not only on J1.1.
that’s why i postoponed it for late September.
Wait til your AC charger needs replaced as it won't charge your car on a ski trip, your failed fans leave you in Turtle mode in the middle of France, your DCDC converter orange rings every time you use a 400V charger and then 5 out of 7 stepper motors in the HVAC fail.
I agree I had the car only since October last year, but I've put already 22k km on it, so I'd argue that's given me a bit of a glimpse on what the ownership will be like. And so far, except from the navigation issue and the 22kw OBC crapping out, it's been literally stellar and without a fault.
2021 J1.1 . Arguably the worst of the bunch, so go figure...
Software update.
Software, i got the PCM hardware replaced when the software was not avaliable. Took advantage and insisted for the hardware to be replaced
Mine was at a reasonably well used 40k when I bought it.A lot of cars that have been driven / actually owned before being sold as CPO would have had a lot of their issues solved by the previous owner... it is a 4-6 year model after all.
Low km/mileage cars that sat on dealer lots would not have encountered most of the common issues: charger failures, hvac failures, fan shattering, servo motors for hvac failures, heater failures, camera failures, HV battery failures, rattles, etc etc. So if you get one of those 2019-2022 barely driven taycans, you'll be bombared with all the issues at once.
There's also a whole bible sized book of recalls for these cars. I am 99% sure most cars that sit on dealer lots don't go through those recalls unless they are a stop sell recall or until an actual owner asks
That being said, at least for my car, after all these issues/recalls, it did result in some improvments.
My cameras were replaced and the software for them has been updated, resulting in much sharper video feed than it ever had.
And this whole navigation issue that lasted 9-11 months, has resulted in a PCM hardware replacement and pcm software update, that has improved the responsivness/speed and stability of the PCM quite a lot. I can finally say that the PCM is set and forget for the first time in the life of this car, as it finally doesn't take minutes to calculate a route or to do basic interactions with it.
Was the PCM that was replaced the same hardware version that was in the car originally, or was a newer PCM hardware version installed?Software, i got the PCM hardware replaced when the software was not avaliable. Took advantage and insisted for the hardware to be replaced
Newer hardware, same as MY25 cars. 2020-2025 cars seem to get the same PCM hardware put in them when a replacement is needed, at least here in switzerland.
