diff --git a/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-1-handover.mdwn b/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-1-handover.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ad366375 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-1-handover.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +[[!meta title="Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience - the handover"]] + +## Introduction + +This article is part of the series of +[Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience](/blog/nico-porsche-taycan-experience/). + +## The Handover + +When I received the car from the +[Porsche Center Basel](https://dealer.porsche.com/ch/basel/de-CH), I +was quite happy. Obviously, I mean who isn't if you get a new toy? + +Driving the car home - everything went fine, until the next morning +happened. + +The sales person wrote me an email that they will deduct a couple of +thousand CHF from the car I handed as a trade in. He did not +negotiate or suggest it, but just wrote an email that basically read +as follows: + +"Your old car has seat damage at the back, thus we deduct a couple of +thousand CHF." + +## So many qeustionmarks + +Wait, what? This is one day after taking over the car and I was a bit +in a shock. Broken seats? In my old car? I never heard or have seen +that, but even if there are so many things wrong with this approach. + +First of all, why not place a call and discuss the situation? Secondly +if there is damage, why is it up to them to simply decide what it is +worth? Thirdly, why reach out a day after and not when taking over the +old car? + +## Images vs. images + +So I asked the seller what damage he is referring to, as there was +none when I used to own the car. He sent me pictures of a long broken +line in the beautiful beige seats I had. What has happened there? + +Having received the pictures, I went through my photo gallery and +luckily I did take outside and inside pictures the day before the +trade in and - there was no damage. + +## What happened? + +So what happened? I brought the car including winter tyres (we need +those in Switzerland) and 2 wheels where stored, wrapped into plastic +bags on the back seats. It turned out that one of the tyres had a nail +it it (unknowingly to me) and that either on loading or unloading the +car, the nail must have ripped the seat. + +The tyres were loaded by the local mechanic who changes the wheels +twice per year and unloaded by the Porsche Center Basel. + +So it is inconclusive to whoever of the two actually destroyed the seats. + +## Wrong approach + +From my perspective, so many things went wrong at the handover. Let's +assume for a moment that the seats were damaged on loading (which we +don't know whether they were). Even if that was the case, I'd have +expected the Porsche Center Basel to verify and reach out to me first, +before deciding on their own a random number of Swiss Francs to deduct +from the trade in price. + +Furthermore one could argue that they should have checked the car +better when receiving it (when I was there) and not come back and +claim issues afterwards. + +Now, it is not even clear whether it was actually the fault of the +mechanic who loaded it and it could as well have been the Porsche +Center itself who damaged the old car. + +## The resolution + +After a few heated emails and heated calls the Porsche Center Basel in +the end agreed on paying the agreed upon price, because it was not +clear who damaged the seats. But the feeling left +is like one dealed with gangsters who try to take away your money with +random accusations. + +Quite a rocky start, one day into - let's see how +the [Porsche Taycan experience +continues...](/blog/nico-porsche-taycan-experience/). + + +[[!tag porsche car]] diff --git a/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience.mdwn b/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..97ad6f17 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +[[!meta title="Nico's Porsche Taycan Experience"]] + +## Introduction + +Since end of 2022 I am driving a Porsche Taycan and in the following +articles you will be able to read about first hand experience what to +expect when driving such a car. + +The articles will be published in the next weeks, part by part and +when finished, this paragraph will vanished. + +## Preface + +I've always been conscious about using a car, about what it consumes +and what it emits. At the same time, I do enjoy driving. When I used +to use ICE cars, I always turned my car off when I am not using it, +which is a very German thing to do (and there are even fines for +letting your car run unnecessarily both in Germany as well as +Switzerland). + +In 2022 I started looking to replace my current car with something +slightly more sporty and less bad for the environment. + +And after evaluating a lot of cars +([alot!](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html)), +I settled on a Porsche Taycan, because it seemed to make most sense to me. + +## The Porsche Taycan experience + +But then when the day came for the handover, +[I already had a rocky +start](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-1-handover). + +More to come soon... + +## List of Articles + +For easier access: + +* [Part 1 - The handover](/blog/nicos-porsche-taycan-experience-part-1-handover). + + + +[[!tag porsche car]]