Porsche 718 Boxster Gts, Porsche 718 Boxster S, Porsche 718 Cayman Gts, model years 2023 to 2024. Filed by Porsche Cars North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 4 December 2023. 53 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0, 2024 Porsche 718 Boxster S, and 718 Boxster GTS 4.0 vehicles. The rear electronic control unit (ECU) may allow the spoiler to raise up too high.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Porsche's own number for this recall: APB4. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V813 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 23V813 cover?
- Porsche 718 Boxster GTS, Porsche 718 Boxster S, Porsche 718 Cayman GTS, model years 2023-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0, 2024 Porsche 718 Boxster S, and 718 Boxster GTS 4.0 vehicles. The rear electronic control unit (ECU) may allow the spoiler to raise up too high.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The raised spoiler can reduce the visibility of the center brake light and impact the vehicle driving and aerodynamics, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the ECU software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 23, 2024. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is APB4.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Porsche calls this recall APB4, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “The raised spoiler can reduce the visibility of the center brake light and impact the vehicle driving and aerodynamics, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V813 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Porsche Cars North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 December 2023 |
| Model years | 2023-2024 |
| Vehicles named | PORSCHE 718 BOXSTER GTS, PORSCHE 718 BOXSTER S, PORSCHE 718 CAYMAN GTS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The raised spoiler can reduce the visibility of the center brake light and impact the vehicle driving and aerodynamics, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the ECU software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 23, 2024. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is APB4.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2023643, recorded 5 December 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
- European Union: Safety Gate alert A12/00189/24, published 1 February 2024, raised by Germany (the Commission’s own page) (59 days after the American filing)
Matched on APB4, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 23V813, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v813/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 23V813 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6c4c9bc1 - Consequence
8ee4100b - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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