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Seems ok and connected here near Porsche UK HQ in Reading

Apparently, VW Group had a major IT outage as reported by the Register and others. This probably accounts for server access problems. https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/28/volkswagen_crippled_it_disruption/

Car Scanner but not the Pro version until I need its extras. I‘ve also gor ODBLink.

Car Scanner is excellent for reading SoH. Read their website for suggested dongles. I’m using the very expensive ODBLink MX+ with an iPhone which works very well. Just plug it into the port, turn ignition on, open the app and go through the connect setup sequence. Used it just yesterday to read...

They are not handed and are push fit; one part fits left and right, front and back. Part number 9J1802819.

So sorry to see that. I can sympathise as something similar happened to me on holiday in France over the summer. Check the car over very carefully for other damage. On my car, there were dents near the front door openers where the vandal had presumable tried to open the doors, and an isolated...

Finally got my Mamba Green RWD back from the Porsche Approved body shop after its argument with a French vandal back in July. Looks as good as new. Was a bit worried because MGM is such a strange finish. Three new doors, two new wheels and tyres, new rear bumper and diffuser and a new AC charge...

I believe it is 6mm2 cable. What are seeing is the individual strands of copper in the neutral line splayed apart by the heat and insulation fire. Was quite a mess and I wasn’t too happy about it. Fortunately , it was on an outside wall, and was replaced under warrantee.

Nasty. if you get a plumbed in EVSE, make sure they connect it up correctly. This happened to my BMW Wallbox because the installer failed to correctly connect the neutral feed.

Enode is used by OVO via the Porsche charging API to modulate charging to grid usage. Enode can get set to some very strange times and charge states so that charging is paused. Later, OVOs back end servers reset enode to start the charging process according to your schedule and SoC. Generally...

When I went to La Rochelle a few weeks ago, I tried plug ‘n charge at each stop. Out of 10 charges, it worked exactly once at an Ionity charger. The Porsche charge card worked everywhere, even at the FastNed charger I used near Rouen. Ionity is, of course, much cheaper than FastNed and in my...

With OVO charging a Taycan using a dumb EVSE, it’s actually KWh stored into the battery (difference between KWh at the end and start of the session as reported by the Porsche API) rather than the energy sent to the car. This means that cable, EVSE and charger losses are all charged at the full...

Mine arrived in less than seven days, so you may receive the sticker in time. I understand that they need to be mounted on the bottom right hand corner of the windscreen so that they continue to work once cameras are used to make automatic checks sometime next year.

Have you actually used the channel tunnel crossing without enabling this mode in PTVS+? I’d much rather not have to use it, but my experience with PTVS+ is that Vodafone calls you with any kind of anomaly.

And on the EuroTunnel? Seems equivalent to ”transporting the car by container”. I understood that transport mode is needed whenever the car’s moves significantly (distance, speed) without the car being powered up.

I put mine on the passenger side because I didn’t want to see it from the drivers side. It doesn’t really fit well there horizontally if you want to be able to remove it from the mount (recommended). It worked perfectly though. If I were to install it again, I’d mount it vertically along side...

Hmm, interesting point about cellular connectivity. During the 35minute tunnel crossing, I was exchanging text messages with a family member who was on the immediately preceding train, so I guess the tunnel has cellular repeaters.

Is this good enough if you have PVTS+ (with Vodafone) activated?

Hmm, this is not the way it worked for me on a recent Eurotunnel trip. In both directions, I drove into the train, parked up, then used the app to put the car into transport mode. For each trip, I selected a few hours transport mode duration. Then waited the 35 minutes of the crossing; fired the...

When they say do they just mean that they need to be able to communicate successfully with the Smart Meter? I.E. They need to be able to establish a WAN connection from their servers to the Smart Meter so that they can interrogate the consumption?