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Additional update: The recall-replaced power steering rack died completely (after being intermittent), a bit over a year and 6000 miles since it was replaced. Tesla wants $4,000 to replace it again! Gotta make up for all the cash that Tesla is bleeding somehow. Correction: $4,745.63 out the...

Additional follow up: A year after the rack was replaced, the power steering has gone stupid again. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't when you get in the car. A software update came along which caused the dead steering to start working again for another week, then dead again. This doesn't...

Follow up: I followed the suggestion to do an executive escalation and it paid off. Two days after I escalated, Tesla found a steering rack for me and did the repair under good will. They also replaced the carpet in the back that was moldy from rain filling the rear hatch on occasion, and...

My steering rack failed two weeks ago just before the recall (March 2013 P85, 27k miles). The service center in Santa Barbara has had the car since then, with no ETA on replacement parts. They also think that it would be cool if I paid $2800+ to fix it. Their position is that since the recall...

This one may be a winner - 1 degree of rear toe out. A bit squirrely with throttle at high speed, and corded rear tires at 3800 miles. Tesla service in Van Nuys elected to not provide me with new tires, pretty much cementing my low opinion of their version of "service".

Beats me - I'm the NASA guy William mentions. It seemed pretty consistent - around 20 seconds, maybe less of full throttle and the power limit would cut in (seemed like more of a timed shut off than a temperature one, as the day warmed up by 20F but the problem didn't get worse). At Laguna...

Since you hijacked your own thread... My P85 pulls really hard to at least 100 (I've only flogged it to about 105 so far). The panel gaps were quite nice on mine - you'd need calipers and a reason to be crabby to find anything. But my front passenger seat belt has a twist in it, which causes...

William, Careful driving in surface street traffic (don't jackrabbit, carefully time regen braking, only touch the brakes to keep from rolling) it is easy to beat 300 WH/mile. By a lot if you channel your Prius. On a 50 mile freeway drive at 72 mph (steady cruise control the whole way) the...