Taycan headlights stolen in worst possible way 🤢

[Scandinavian]

The sooner Porsche will implement the likes of Sentry mode for our cars, the better!

Dashcam installation certainly should be standard

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[taycan2024]

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.

Happened around Düsseldorf, Germany.

 

[DougFrisk]

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 ….

I disagree. It looks to me that someone wanted the lights with the wiring harness intact. The right side show's a lot of experimental cutting including what looks like a hole in the top so they could reach inside and unplug the light. On the left side they seem to have learned their lesson and made one long cut along the side and peeled back the fender in two pieces.

 

[mikezhang31]

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

now those cops flying drones with thermal imagining wont raid my basement

 

[ciaranob]

I disagree. It looks to me that someone wanted the lights with the wiring harness intact. The right side show's a lot of experimental cutting including what looks like a hole in the top so they could reach inside and unplug the light. On the right side they seem to have learned their lesson and made one long cut along the side and peeled back the fender in two pieces.

May well be real but these were some of the albeit subtle things that looked a bit suspect to me - angles are difficult so again, perhaps legit:

And if legit report it was indeed in the press:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/...ieves-stole-its-matrix-headlights-228136.html

https://autos.yahoo.com/poor-porsche-taycan-cross-turismo-130500049.html

All from a Reddit post.

 

[Scandinavian]

May well be real but these were some of the albeit subtle things that looked a bit suspect to me - angles are difficult so again, perhaps legit:

Looks suspicious when you point it out!

Hard to know though

 

[peraz]

From the Porsche Taycan DK facebook group. Why would anyone bother photoshopping this

 

[Scandinavian]

Wow! Sad story!

 

[Kayone73]

I saw more than one comment that theft of auto LED headlamps popular for illegal weed farms, due to high light output and low heat

 

[SorenDK]

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.

This is real. I know of some in my neighbourhood who had their headlights stolen.
I also heard that the lamps are good for growing canabis.

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

I reckon, especially in Europe where the LED matrix lights are legal, that they can be programmed to give each plant exactly the amount of light needed for optimal growth.

And, not to point the obvious, but the solution is very simple: legalize it!
(j/k, sheesh)

 

[Clod Reed]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/254...dium=sharebar_native&utm_campaign=sharebaramp

 

[CarbonTax]

just increased the premium on garage parking ?

 

[whitex]

Are Taycan lights the equivalent of catalytic converters on ICE cars?

 

[whitex]

Perhaps Porsche should design the headlights with crypto secured digital communications, making them very hard to use outside the car or in other cars. For the right-to-repair crowd a Porsche dealer service to unlock the headlight for pairing with a new car - this should be cheap enough, but require check against stolen headlight database, and of course identification of whoever is bringing in the headlight to be unlocked.

Or, at least require online pairing for each new car via Taycan PCM. Only allow it to be paired with a Taycan after a check against stolen parts. Light does not work outside of Taycan.

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