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2012 Porsche Panamera Turbo Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Sep 5, 2017
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Apr 29, 2013

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2012 Porsche Panamera Turbo. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Electrical
Filed Sep 5, 2017

HORN INOPERATIVE. VEHICLE FAILED ANNUAL SAFETY INSPECTION DUE TO INOPERATIVE HORN. VEHICLE HAS APPROXIMATELY 53K MILES. DEALERSHIP REPAIR ESTIMATE OVER $900.

NHTSA ID
11021416
Incident
Aug 31, 2017
Mileage
53,000 mi
Powertrain (other)
Filed Apr 29, 2013

THE VEHICLE WAS BEING DRIVEN ON A CURVY FOUR LANE HIGHWAY. TRAFFIC SLOWED AND THE VEHICLE'S ACCELERATOR WAS PUSHED TO SPEED UP WHILE CHANGING LANES. THE PDK TRANSMISSION HESITATED TWO OR THREE SECONDS BEFORE ENGAGING THE SECOND CLUTCH - DURING WHICH THE CAR DID NOT ACCELERATE WHILE A CAR WAS RAPIDLY CLOSING IN - AND WHEN THE CLUTCH ENGAGED IT DID SO EXTREMELY HARD. THE ENGAGEMENT WAS SO HARD MY WIFE WAS LATER DIAGNOSED WITH WHIP LASH. THE ONCOMING CAR NARROWLY AVOIDED HITTING THE SEEMINGLY-STUCK-IN-NEUTRAL PORSCHE. IT WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME WE HAD NOTICED THE PDK HESITATING BETWEEN SHIFTS AND THEN BANGING INTO GEAR AND HAD REPORTED IT TO THE DEALERSHIP. THERE WERE NO CODES SHOWN BY THE DIAGNOSTIC COMPUTER SO THE DEALER AND THE WESTERN FIELD TECH WERE NOT ABLE TO FIX THE CAR. I THINK THE PROBLEM IS DANGEROUS AND I WOULD NOT LET MY WIFE DRIVE IT AFTER THAT. WE ARE SELLING IT, WHICH IS A SHAME AS WE HAD PREVIOUSLY OWNED FIVE OTHER PORSCHES. *TR

NHTSA ID
10510005
Incident
Mar 15, 2013
Mileage
8,100 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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