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Originally Posted by Wil Ferch View Post
yes...the soldered contacts break easily over time due to age and vibration....MADE WORSE by Porsche's idiotic design of the terminals being oriented to plug-in sideways....leaving the relay BODY hanging in space ! ( picture in post #3, here, with the relay cover off). Therefore, there is a tremendous moment-arm leveraging of the circuit board.

Solution?....( or at least, "big-help"?)--> place a rubber block under the unsupported relay body such that you take the bending stress ( gravity) off the body and its plug-in connection.
Did this on mine,....!!

My DME Relay is changed out before it fails.

Doyle
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