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Got my car back today, no difference whatsoever.
I assume you are talking about the rattle. I had the same problem with a rattle coming from the passenger side door. I believe it is caused by the plastic on the lower aspect of the door panel rubbing against the metal door. I placed some insulation foam and that seemed to take care of the rattle. There is a thread by @cottony discussing the same problem.
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I assume you are talking about the rattle. I had the same problem with a rattle coming from the passenger side door. I believe it is caused by the plastic on the lower aspect of the door panel rubbing against the metal door. I placed some insulation foam and that seemed to take care of the rattle. There is a thread by @cottony discussing the same problem.
I think i have a few threads on rattles
sunroof rattle
door rattle

basically, i just stuff foam into every crack and crevice of my car 😆 "when in doubt, stuff it out"

there's still a couple rattles that occur just below my tolerance threshold, so I'm too lazy to investigate them further. i think at some point i just need to accept that this is a 5000lb hunk of metal moving at highway speeds and it's not gonna be completely silent lol
 

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I think i have a few threads on rattles
sunroof rattle
door rattle

basically, i just stuff foam into every crack and crevice of my car 😆 "when in doubt, stuff it out"

there's still a couple rattles that occur just below my tolerance threshold, so I'm too lazy to investigate them further. i think at some point i just need to accept that this is a 5000lb hunk of metal moving at highway speeds and it's not gonna be completely silent lol
I think any rattle is more noticeable because the cabin is so quiet! Probably unable to notice these types of faint rattles in the ICE cars…
 

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The dealership performed the eight hour massive “software Module Extension” VR28.11 the other day (actually over several days) but it still did not fully, completely download. What was successfully downloaded solved quite a few issues but some remain (including my intermittent driver’ rear lights failing but which they now feel is solely software related). They are now re-loading some of the 28.11 module install. There is a 15 page Tech instruction manual on how it is to be done. Within those instructions pages are required time outs such as: “after doing this step, let the car still, locked, for three hours before performing the next part of the download.”

Glad I have a good Porsche loaner.
 

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The dealership performed the eight hour massive “software Module Extension” VR28.11 the other day (actually over several days) but it still did not fully, completely download. What was successfully downloaded solved quite a few issues but some remain (including my intermittent driver’ rear lights failing but which they now feel is solely software related). They are now re-loading some of the 28.11 module install. There is a 15 page Tech instruction manual on how it is to be done. Within those instructions pages are required time outs such as: “after doing this step, let the car still, locked, for three hours before performing the next part of the download.”

Glad I have a good Porsche loaner.
Mine has been at the dealer since Monday for this update. 🤦🏽‍♂️
 


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Mine took 1.5 days. Does someone have a list with things that have been fixed? Didn’t notice a single change 🤔
 

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Why are these software updates so complicated. Coming from Tesla and Rivian and hearing lots of good things from BMWs current gen software this is really disappointing Porsche is using archaic models of programming and updating. Legacy auto needs to get their act together.
 

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Porsche’s are better made; they handle, brake, steer, and corner better. Software is regrettably not their forte.
 

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Porsche + software = :facepalm:
 


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At least, there are ways to find the changelogs: hopefully the nhtsa will survive …
 

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Update after two weeks at the dealership they are sure that they were able (took several tries) to completely and successfully download VR28.11/WSD0, but yet cannot rule out that there might other issues remaining. They are committed to fixing everything, i.e., the Shop Foreman is personally working on ours, but has asked for two more days to confirm everything is now working perrfectly — including addressing for sure our 4-time intermittent failing entire rear quarter, driver’s side lights work 100% from now on. Hopefully next week they will have full confidence that all is working perfectly and release it back to us.

The ole expression, “Patience Grasshopper,” is what we have been, are still living…
 
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Update after two weeks at the dealership they are sure that they were able (took several tries) to completely and successfully download VR28.11/WSD0, but yet cannot rule out that there might other issues remaining. They are committed to fixing everything, i.e., the Shop Foreman is personally working on ours, but has asked for two more days to confirm everything is now working perrfectly — including addressing for sure our 4-time intermittent failing entire rear quarter, driver’s side lights work 100% from now on. Hopefully next week they will have full confidence that all is working perfectly and release it back to us.

The ole expression, “Patience Grasshopper,” is what we have been, are still living…
Your patience and attitude amazes me. I would like to think I would do the same in your situation but I’d be lying haha. Kudos to you!
 

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Thank you. Been around this planet for 78 years and our Macan is our 58th vehicle (new and used), so I have learned get to choose either chill or stress.

However, if nothing happens in another week, I will get progressively more “active” in my dealer conversations. At that point I will move from acquiescence with the ICE loaner they gave me to their finding an EV loaner for me, e.g., “How about instead a Taycan CT 4S loaner” will ask (they have two demonstrators like that that are being not often customer driven. Or just a wonderful Macan EV would be just fine…
 
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I honestly hope that your unfortunate experience is an outlier and not the norm for the Macan EV lineup and Macan EV owners. If your experience - multiple weeks in the shop for software updates - does become the new norm, it’s going to hurt Porsche financially as well as cast a shadow over the Macan.
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