Electrical System Error, Car dead constantly. tant

[Garydotka]

I am fed-up with my Taycan car, and Porsche's super slow repair cycles - months and months in the shop with no effective repair. No loaner offered, no buy back available, no car replacement. They've taken my car away from me (on a flat bed), multiple times, for the better part of a year, with no compensation. I bear all the inconvenience and financial loss, while my asset sits outdoors in their service parking lot - apparently 'unrepairable' for lack of parts, skills, tech? Who knows. They tell me nothing. Is it time us Taycan owners banded together? ...those with these same electrical failure problems. Porsche should either replace our cars, or buy them back. I am not going to trust a very complicated battery repair. And even if they did find a way to repair and remedy the chronic failures, the affected cars are going to be almost un-sellable - due to their 'Lemon-like' status on the CarFax-type used car industry data services. And, for certain, the HV batteries will be operationally and longevity compromised if their cases are opened to replace cell pouches (air and moisture contamination is inevitable). Anyone with me on this?

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[Jonathan S.]

Yipes!
Curious which dealer?
Many (most?) dealerships do seem to be underprepared with only a single Taycan tech.
But even more Taycan techs wouldn't help if Porsche is not supplying the parts.

 

[spicyypenguin]

Had to same issue twice now.

First happened in August and was a pain to get it on the tow truck for numerous reasons. The car was in the service department for almost 2 months. They apparently ran many tests as requested by Porsche to determine if the high-voltage battery needed to be repaired or replaced. If that was the case, the service advisor said that it would have to be shipped to Porsche's facility in Oklahoma and would take months to turnaround.

Turns out, they just cleared the error, recalibrated the battery, and said that the issue didn't come back after extensive tests and was confident in returning my car.

A week later (now), the dashboard is throwing the same Electrical System Error again so looks like it's going back to service again.

 

[chun]

Most of these issues, 90% of them at least, according to mechanics in the other forum for cars, is due to badly designed battery enclosure. Humidity makes it in, and damages the battery.

Will also add that Porsche CEO has ALSO confirmed, to chinese media, that this is a fact, and the cause of 3 taycans busrting on fire in China.

This will never be fixed, as Porsche chose the path of patch-work on which ever car gets this. The real solution would have been a full recall, involving a redesigned battery enclosure. Which has not happened. But as these cars get older, either Porsche will be doing patch-work every day on taycan batteries, or they will be forced by a lawsuit to do a proper recall.

I think Porsche is fully expecting that 8 years will pass, and then it will all be good, as batteries will be out of warranty and they can tell customers to fuck off; hence they are doing patch-work until then

Compare this to "chinese quality" cars, BYD, which when they had this issue, they recalled ALL cars, replaced battery and battery enclosure with new design, for everybody.

I am mentioning BYD, as people still think that "Porsche quality" and "Porsche service" are still a thing. They are long gone, Porsche is minimizing costs as much as possible in the dismay of their customers. I just hope it will come and bite them back, and they will be forced to do a full proper recall at some point.

EDIT: I will also add that I find it very weird that people are not mad at this. Porsche basically confirmed a design flow, they are clearly not fixing it, issues will 100% appear, and the battery has a 8 year warranty. What happens after those 8 years?

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