Porsche Connect Services after 3 years

[Raphie]

So, reading a bit more into the Taycan Connect Services, it seems quite expensive to maintain the first 36 month user experience
basically you’ll have 3 services:
- Porsche Connect Care - runs 10Y - basic app + OTE updates
- Porsche Charging Service - runs 1Y for €179,00 - Porsche RFID card + tariffs + myporsche reports
- Porsche Connect - runs for 1Y €179,00 Navigation updates, smart charging planner - traffic info - search - voice control, Apple Music app / Spotify App
- and if your insurance requires alarm tracker following then another €299 /y for the car security package

this means after 36 months a whopping €657 a year to maintain the full user experience and not turn your Taycan into a crippled dumb car.
if you don’t mind losing the reporting and are not in the Porsche charging ecosystem, you can lose the charging service. But the connect is pretty essential, so is the tracker alarm in order to get the car insured. (Chubs and Centraal Beheer are the only 2 insurers wanting to insure the car in NL, as all others reject cars above 127k€)

that’s a €2.5k yearly cost to keep the party going.

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[Bognar67]

For me the insurance alone EUR3k annual... And no Charging Service at all.

 

[or1]

The way I see it, Porsche Connect is a necessary cost to keep the car running well.

Porsche Charging Service I will compare to other charging services when the three year period is up. If it still gives low Ionity tariffs and I still can make good use of that: fine (and it will save me some charging costs compared to competitors). If I cannot save enough with it, I will go with an alternative with less running costs.

 

[Raphie]

I’m hoping they come with sone multi year tarifs as well and then a 15% promo discount on top. Who knows….

 

[f1eng]

I was hoping to buy an extended warranty if I like the car enough to want to keep it.
It like it so far but it is only 5 months.

Apple music and Spotify are of zero interest to me and it seems the Apple Music Classical add-on doesn’t work on the Taycan but I suppose Porsche Connect perhaps has other services I find valuable.

In the end it is a fairly expensive car so running costs are not going to be cheap!

 

[Raphie]

I’ll take the extended warranty too.

 

[eddieterry]

Yep I think extended warranty is essential !

 

[whitex]

Yep I think extended warranty is essential !

It really depends on the warranty price and terms (what is covered, what’s not covered, deductibles, limits).

 

[eddieterry]

Always found the Porsche UK extended warranty excellent:
https://www.porsche.com/uk/accessoriesandservice/porscheservice/vehicleinformation/approvedwarranty/

 

[f1eng]

Always found the Porsche UK extended warranty excellent:
https://www.porsche.com/uk/accessoriesandservice/porscheservice/vehicleinformation/approvedwarranty/

I will definitely go for this if I continue to like the car.
I usually keep a car a long time if I like it, usually 6 years but it has been 25 years for my 355 spider which has no modern equivalent.

 

[soawjo]

and if your insurance requires alarm tracker following then another €299 /y for the car security package

Do you get this for free in the Netherlands for the first three years? I'm paying £269 a year for it already

 

[Dee]

Do you get this for free in the Netherlands for the first three years? I'm paying £269 a year for it already

I'm also at Centraal Beheer and it's €299/y from the beginning.
Insurance is never free (pretty obvious imho)

 

[BigBob]

Do you get this for free in the Netherlands for the first three years? I'm paying £269 a year for it already

Same. It's an annual renewal in UK.

 

[Persuader]

Same. It's an annual renewal in UK.

It automatically renews free of charge for the first 3 years in the UK.

 

[BigBob]

It automatically renews free of charge for the first 3 years in the UK.

It auto-renews, but not for free. £269 p.a. I know because mine got messed up somehow and caused a lot of problems

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