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Originally Posted by sfkjeld
I’ve had two high porsche shops scan the car and they confirm the cam advance is ‘slow”. The code is correct. But as I said, in terms of measurable pollutants emitted during the smog test, my car runs quite clean (I’ve been told anyway). The smog test checks the exhaust at idle and at specific rpm. But evidently it doesn’t test the rate at which the cam advances.
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In terms of measurable pollutants malfunction of the variocam system won`t make any (within tolerance) difference. It means the actuator gets stuck in either condition or just shifts slowly between the two, as it is in your case. But, because it affects timing, it also has an effect on performance, and hence, on fuel consumption and emission. So it has to work properly, according to California law. It`s the same with SAI for instance: if you take the car to a smog test and your SAI is shot, there is no way to measure the difference in pollution, because it does not work when the engine is hot. Yet, if you have an SAI error code, you are screwed.