Taycan replacement battery cost
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Anyone seen the Taycan advertised on Autotrader.
2020 model with 50,000+ miles, cheapest one on AT at the moment.
Here’s the thing though - replacement battery cost £55k under Porsche warranty 4 months ago. S**t a brick - the car’s up for sale at £57k, private seller, no mention of still under warranty.
Who on Earth would consider buying one of these with that hanging around your neck? Assume the only sane way would be to buy from main dealer and extend the warranty (which I assume will be substantial if these costs come into play). I also assume anything out of the main dealer network would struggle to get a non Porsche warranty to cover anywhere near those costs.
The world has gone mad and not sure how Porsche can justify these costs.
I’d be walking swiftly by on that one.
2020 model with 50,000+ miles, cheapest one on AT at the moment.
Here’s the thing though - replacement battery cost £55k under Porsche warranty 4 months ago. S**t a brick - the car’s up for sale at £57k, private seller, no mention of still under warranty.
Who on Earth would consider buying one of these with that hanging around your neck? Assume the only sane way would be to buy from main dealer and extend the warranty (which I assume will be substantial if these costs come into play). I also assume anything out of the main dealer network would struggle to get a non Porsche warranty to cover anywhere near those costs.
The world has gone mad and not sure how Porsche can justify these costs.
I’d be walking swiftly by on that one.
Main dealer in exorbitant repair cost shocker....
How about £30k for just a gearbox?
https://www.carscoops.com/2022/03/uk-audi-r8-owner...
How about £30k for just a gearbox?
https://www.carscoops.com/2022/03/uk-audi-r8-owner...
Depending on the model spec it sounds like it could be a good buy. New battery is never a bad thing to have.
It would be predicated on understanding how much of the Porsche original warranty existed and maybe finding out whether an extended warranty could be purchased.
I'd expect to negotiate the price down to maybe £50K or under.
I've just checked it is a 4S so under £50K would be good.
It would be predicated on understanding how much of the Porsche original warranty existed and maybe finding out whether an extended warranty could be purchased.
I'd expect to negotiate the price down to maybe £50K or under.
I've just checked it is a 4S so under £50K would be good.
Boxster5 said:
Anyone seen the Taycan advertised on Autotrader.
2020 model with 50,000+ miles, cheapest one on AT at the moment.
Here’s the thing though - replacement battery cost £55k under Porsche warranty 4 months ago. S**t a brick - the car’s up for sale at £57k, private seller, no mention of still under warranty.
Who on Earth would consider buying one of these with that hanging around your neck? Assume the only sane way would be to buy from main dealer and extend the warranty (which I assume will be substantial if these costs come into play). I also assume anything out of the main dealer network would struggle to get a non Porsche warranty to cover anywhere near those costs.
The world has gone mad and not sure how Porsche can justify these costs.
I’d be walking swiftly by on that one.
Given your name, I'm surprised you are unaware of borescoring? Lots of engines replaced under warranty at massive costs.2020 model with 50,000+ miles, cheapest one on AT at the moment.
Here’s the thing though - replacement battery cost £55k under Porsche warranty 4 months ago. S**t a brick - the car’s up for sale at £57k, private seller, no mention of still under warranty.
Who on Earth would consider buying one of these with that hanging around your neck? Assume the only sane way would be to buy from main dealer and extend the warranty (which I assume will be substantial if these costs come into play). I also assume anything out of the main dealer network would struggle to get a non Porsche warranty to cover anywhere near those costs.
The world has gone mad and not sure how Porsche can justify these costs.
I’d be walking swiftly by on that one.
Or are you just scaremongering because EVs scare you?
The Taycan has a 8 year 100,000 mile battery warranty.
By the time the cars reach that agent and mileage then it will be no different than a 100k mile Panamera Turbo S with a blown V8 - you’d either write the car off for parts or replace the pack with a used one off eBay.
I’m sure there will be some enterprising individuals who setup battery refurb and swap services by then, the pack is made up of 33 individual modules which cost about 600 euros each, but given the batteries can actually be bought direct from the suppliers replacing bad cells is much less technical work than rebuilding a blown engine.
By the time the cars reach that agent and mileage then it will be no different than a 100k mile Panamera Turbo S with a blown V8 - you’d either write the car off for parts or replace the pack with a used one off eBay.
I’m sure there will be some enterprising individuals who setup battery refurb and swap services by then, the pack is made up of 33 individual modules which cost about 600 euros each, but given the batteries can actually be bought direct from the suppliers replacing bad cells is much less technical work than rebuilding a blown engine.
Fastlane said:
Boxster5 said:
Anyone seen the Taycan advertised on Autotrader.
2020 model with 50,000+ miles, cheapest one on AT at the moment.
Here’s the thing though - replacement battery cost £55k under Porsche warranty 4 months ago. S**t a brick - the car’s up for sale at £57k, private seller, no mention of still under warranty.
Who on Earth would consider buying one of these with that hanging around your neck? Assume the only sane way would be to buy from main dealer and extend the warranty (which I assume will be substantial if these costs come into play). I also assume anything out of the main dealer network would struggle to get a non Porsche warranty to cover anywhere near those costs.
The world has gone mad and not sure how Porsche can justify these costs.
I’d be walking swiftly by on that one.
Given your name, I'm surprised you are unaware of borescoring? Lots of engines replaced under warranty at massive costs.2020 model with 50,000+ miles, cheapest one on AT at the moment.
Here’s the thing though - replacement battery cost £55k under Porsche warranty 4 months ago. S**t a brick - the car’s up for sale at £57k, private seller, no mention of still under warranty.
Who on Earth would consider buying one of these with that hanging around your neck? Assume the only sane way would be to buy from main dealer and extend the warranty (which I assume will be substantial if these costs come into play). I also assume anything out of the main dealer network would struggle to get a non Porsche warranty to cover anywhere near those costs.
The world has gone mad and not sure how Porsche can justify these costs.
I’d be walking swiftly by on that one.
Or are you just scaremongering because EVs scare you?
Boxster5 said:
Fastlane said:
Boxster5 said:
Anyone seen the Taycan advertised on Autotrader.
2020 model with 50,000+ miles, cheapest one on AT at the moment.
Here’s the thing though - replacement battery cost £55k under Porsche warranty 4 months ago. S**t a brick - the car’s up for sale at £57k, private seller, no mention of still under warranty.
Who on Earth would consider buying one of these with that hanging around your neck? Assume the only sane way would be to buy from main dealer and extend the warranty (which I assume will be substantial if these costs come into play). I also assume anything out of the main dealer network would struggle to get a non Porsche warranty to cover anywhere near those costs.
The world has gone mad and not sure how Porsche can justify these costs.
I’d be walking swiftly by on that one.
Given your name, I'm surprised you are unaware of borescoring? Lots of engines replaced under warranty at massive costs.2020 model with 50,000+ miles, cheapest one on AT at the moment.
Here’s the thing though - replacement battery cost £55k under Porsche warranty 4 months ago. S**t a brick - the car’s up for sale at £57k, private seller, no mention of still under warranty.
Who on Earth would consider buying one of these with that hanging around your neck? Assume the only sane way would be to buy from main dealer and extend the warranty (which I assume will be substantial if these costs come into play). I also assume anything out of the main dealer network would struggle to get a non Porsche warranty to cover anywhere near those costs.
The world has gone mad and not sure how Porsche can justify these costs.
I’d be walking swiftly by on that one.
Or are you just scaremongering because EVs scare you?
I think with my logical head on... this can go one of two ways. If the batteries generally prove so reliable that this is a very unlikely cost an owner will ever encounter, then no big problem. If however scores of owners end up with £55k repair bills, Porsche will receive some really ugly press and have to get more realistic about replacement costs.
Whatever happens I doubt that this sort of thing will become a lasting legacy of the Taycan.
It's also too early for trusted non dealer shops to generally carry out such swaps - but that will come in time and clearly they won't be charging customers £55k once they're established.
For the mean time, I would never have an expensive EV out of warranty, because right now, they're all pretty much at the mercy of main dealer repairs for anything on the electrical powertrain side.
samoht said:
Of all the things to worry about with a secondhand luxury performance car, the component that's still under factory warranty for another five years would be bottom of my list.
Not sure what happens at end of warranty (generally 3 years but I take on board the 8 year battery warranty) - does the “extended” warranty cover the battery power train (I’m assuming it has to).Too many unknown factors at present to even consider one for me I’m afraid.
Will be interesting to see what take up is of the forthcoming EV Boxster.
Boxster5 said:
samoht said:
Of all the things to worry about with a secondhand luxury performance car, the component that's still under factory warranty for another five years would be bottom of my list.
Not sure what happens at end of warranty (generally 3 years but I take on board the 8 year battery warranty) - does the “extended” warranty cover the battery power train (I’m assuming it has to).Too many unknown factors at present to even consider one for me I’m afraid.
Will be interesting to see what take up is of the forthcoming EV Boxster.
This is only going to be big issue if premature (as in, before say, 200k miles) battery failures prove to be commonplace for the Taycan. That seems unlikely given that most early EV's have had no problem sweeping past that sort of milestone. I strongly suspect that over time we will learn that EV's are generally more resilient to expensive failure than ICE equivalents. It is however, too soon to be certain - hence my repeat advice to keep expensive EV's under warranty.
There's a guy on here with a Taycan who woke up one day to find his battery range halved, and had a new battery fitted under warranty (twice I recall as something wasn't correct with the first and wouldn't code). Don't forget the huge cost of labour in that 55k, not in hours per se but hourly rate.
Not sure how commonplace it is or if it was doing a fix for a known problem, but this is the stuff of nightmares that will put thousands off EVs. I only have an EV as I don't care if it breaks it is someone else's problem!
Not sure how commonplace it is or if it was doing a fix for a known problem, but this is the stuff of nightmares that will put thousands off EVs. I only have an EV as I don't care if it breaks it is someone else's problem!
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