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If it does have to get lifted onto tow truck – thankfully its stuck somewhere with plenty of room around it. Hate to think of this happening in a multi-story car park – where often hotel destination chargers are located.

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Tow truck drivers are very helpful. This was my experience!
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Unfortunately too familiar .... at least that time I could drive it on to the truck. This time it won't move and has no steering.

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There has to be a way to “reset it” after the inspection. I would definitely disconnect the 12v battery.

Not sure if anyone from Porsche reads these posts. But if there are, please take a lesson from Tesla (not rocket science) here. My 2013 Model S has failed many, many times (sometimes on long trips) but it always went into a “limp” mode that allowed me to always get home. Cut power, cut accessories, cut environmental control, heck limit speed, but stop stranding your customers!

Glitchy PCM, interior controls, etc, I can live with but nothing will get me to sell this car (I haven’t even received yet) faster then if I feel it will put my family in dangerous situations. This is unacceptable!
i also have a 2013 S. Failed twice in that time while on the freeway. Made it to Tesla service the first time. Got about 25 miles the second time, but died 3 miles short of home. Even then it was a gentle shut down. Never once had the car not start.

I accepted the risk as an early adopter. I’m ok with some wonkiness. But stranding people or hard shut downs are not acceptable.
 

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Spending weekend in Lake District, UK. Plugged into hotel destination charger - which worked fine yesterday.

Today it charged at 22kW for about an hour and then got a charging error.

When I went out the charger was dead. Car showing this error and refusing to go into any gear or move.

Any ideas?

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i had the same issue 9 months ago with my Taycan RWD. It was the 22 kW charger. 3 weeks to get a new one !!
Spending weekend in Lake District, UK. Plugged into hotel destination charger - which worked fine yesterday.

Today it charged at 22kW for about an hour and then got a charging error.

When I went out the charger was dead. Car showing this error and refusing to go into any gear or move.

Any ideas?

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I had the same issue on my Taycan RWD 9 months ago. It was the 22 kW charger. 3 weeks to get a new one !!
 

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Spending weekend in Lake District, UK. Plugged into hotel destination charger - which worked fine yesterday.

Today it charged at 22kW for about an hour and then got a charging error.

When I went out the charger was dead. Car showing this error and refusing to go into any gear or move.

Any ideas?

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Nightmare (again) - 22kW onboard issue returns?
 


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i had the same issue 9 months ago with my Taycan RWD. It was the 22 kW charger. 3 weeks to get a new one !!

I had the same issue on my Taycan RWD 9 months ago. It was the 22 kW charger. 3 weeks to get a new one !!
Could be - @tigerbalm is on his third 22kW AC charger already.
 
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Nightmare (again) - 22kW onboard issue returns?
Could be. Behaviour is different to previous times – when it just would not charge – but no error showing up on screens – and you could drive it until it ran out. But there is likely different levels of failure – or possibly different behaviours with the last replacement unit I got.

Definitely interested in the root cause.
 

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Could it be your home evse is somehow stressing the 22kw onboard thingy? i realise you got stuck away from home, but maybe 'damage' was done over time? It's probably the only consistent variable over 3x 22kw onboard chargers, apart from the rest of the car of course!

What a nightmare.
 


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If it were me and it was found to be the 22kW on-board charger multiple times over a short period, I would be asking about putting the smaller one in as a replacement. If that wasn’t an option, I’d probably get rid of the car. There’s either something defective in the design or there are other environmental issues causing repeat failures (or a combination of both).
 

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If it were me and it was found to be the 22kW on-board charger multiple times over a short period, I would be asking about putting the smaller one in as a replacement. If that wasn’t an option, I’d probably get rid of the car. There’s either something defective in the design or there are other environmental issues causing repeat failures (or a combination of both).
They retrospectively put a recommendation on the configurator about throttling a 7.4kw evse down to 6kw if you had a 22kw onboard charger fitted. I think that tells you were the weakness really lies, but it may be being exacerbated by Damien's home evse (if it is 7.4kw), which i assume is how he does most of his charging.
 
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but it may be being exacerbated by Damien's home evse (if it is 7.4kw), which i assume is how he does most of his charging.
Am aware of that "configurator" recommendation. I use a Zappi v2 at home and it is capable of limiting charge. When the recommendation came out I reduced the power to 5.9 kW or 25 Amps (at 230V) to match the recommendation.

However – on this weekend trip – I charged at 7kW 1-phase in both the ferry over here and at Chester Zoo – where I have no control over the charge level delivered.
 
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I think that tells you were the weakness really lies,
Maybe, maybe not. Not enough information. Even if it is the case, it may only be in certain environmental conditions. But I’m not sure it matters much. What I said I’d do is the same regardless.
 

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Am aware of that "configurator" recommendation. I use a Zappi v2 at home and it is capable of limiting charge. When the recommendation came out I reduced the power to 5.9 kW or 25 Amps (at 230V) to match the recommendation.

However – on this weekend trip – I charged at 7kW 1-phase in both the ferry over here an at Chester Zoo – where I have no control over the charge level delivered.
You must be really hacked off about this given you've travelled far and wide including to the Arctic Circle!

If the issue is the AC onboard charger then really Porsche should redesign this component and stop skirting around the issue - it's a ticking bomb for those who have it and are less aware of the potential.
 

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Spending weekend in Lake District, UK. Plugged into hotel destination charger - which worked fine yesterday.

Today it charged at 22kW for about an hour and then got a charging error.

When I went out the charger was dead. Car showing this error and refusing to go into any gear or move.

Any ideas
So sorry to hear about this @tigerbalm . Your reports from all your trips have been informative and very valuable to all of us. Unbelievable how much problems these Taycans have again and again. Seems Porsche do not find the Root cause or just do not care.
 

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Could be. Behaviour is different to previous times – when it just would not charge – but no error showing up on screens – and you could drive it until it ran out. But there is likely different levels of failure – or possibly different behaviours with the last replacement unit I got.

Definitely interested in the root cause.
Unfortunately, I think your expertise on this component is considerably greater than most at porsche. But for what it is worth, when i queried the new configurator recommendations with my dealer, his technical team said a failure would kill the car and need immediate recovery (i..e it wouldn't drive at all). Clearly your experience with this fault the first few times doesn't bare this out, but what's happened to you this time does also seem consistent with what porsche at least expect to happen.
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