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wtf is that tiny porsche crest on the valve stem, a crest for ants??

Was driving on the freeway, suddenly heard a loud bang from some object hitting the car. Since you're in LA, I'll also note that I had just gotten on the 405.

I have wheel/dent insurance with my dealer so I was planning on bringing the car in to have them fix it up (for free I think? Forget if there's a deductible). My question is more whether something like this is fully repairable.

Never dealt with this before, anyone know if these are 100% fixable, ie restored to the point where you can't even tell they happened? I do have Porsche wheel and dent insurance.

You can try checking your trip data in My Porsche to see if they drove it at all.

That's clever. I may have to steal that so I can finally give my Chalk a name. Couldn't think of anything good after my last car, Teslarossa (Model S). :D

Awesome report as usual, been loving following along. Someday I'm sure we would all love to also hear the total cost spent on the beautiful hotels :)

It is likely the fan behind the console screen. If you put your hand behind the screen I believe you can feel a vent and a little airflow. It is probably hitting a wire or something.

Agreed, there are definitely ways to engineer around this. I wonder if the back ports can be used for wired carplay, for example.

The scenario you described may exactly be why it works this way -- to avoid Carplay interruptions if you do unplug. Another scenario is if a passenger plugged in their iphone while your iphone was using wireless Carplay, it would suck if it took over.

Interesting. What is a brake booster? Is it the mechanism that blends regen with physical brakes?

True, good point on it not necessarily being at the top.

@daveo4EV what about the fact that Porsche reserves the top ~10% or so, thus only giving you ~90% of the battery usable anyway? Doesn't that mean that charging to "100%" in the Taycan is actually "not that bad" since Porsche will never actually fill all the cells up?

You pretty much have the same line of thinking I did, except I'm 16 months in. I'm surprised they adjust your residual if you buy out early though, and unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, a higher residual equates to a higher buyout than if they had honored the original residual on...

I have the manual flap and I will admit the electric one looks cooler opening and closing. I'll also add that it usually takes me more than one attempt to close the manual flap. You have to be really deliberate about pressing it in so the latch catches.

Can you link where you found these C&D numbers?

I believe my MF was something like .0024, which would be 5.76%. My financed buyout was 3.24%, so seems like a win to buy it out now rather than pay another 20 months at 5.76%.

I just wanted to follow up on this, since I successfully bought out my lease. What I said here: ended up being correct. Since I'm in California, I did have to pay sales tax on the buyout amount. In other words, the buyout amount consisted of: depreciation = cost of new vehicle - residual...

That's encouraging, if true. I assume you are talking specifically about Active Lane Keeping (ALK) and not Lane Keep Assist (LKA). The former actually steers for you while the latter only comes into effect if you are drifting while driving manually.

Such a pleasure to read your posts from all the way over here in California and get a sense of what life is like in parts of Europe. That hotel car lift is insanely cool and seeing the various hotels you visit gives me an extreme case of wanderlust. Keep it up!