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- First Name
- Eric
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- Jun 27, 2020
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- New York, NY
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- Taycan 4S
I had the exact same experience. I was without my car for four out of five weeks and had to take it to the dealer three times for them to reinstall the update twice after the initial install. The only difference being that after the update my transmission sounds terrible. There’s vibration in it that makes it sound like an ICE when in first gear. It genuinely sounds like I have an ICE with an exhaust system now. I know enough about mechanics to know that the amount of vibration and noise in the powertrain is abnormal and doing some serious damage. Porsche has been useless. At first they took me for a drive in another car but a 2021 where the noise was maybe 5% of the volume and 5% of the time compared to mine. I guess they regretted that and so the next time they invited me back they had a used Taycan with 7k miles on it and the update installed waiting making the same noise. Just proved to me that the update or 2020 is the issue. Anyone would find the amount of noise my car makes absurd. I’m going to start sending videos around to various sites of the noise.Update 3:
Well I got the car back after about a week and a half with the patch installed to solve the motor control error and a bunch of reset work to get Innodrive and ACC/LK features back.
I drove it for about 100 miles, and so did the dealer and so far no issues. The dealer seemed to have done their best to solve everything, but they are 100% reliant on Porsche Germany and what software they are sent. And because of that there is really no way for someone outside the development stream to actually verify the fix. You just hope that the team that failed at the regression testing and control testing didn't fail this time.
"I fixed it" what did you do? "Applied the patch" What did that do? "..."
So I'm left to test the car with my life. My wife won't get in it. And I've got a 4700lb paperweight in my garage.
Porsche is in over its head. At this point I wish I could just give the car back. The other option I guess is I'll give it about 1000 solo miles of testing and then risk that its safe enough for the family. The final option is to put it in storage and just never ever do business with Porsche again.
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