Taycan CT 4S MY config

[ze_shark]

Completion today of a long planned project: painted the cladding (textured wheel arches) in body color. More details about the Turbo S part numbers are here in this thread.

Looks incomparably better - more premium - than the textured black stuff in my opinion. Porsche could charge whatever they want for this, strange that they don't. Sport Turismos are not imported in Asia so CT4S was the only available avenue for me.

Getting here was a journey. First finding the right parts, parking sensor included, cost me one iteration. Then getting the parts to Malaysia: local Porsche importer was quoting double the price from Eurospares so i hauled them from Europe.

Then finding a capable and willing paint shop.
Getting them to match the color (one iterations until i gave them the tow hook cover as a sample to match).
Then painting the parts with the expected quality. First pass had way too many defects, pin holes, insufficient coverage on the upper edges, etc ... A mess.

And finally installation. A bit nerve wracking at first (given the initial paint job QC and the working conditions), but the bengladeshi guy quickly showed that he knew exactly how to work with VHB and did a very thorough, methodical job.

Cladding removal and hole plugging is not an option with the front parking sensors. The front bumper has a huge void and would have to be changed as well.

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[ze_shark]

More painted arches Gentian goodness from last weekend, before the Active Ride hydraulics servo failure.

 

[SergeyIndy]

This is some crazy journey but looks amazing. Keep us posted on your Active Ride fix as it was never acting right from delivery, the way you reported.

I know my body shop (US based of course) would have done it perfectly in one normal operating iteration as they deal with much more complex painting projects (match OEM color exactly) and done a few simple ones (Macan/Cayenne) for me with flawless results. However, when you are overseas, you are in a different place all together to get something like this done.

 

[ze_shark]

Since i recovered my car from the Active Ride servo replacement, I have been really annoyed with erratic Youtube Music playback through Android Auto. Jerky, skipping, awful. Tried wired (USB) and wireless (BT/Wifi) same thing. Device files or streaming, actually worse with device files. It even seemed that map motion in Waze was getting jittery. And all of it coincided exactly with the shop work.

Rebooting the phone: same thing.
Rebooting the PCM: well all of my two finger attempts failed so far (is there a special trick on J1.2 ?)

Then i had an epiphany. The 256GB flash of my S23 Ultra is 90% full. Plenty of RAM to spare in comparison. Cleaned up old video files, brought it back down to 80%. And since music playback works again like a charm.

Easy to erroneously blame the car in such instances. As to why, I suspect flash corruption in the remaining 10% ? Sounds like a lot.

 

[W1NGE]

Since i recovered my car from the Active Ride servo replacement, I have been really annoyed with erratic Youtube Music playback through Android Auto. Jerky, skipping, awful. Tried wired (USB) and wireless (BT/Wifi) same thing. Device files or streaming, actually worse with device files. It even seemed that map motion in Waze was getting jittery. And all of it coincided exactly with the shop work.

Rebooting the phone: same thing.
Rebooting the PCM: well all of my two finger attempts failed so far (is there a special trick on J1.2 ?)

Then i had an epiphany. The 256GB flash of my S23 Ultra is 90% full. Plenty of RAM to spare in comparison. Cleaned up old video files, brought it back down to 80%. And since music playback works again like a charm.

Easy to erroneously blame the car in such instances. As to why, I suspect flash corruption in the remaining 10% ? Sounds like a lot.

Could be a file limit restriction on the PCM - 10K files.

https://manual.porsche.com/#/wpi/Y1..._GB/topic/id/7188a515dfee18698d24c0b33ad70bc6

 

[ze_shark]

Pic of the day. I really love the balance and adjustability in mid speed corners.

 

[ze_shark]

This evening after the vitamin D sunset power walk.

The grazing light underlines the sculpted shape of the J1.2 fascia which, i think, is an under appreciated detail compared to the obviousness of the J1.1 teardrops.

 

[Taycan4S_UK]

looks like you got a pretty good setup.

I'd add:
2+1 rear seats
Electric sound
Prep for dash cam - free

 

[ze_shark]

Tropical storm yesterday late afternoon, drove a bit too fast into a deep pool of water. Roads have no drainage here so with the volumes that fall, things can get entertaining.

Did not think much of it, but today, at the car wash, both covers were found to have popped out. I could have lost them both, but fortunately, they were still partially clipped. I guess that the pressure in the wheel well pushed them both out.

Anyway, note too self, slow down a lot more when approaching likely pools of water.

This thing is really a blast to drive in this land of road lawlessness.

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