Coolant Leak & Costly Repair – Anyone Else Experienced This?

[JoSecco]

Hello everyone,

I drive a 2020 Taycan Turbo, and recently, I noticed coolant leaking. I took it to a Porsche Service Center, and they found a small leak in the coolant line, requiring replacement of the connector tube (PAD-121-162).

The part itself is around $300, but here’s the kicker—the service center says they need to dismantle the entire front end to access it. They're quoting 38 hours of labor, bringing the total repair to around $11,000! ?

I was also told that there’s little record of issues with this part in Porsche’s service community. To make matters worse, my $6,000 extended warranty (MPP) is pushing back on covering this.

Has anyone else faced similar high labor costs for coolant-related repairs? Would love to hear if others have dealt with this or found alternative solutions.

Thanks in advance!

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[Midlifecrisis]

It sort of makes you think that Porsche have accepted their cars will be worthless long before the battery warranty runs out - who would buy a second hand car with potential bills like this that their extended warranty won’t cover? Maybe that is the plan - until people realise and stop buying them.

 

[JoSecco]

Taycans definitely don't seem easy to work on. To be clear, the extended warranty is a third party, Mechanical Protection Plan (MPP). I purchased their Platinum level, I think I have a battle on my hands.

 

[vitavalka]

Maybe this will not help much, but I've seen servicemen cut the lines in half (where the leak is) and screw in a new section. Therefor the original line can stay and its portion is just substituted with new short section and two connectors.

 

[JoSecco]

Maybe this will not help much, but I've seen servicemen cut the lines in half (where the leak is) and screw in a new section. Therefor the original line can stay and its portion is just substituted with new short section and two connectors.

Thank you for your thoughts. The cost of all parts is only $900, the issue is that they must completely deconstruct the front end of the car to get to the pipe. So Porsche has created a defective pipe in an inaccessible location resulting in 38 hours or $10,100 in service hours. This seems like a faulty design on their part.

 

[Speuk]

I would get a second opinion, maybe from a local independent Porsche garage. OPCs will only look at replacing the complete line and quite possibly that is the only option but if leak itself is accessible, then maybe a repair is an option. In any event at that price I would always get two quotes and that may also help convince your warranty provider

 

[hifi239]

Taycans definitely don't seem easy to work on. To be clear, the extended warranty is a third party, Mechanical Protection Plan (MPP). I purchased their Platinum level, I think I have a battle on my hands.

Fidelity is a better plan, it seems. Fidelity Platinum is exclusionary - i.e. everything is covered except what's listed. MPP Platinum is both, it lists what's covered and what's not. Both plans exclude hoses (for Fidelity it is radiator hoses), which might be the problem.

 

[KLHubb]

I went with the Porsche extended warranty(for 84 months from delivery) and so far they have covered any problem I have had.

 

[Jagu]

If a car costs me $11,000 to fix, it will be sold to Car Max immediately.

 

[SergeyIndy]

We have a precedent here on the forum when someone hit an animal resulting in major damages to the cooling system with the coolant leak. Take a look:

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...likely-a-raccoon-0-taycan-17-8k-damage.22499/

 

[r553]

The cooling system is in the bottom of the frunk. Here is a picture of my car when I was getting the 22KW charger upgrade. My experience with independent shops have been they won't work on a Taycan because they don't have an up to date PIWIS tester. Good luck.

 

[Skyhawk_Delta]

It sort of makes you think that Porsche have accepted their cars will be worthless long before the battery warranty runs out - who would buy a second hand car with potential bills like this that their extended warranty won’t cover? Maybe that is the plan - until people realise and stop buying them.

For the price of what we're buying these luxury cars, The body and interior alone are worth. How long before someone completely guts a "worthless" base Tycan and puts a flat 6 in it?!?! ?

 

[chun]

Assuming you have the extended warranty from porsche, I would push back on their claim to not cover it.

Can they showcase any sign of external damage? If not, the part failed.
And if it is external damage, then insurance should cover it

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