSTER
- 2012 to 2017 PORSCHE 911 TARGA 4
- 2012 PORSCHE 911 TARGA 4S
- 2010 to 2019 PORSCHE 911 TURBO
- 2010 to 2012 PORSCHE 911 TURBO S
- 2015 PORSCHE 918
- 2015 PORSCHE 918 SPYDER
- 2016 PORSCHE 918 SPYDER
- 2012 to 2015 PORSCHE BOXSTER
- 2010 to 2011 PORSCHE BOXSTER \(987\)
- 2011 to 2014 PORSCHE BOXSTER S
- 2012 PORSCHE BOXSTER SPYDER
- 2010 to 2020 PORSCHE CAYENNE
- 2011 PORSCHE CAYENNE \(E2\)
- 2019 to 2020 PORSCHE CAYENNE E\-HYBRID
- 2011 to 2012 PORSCHE CAYENNE S
- 2019 to 2020 PORSCHE CAYENNE S
- 2015 to 2018 PORSCHE CAYENNE S E\-HYBRID
- 2011 to 2013 PORSCHE CAYENNE S HYBRID
- 2011 to 2012 PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO
- 2019 to 2020 PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO
- 2020 PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO COUPE
- 2020 PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO S HYB COUPE
- 2010 to 2015 PORSCHE CAYMAN
- 2012 PORSCHE CAYMAN R
- 2012 PORSCHE CAYMAN S
- 2014 PORSCHE MACAN
- 2015 to 2020 PORSCHE MACAN
- 2017 PORSCHE MACAN GTS
- 2015 to 2019 PORSCHE MACAN S
- 2015 to 2018 PORSCHE MACAN TURBO
- 2010 to 2020 PORSCHE PANAMERA
- 2011 to 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4 EXECUTIVE
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4 HYBRID
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4 HYBRID EXECUTI
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4 HYBRID SPORT T
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4 SPORT TURISMO
- 2010 to 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4S
- 2017 to 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4S EXECUTIVE
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA 4S SPORT TURISMO
- 2010 to 2016 PORSCHE PANAMERA GTS
- 2010 to 2016 PORSCHE PANAMERA S
- 2011 to 2016 PORSCHE PANAMERA S E\-HYBRID
- 2010 to 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO
- 2017 to 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO EXECUTIVE
- 2012 to 2016 PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO S
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO S E\-HYBRID
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO S HYBRID
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO S HYBRID E
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO S HYBRID S
- 2018 PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO SPORT TURI

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [PIWIS2401j](/bulletins/10251154.md), 2024-03-04, Service bulletin: UNKNOWN OR OTHER; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Information for PIWIS tester update 42.500.020
- [PIWIS2301ay](/bulletins/10242133.md), 2023-09-09, Service bulletin: UNKNOWN OR OTHER; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Information on PIWIS tester update 42.100.060 \& .065
- [APA0](/bulletins/10237491.md), 2023-06-06, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES. Porsche intranet posting with information on APA0 Recall campaign – Re\-programming DME control unit and transmission control unit
- [No. 24\-21](/bulletins/10209779.md), 2022-04-05, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM\(GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM\); ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Installation and conversion instructions for the PCM3.1 \- Navigation Update.
- [No. 148\-21](/bulletins/10208612.md), 2022-03-03, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE:SOFTWARE. Technical information for recall campaign AMC0. re\-programing DME and transmission control unit.
- [No. 203\-21](/bulletins/10208610.md), 2022-03-03, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT. Information on vehicle sporadically not available via remote access services: reprogram connect control unit.
- [PNM942\-10](/bulletins/10198555.md), 2021-06-28, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT. Porsche Rear Seat Entertainment \(PRSE III\) Display Unit Replacement. The software in the new display unit is either V02.000 or V02.009. The previous software version was V01.xxx. A USB stick is enclosed with the new display unit. Use the USB stick to update V01.xxx of the other display unit to version V02.000. It is not possible to update software version V01.xxx and V02.000 Replacing display unit.
- [CAY224\-16](/bulletins/10198537.md), 2021-06-28, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. DME Control Unit \- There is a possibility that an excessively high drive torque will be transferred to the rear axle when the Performance Start function is used on the affected vehicles. If the performance start function is used frequently. Overloading of the drive shafts cannot be ruled out. This can damage the drive shaft on the rear axle.
- [9912133\-15](/bulletins/10198505.md), 2021-06-28, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. WF86 \- Re\-Programming DME Control Unit \(Workshop Campaign\)
- [No. 225\-20.2](/bulletins/10185119.md), 2021-01-05, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN; EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Porsche service campaign information for Workshop campaign WLP0 \- Re\-Programming PDK Control Unit.

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