Goodbye Taycan

[Hiflyin20]

Traded in my Taycan last week. I’ve been extremely disappointed with Porsche and how they have handled this car. It seems to have been released 2 years too early. I had a 2020 4S. In the last six months it’s been in twice for the electrical error message. Each visit was over 3 weeks. Each fix was to replace a few of the bad cells. At a certain point they need to replace the entire battery pack. After the last service my range was 190 miles with 97% charge. This is supposedly acceptable according to Porsche. What will my range be in 6 months. Add in the charge cable mess and Porsche recommending me to buy another brand charger and not supply me a new one is a joke. What sad is I absolutely loved the car. I think it drove and looked awesome. When I dropped my car 3 weeks ago they gave me a trade in value of 75k. When I picked it up from service and not even driving it off the lot the trade value went to 60k. The lot had no less than 30 Taycans and they aren’t selling. Massive rebates aren’t working either. The announcement of the ‘25 models and supposed fixes have cratered the market. It was my mistake to buy one. Between the deprecation and range loss it’s become unrealistic to keep it. I hope you all enjoy your cars and have better luck than me. Maybe I’ll be back when Porsche gets they’re EV act together.

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[2P168S]

Sorry to hear about your experience. It’s a pretty bad time to get out of a Taycan right now, pretty good time to get into one IMO.

 

[B_TaycanTurbo]

Definitely feeling that same pain here with a 2020 Turbo. I considered trading it in a few weeks ago and reached out to several Porsche dealerships and none of them would even respond or return a phone call. Even the dealership and salesman that I've worked with for multiple Porsche purchases. We were hoping to to get a decent trade for a new Cayenne which would work better for our current needs. I didn't realize the Macan EV and new 25 Taycan were about to be unveiled and think that's why no dealership would respond to my inquires. I figured them would be ready to make a deal, even if they had to give me a low offer on my turbo with low miles. At this point, I'm going to probably just keep enjoying my Taycan and not purchase from those dealerships any more.

 

[4NIQUES]

Sorry to hear about your experience. It’s a pretty bad time to get out of a Taycan right now, pretty good time to get into one IMO.

Yup! Bad time. I just bought a 2020 4S and I feel like I stole this car! Literally for $100,000 Canadian dollars! Fully fully fully loaded!! Mission E wheels and all. I hate to hear all the bad things about the Taycan. It’s such a beautiful car. Shame on Porsche… they should be doing more

 

[4NIQUES]

Traded in my Taycan last week. I’ve been extremely disappointed with Porsche and how they have handled this car. It seems to have been released 2 years too early. I had a 2020 4S. In the last six months it’s been in twice for the electrical error message. Each visit was over 3 weeks. Each fix was to replace a few of the bad cells. At a certain point they need to replace the entire battery pack. After the last service my range was 190 miles with 97% charge. This is supposedly acceptable according to Porsche. What will my range be in 6 months. Add in the charge cable mess and Porsche recommending me to buy another brand charger and not supply me a new one is a joke. What sad is I absolutely loved the car. I think it drove and looked awesome. When I dropped my car 3 weeks ago they gave me a trade in value of 75k. When I picked it up from service and not even driving it off the lot the trade value went to 60k. The lot had no less than 30 Taycans and they aren’t selling. Massive rebates aren’t working either. The announcement of the ‘25 models and supposed fixes have cratered the market. It was my mistake to buy one. Between the deprecation and range loss it’s become unrealistic to keep it. I hope you all enjoy your cars and have better luck than me. Maybe I’ll be back when Porsche gets they’re EV act together.

I’m so sorry to hear this! Stories like yours make me wonder if I made a huge mistake. I would have waited to get into the 2025 Taycan though. What did you end up getting?

 

[ExTesla Driver]

there is no winning in this purchase, we buy a 3-year-old product and a replacement is already being worked on when we buy one. We will always lose money in cars. So stop worrying, the cars, the wealth the assets all remain in this world. So enjoy what you have and live the moment you have.

when you are bored with the car and can afford one go and change.

 

[2P168S]

To clarify:
Credit where credit is due, the Taycan is amazing as a high speed tool for covering long distances. The upgrades only extend its excellent in this area and I would love to bomb one down the autobahn some day.

At US speeds, these changes are more incremental.

 

[GLM1]

Let’s face it if a few upgrades were provided from the 2025, we would not be having this conversation, we have all learnt to live with the range and love driving our vehicles. However because it’s an EV we would like it to be kept somewhat current, like an iPhone or Tesla.

 

[P0R5HE_UK]

I had a 2020 Turbo and, there were a few recalls, but mostly trouble free. Traded that in for a new GTS and loved it. No problems. If I did long journeys, with one or more passengers, it is as near perfect as a sports saloon. But ... it's not a 911 and for me that was what I really wanted, a sports car. The GTS offered a lot, but not quite enough. So, terrible depreciation over the last year, which I don't really blame Porsche for. More of an EV market, Tesla, politics, post-Covid composite. Now, I am back in the ICE world with a 911 4 GTS Targa and, it's a lot of fun! So, still a Taycan fan. Not sure the 2025 offers that much more, especially given the price hike. And, no GTS for a while. Hope you Taycan owners get to still enjoy them for what they are.

 

[Caraholic]

Sorry to hear and I feel your pain. These cell replacements are purely band aids and the entire pack should be replaced. I somehow got greenlit for 12 cell packs to be replaced instead of a battery replacement. The repair cost was higher then a new battery pack as well.

 

[Murph7355]

Sorry to hear and I feel your pain. These cell replacements are purely band aids and the entire pack should be replaced. I somehow got greenlit for 12 cell packs to be replaced instead of a battery replacement. The repair cost was higher then a new battery pack as well.

This is the sort of thing Porsche need to get a grip of.

Inflated repair costs do nothing for insurance premiums or buyer confidence.

Arguably they're still learning... But that excuse is pretty much dried up now. Replacement strategies for components with no longevity track record should have been sorted before the car was released.

With decent design, this sort of thing should be so much easier than with ICE powertrains.

 

[Caraholic]

This is the sort of thing Porsche need to get a grip of.

Inflated repair costs do nothing for insurance premiums or buyer confidence.

Arguably they're still learning... But that excuse is pretty much dried up now. Replacement strategies for components with no longevity track record should have been sorted before the car was released.

With decent design, this sort of thing should be so much easier than with ICE powertrains.

Yes and when the repair costs as much as a nice new luxury vehicle for what seems to be relatively common is unacceptable. Especially when it takes four months to fix. Very disappointed with Porsche on this. It’s somewhat understandable if they are waiting on parts but that’s not the case.

 

[ChronoMax]

One of the problems here is the traditional dealership arrangement. At least in the US, they very much do not like EVs. They are afraid that their service department revenue will shrink. Porsche has obliged their dealers by, among other things, making module replacement and resetting the regular service reminder indicators impossible by third parties without its proprietary PIWIS dealer computer system. Going a step further, the next generation cars will apparently need an active PIWIS network connection to Stuttgart in order to do these things, so it seems Porsche is doubling down on this, and we will likely continue to see high repair costs, insurance rates, and low resale. It is disappointing and perhaps explains why such low values now and high inventory on the dealer's lots. Will be interesting to follow how this affects Porsche vs their EV competition the next few years.

.......It seems to have been released 2 years too early............

We can only hope this will not turn out to be the case for the Macan EV.

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