whitex
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Sorry to hear about your experience.
The message with car being deleted from your account is not an issue with your car, it's a cloud software issue. The remote access is probably in the same category. Sadly, Porsche cloud software is not world leading (though I would argue that world leading software quality is going down while Porsche is getting better, so they will eventually meet). For example, lots of 2020-2024 Taycan owners, myself included, were unable to use the app to pre-heat/cool the car recently. It lasted for a couple of weeks, then most people got this functionality back, though I read here some still don't have it. My app still occasionally tells me my car is in privacy mode, while the car says it's not - definitely annoying as it usually happens when I travel, which is when I need the remote control of the car the most (e.g. coming back from a hike I want to pre-condition the car).
Broken charge port, definitely a car issue. Locking issues, hard to tell without more details, as it is a new model of the Taycan so could be software too. The original/first-year Taycan CT owners had their car alarms going off randomly at all hours of day and night. It took Porsche nearly a year to figure it out and fix it - it required new software and new hardware sensor IIRC (my car was not one of the early ones).
Cars nowadays are extremely complex. That in turn makes is harder to make all features 100% reliable. This is not a Porsche only phenomenon, though there are others who deal with those issues better, for example by having rapid over-the-air software update capabilities (which Porsche has been planning since 2019, but it is a much harder problem to crack than most people realize, so their progress on that front is abysmal). I suspect most of your issues are software related, amplified by this being the first model year of the current model. I've gone through such teething pains with other car manufacturers. Nowadays it seem everyone has them - cars turned into very complicated tablets on wheels, so the experience is similar (most things work, but not all of them all the time). Paying six digit prices for a car does not exempt it from having software problems, actually sometimes it means there is more of them, as the volumes are lower, so software development budgets are lower.
So in the end you have to decide if the car is worth it, i.e. can you live with the issues. You probably still have an option to lemon the car (check your state laws on that). However, before you go down the path, consider what your alternative car would be, and go in the internet to see what issues owners of those cars are experiencing. Avoid jumping from the pan into a fire - no modern car is works 100% all the time. In US market, best for hardware reliability I think is Toyota, for software that's Tesla. But even getting one of those is not going to be guaranteed problem free.
Me personally, I try to focus on the positives of the car, work around the negatives. In life, the successful people are not ones who don't have any problems, but rather ones who deal with the problems and get past them. Of course it would be possible to get to a point where a car is more pain than it's worth it, but my Taycan is nowhere near that point today. Everyone has to decide that for themselves.
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. Hope things work out for you!
