sparkhill

What is the consensus on the need for the rear wiper? I have never owned a Porsche with rear wiper (or 4 doors), but every SUV I have owned has needed the wiper. We don't get much rain where I live, but a decent amount of snow over the winter.

daveo4porsche

I want the rear wiper - but when I attempt to configure it - it conflicts with the noise insulating glass and that is more important to me than the wiper…strange conflict.

Jeff Whitten

My wife and I debated this one when we did our config. We have a deposit in but not yet needing to lock the config, so I would say we could change our minds. Currently we opted no rear wiper. Came down to the aesthetic of the wiper looking out of place with the smooth overall flow of the design for me.

Interestingly, the Macan EV rear window looks smaller than previous Macans. See our previous two Macan GTS, 2018 and 2023 both with rear wiper. Highly functional and used often on rainy days. So there’s a chance I got overruled on this one and we add it back on final config.

TC Cruising

I have always regretted all my SUV’s/crossovers without a rear wiper. As to missing out on the noise insulating glass, every EV is much quieter than our earlier vehicles, and as to the the component of heat rejection with that latter option, all Macan EV’s come with privacy glass for the rear doors and back, and as I always get a ceramic window tint (also heat rejecting) for the front doors, these combinations of factors have me getting a rear wiper on my Macan.

‘Of course your conditions may vary, especially if you live in a “dry and hot climate” (but neither of those weather factors apply to me).

GMPNW

I live in Seattle, so...yeah, I'm getting a rear wiper.

Yesterday I did as much research as I could find on sound insulating glass, including controlled measurements, and apparently it does nothing to dampen noise inside the cabin. I don't know about heat rejection, and don't need it where I live.

Jeff Whitten

Adding to the strangeness, my 2023 Macan GTS had noise insulating glass and rear wiper. Looking at my pics above, must be related to the location. Macan EV appears to sit higher in the glass, than the 2023 GTS.

n4v4nod

Yeah... I'm in PNW... Rear wiper is a must.

stanwyk

I live in a four season climate (and one with more rain than PNW), but I absolutely detest rear wipers. Particularly with the EV, the rear wiper detracts from the sleek aesthetic of the design, and the slope of the rear glass looks steeper than the ICE version, so it might not be necessary anyway.

With the surround view on my current Macan, I don’t have a real need for a wiper. All it manages to do is funnel road debris down the paint of the trunk.

I thought my SA would ask about the rear wiper, but he said nothing about my build.

Interestingly the 4 and Turbo are built without the rear wiper in the press reveals.

Ksdaoski

Pretty sure the 0.25 drag coefficient requires no wiper and no roof racks to achieve. Which I'm guessing is why the launch vehicles didn't have either.

stanwyk

I’m just glad it’s an option, now we can all be happy. Maybe my 21” wheels will be offset by removing the wiper. Hah.

TC Cruising

Good catch, though when Kyle/OutOfSpec was inside the Leipzig factory talking to the Macan development engineers last fall, they told him the roof rails had little effect on aero. As to the wiper blades, as they are just above the rear deck spoiler, might they interfere more than minimally interfere with air flow separation by creating swirling air eddies especially when wiping back and forth? I noticed on the Carscoops picture captures of the Macan EV test fleet in Scandinavia no long ago, most had wipers. A necessity? Testing purposes? Aero range evaluation?

TC Cruising

Of course as all we have so far seen is version 1 of the configurator, but I find it not pleasing for those of us getting the turbo with all the rest of its plastic being painted over with gloss black paint, that the windshield wiper is only dull black plastic (though it is an option for an extra $200 on the Taycan to get it instead gloss black plastic painted). Again could well be just the initial configuration is needing an accuracy upgrade. Or I might have to paint the wiper myself gloss black.

GMPNW

Selecting the black roof rail forces selection also of glossy black window trim, which I suppose then begins the process of selecting other glossy black options. However, I've managed to break the configurator by finding a way to deselect the rails and yet still see them visualized, so who knows what is real? My 2019 Macan seems to have a combination of glossy and low sheen black trims, but the rear wiper is not glossy.

cometguy

I think that the reason why two-door Porsches don't get rear wipers standard is that they aren't usually driven in weather conditions that call for a rear wiper.
Four-door Porsches are daily drivers and long-distance (roadtrip) vehicles that certainly require rear wipers, and they have always been standard in the US (until the Macan Electric), which is odd. The single biggest complaint that I see amongst Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 owners is the lack of a rear-window wiper.
I do wish that they'd copied the rear spoiler design atop the rear window from the ICE Macan, and which is present on the Taycan CT4.

kayjh

Unless it works better than the rear wiper on my Cayenne, I’d skip it. I’ve never owned a vehicle with a worse performing rear wiper. OK for the rain, but as soon as road crud gets sucked onto the rear window, it gives up and just streaks while using copious amounts of washer fluid to try and clean a portion of the window off. Sad design.