Tow truck drivers are very helpful. This was my experience!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.
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 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?
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 !!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?
Nightmare (again) - 22kW onboard issue returns?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?
Could be - @tigerbalm is on his third 22kW AC charger already.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You must be really hacked off about this given you've travelled far and wide including to the Arctic Circle!
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.
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.
