My experience with Porsche clock!

[doc911]

Hello everyone,

Allow me to share my humble experience with Porsche clock.

My car is a 1987 Carrera 3.2.

I noticed while I was driving that the clock has stopped!

I pulled over on the shoulder and adjusted the clock to the correct time.

It worked perfectly well.

Next day when I entered the car, I found that the clock has stopped again!

To cut it short I've adjusted the time, and it worked pretty well (actually more accurate than my 996 targa!)

I knew that there was nothing wrong with the clock's mechanism, neither with the wirings.

After a few days, I realised that the clock stops working when the outside temperature is approximately below 50° Fahrenheit or 10° Celsius.

The temperatures for the last few days are ranging between 53° - 57° Fahrenheit and the clock is perfectly working like (well) a clock

I honestly don't know the explanation or the reason as to why the clock behaved like this but, I thought by posting my experience some of you will get benefitted and stop thinking of fixing or either replacing his car's clock. and

I wish one or more of the technically genius guys can explain!
Enjoy your Porsches

Fahad

P.S In case, you want to know. I live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

[stevej37]

It's fairly common for these clocks to have capacitor failures...which can be easily fixed.
Do a search on this forum and multiple threads should appear.

I had to do the repair on both my SC and Carrera. Just a couple bucks of parts fixed both.

[stevej37]

Here is one for the SC.
911SC Clock Repair with annotated photos

[doc911]

Thank you stevej37