Porsche Boxster, Porsche Cayman, model year 2024. Filed by Porsche Cars North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 15 May 2024. 14 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2024 Boxster and Cayman vehicles. The safety clip that attaches the shift cable to the transmission may not be installed properly, which can prevent the transmission from locking in the park position when the shift lever is placed into park.
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: ARA7. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V343 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 24V343 cover?
- Porsche Boxster, Porsche Cayman, model year 2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2024 Boxster and Cayman vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A transmission that does not lock into park as intended may result in a vehicle roll away, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the shift cable, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 3, 2024. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is ARA7.
- 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 ARA7, 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: “A transmission that does not lock into park as intended may result in a vehicle roll away, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V343 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Porsche Cars North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Power Train:Automatic Transmission:Gear Position Indication (PRNDL) |
| Reported to NHTSA | 15 May 2024 |
| Model years | 2024-2024 |
| Vehicles named | PORSCHE BOXSTER, PORSCHE CAYMAN |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A transmission that does not lock into park as intended may result in a vehicle roll away, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the shift cable, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 3, 2024. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is ARA7.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 24V343, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v343/
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.
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- 25V220: 2024-2025 Macan Electric
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- 25V078: 2023 911
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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 24V343 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
0e77f020 - Consequence
6714c5bc - 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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