Recent content by Throtex

That's what kept me from starting it the next day. Screens came on, new messages saying 12V battery service needed / 12V battery depleted, then it all shut down. When the tow truck came, they had to splice in a different battery just to get to the screens and put it into tow mode. Couldn't jump it.

Here's the service invoice for the job for reference

Car is back in commission and driving great. Was ready yesterday but couldn't pick it up until this morning due to a meeting. All-in-all it was in their service department about three business days (including Saturday but not Sunday). The mechanic said that if it had been a rear drive unit, I...

(didn't see a way to edit posts, sorry) A couple more things: - They estimate having it back to me Monday or Tuesday. Let's see how that goes. - The only negative I've had in this experience is that the service advisor left me a message saying that the front drive unit needed to be replaced...

So a quick update. For folks saying I'm handling this well for a car with only 175 miles, I'm actually finding the whole experience sort of humorous. But that was my point regarding the Model 3: if this were someone's commuter car, or a true reach vehicle that was really their baby -- Tesla, get...

Hey folks. Just picked up my S-P90DL about a week ago (April 7), and last night I got the dreaded "front motor disabled" as I was accelerating from a light (at around 175 miles on the odo ... new record?). It wasn't terribly dramatic, just a bit of wheel spin as AWD went away. The car ran fine...