Funny little things that drive me crazy | diva safe zone

[mikezhang31]

Some how with the 18 way seat I cannot ingress or egress without hitting the B pillar or crunching the seat bolsters on the side. I am 5'7 and 150lb, really shouldn't be an issue... I had a lotus in my 20s and it was more graceful to get in and out of that than the taycan

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[magnitude]

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The problem is, unless yours is different, that it clearly says that you have to wash the stuff off afterwards. And that's something I cannot reasonably do, unless I want to make a huge mess in my garage.

Or is spraying that stuff on, and then after a while just spraying some water from a bottle, sufficient?

 

[mjw930]

No, you need a fair amount of water the neutralize it.

 

[TDinDC]

Some how with the 18 way seat I cannot ingress or egress without hitting the B pillar or crunching the seat bolsters on the side. I am 5'7 and 150lb, really shouldn't be an issue... I had a lotus in my 20s and it was more graceful to get in and out of that than the taycan

I’m taller, but I don’t seem to hit B pillar in a bad way. I realized that I am putting my tricep on the B pillar and pushing as I exit so it supports me. I can gracefully exit this way without doing any damage. Try it.

 

[WasserGKuehlt]

Oh god is it ever. I drove it back from South California (where I bought it), and it’s mayhem. [...]

Worst case it buffs out, right?

It does buff out, but the paint chips don't. I'm getting a lot of those lately. ?

 

[Dr Monty]

I take it you do not have rear axle steering?

Well, I have four wheel steering but the backup/"360" parking cameras are such rubbish and once there is any actual object in the cameras view, the images are distorted to such a degree that it really a major pain seeing your way into a narrow garage from a narrow street - especially on dark rainy night.
By comparison, my BMW iX50 has a very usable overhead/360 set of parking cameras and it is much easier. It also has four wheel steering and is almost exactly the same size.

 

[whitex]

Well, I have four wheel steering but the backup/"360" parking cameras are such rubbish and once there is any actual object in the cameras view, the images are distorted to such a degree that it really a major pain seeing your way into a narrow garage from a narrow street - especially on dark rainy night.
By comparison, my BMW iX50 has a very usable overhead/360 set of parking cameras and it is much easier. It also has four wheel steering and is almost exactly the same size.

A 2015 Tesla had better backup camera for backing into a tight garage. Porsche dropped the ball, or rather went with flashy looking 3D visualizations over driver usability. I turn off all of Porsche assists when I pull in, use the mirrors and some aids I setup for myself. If I didn't disable manuvering assist, I would not even be able to pull in, as the car would stop every few inches and require me to hit the accelerator, which is ill-advised when your clearances are under 6 inches.

 

[whitex]

The thing which has been driving me nuts lately is the door handle sensors keep on locking the car when I touch them, even after I manage to actually open the door (after unlocking it using the fob). In cold temperatures the car would not let me lock it (it would unlock itself immediately), in the summer apparently it keeps on locking itself (or perhaps Porsche OTA changed their poor design to overlock instead of overunlock?). Porsche seem to know how to make a car drive great, but they are completely incompetent when it comes to door handles (or apparently any locking system, remember the random car alarm going off in the middle of the night which took Porsche 9+ months to fix?). They still haven't fixed random audio source switches which keep on occurring if I use anything but CarPlay for music (I actually drive mostly in silence, but the car sometimes enabled FM or other sources, purely randomly).

 

[whitex]

Here is one which has bothered me since day one. I thought I'd get used to it, but that's not happening - every time I encounter it I think "why did Porsche not think of it, they build performance cars". What I'm talking about here is the refresh frequency of the speedometer. If you're going to build a quick car, you need to refresh the speedo more often than every 5-10 mpg, which is what happens when the accelerator hits the floor. How hard is it to update the speed every 1 mph? Maybe it's an EV thing, maybe latest ICE Porsches don't out-accelerate their speedometers outside or launch mode, so Porsche software did not account for it.

 

[Slappy_G]

Here is one which has bothered me since day one. I thought I'd get used to it, but that's not happening - every time I encounter it I think "why did Porsche not think of it, they build performance cars". What I'm talking about here is the refresh frequency of the speedometer. If you're going to build a quick car, you need to refresh the speedo more often than every 5-10 mpg, which is what happens when the accelerator hits the floor. How hard is it to update the speed every 1 mph? Maybe it's an EV thing, maybe latest ICE Porsches don't out-accelerate their speedometers outside or launch mode, so Porsche software did not account for it.

From someone about to buy it, is there any way to turn on a pseudo-analog speed gauge or a dual-mode gauge? Or is it always just the digits?

 

[TDinDC]

Here is one which has bothered me since day one. I thought I'd get used to it, but that's not happening - every time I encounter it I think "why did Porsche not think of it, they build performance cars". What I'm talking about here is the refresh frequency of the speedometer. If you're going to build a quick car, you need to refresh the speedo more often than every 5-10 mpg, which is what happens when the accelerator hits the floor. How hard is it to update the speed every 1 mph? Maybe it's an EV thing, maybe latest ICE Porsches don't out-accelerate their speedometers outside or launch mode, so Porsche software did not account for it.

Could you please explain more? My Speedo seems absolutely accurate and smooth, so I don’t know if I have misunderstood, misperceived, used different settings, or just don’t have the same issue.

 

[whitex]

Could you please explain more? My Speedo seems absolutely accurate and smooth, so I don’t know if I have misunderstood, misperceived, used different settings, or just don’t have the same issue.

The speedo number update maybe twice per second. A car which can do 0-60 in 3 seconds, that's 6 updates, so every 10mph on average. That's not what I would consider smooth. In real life, I don't use launch mode, but when for example wanting to accelerate quick from 10-45mph, it's hard to do without overshooting.

 

[whitex]

From someone about to buy it, is there any way to turn on a pseudo-analog speed gauge or a dual-mode gauge? Or is it always just the digits?

I haven't seen one, but then again I wasn't looking for it. Pseudo analog would probably suffer from the same update rate issue as both the HUD and instrument cluster.

 

[TDinDC]

The speedo number update maybe twice per second. A car which can do 0-60 in 3 seconds, that's 6 updates, so every 10mph on average. That's not what I would consider smooth. In real life, I don't use launch mode, but when for example wanting to accelerate quick from 10-45mph, it's hard to do without overshooting.

Ok, this definitely is not a problem in my car.

 

[whitex]

Ok, this definitely is not a problem in my car.

Your speedo updates more frequently, you don't accelerate faster than 2 mph per second, or you only care about approximate speed within 10mph?

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