Recent content by warraqeen

As OP, I thought I’d just finish off this thread from my point of view. At the start of September, I talked to another Tesla Service employee who sounded genuinely horrified at the fact that my ordering, driving and service experiences have all been absolute disasters. He repeated many times...

Looks to me as though you’re talking about Forward Collision Warnings, and there’s certainly an option to turn them off (but I *think* if you choose “off” rather than, say, “late” it might turn itself back on the next time you drive the car - I can’t check as mine is still away being worked on)...

I’ve written a letter that I thought I’d send to the head of Tesla Europe on the matter of unwanted/dangerous corrective steering events. From what I can tell, that person would be Mark Hewitt, but I haven’t yet found an address for him. Anyone out there know where I could send my letter? I...

Thanks for taking the time to share that! And I quite agree with your conclusion. In my case, it will take many hundreds of hours of trouble-free driving to erase the experience of one major scare. You don’t need a car to steer you towards danger many times - or even make you think it’s going to...

Really appreciate you sharing your experience, thanks! My current thought is that I’ll write to someone fairly high up in Tesla Europe and ask for a definitive ruling on this issue. Alarms that make accidents more rather than less likely to happen are not to be taken lightly in my opinion, even...

I’m looking forward to the day when it’s easy to buy an old gas-powered car retrofitted to be electric. I reckon an older LeSabre could be a good candidate for that. I haven’t driven a LeSabre for about 20 years (coincidentally) but I remember them being about as comfortable as my living room...

Thanks so much for commenting! Your post was both exactly what I was hoping for and exactly what I feared. It would be much easier if my car is the problem rather than the roads. Aberdeenshire, like Wiltshire, has a lot of narrow, winding roads with what I think are called “soft verges”, i.e...

Thanks for taking the time to read and reply. I appreciate it. Yes, this “Road Departure Detected - Corrective Steering Applied” seems to be a pretty rare message. So much so that most people (including, I think, the folks at the Service Centre) sometimes seem to think that I’m talking about...

I tried this, BTW, for the last few alarms I got before taking the car in. But my local Service Centre told me that they don’t have access to these logged service messages. They told me that they go straight to Engineering and the repair team can’t see them. Sounds farfetched, but that’s what...

Thanks, All. I think this thread might have served its purpose as far as it can. I got my S back and the little bit of good news is that they fixed the auto-present handles problem. I can unlock the car now by approaching it with the key fob. Never been able to do that before and it’s apparently...

Mini-update: My S is at the Service Centre and is apparently undergoing a “firmware upgrade”. I haven‘t been able to find out much about the software stack of Teslas, so I don’t know what lives in firmware, but I’m assuming it’s closer to the hardware than the typical OTA software upgrade, so...

Thanks! Every owner I learn about who never gets spurious alarms gets me a bit closer to getting mine fixed, I reckon. It’s something more to tell the Service Centre people when they’re being noncommittal about whether there’s a problem or not.

Oh, wow! That’s really very kind of you. Your point certainly makes sense: that the car would be more concerned about crossing a line on the road if there’s no clear sign (i.e steering wheel pressure) that it’s intentional. On the other hand, I’m one of these old-fashioned types that always (and...

That’s very kind, thanks! And yes, problems are unavoidable, but if they’re combined with feeling ignored they become a real irritation. I happened to buy my car during the early days of lockdown and I guess Tesla were really short of staff for a while. I couldn’t get anyone on the phone and no...

That’s a great tip, thanks. I’ll definitely try that if tomorrow’s Service Centre visit doesn’t yield some results. You mentioned problems with Lane Departure Warnings; do you ever get issues with Road Departure Detected warnings? Those seem to cause me the most trouble and be the most...