Taycan headlights stolen in worst possible way 🤢

[JayGT4]

My stomach turned seeing these photos (not my Taycan).

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[MarkR]

That is absolutely sickening and heart wrenching. How could someone do such a thing. I am gutted for the person this happened to.

 

[ciaranob]

Man - never seen anything this bad - unreal - sincere condolences to you - this sounds ridiculous as I say it but the single good outcome might be that all that damage appears restricted to the two specific wing panels - but yes having to replace the light assemblies AND these panels obv not cheap!!!

Trying to get my head around how they plan to sell these as such a specific market and for the life of me I cannot see where the demand would be!

 

[tigerbalm]

Do we know what country? I'm guessing Germany from the EU style front number plate and the Germany emissions sticker on the window of the last photo.

 

[Jhenson29]

We’re sure this isn’t just the facelift front end with active aero?

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

We’re sure this isn’t just the facelift front end with active aero?

You were one of my 3 bets on who was going to "go there" first.
(And yes, it's the GT louvers option. Strangely, though, can't see the wheel.)

 

[FlyingPoint]

Forgive me but for a host of reasons, this looks fake. The cut pieces on driver side are jagged, yet the quarter panel is smooth. The passenger quarter is cut in a strange pattern that does not make any sense. The smooth cuts in the sheet metal had to be done by more than one tool. There are no cut metal pieces anywhere to be seen in or around the vehicle. The connecting sheet metal ribs are not deformed at all. There are no paint deformities that certainly would show with this amount of cutting.

 

[ciaranob]

Forgive me but for a host of reasons, this looks fake. The cut pieces on driver side are jagged, yet the quarter panel is smooth. The passenger quarter is cut in a strange pattern that does not make any sense. The smooth cuts in the sheet metal had to be done by more than one tool. There are no cut metal pieces anywhere to be seen in or around the vehicle. The connecting sheet metal ribs are not deformed at all. There are no paint deformities that certainly would show with this amount of cutting.

Hmmmm - the more I look at it now I think you may be correct! If you look at the center ‘tears’ on the RHS closest to hood there are ‘pieces’ that simply don’t match the cuts ….

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

Forgive me but for a host of reasons, this looks fake. The cut pieces on driver side are jagged, yet the quarter panel is smooth. The passenger quarter is cut in a strange pattern that does not make any sense. The smooth cuts in the sheet metal had to be done by more than one tool. There are no cut metal pieces anywhere to be seen in or around the vehicle. The connecting sheet metal ribs are not deformed at all. There are no paint deformities that certainly would show with this amount of cutting.

Idk, it's a pretty convincing image (lighting, shadows look very natural). The edge where the fender is fastened to the trunk lid is bent. The cuts on the 'flaps' appear to be made after the main cut, as if to mock/create the appearance of 'aero elements'. The cutting pattern is similar between the 2 side, but not identical. Also note, on both sides, a bent plastic panel resting on the wheels - not sure why a fake would have needed to add that detail. Lastly, the elements of the frame under the fender show the gradual paint you'd expect..

To me this looks to be a very convincing revenge job.

 

[Jayyvr890]

Weed growers steal LED headlights to use as grow lights. The are not stolen for retail.

 

[4thPcar]

Weed growers steal LED headlights to use as grow lights. The are not stolen for retail.

and you would know this, how . Side markers suggest its a European model, unless they were added aftermarket.

 

[DCYL725]

Man - never seen anything this bad - unreal - sincere condolences to you - this sounds ridiculous as I say it but the single good outcome might be that all that damage appears restricted to the two specific wing panels - but yes having to replace the light assemblies AND these panels obv not cheap!!!

Trying to get my head around how they plan to sell these as such a specific market and for the life of me I cannot see where the demand would be!

Can be used for growing cannabis apparently. One of the modules, heard about it in a YouTube vid.

 

[Murph7355]

Weed growers steal LED headlights to use as grow lights. The are not stolen for retail.

One of my insurers cited this as a factor in them not quoting me.

Sounds a bit of a stretch to me in terms of the volume this could be happening in impacting premiums.

 

[peraz]

In a region in Denmark - Nordsjælland / North of Copenhagen, where income is generally higher than rest of population and hence a lot of Porsches - there were 47 thefts like this in 2022 (according to Police FB post from Nov 2022). This doesn't account for thefts outside of this region nor in Copenhagen city.

Compare this 2020 - 2022 data that indicates there were around ~800 Taycans registered across Denmark. This means a conservative guess is that ~10% of all Taycans in Denmark have had their lights stolen like this in that 2-year period (some maybe more than once..).

This doesn't take into account that some 911s might've also had their lights stolen, but there are a lot fewer of those (esp. newer due to insane taxation) on the roads. On the upside, car theft is not very common.

Hence, it's quite a common occurrence in some countries unfortunately.

 

[Grayblack]

Hard to tell if this is photo shopped or not. It this is real, it's pretty insane.

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