Recent content by xyskis

Mine was actually grey/white, typo and couldn’t edit my original post in time. Pick up Thursday, maybe sooner.

I asked

Oops. Meant grey exterior. Sorry for the accidental trolling.

Order Date: 1/12 (3rd model Y) Estimated Delivery Date: January to March, then January 23 to February 6 Scheduled Delivery: 1/26 Configuration: Blue exterior, white interior. After-delivery tow package VIN Details: Manufactured in Fremont a few days ago.

No, the service manager did it of their own volition. Once they did, realized a picture might be helpful to the folks here so I snapped it with their permission.

Macadam

Yes, I think that’s how they diagnosed it.

So this is the perimeter seal in question. The problem was that the foam seal was misaligned during the pack/frame mating process such that the gasket seal wasn’t complete, allowing ingress of sound. The above photo is my perimeter seal and I’ve circled the area where the imprint of the mating...

Yes

I offered to go with him but he took it himself and had no issue recognizing 1 abnormal noise and 2 origin rear drive unit.

The service will be in 2.5 weeks and is estimated to take 4 hours of technician time. Not sure what’s involved but I wouldn’t be surprised and wouldn’t be too concerned if they needed to drop the battery to install the seal.

I took my vehicle in for service today. The technician was able to reproduce the noise and identified it as abnormal. Based on information on this thread, I mentioned that one possibility was a missing perimeter sealed but obviously if there’s a broad differential of possibilities. They indeed...

I don’t mind that sound. This is a slightly lower frequency whine than that of the vehicle under heavy acceleration but is louder and grating even at constant speed under minimal load. We put 25k miles on our ‘21 MY and don’t mind the acceleration/regen noise at all; this is different and terrible.

There's a noticeable increased rear drive unit whine in our 2022 MY LR AWD as compared to our 2021 cruising at any constant speed and most noticeable <50 mph (probably because other noises start to become more prominent above). It's the first thing my wife noticed when driving and the frequency...

They did for me during my delivery today though admittedly I plied the hardworking delivery team with beer and biscuits! They were great!