I think the coolant circuit includes everything not just the battery and maybe a pipe of cooler was damaged.
Electric steering=no fluid.
super sad for your loss - glad however you are fine.Last Friday I ran over a piece of metal that was sticking up from where a bridge and the roadway meet - there are metal rails at that junction point - doing 80mph in moderate traffic. I did not see the chunk of metal until it was too late, and since the metal was wedged in the spacing/gap between the road and the bridge there was no give to the debris and it did a number on the car.
My CT4s when airborne for a second and when I hit the ground I realized I had no steering, and I could not budge the steering wheel . Luckily, the wheels were still point mostly straight, so I slowed down as I drifted to the shoulder. The car next to me saw what happened and gave me some clear space to drift off the road. If the wheel had been more at an angle, I would have hit other traffic, or flown right off the highway at speed.
It was some scary shit.
I had the car towed to the Porsche dealership, and am still waiting to hear the full extent of the damage. I have my insurance company engaged, and told them to kiss my ass because they wanted the car sent to a 3rd party repair facility. Until I know if there is any damage to the battery, no one is looking at the car other than a certified Porsche mechanic.
In the pictures you can see how high the debris was sticking up and the damaged it caused to the front underside of the car. I am hoping that by going airborne for a second I cleared the battery of any damage.
I went out the next morning to where the chunk of metal was sticking up, and that had damaged more cars than my own, and the Colorado Dept of Transportation had been out over night to do repairs. Luckily, in Colorado, if you can establish that the roadway debris was there because of shoddy work on the part of the state, they will pay for repairs. I am going down this path because I don't want the insurance company to have to carry the massive financial burden it will cost to fully repair my CT4S.
This can happen to anything...I lost my MDX years ago to a piece of scrap rebar on I-10. Hit it at night at 65 MPH and it cracked the crankcase, split my transmission in two, pierced the rear differential, and blew out a tire. My son and I were lucky to be able to pull it off the road under control. The truck was a total loss. Of course it wasn't a 100K vehicle.
Fingers crossed it is something like this. Right now my main concerns are battery damage, and frame damage from high speed impact on an object that did not move and caused the vehicle to momentarily go airborne. I am still trying to figure out what connection was severed to cause the steering to go out and freeze.
Seems like the solution there is to buy a Turbo S.
California, for example, has a program that lets you file a claim for damage caused by faulty roads - https://dot.ca.gov/online-services/submit-damage-claim. I know, second hand, of someone who was reimbursed when a large pothole ruined their tire and wheel. I wonder if Colorado has something similar?Last Friday I ran over a piece of metal that was sticking up from where a bridge and the roadway meet - there are metal rails at that junction point - doing 80mph in moderate traffic. I did not see the chunk of metal until it was too late, and since the metal was wedged in the spacing/gap between the road and the bridge there was no give to the debris and it did a number on the car.
My CT4s when airborne for a second and when I hit the ground I realized I had no steering, and I could not budge the steering wheel . Luckily, the wheels were still point mostly straight, so I slowed down as I drifted to the shoulder. The car next to me saw what happened and gave me some clear space to drift off the road. If the wheel had been more at an angle, I would have hit other traffic, or flown right off the highway at speed.
It was some scary shit.
I had the car towed to the Porsche dealership, and am still waiting to hear the full extent of the damage. I have my insurance company engaged, and told them to kiss my ass because they wanted the car sent to a 3rd party repair facility. Until I know if there is any damage to the battery, no one is looking at the car other than a certified Porsche mechanic.
In the pictures you can see how high the debris was sticking up and the damaged it caused to the front underside of the car. I am hoping that by going airborne for a second I cleared the battery of any damage.
I went out the next morning to where the chunk of metal was sticking up, and that had damaged more cars than my own, and the Colorado Dept of Transportation had been out over night to do repairs. Luckily, in Colorado, if you can establish that the roadway debris was there because of shoddy work on the part of the state, they will pay for repairs. I am going down this path because I don't want the insurance company to have to carry the massive financial burden it will cost to fully repair my CT4S.
The shell is a structural element of the car. The battery cells/elements can be no doubt reused, cooling lines are cheap (unless they used channels in the battery's frame for that - not the first time*) but this effectively requires new sheet metal stamping, forming, assembling into a battery etc.
Well, I'm sure you'd agree they are not keeping a stack of spare batteries around, so any replacement is made to order. That is, the cost of a replacement battery is an added cost to the manufacturer, and so they can charge their actual cost + their desired profit margin + cost of the 'deviation' from the normal production plan.
