Recent content by dbsb3233

A Cayenne EV would have been a consideration had it already been available, but we're OK with the Macan as the "smaller" car (more medium, actually). We don't need two big cars, and it still meets my preferred minimum height of ~64". The gravity is 65" so not much taller, but I'll probably be...

Good point. Yes, tariffs are always a complicated subject because they're often applied to unrelated items since particular products are often stronger one way than the other. One country may not import much XXX from the other so they choose YYY as retaliation. The light truck tariff you...

For most of that I agree. On principle, tariffs should be zero (free trade). But keep in mind that tariffs on auto imports are not new. The US has had a 2.5% tariff on EU auto imports for many years (most people just never knew that's already factored into pricing). And the EU has had 10%...

Tariffs are undesirable policy from both sides, but it's worth noting that for a long time, the EU has had a 10% tariff on US automobiles while we only applied a 2.5% tariff to theirs. It's been that way for years, before the attempts to balance that this year.

Keep in mind that price negotiation is often on the table too, if your dealer will deal. I bought from lot inventory last month and negotiated the $98k+ MSRP down to $92k. Edmunds pegged the fair price at just over $91k but I was happy to get that close given the tariff uncertainty. I printed...

Before we bought an inventory car last month, we tried to order one to spec. We selected deviated stitching because we wanted stitching, not understanding that regular stitching was already included. Glad we didn't continue with the order route and waste money on that. Anyway, in the order...

Actually I'm getting one. :cool: The Macan EV is primarily my partner's car, although at this point I drive it just as much as he does. My new car will be a Lucid Gravity in about 6 months. The IP sits above the steering wheel on that one. I should be able to set that one nice and low and...

Raises hand! I'm 6'1" too and love a high seating position. Easier to slide in/out of the car, and marginally better visibility. I'd like a taller vehicle in general, but that's tough in an EV because they're so aerodynamics-focused for range. So 64" is about as good as it gets. Thus why the...

I'm running into a lot of that too. Sometimes it links one phone, sometimes the other. Sometimes it changes the seats/mirrors, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes one mirror changes and the other doesn't. Another thing that drives me up the wall is the SiriusXM favorites. Sometimes the seek...

I think it opens right away. Our Plug&Charge didn't work yet the day after we bought the car and drove it home 1000 miles, so I had to use the app. That sometimes took too me too long to activate and the door would close before I was ready to plug in. I remember just hand-palming it again and...

Yeah, it's not the method I'd have chosen. When you couldn't get it open earlier, did you try to open it from the inside? The little car icon in the lower-left corner of the PCM pulls up the open buttons for the liftgate, frunk, and both charge port doors. It would be nice if the car were...

https://www.macanevowners.com/forum/threads/is-your-homelink-range-short.21619/page-2#post-324682

I guess the "manual way" would be considered using the 1-2-3 door buttons. Those do seem to work OK, it's just a bit annoying to have to hit those when getting in the car each time (or many times, at least). And that you have to hold the button down until it finishes all the mirror/seat moves...

I never had to be concerned with elevation differences in ICE vehicles, but it plays a huge role in EVs because of shorter vehicle range. I keep an elevation app on my phone to check and see if there's big elevation changes along my route between DCFC stops. A few thousand feet difference can...

It's possible there's a setting and I'm just looking in the wrong place. I think this will just be another in the long list of "just have to keep playing with it to figure out what the car will and won't do" things. We've only had it 11 days and it may take 11 months to sort it all out. We...