Hi all! I am trying to figure something out. It seems some cars have this options, others don't. I'm curious whether this is North America option, or perhaps just depends on what version of software your Taycan is running. It does not appear in the PCM simulator, but here is a picture from one...
I was driving a few days ago. As I was passing a truck in an exit lane, he suddenly got confused by the road signage and decided he needed to get over fast (he didn't, as both lanes exited, but the sign might have been interpreted as only one lane was exiting). In the process, he almost ran me...
Unlike companies which have a functional OTA, every time there is a firmware upgrade required, Porsche has to pay dealers to apply the patch. Additionally, the Taycans seem to have had quite a lot of recalls (more than almost any car I've owned), and not all of them EV tech related (e.g. faulty...
I found this by accident browsing for other things, for those interested in what's inside the Taycan heater. Apparently in this case what failed was some digital programmable part lost its content and just needed to be reflashed. I wonder if it's flash memory that could not handle the heat...
As part of my retrofitting Euro tail lights project, I ended up doing a bunch of reverse engineering.
One thing that I found was that the tail lights (at least the Euro ones I got) have a live LIN bus active, meaning there is something in the lights that is speaking digital communications to...
One of the few things I knew I wanted to change on my Taycan since I got it was the rear tail lights. I personally very much dislike the dual purpose stop/turn lights. They are ambiguous, i.e. takes more time for someone looking at it to distinguish turn vs. stop signaling, even more time if the...
Specifically the pinouts of the signals driving the turn signals. If anyone has them, please reply here, or DM me if you prefer to stay anonymous.
For those interested, BCM2 controls a bunch of things:
It looks like this:
and it lives in the rear right part of your trunk
Does anyone out there have a wiring diagram for EU (or any non-North-American) tail lights? Specifically looking at pinouts and connections between BCM2 and center tail light bar (two 6 pin connectors)?
What are these orange things in the CT hatch? Are they just weights to balance the hatch? Or do they have some additional function?
Here is where they are with the whole hatch exposed.
I am posting this description on how to use the Taycan dashcam prewire option to install a Blackvue, 2-channel dashcam and a Valentine one radar detector. This allows you to wire in a dashcam front and back, plus a radar detector, using existing Porsche wiring (no need to run cables to the fuse...
When the car is plugged into an EVSE, and I select manual pre-heat, the car will draw power from the HV battery. When I create a timer to get the car ready in 5 minutes, the car will use shore power (power from EVSE, not battery). Using the battery puts unnecessary wear on the battery (each...
Has anyone had any experience with Redshift power boost? They claim to be operating out of San Francisco area.
https://www.redshift-performance.com/taycan
TLDR; don't trust the MyPorsche status of your car. It will show you fake status to keep you happy. It will no longer admit that it has no connection to your car.
Ever use your app to make sure your Taycan is all locked up, safe and sound? You check your app and it tells you a comforting "just...
My Taycan is 10 months old. It recently started making a creaking noise from behind the left side behind the instrument cluster. Pushing hard on the plastic behind the instrument cluster (behind the headlights controls) make the creaking go away. Is this a known issue (with possible a simple...
Taycan has front and back USB-C ports. I had some passengers tell me the rear USB-C is not charging their phones very fast. So I decided to check. It seems both front and back USB-C connectors are last century 5V, 0.5A max, USB-A simply masked with a USB-C socket. You might be able to draw more...
I recently noticed my front camera was dirty, turned front windshield washer spray and there was no spray on the camera like there is in the reverse one. I thought I saw it spray the front camera in the past (like it does the night vision, which I confirmed still works on my car). Or am I...
When I picked up my Taycan, on 3rd or 4th day I spent 10 minutes trying to lock the car in the middle of a snow storm. Every time I locked it, it unlocked itself, whether I used the fob, or the touch control, it didn't matter. It kept happening to me less as I drove home into warmer weather and...
I was looking at the Porsche site with someone who is considering one. I quickly noticed a marketing trick upselling the PBP
Notice from the above it would seem like the PBP adds 35.6% more range. Until you realize of course that the two range estimate standards are not the same (EPA vs. AMCI)...
Can someone with a Canadian Taycan check the country code in the Info screen of Homelink and report back the Country Code that is showing?
Bonus if you know other country codes. Hint, 1 is not USA (I think it's Germany or EU but not certain).
Does anyone know what setting controls the Country Code in HomeLink?
I couldn't find anything in user settings, nor using PIWIS diagnostic tool - I checked the "UGDO Sender" control unit but it doesn't seem to have any settings that can be coded, so I assume it gets it from somewhere else...