Porsche Taycans...

I wondered the same thing. What's the catch? My i3S costs nothing to run other than a brake fluid change every 24 months and tyres.
I read that e-tron GT is expensive to run as well, but then it might just be the Audi & Porsche dealers taking the ****..
 
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Housey said:
That is my point
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What are they charging for "service" then?

I mean, electrics aside, EVs are surely basic to service and usual consumables of brakes, CV boots, bushes, drop links etc. (although at the age these are you wouldn't expect much, if any of those)...I do all of that on my cars and engine stuff, so I'd propose to do what I can myself although not sure if "no" service history affects these that much?
 
With the current prices I nearly nearly bought one and am still not ruling it out in the future. Just a bit risky once the warranty runs out, especially on early and quite expensive tech.

The service prices sound ridiculous. Surely they are doing a cabin filter, brake fluid and possible AC refresh? I’m sure these will soon end up much more expensive to compensate. I rarely use my brakes with full regen on. They’d probably last the life of the car.
 
I particularly like the Taycan Cross Turismo. Its size puts me off though. I have an iPace and that isn't exactly small. The Taycan is bigger again - I was looking at the new-ish Polestar 4 I think it is, that's an absolute monster.

Living in rural Pembrokeshire where narrow roads are the norm, large cars are a PITA.

Running costs are going to be high but then my iPace is £1200 for the warranty for the year and £800 insurance - my Cayman GT4 will be £800 when the warranty runs out and insurance is £500.

My Ltd Co owns the iPace outright so not sure how I'd fund the switch. The Jag is more or less worthless so I guess I'd PX for whatever I could get and lease the rest of the Taycan. Not VAT registered so lease is costly for me.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
With the current prices I nearly nearly bought one and am still not ruling it out in the future. Just a bit risky once the warranty runs out, especially on early and quite expensive tech.

The service prices sound ridiculous. Surely they are doing a cabin filter, brake fluid and possible AC refresh? I’m sure these will soon end up much more expensive to compensate. I rarely use my brakes with full regen on. They’d probably last the life of the car.
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Isn't the battery warranty 8 years on these? That, I suppose, is the biggst risk with the battery porbably being £20k or more to replace...

I like the idea, but the more I've read the less I'm inclined to believe it's a good idea...!
 
These things do seem to have had a fair share of recalls and warranty work carried out on them but as long as it's warranted then the main issues seem to be high servicing costs and consumables (tyres).

I'll be honest, I'd have one and that's mostly based on the guy on youtube who moans constantly about his one but in doing so he's went into every possible thing that has went wrong but IMO that's purely because he's bought something new which is now worth a lot less than his finance and is stuck with it.

He did manage to lock himself in it though once.
 
OldKitMan said:
These things do seem to have had a fair share of recalls and warranty work carried out on them but as long as it's warranted then the main issues seem to be high servicing costs and consumables (tyres).
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That makes sense, but the battery warranty from Porsche is 8 years/80k miles on cars up to 2022 and 8 years/100k from then on, and it cannot be extended from Porsche directly. So you can expect another huge depreciation hit when the car gets near that cut off point. I'm sure there'll be third party warranties, but who knows how reliable, or how expensive, they'll be. I wouldn't be comfortable being on the end of that hook.
 
GravyMonster said:
That makes sense, but the battery warranty from Porsche is 8 years/80k miles on cars up to 2022 and 8 years/100k from then on, and it cannot be extended from Porsche directly. So you can expect another huge depreciation hit when the car gets near that cut off point. I'm sure there'll be third party warranties, but who knows how reliable, or how expensive, they'll be. I wouldn't be comfortable being on the end of that hook.
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There will be loads of people able to fix batteries in the near future, there are already some, think High Peak Autos took a hybrid Land Rover to a battery specialist for a repair of the faulty cells as opposed to a full battery replacement at a significant cost saving, it was still expensive but much more bearable and batteries and to some extent the BMS are quite straightforward, it's the rest of the electical gubbins that would be the complex part and that might be difficult to fix outside the dealer network.

If it hits the value of the cars as they get near the end of the warranty though then more money saved to put towards anything else I suppose.
 
just had a look at the taycan service plan because i was bored.

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damn. yeah. i'm definitely not a big gucci belt wearer.
 
The service plan probably won't even include the 'optional drainage inspection/clean' that Porsche dealers seem to charge anywhere from £70 to £700 for and tell you the battery warranty might as well be voided if you choose not to do it and the battery later suffers water ingress.
 
tamzzy said:
i know right, the equivalent of £1k for a set of pads. lol.
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Presume that’s a full set of pads plus fitting. £600 a year for servicing wouldn’t be that bad except for the fact EV don’t need much doing.
 
Wiper blades direct from Porsche must be at least £200 as well so it's nice of them to include those
 
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