Porsche option/build codes
Every Porsche leaves the factory with a list of standard and optional equipment. Standard equipment is described by build codes and optional equipment by option codes. The codes are three or four character strings of numbers and letters. Back in the old days all the codes started with an M and they were called as the M-codes. Nowadays they start with an I. The codes are usually printed on stickers: one of these is added to the service book, but the second one changes location, depending on the specific model (under the bonnet, in the trunk or not available at all). If you’ve bought your car as new from the dealer, you probably know what options you selected, but with second hand cars, it’s unknown and decoding these codes without a proper manual is quite impossible, especially as Porsche has reused some of the codes for different equipment over time.
We have collected all the options for different models and model years so you can decode these magic numbers for your car. For early cars the number of options is usually very short, sometimes only a few lines, later cars are much more verbose in that area. For example an eighties Porsche might have just a couple of option codes, while a 996 Turbo with nothing really super fancy extras, has about 70 codes (most of them standard equipment build codes) .
Pre-1970 (356, 550, 904, 911, 912)
718
911
MY1970-1980
MY1981
MY1982
MY1983
MY1984
MY1985
MY1986
MY1987
MY1988
MY1989
964: MY1989-1990 MY1991-1994
993: MY1994-1995 MY1996-1998
996: MY1998-2001 MY2002 MY2003-2005
997.1: MY2005-2007 MY2008 MY2009
997.2: MY2009 MY2010-2012
991.1: MY2012-2016
991.2: MY2017-2019
914
918 Spyder
924
MY1976-1980 MY1981 MY1982 MY1983 MY1984-1985 MY1986 MY1987 MY1988
928
MY1978-1981 MY1982 MY1983 MY1984 MY1985 MY1986 MY1987 MY1988 MY1989-1991 MY1992-1995
944
MY1982-1983 MY1984 MY1985 MY1986 MY1987 MY1988 MY1989-1991
959
968
Boxster
986: MY1997-1999 MY2000-2001 MY2002 MY2003-2004
987.1:
MY2005
MY2006
MY2007
MY2008
987.2:
MY2009 MY2010-2012
981: MY2012-2016
Cayenne
955: MY2003-2006
957: MY2008-2010
958: MY2011-...
Please note, there was no Model Year 2007 for Cayenne. Type 955 was ended with MY2006 and type 957 was started in February 2007 as MY2008.
Cayman
987.1:
MY2006-2008
987.2:
MY2009 MY2010-2013
981: MY2014-2016
Carrera GT
Macan
95B: MY2015-2018
Panamera
970: MY2010-2016
971: MY2017-...
