How to Update Porsche Battery with VXDIAG PIWIS III?

Instruction: Updating your Porsche vehicle Battery with VXDIAG Porsche PIWIS III.

 

The PIWIS software is a bit odd and not always straight forward, so we share how to update the battery after changing it out.

Opening screen – select Diagnostics

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you can manually select your car or wait for the auto-detect

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once selected, the software will start communicating with the car.

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you can just hit F12 at this point

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after a couple minutes this screen will appear, you can just hit F11(no) as it is only necessary warranty repairs

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once this screen comes up, select “Energy Management”

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then select the Maintenance / repair Tab

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things get more straight forward at this point, select Battery Change and hit F12

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you can now select the battery typre, size and manufacture

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as noted elsewhere you can simply enter Zero’s for the serial number and part number, once you’ve entered both hit any of the write (pencil) buttons and you are done.

 

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