Options that may cause later mechanical/maintenance issues

[DACSarasota]

Greetings!

For those of you prior Porsche owners, do you consider potential downstream maintenance / repair issues when selecting your options?

For instance, I recently saw an online RWD review that suggested skipping adaptive air suspension w/ PASM since it may be prone to failure (showing a pic of a sagging car) and going with steel suspension.

Any thoughts on which options might be most risky? I would imagine something like RWS is so perfected by now, and most issues with these cars will be electrical/software based.

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[Evpower]

Greetings!

For those of you prior Porsche owners, do you consider potential downstream maintenance / repair issues when selecting your options?

For instance, I recently saw an online RWD review that suggested skipping adaptive air suspension w/ PASM since it may be prone to failure (showing a pic of a sagging car) and going with steel suspension.

Any thoughts on which options might be most risky? I would imagine something like RWS is so perfected by now, and most issues with these cars will be electrical/software based.

My Porsche service advisor said lots of rubber in the air suspension and living in the Arizona desert will have lots of issues in the long run. Very expensive to fix.

 

[XLR82XS]

Wouldn't call it risky but possibly Innodrive/ACC/etc. or any option with a camera or sensor can get damaged by road debris.

You mention air suspension and I wouldn't have this car without it. Since my RWD is at Porsche for drive unit issue I had the opportunity to inspect the air tank, air lines, and related air suspension components since the rear diffuser and plates were removed. From what I viewed the lines and fittings seem to be more robust when compared to my 2011 Panamera Turbo. I only assume that after years Porsche analyses component failures and revises designs as long as they don't drive the bean counters crazy.

Only time will tell but I'm confident the system will last for years to come. Benefit is I do not live in a salt belt state and do not experience drastic temperature changes throughout the year.

 

[schad]

I consider maintenance costs that are certain or at least highly likely, like brake replacement.

Beyond that, on a new car, I don't consider them. Especially for the Taycan, which is so new, we just don't know what's likely to fail. Even on parts which are shared with other Porsches (or Audis or VWs), the Taycan is different in some pretty major ways that could affect reliability either positively or negatively. I'm just going to use the warranty period to gauge how reliable the car is.

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