Yellow Warning Message: Electrical System Error Service Necessary

[noev]

What’s the difference between red & yellow? I shut down the car and restarted and it went away.

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[mikezhang31]

Yellow = should go see the dealer
Red = your car is about to die / dying / died

 

[Fish Fingers]

I had the yellow one appear once about a year ago.
Shut it down and it dissapeared and never seen it since.

I think a lot of yellow warnings seem to be false errors.

Reds are the important (in a bad way) ones.

 

[f1eng]

There are orange warnings too which require attention but don't stop restricted driving.

My car has an orange transmission fault which I have been able to get an appointment to check out on 1st August.

I can drive the car but I have no regenerative braking and it didn't seem to drive at steady speed at steady throttle and efficiency seems very low (~2m/kWh rather than nearer 3).

I am driving our 5 year old Prius instead (which has never had a fault)

 

[RGBArgee]

There are orange warnings too which require attention but don't stop restricted driving.

My car has an orange transmission fault which I have been able to get an appointment to check out on 1st August.

I can drive the car but I have no regenerative braking and it didn't seem to drive at steady speed at steady throttle and efficiency seems very low (~2m/kWh rather than nearer 3).

I am driving our 5 year old Prius instead (which has never had a fault)

So annoying the lack of capacity in UK dealers. Not really acceptable is it!!

 

[f1eng]

So annoying the lack of capacity in UK dealers. Not really acceptable is it!!

Pretty rubbish, mind you getting the routine service booking for the Prius was tight too. Maybe just not enough apprenticeships for mechanics.

 

[RGBArgee]

Pretty rubbish, mind you getting the routine service booking for the Prius was tight too. Maybe just not enough apprenticeships for mechanics.

Brexit has screwed employment market significantly.

 

[whitex]

There are orange warnings too which require attention but don't stop restricted driving.

My car has an orange transmission fault which I have been able to get an appointment to check out on 1st August.

I can drive the car but I have no regenerative braking and it didn't seem to drive at steady speed at steady throttle and efficiency seems very low (~2m/kWh rather than nearer 3).

I am driving our 5 year old Prius instead (which has never had a fault)

What's you current mileage? If it's stuck in 1st, what is your top speed?

PS> I hope 2m means 2 miles, rather than 2 meters ?

 

[BigBob]

So annoying the lack of capacity in UK dealers. Not really acceptable is it!!

Sounds unsafe to me. I'd call porsche assistance to recover it if i were you. Dealer has to look at in with in 5 days then and you get a courtesy ('premium' enterprise) car....

 

[f1eng]

What's you current mileage? If it's stuck in 1st, what is your top speed?

PS> I hope 2m means 2 miles, rather than 2 meters ?

Around 3700 miles.
I have no idea what the top speed might be, the local roads are so narrow going quick in something as wide as the Taycan is risky (I go quicker on a lot of the roads in our Prius) and anyway I decided not to bother to drive it until I know what is wrong.

I am a big believer in stopping before doing any more damage - learned the hard way in Formula 1 where some drivers have great mechanical sympathy and others absolutely none.

 

[whitex]

Around 3700 miles.
I have no idea what the top speed might be, the local roads are so narrow going quick in something as wide as the Taycan is risky (I go quicker on a lot of the roads in our Prius) and anyway I decided not to bother to drive it until I know what is wrong.

I am a big believer in stopping before doing any more damage - learned the hard way in Formula 1 where some drivers have great mechanical sympathy and others absolutely none.

Sorry to hear this happened to your car so early in its life. Did Porsche suggest you drive it until the appointment, or did they offer you a loaner?

 

[RGBArgee]

Sounds unsafe to me. I'd call porsche assistance to recover it if i were you. Dealer has to look at in with in 5 days then and you get a courtesy ('premium' enterprise) car....

I get that but I don’t really want a rubbish BMW Diesel… My second Taycan after 2000 miles has been faultless unlike the first (2022) which has now apparently been sold at a knock down price - wonder if new owner will be on here?

 

[f1eng]

Sorry to hear this happened to your car so early in its life. Did Porsche suggest you drive it until the appointment, or did they offer you a loaner?

Neither!
I got no suggestions or offer of a loan car, even after I bring it in.
The warning is orange and it says "adapted driving permitted" but I decided not to until I take it in.

 

[whitex]

Neither!
I got no suggestions or offer of a loan car, even after I bring it in.
The warning is orange and it says "adapted driving permitted" but I decided not to until I take it in.

Wow, Porsche brand sure has changed in the last 20 years. I remember my first Porsche (custom build 911C4), great quality, service was always awesome, loaners to choose from, even in times when allocations had long waitlists (though unlike today, they did trade allocations between dealers back then to get you what you want). Dealers were proud to offer premium service for premium cars (you paid for it of course, but AFAIK dealers today charge just as much premium).

 

[BigBob]

I get that but I don’t really want a rubbish BMW Diesel… My second Taycan after 2000 miles has been faultless unlike the first (2022) which has now apparently been sold at a knock down price - wonder if new owner will be on here?

Yep, so don't bother with the courtesy car unless you need one. But in Frank's case (whose comment i meant to reply to really) his car is basically off the road for at least a month. So if you go the Porsche assistance route (as recommended by my dealers call centre when my heater failed), they've a contractual obligation to deal with the car almost immediately.

It's probably one reason why there is a such a big back log at the service centres, but if that's the way to get the expected level of service, then you have to play the game. It will probably (parts allowing) get Frank's car back on the road before Aug 1st. Or at least set the ball rolling 1 month earlier than otherwise in ordering the parts.

In my failed heater example - I was offered an appointment in 6 weeks time, just to diagnose it, with no courtesy car. Via Porsche Assistance I had the car fixed and turned around in 1 week from it going in.

So Frank, imho, call Assistance and get them to book it in. You don't even need to get it recovered on a truck if its convenient for you to drive it to the dealer (as i did with mine). All you need is PA to book the car in. Nuts but it is what it is.

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