Recall · 23V176000
Porsche Cars North America recalled 8 models over electrical system
130
Vehicles covered
8
Models
16
Model years
March 17, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INSTRUMENT CLUSTER/PANEL
- The defect
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2020 Taycan Turbo, 2021 Taycan, Taycan 4S Cross Turismo, 2022 Taycan, Taycan Turbo, Taycan GTS, Taycan 4 Cross Turismo, Taycan 4S Cross Turismo, 2020-2022 Taycan 4S and Taycan Turbo S, and 2023 Taycan vehicles. When there is an unbelted passenger, the seat belt warning light and audible chime will not activate as intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
- What it can cause
- A malfunctioning seat belt warning system may not alert the passenger to buckle their seat belt, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the instrument cluster software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed May 16, 2023. Owners may contact Porsche's customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is APA2.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| PorscheTaycan | 2021 to 2023 | 202120222023 |
| PorscheTaycan 4 Cross Turismo | 2022 | Not published here |
| PorscheTaycan 4S | 2020 to 2022 | Not published here |
| PorscheTaycan 4S Cross Turismo | 2021 to 2022 | Not published here |
| PorscheTaycan GTS | 2022 | Not published here |
| PorscheTaycan Turbo | 2020 and 2022 | Not published here |
| PorscheTaycan Turbo Cross Turism | 2022 | Not published here |
| PorscheTaycan Turbo S | 2020 to 2022 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 130 vehicles this is a small campaign: 67% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Porsche vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 11 times before this, most recently in January 2023 as 23V033000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 16 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 167 complaints with NHTSA, 70 of them before this campaign was filed. 82 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 22 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V896000 (back over prevention), 25V221000 (air bags), 24V732000 (electrical system), 24V731000 (electrical system).
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 March 17, 2023 as campaign 23V176000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2023-03-17.
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