How to reset your Macan EV -- hold volume button for 30 seconds

[chriton]

Looks like to reset it you need to hold the volume button for 30sec (at least for this preproduction one)

 

[Diego]

This is something I am trying to understand from the manual since it’s so easy to “soft reset” the car in my Tesla and I hope it’s the same with the Macan. For the moment no clue…

 

[W1NGE]

I'd be hoping there is no need to reset (other than power off / on) - we've all beta tested the Taycan for Porsche and one can only hope that they've built a more stable software stack for the Macan EV now that we're 4 - 5 years in (including the "1,000,000" miles of testing claimed).

 

[Colin the Best]

@W1NGE

this is the absolute truth: I took a leap of faith in staying with Porsche electric cars, despite the thousand anger towards the unstable software of my Taycan,... after a few years the car is finally reliable and I hope not to repeat the experience from Beta testing

 

[grizzler]

Remember: There is a software update straight before delivery. I think we all will go beta testing.

 

[Diego]

Well, I think that Tesla has the best software at the moment and, even if it's the best, from time to time, you have to reset the car (as you do with your phone or PC). I don't think that Porsche has a better software, at the moment (yes I hope that at this price they can do something better...) so I'm quite sure we have to understand how to reset the car!

 

[grizzler]

'm quite sure we have to understand how to reset the car!

100% agree
My biggest question mark concerning the macan, this huge update before delivery...
IMHO everything possible.

 

[Diego]

Well I don't think that there could be something "major" about the car; I think that it's something about the infotainment. Every sales agent or Porsche man I spoke with told me that the prototypes have a slower and older infotainment system that has been upgraded in the production cars (even if, as I have already wrote, it was quite impressive when I tested both times I had the pleasure to sit inside the car and faster than the one in my Tesla M3 - older model not the Highland that has a new system).

 

[krissrock]

@W1NGE

this is the absolute truth: I took a leap of faith in staying with Porsche electric cars, despite the thousand anger towards the unstable software of my Taycan,... after a few years the car is finally reliable and I hope not to repeat the experience from Beta testing

interesting. I'm not lookin to order mine till maybe december, so hopefully any issues with the car will be exposed by then. But I'm pretty confident that porsche wouldn't put out a half baked product. I was initially interested in the Lyriq, but that reddit is flooded with nothing but problems... It's cadillac's first electric though... this isn't porsche's first rodeo, and I have faith in their quality.

But as you say this, now i want to look up the common Taycan issues

 

[Colin the Best]

maybe it's like Taycan,...two fingers in the top right corner of the monitor and the machine re-boots

 

[Sahajesh]

Volume button for 30 seconds is the same as BMW iDrive.

 

[Senna]

maybe it's like Taycan,...two fingers in the top right corner of the monitor and the machine re-boots

That's interesting—it's the same method used to reset the infotainment system in current Audi models. Perhaps they've standardized it across the entire VW group.

 

[W1NGE]

Well, I think that Tesla has the best software at the moment and, even if it's the best, from time to time, you have to reset the car (as you do with your phone or PC). I don't think that Porsche has a better software, at the moment (yes I hope that at this price they can do something better...) so I'm quite sure we have to understand how to reset the car!

Perhaps but I've never had to manually reset either of my Taycans in 4 years - never done the engineering reset, pulled a fuse or 12v shimmy.

 

[Diego]

In 3 years I’ve done something like 40 software update. After every software the car reset itself (let’s call this “hard reset”) to be sure everything is loaded correctly. But from time to time the infotainment system needed a soft reset for: no Bluetooth audio stream, Spotify doesn’t load the correct account, internal lights don’t turn on when you open the car, and other things like these. No problem with the battery or charge system or motors. Thanks for sharing your experience @W1NGE I’m very happy to read it and more confident that after the Taycan experience now Porsche has a strong system. (And thanks to all the Taycan users who beta tested all these). You can like the electrification of the automotive sector or not but it’s an innovation for sure and as anything new has some pro and cons.

 

[W1NGE]

interesting. I'm not lookin to order mine till maybe december, so hopefully any issues with the car will be exposed by then. But I'm pretty confident that porsche wouldn't put out a half baked product. I was initially interested in the Lyriq, but that reddit is flooded with nothing but problems... It's cadillac's first electric though... this isn't porsche's first rodeo, and I have faith in their quality.

But as you say this, now i want to look up the common Taycan issues

...well they did with the Taycan in 2020 and still up to MY24 (J1) there are gremlins. J2 - too early to say.

Macan EV is built on Android Auto (I believe) which is arguably a better starting point making it different to the Taycan.

Porsche now has inherited VW quality - variable at best and I would honestly be under no illusion otherwise. What they do have is gold plated rock solid warranty (you'll need it) and so apart from an inconvenience here or there you will encounter the odd issue which will be treated without drama and for free.