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That thread a few weeks back, was it ever fixed?
Can't find the damn thing!
Ah, that'll be my sister's car. She got it back around the beginning of June and it currently works as a car, although I think it still shows up as stolen with her tracker company. I don't think anything came of complaining about the Volvo courtesy car.
As far as I can tell the charging system died down in London, then when the AA guy came out he connected something which made the car think it was being stolen so it went full shut-down. Car was trailered to a local Porsche dealership who were unhelpful and basically delivered the car back to my sister without fixing anything - whilst on the transporter back to Sheffield she was getting calls from the tracking company saying her car was being stolen again. Porsche in Sheffield took it in and it gets a bit hazy here. They initially said the communications module was fried which is why the tracker company couldn't disable the theft mode, but then I get a relatively garbled story where Porsche claimed my sister hadn't set her Porsche app up correctly so the car wasn't registered to charge anywhere. I don't know how true this is, I have no experience with electric cars and charging requirements. I guess it would make sense if it weren't for the fact she was able to use the car for around a month before any issues began; based on what Porsche were telling her if the app wasn't set up correctly she'd have never been able to charge it/use it from day 1. It also doesn't explain why the tracker shows the car as stolen. I gather the solution was to scrub her original Porsche account from existence, then she signed up again and now all is good. Maybe the tracker is linked to the old Porsche account? TBH, not my circus and not my monkeys.
Finally an update, been getting battered by Taycan ads on my gmail since that thread, so great to get an update.
been getting battered by Taycan ads on my gmail since that thread
You will get more now!
Wow, another reason to never buy a connected car or early gen electric from countries that don't specialise in software. Lack of support + blaming user is unbelievable for what is essentially a premium / luxury product. They should make it impossible for what has been described to happen.
TBH, not my circus and not my monkeys.
That is a brilliant expression. 👍
"Your car is broken because you didn't set the app up right" is quite a sentence tbh.
mattcartlidge
Full MemberFinally an update, been getting battered by Taycan ads on my gmail since that thread, so great to get an update.
that's taycan the piss
Appsolutely terrible. Porsche-oddy design.
If someone at my work designed that they'd be EVscerated in the design review.
If this happened in the US I'd be tempted to call 911. They obviously don't carerra about their reputation.
I'd be asking for a refund and return it - they'd better send a Boxster put it in.
They only do it because they Cayenne
They only do it because they Cayenne
Wow, another reason to never buy a connected car or early gen electric from countries that don’t specialise in software. Lack of support + blaming user is unbelievable for what is essentially a premium / luxury product. They should make it impossible for what has been described to happen.
Another reason, as if I needed one, to not want to have anything to do with any EV in the future, especially when manufacturers like GM in the States are refusing to supply forthcoming cars with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, despite the car using an Android OS. They’re pretty much expecting buyers to sign up for a subscription service, where every single extra function is a paid-for additional extra expense, and those extras will be what they allow you to use, not what you want to use. Sod that for a game of soldiers!
What makes you think that bullshit is restricted to EV's?
Next daily driver is looking more and more like I want someone else's restored Morris Minor.
Dakar sounds like a right bag of spanners.
Wow, another reason to never buy a connected car or early gen electric from countries that don’t specialise in software. Lack of support + blaming user is unbelievable for what is essentially a premium / luxury product. They should make it impossible for what has been described to happen.
Or she fails to pay attention at basic stuff, or was the car just not handed over properly?
How many heaters has it had? That’ll be the next issue. Sadly they can’t fix the ugly front lights with any recall.
Another reason, as if I needed one, to not want to have anything to do with any EV in the future,
I don't think any of these issues are anything to do with the drivetrain?
Some of the comments on this thread have had me Röhrling around laughing.
I really liked my electric i3s that's just gone back and didn't have a moments bother with it. The heater was pretty pants though, no engine heat to pinch I guess?
You would have thought that they are good at these things, they have had a few years to perfect them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner%E2%80%93Porsche