Car turns back on when I get out

[jwatte]

I really don't see Porsche's logic here.

The logic is that you just get out, and walk away like Charlies Angels, and the car locks down itself.

It's different from previous cards, but honestly, it's how it should be! Kind of how Waymo robots pop out the handles when you walk up to them. The future is automated!

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[W1NGE]

Perhaps this is the explanation & reason:

 

[TomekGnomek]

This does not explain why when turning off the vehicle with a turn on/off button and trying to leave it turns itself on again

 

[W1NGE]

This does not explain why when turning off the vehicle with a turn on/off button and trying to leave it turns itself on again

There is a setting in the central display which can be enabled (perhaps in error) and will remain on for 30 mins when exiting the car - did you read that at the bottom?

Be sure to hold the power button until the display goes off too if you want to perform the traditional method to turn off a car.

In any event the car is not actually "On" just the displays are lit up - this is "Readiness for Operation" rather than "Ready for Operation" (which requires a foot on the brake pedal and a gear to be selected) - and will ultimately go blank when you lock the car.

The instructions don't even suggest to power off the car when exiting just press P and that is another big clue that it is an unnecessary task but a hard habit to break.

 

[TomekGnomek]

There is a setting in the central display which can be enabled (perhaps in error) and will remain on for 30 mins when exiting the car - did you read that at the bottom?

No it's not that. When you park the car and turn it off with a power on/off button it actually turns itself off and all the screens go black. You cat sit in the car after that and it's off. But when you move (to get up and out) it turns itself back on. That's the issue.

 

[dnsacks]

No it's not that. When you park the car and turn it off with a power on/off button it actually turns itself off and all the screens go black. You cat sit in the car after that and it's off. But when you move (to get up and out) it turns itself back on. That's the issue.
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No it's not that. When you park the car and turn it off with a power on/off button it actually turns itself off and all the screens go black. You cat sit in the car after that and it's off. But when you move (to get up and out) it turns itself back on. That's the issue.

FWIW, the section of our owner’s manual entitled “stopping, parking and exiting vehicle” makes no mention of the power button and instead simply advises that one should press the park button and exit the vehicle. Instead, our owners manual indicates that the power button is used to manually switch “operational readiness” on and off and specifically instructs that “If operational readiness is switched off [by pressing the power button], the previously selected [pcm and comfort] settings are automatically saved for the selected account (Porsche ID) via the PCM and paired with the used vehicle key.”

Given the wonky user settings issues my wife and I suffered when we both used the power button to turn off our macan before exiting and the complete resolution of this issue once we stopped pressing the power button prior to exiting our Macan EV, it seems clear that Porsche does not intend for the power button to be used each time one’s done driving their Macan EV. Instead, the power button’s main purpose seems to be for storing any changes one’s made to pcm and comfort settings during their drive, as pressing the power button causes the Macan EV to “automatically save()” the pcm and comfort settings “for the selected account (Porsche ID) via the PCM“ and pair these new/changed settings with the vehicle key used to access/start the Macan EV at the beginning of the trip.

If the power button was simply provided to enable one to turn off the macan EV at the conclusion of a drive, Porsche would have incorporated the Macan EV’s save changes functionality elsewhere.

My (and my wife’s) macan ev driving experiences have become much better (no lost/changed comfort or pcm settings) since we both stopped using the power button at the end of our drives and instead simply hit park, close doors and walk away (to a locked door chirp).

I’m also still curious about whether the OP’s issue with his Macan EV turning on when he moves to exit his seat after hitting the power button stems from his macan EV’s ”comfort entry” feature being activated (comfort entry slides the driver’s seat back and steering wheel up to facilitate easier ingress/egress), which would require operational readiness to be reactivated to operate and whether turning off the comfort entry feature would allow operational readiness to stay off during the period between hitting the power button and closing the driver’s door.

I personally see no reason to use the power button during normal operation of our Macan EV unless I change a PCM/convenience setting during a drive and want to save the changed setting to my PCM/porsche ID and driver’s key memory.

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