Recent content by gjlian

Great comment !! I love the analogies :). I was fortunate enough to meet someone last year who had worked for Ford for over 37 years. He was 87 yrs old and I asked him what he thought about electric cars and the industry in general. He said he absolutely thinks that EV's will be main mode of...

This is an extremely well written post. The only issue I think that is sometimes left out of this and many discussions on AP is the fact that it "lulls the driver" into a false sense of security. You need to always be vigilant when driving with or w/o AP. As I see it AP works very well 99% of...

Tesla service replaced the control arm at no cost so that wasn't an issue for me. My only concern is that this should never have happened and is indicative of either a design flaw or manufacturing defect.

Does anybody know if the front end of the Model S has been modified at all since March of 2017 to address this ?

Looks like it was manufactured in March of 2017..

Not exactly sure of that. Is there an easy way to find out ?

I dont mind at all but the part has been replaced already by Tesla service. There was no charge so I'd say they accepted the fact that there was an issue and/or defective part.

I just had a very disappointing experience with my 2017 Model S 75D. The lower control arm on the drivers side had a complete catastrophic failure for no apparent reason. I didnt exactly know what happened at first. It sounded like something had snapped (which it did) and then a loud scraping...

Yes, I can relate to your position. I just had a very negative experience with Tesla service. I love the car (Model S 75D) but I really cannot say too many great things about the service experience