Complete brake failure !!

[Tooney]

@Clive I believe you posted there was no mechanical braking front and rear on your car.
Was that confirmed by your dealer?
I ask because Porsche brake line recall statement indicates that failure affects front brakes only and rear brakes would still work when front brake line failed.

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[Clive]

@Clive I believe you posted there was no mechanical braking front and rear on your car.
Was that confirmed by your dealer?
I ask because Porsche brake line recall statement indicates that failure affects front brakes only and rear brakes would still work when front brake line failed.

not in any “official” way but anyone who got in the car before repair could see it had pedal to floor “no brakes”. it couldn’t be driven on / off recover truck and was winched

 

[DougFrisk]

@Clive :
Would you mind sharing which dealership you are dealing with?

Not naming & shaming, but just a reference as to which dealership is already aware of your issue?

I have been informed by Porsche Reading that “only 365 cars” in the UK are affected… It doesn’t sem right as worldwide, it seems Porsche is likely going to look at all cars manufactured prior to May 2024.

The US recall notice states that of the 31,000 recalled cars they expect to see the issue in roughly 5% of them or roughly 1500 cars in total. If the 365 represents the 5% of cars showing the actual issue, that's about 7500 Taycans total in the UK.

 

[Porsche-Guru]

by the way ……….. have i mentioned that the day after i sold the car it was involved in a accident

Ouch !

 

[whitex]

One report outside the U.S. did include an accident, though there were no injuries, and featured a vehicle traveling significantly over the speed limit at approximately 120 km/hour.

Why would the speed limit matter, other than Porsche attempting to shed liability? Someone could have been on a track doing 200km/h, would Porsche the say “we don’t cover track use”? This obviously was a brake failure at a speed significantly under the maximum the Taycan is speced at. Heck, even with winter tires max speed is way higher than 120km/h.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Why would the speed limit matter, other than Porsche attempting to shed liability? Someone could have been on a track doing 200km/h, would Porsche the say “we don’t cover track use”? This obviously was a brake failure at a speed significantly under the maximum the Taycan is speced at. Heck, even with winter tires max speed is way higher than 120km/h.

Read the linked article. That’s where my quote is from.

 

[Clive]

there was no speeding in my wife’s case

speeding does not cause brake hoses to split so other than distraction i see no relevance in the comment

 

[McgR]

Why would the speed limit matter, other than Porsche attempting to shed liability? Someone could have been on a track doing 200km/h, would Porsche the say “we don’t cover track use”? This obviously was a brake failure at a speed significantly under the maximum the Taycan is speced at. Heck, even with winter tires max speed is way higher than 120km/h.

And Porsche is produced in the only country in the world without speed limits. So shouldn’t matter anyway. Or they should put a speed limiter like Volvo. But somehow I don’t think they will do that.

we do have a very nice speeding notification sound in Europe for new cars since this year. Every time you cross the speed limit it gives a ping or pong. You can switch it off.

 

[whitex]

we do have a very nice speeding notification sound in Europe for new cars since this year. Every time you cross the speed limit it gives a ping or pong.

Does the notification inform you that "you've just voided your warranty"?

 

[Tooney]

we do have a very nice speeding notification sound in Europe for new cars since this year. Every time you cross the speed limit it gives a ping or pong. You can switch it off.

very nice?

 

[Vrm001]

my22 taycan turbo - 66k miles

My wife was driving back from school yesterday with our 2 children and experienced complete brake failure - pedal to the floor / zero ability to stop !

lucky no accident (miraculously!)

Car recovered to Sutton OPC where i was initially told would be end of June before they could even look at the issue ! They really don’t seem to be taking this very seriously at all

Escalated to Porsche GB today as i’m seriously concerned this could kill someone

anyone experienced this or heard of anyone having similar issues ? I find it hard to believe it’s even possible for a complete failure like this to occur


car opc serviced and owned from new


do you think i should make VOSO aware of this ? if it’s anything fundamental re design of components that could happen again to another owner then surely all Taycans should be taken off road until a solution is found

Hi Clive,
firstly I am sorry to hear what happened to you. It must have been extremely distressing to have gone through that episode.

I have had similar issues with my Taycan GTS ST. I have had continuous problems with my brakes (as well as other reliability issues!) since I bought the car, new in Nov 2022. To cut a very long story short, due to the inability of Porsche to fix the issues and the poor service I have received from Porsche, I reported them to the Financial Ombudsman. Happy to discuss this in more detail ., if you are interested.

 

[McgR]

Does the notification inform you that "you've just voided your warranty"?

very nice?

being very sarcastic …

it is horrible.

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