Recall · 21V794000
Porsche Cars North America recalled the PORSCHE Taycan over exterior lighting
11,827
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
October 13, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HAZARD FLASHING WARNING LIGHTS
- The defect
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Taycan vehicles. The pre-collision automatic hazard lights may activate in non-emergency situations. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
- What it can cause
- An activation of hazard lights in non-emergency situations could confuse other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will reprogram the hazard lights, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 2, 2021. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is AMC1.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 11,827 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 80% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Porsche vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 2 times before this, most recently in December 2019 as 19V878000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 160 complaints with NHTSA, 58 of them before this campaign was filed.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 21 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V896000 (back over prevention), 24V732000 (electrical system), 24V731000 (electrical system), 24V455000 (service brakes, hydraulic).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Porsche Cars North America, Inc. with NHTSA on October 13, 2021 as campaign 21V794000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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