Panamera 4 E-hybrid Owners Thread
03-14-2019, 11:42 PM
#1817
Burning Brakes
03-14-2019, 11:51 PM
#1818
I ordered my Panamera E-Hybrid in June 2017, due to the EPA hold it was delivered in Feb 2018 and had been sitting outside in Halifax dock the entire winter so I said I wanted a new one, my local dealer was kind enough to let me drive my original order for a month or so and then order a replacement with any "tweaks" that I wanted so I ordered my 2nd Panamera 4-E-Hybrid in May 2018 (I have an AWESOME dealer)
03-15-2019, 12:27 AM
#1819
Burning Brakes
I ordered my Panamera E-Hybrid in June 2017, due to the EPA hold it was delivered in Feb 2018 and had been sitting outside in Halifax dock the entire winter so I said I wanted a new one, my local dealer was kind enough to let me drive my original order for a month or so and then order a replacement with any "tweaks" that I wanted so I ordered my 2nd Panamera 4-E-Hybrid in May 2018 (I have an AWESOME dealer)
Did anybody else here get a nice desk paperweight with their car? I sure didn't!
On another note, I just posted this on the Panamera thread regarding high-mileage Panameras. But it might be of more interest to readers of this thread, so here it is again:
I'm very curious to see how long the new Panamera E-Hybrid engines will last. My ICE has been off for about 1/3 of my 18k miles so far, since I bought the car new last May. If that rate were to continue for 100k miles, it would mean that the engine would be on for only about 65k-70k miles at that point. The engine does turn on and off a lot more than in an ICE-only vehicle, but much less than in a "mild hybrid" (non-PHEV hybrid); not sure what that turning on and off will do over long periods of time... An interesting statistic recorded by my car is that, even though 1/3 of the miles were driven in electric-only (E-Power) mode, 235 of the first 439 hours driven were in all-electric mode (called "Zero Emission" mode in the computer), which is well over half of the driven hours.
I wonder if there are any older (first-gen) Panamera S E-Hybrid owners on Rennlist who still have their cars after 100k-plus miles?
03-15-2019, 12:34 AM
#1820
https://porschevictoria.com
If I told you everything they did/do for me no one would believe me, they really are amazing. I know of a couple of guys (one on this forum) that have come across from Vancouver to the island to little old Victoria to buy from this dealer.
If I told you everything they did/do for me no one would believe me, they really are amazing. I know of a couple of guys (one on this forum) that have come across from Vancouver to the island to little old Victoria to buy from this dealer.
03-15-2019, 02:54 PM
#1822
There are only two dealerships in the entire metro Vancouver - Vancouver and Langley. The one in Vancouver really sucks. SA are arrogant, service team knows nothing. When I got my e-hybrid early last year, they didn't even know how to reset the odometer??!!!
Most people (including me) regret buying car from there.
Most people (including me) regret buying car from there.
03-15-2019, 02:56 PM
#1823
There are only two dealerships in the entire metro Vancouver - Vancouver and Langley. The one in Vancouver really sucks. SA are arrogant, service team knows nothing. When I got my e-hybrid early last year, they didn't even know how to reset the odometer??!!!
Most people (including me) regret buying car from there.
Most people (including me) regret buying car from there.
03-15-2019, 03:04 PM
#1824
When I placed my order of ST ehybrid back in Aug 17, I asked the sales is there any discount and he bluntly said that the car is in high demand and no reason to give any discount!! Even now in Vancouver, there are certainly quite a lot of 2nd gen Panamera, but not that many ST. I don't know where that high demand comes from.......
03-15-2019, 03:09 PM
#1825
When I placed my order of ST ehybrid back in Aug 17, I asked the sales is there any discount and he bluntly said that the car is in high demand and no reason to give any discount!! Even now in Vancouver, there are certainly quite a lot of 2nd gen Panamera, but not that many ST. I don't know where that high demand comes from.......
03-15-2019, 04:18 PM
#1826
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Do many of you BC'ers come down to Bellingham (Roger Jobs Porsche)? I've always assumed the reason Bellingham has a Porsche dealer is Canadian buyers, but don't know how much difficulty there is in cross-border buying.
03-15-2019, 05:06 PM
#1827
As far as I know Porsche won't allow new car sales in the US to Canadians, I could be wrong.
03-15-2019, 09:08 PM
#1828
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Interesting. Doesn't make a lot of sense for Porsche to put a dealer up in Bellingham, can't imagine all the wealthy vacation homeowners in the San Juans are buying in Bellingham, only to drive their Porsches around the limited amount of roadway on Orcas or Lopez. Or there are enough rich retirees in Bellingham and Port Townsend to justify it.
03-15-2019, 09:21 PM
#1829
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Porsche apparently have a test for the Panamera charging port door and if it passes, they will not replace it. They get a 500 pound gorilla to thump it - if it opens = pass. Mine is even worse after service adjustment a few weeks ago. It also sticks shut in frosty weather and then if you leave it open overnight to charge, the locking pin socket fills up with snow, which then freezes solid and the door will not latch shut. I have fixed a small flap of rubber above the socket with double sided tape, which you bend back to shut the door but when down, prevents water and snow from entering the socket. All very Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson but it works. The charge and fuel port doors are the sort of design one used to expect from British Leyland but it is very disappointing to find them on a Porsche. The water drain in the charge port is far too small and very easily becomes blocked with leaf debris, etc. You then have to use an air line to clear it.
Wilson
Wilson
Of course, it does not solve the other issue Wilson mentions with snow etc.
03-15-2019, 09:32 PM
#1830
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Missing nice-to-have functions
A few things I would have liked to have seen in the hybrid
- a counter for the distance driven electric since last charge or at least for the day, not reset after some amount of time., as it currently is.
- the amount charged per charge and cumulative since last reset. It would allow monitoring the home charging costs.
- the instantaneous fuel consumption, not just average.
- something that would count the fuel you save when standing still at traffic lights or traffic jams, when driving in hybrid mode.
- a counter for the distance driven electric since last charge or at least for the day, not reset after some amount of time., as it currently is.
- the amount charged per charge and cumulative since last reset. It would allow monitoring the home charging costs.
- the instantaneous fuel consumption, not just average.
- something that would count the fuel you save when standing still at traffic lights or traffic jams, when driving in hybrid mode.
