New feature to open trunk with your foot?

[Mwa3aan]

I could open my trunk with my foot in my Panamera but not in my Taycan. I have comfort access as an option in the Tyacan but even with that enabled I could not open the trunk.

After I got my car back for from the software updates I noticed by accident (i was changing the unlock door setting to unlocking all, not just the driver) that I now had an option under locking/Unlocking where I could enable "Open trunk with sensor". It was disabled.

After enabling that I can now open the trunk with my foot!! huge win I can also open the frunk by touching the bumper right under the Porsche badge. This also didn't work before.

Now, It might be that i missed this completely up to this point and that it was always there, but that means it has always been disabled by default. That would be a weird default setting. I am pretty sure I would have seen this before since I really missed it coming from the Panamera and was looking for it.

Has anyone else experienced this or have you always had this foot/sensor feature enabled for opening the trunk?

Anyway, I am pretty happy to have this feature enabled!!

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[louv]

I knew it was a feature. (Foot opening rear trunk) I’m pretty sure I did it early in ownership. But then it wouldn’t work. I gave up. Then someone posted about the checkbox. Mine was turned off. Odd. So I turned it on, and bingo, I can easily open the trunk by kicking invisible monsters under the car.

My frunk always opened by waving at it. Sometimes it took many waves. But eventually it worked.

 

[Reg]

Wait wut? I have been taking off my shoes and using my big toe to press the button. I thought it was awkward but with hands full of stuff, it worked. Nice to know there is another way!

 

[GaryT]

I knew it was a feature. (Foot opening rear trunk) I’m pretty sure I did it early in ownership. But then it wouldn’t work. I gave up. Then someone posted about the checkbox. Mine was turned off. Odd. So I turned it on, and bingo, I can easily open the trunk by kicking invisible monsters under the car.

My frunk always opened by waving at it. Sometimes it took many waves. But eventually it worked

 

[GaryT]

I have not had issues opening the trunk with my foot; however, I have not had similar luck with the frunk.

Please explain how to trigger using Comfort Access to open the frunk; I must not be doing it correctly. Do I presume, correctly, that you need a key with you for Comfort Access to function?

 

[louv]

I have not had issues opening the trunk with my foot; however, I have not had similar luck with the frunk.

Please explain how to trigger using Comfort Access to open the frunk; I must not be doing it correctly. Do I presume, correctly, that you need a key with you for Comfort Access to function?

The title in the “Good To Know” app is slightly misleading. It says “without a key”. What they mean is “without pressing the buttons on the key”.

 

[GaryT]

Thank you. I was missing the obvious.

 

[redrocket]

Never knew I needed to check a box to get the foot trick to work. Thanks guys!

 

[ron_b]

A very nice video showing Comfort Access for both Trunk and Frunk.

The Different Ways to Operate the Porsche Taycan Trunk and Frunk via Comfort Access: A Tutorial!!
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[bootsie]

A very nice video showing Comfort Access for both Trunk and Frunk.

Nice, didn't know you could close the trunk by gesture too.
There do seem to be some strange default settings in the PCM for options like this which means they don't work until you go and activate them. Plenty of other threads on here saying "my [xyz] doesn't work" and the answer is to go and enable it. I know some of these are personal choice, but surely if you've paid for Comfort Access you want to be able to use it, right?

 

[tigerbalm]

Warning: I have this feature in my Panamera and one time I went through an automatic car wash (I know!) the brushes triggered the gesture and the boot began to open.

I had to react quickly to hold down the open/close button from inside the car to close it immediately before water got in or the brushes removed the boot door.

So if you are going into one of these washes – I was just using it to remove salt from the bodywork – make sure you disable the gesture opening feature in the PCM.

 

[Dee]

Warning: I have this feature in my Panamera and one time I went through an automatic car wash (I know!) the brushes triggered the gesture and the boot began to open.

I had to react quickly to hold down the open/close button from inside the car to close it immediately before water got in or the brushes removed the boot door.

So if you are going into one of these washes – I was just using it to remove salt from the bodywork – make sure you disable the gesture opening feature in the PCM.

I really don't want to be in a carwash with my car anyway.

 

[Dee]

My comfort access worked before the update.
One thing to notice is: move your foot in the line of driving and not swing it.
That way you have 100% recognition instead of 80%...
Also: read the manual.
Stand in the middle.
It's pretty simple actually if you know how to trigger it.
But my frunk is still stubborn, about 50% of the time it won't open.

 

[Kevin2dx]

My comfort access worked before the update.
One thing to notice is: move your foot in the line of driving and not swing it.
That way you have 100% recognition instead of 80%...
Also: read the manual.
Stand in the middle.
It's pretty simple actually if you know how to trigger it.
But my frunk is still stubborn, about 50% of the time it won't open.

Feels like I have a 2% success rate opening the frunk by sensor

 

[Dee]

Feels like I have a 2% success rate opening the frunk by sensor

I only open it when I'm safe and alone in my garage.
Otherwise my colleagues make fun of me while I'm "caressing" my car....looks so wrong, I admit that wholeheartedly.

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