Introduction

This article is part of the series of Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience.

A car is a car

Besides some very specific designed vehicles, most cars are made for driving on the road. Some vehicles (such as boats) are made to drive on the water.

The particular Taycan I am driving at is designed to have water in the car.

Water in the car?

On 2023-11-29 I wanted to put my bag on the back seats of the car. When opening the back door I noticed that something was moving and thought "oh, is there an animal in front of the back seats?"

Well, no, but it turned out that water was standing inside the car, about 10cm in front of the back seats.

Analysis

When arriving at the The Porsche Center OZS the same day, everyone was very puzzled how this can happen. It turns out that the Taycan has hoses through which, generally speaking, water is released from the car.

I assume this is from the climate, condensation water or similar, because it's an EV and should not build up water by itself (not a hydrogen car either...).

It turned out that if those hoses are clogged, then the water that is supposed to go out of the car, actually goes UP in the car - the way of least resistence.

After cleaning the hoses and drying the car for 5 days, I could pickup the car again.

After getting it back from repair, the car started to have another rattling headrest, but that's a different problem...

Review

If you aren't puzzled before reading this article, you must be now. Or at least I am, again, when writing about what happened some time ago. How can someone design a car so strangely? First you have to design it to have hoses that do clog. Secondly you have to design so that if they are clogged, water should be going back into the car, not having a secondary exit.

While quickly fixed, this leaves me scratching the head, it seems like another strange design bug.