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When leaving a highway, when does the switch from V11 happen to V12? Is there an obvious tell? I ask because I noticed some jerky movements when pulling up to a light after leaving the highway--I'm wondeirng if that's V11. V11 also makes sense as to why exit ramps feel so mechanical and...

This is what I want to know.

Granted it sounds like the accident you linked had to do with Autopilot lane centering while lanes split, and then a median appeared between the two split lanes. The guy driving wasn't paying attention and should be at fault, however I still see this issue in Autopilot today, 6 years later...

Right, sounds like a 2020 with stalks. And also sounds like it was more steering error and lack of stopping (and drunk error) rather than the wrong gear. "The report stated that the camera then captured the car lurching toward a wooden barrier, reversing, turning to the left without stopping...

I won't understand how WaPo could define "rolling tire marks" as "the motor continued to feed power to the wheels after impact". Aren't rolling tire marks....marks made from a tire, while the car is in motion, aka...rolling? Giving WaPo the benefit of the doubt, I wonder if perhaps when they...

Here's another article with a bit more info (and a large amount of sensationalism/misinformation) https://www.denver7.com/news/investigations/fatal-tesla-crash-in-evergreen-now-part-of-federal-investigation The important bit though is this: Here's a google maps link to the crash location...

I'm on my second FDU. This first one made the noise at 50-80 mph like you are saying, very annoying for highway driving. The SC replaced the first under warranty (it took a battle to get it done) and the new one makes it from about 35-55 mph, so I hear it around town, but it goes away at...

That's gear whine, aka the noise the gears make when they mesh together. Not the noise in this thread. The gear whine in your example does sound a bit louder than normal but hard to say if it's an issue.

Probably depends on the car, mine tend to do it in <45F. You can sometime hear it <60F, but it's very faint. <30F and it's loud. But again likely depends on the car.

If this is a manufacturing defect, and say hypothetically 50% of FDUs produced have this issue, then the replacement would have a 50% of having the issue. Hard to determine what that percentage really is (unless your Tesla), but my guess is pretty high. Very anecdotal/small sample size, but...

I think you might be right on with this theory. Supported by the fact that way way back in this thread, it Tesla themselves called said the issue was "one of the bearings in the drive unit that was replaced previously was burnt out, likely came that way from the factory" (this was...

I read elsewhere that a lot of these out of order stalls is caused snow/ice caked inside the connector for the supercharger cable. Then the person who tries to charge finds it doesn't work (can't plug the connector all the way in), and then reports that stall as broken. Is this what's going on...

So I ended up putting small pieces of felt tape between the plastic door trim and the painted surface of the door itself. I used a plastic pry tool to lift the door trim a tiny bit and then slipped the felt tape in, sticking to the door surface. It's black paint (not my car below), black trim...

B pillar area could be the seat belt assembly, those seem to have a history of rattling. You could try to get someone else to drive the car so you can hunt for the noise yourself. When you move your head around/get closer to the noise, you can really help zero in on the source. Also if you...

This was definitely the cause of a rattle on my passenger side. I actually just shoved a little piece of foam in the hole and it fully quieted the problem. Funny enough, Sandy Munro actually raved about how smart Tesla was for removing this exact snap and saving 20 cents 🤦🏻‍♂️

If it only occurs above a certain speed, I doubt it's on the interior--it's likely something exterior caused by wind. This especialy sounds true if it happens on roads without bumps at higher speeds. Check out this plastic trim piece that can flop around, I had a lot of noise coming from...

If it's over a certain speed, it's likely to be wind interacting with something on the outside. The rear of the wheel liners seem to be a common source (foam tape or even just wedging foam in there temporary to see if that fixes it). Also check under the car from behind the wheel back, tap on...

This is pretty discerning if true. It could mean something in the FDU running dry and could be wearing out prematurely. The cold makes oil more viscous and less likely to splash around and coat everything well. Theroteically they should've designed it such that this wouldn't' be a problem...

You could try to get them to replace it again? But that might be an uphill battle. You could try to lemon law the car or just live with it. I've also had the FDU replaced once and it still makes the noise (at lower speeds), and my SC is very frustrating to deal with. When cold/winter comes...

Yup. Now you have about a coin flip as to whether the noise is gone or not.

Does anyone have any experience with this noise sort of ticking noise coming from the rear door? You might have to turn the volume up a bit to hear it: It usually occurs on a bit rougher highways, and comes and goes. I took off the door panel and applied felt tape to a bunch of connectors...

Thanks for the info George, I'm still sitting on my Purple seat cushion but eventually I'll get around to doing these mods too and this info will be very helpful. Also one thing to note, the Tesla manual says it's a Torx T45 plus. A regular T45 might work, but I'd worry about stripping it...

You could try to put something gripy between the liner and the seat, maybe some shelf liner? Although you might want to sew it to the bottom of the pet liner to keep it in place. Alternatively, you could try to apply some silicone in a few patterns on the bottom of the liner to give it more...

This is how I normally have it. It sticks out a lot in a bunch of places but the material is very soft and pliable so it doesn't bother me: It's a bit longer on one side, so this is if you put it with the longer side going front to back (vs the privious picutres, which is longer side...

Probably not the exact fix people want, but S3XY buttons will let you disable auto-wipers when in autopilot. The device is a bit pricey ($220), but has a setting that will just turn the wipers off whenever autopilot/TACC is enabled. It's is a little ODBII adapter that talks to wireless buttons...

Take a look here: Model Y passenger side dash rattle and rubbing noise

The web browser probably works? You should test it. It either does or it doesn't. If you don't rigorously test this stuff out, I can't help you. One theory would be the wifi antenna/cabling is bad, however if you say you the web browser works on wifi, that theory wouldn't make sense. Also...

I actually might have rattle too. When you say dash cover do you mean the wooden trim piece? When it was making the noise, could you reproduce the sound just by tapping on that wooden strip on the passenger side?

I'm sorry to hear you're having these issues, but you're describing a different problem than the one in this thread. I only have issues with Spotify. Streaming music, Netflix, youtube, etc work perfectly fine for me. That being said, I suppose I can't resist helping. Do you have these...

So the front drive unit and motor are directly linked to the front wheels. Meaning when the wheels spin, the motor spins (about 9 times faster). So if a bearing in the front drive unit makes noise while spinning, this will happen regardless of the front drive unit actually providing power...

Oh mine doesn't go away with power increase, I can hear it from hard acceleration (up to when the front motors turn on, then it's hard to tell) down to hard regen. And it goes away during right turns regardless of power (increasing speed, decreasing, maintaining). And I don't mean is faint...

Agree this would be a nice feature, but just as a note, if you do a short blinker while sort of turning the wheel a bit, you wont' have to force the wheel. The blinker will sort of remove the "lock" that keeps the car centered and you can complete the lane change. It might take a few tries to...

I'm somewhat doubtful it's electrical in origin (EMI or otherwise), I think it's physical. At least in my car, taking a hard right makes the noise go away during the turn. I can't see any way that mechanical loading caused by the right turn would cause an electrical noise go away. I already...

So what I'm using is a cheap pc mic hermetically sealed to a magnet with epoxy. If you stick the magnet to steel motor mounting bolt, it acts as a sort of mechanical stethoscope. Lets you hear "into" the motor. A regular mic would just pick up road noise etc. You might still hear the noise...

If it's coming from the rear, I have to wonder if they're even talking about the same noise at that point. There's a lot of different noises the drive units can make. That being said, I should hook up my magnet/microphone to the rear unit and see if I can hear the same noise. Feeding a cable...

Did both replacements fully fix the issue? It seems like about half the replacements on here still make the same noise...

I seemed to have a found a bug. If the wipers are set to off, the increment +0.5 doesn't work. It works if the wipers are set to auto on the car, but not off. Commander is version 3.3.11, 2022 M3LR is 2023.2.12.

That's interesting. Purely mechanical is what I was suspecting too and would align with what Tesla is saying is wrong (bearing issue). Wonder if he kept the oil pump on when he disabled the front drive unit, I would sort of hope so... Also just as an FYI with these cars, the front/rear drive...

I hear what sounds like a loud rattle and also the cricket sound in the background. The rattle would drive me nuts first, but the high pitch noise does sound like our noise.

Have you found others complaining about this noise somewhere besides this thread?

There agree there might be several different sounds/issues at play. That's why I encourage everyone to record the sound and share it with the group to confirm it's the same sound. At the very least please review my previous posts that have recordings of the sound and recordings of things that...

This is the noise we're talking about on this thread (I've boosted the volume a bunch): Also who177e's video above demonstrates is perfectly And here are a bunch of unrelated high pitch noises that are different than the one we're talking about on this thread (some of which are cause by bad...

Yeah your whole experience sounds familiar. Even in the same shop, I've seen very different responses from techs. So the sound is around 10kHz, which ends up being out the hearing range of many older adults. I agree that hearing loss probably impacts that even more. I think in these cases...

If it's coming from the rear, that's likely a different problem. Do you have a recording of it?

Yeah I've been using mine for a month or two, amazing how comfortable it its, even if it means the bottom seat heater is effectively useless. Just remember to be careful with summer temps, they say it's not supposed to go above 105F.

Yeah I remember seeing those videos too, and it's suspicious how similar sounding it is. From pitch to even the way it comes and goes randomly. But the circumstances are just so different (the car was stationary in those videos) I have to wonder if it's just a coincidence. Another thing you...

So a few things to note about the front motor. Since it's an induction motor that's less efficient than the rear fixed magnet, Tesla's algorithms don't turn it on unless you're at low speeds (0-16mph ish) or you're accelerating hard. You can see this quite clearly using ScanMyTesla, it'll show...

Yeah I had that once with a tech. On one test drive he was like oh yeah I hear it (it was loud and obvious), then they spend 4 days with the car fixing "wind noise". The same tech and I go on another drive and he claims not to hear it (when it was again being obvious). I'm confident he was...

I don't have it, I've only heard it exists from RafidTM3. My guess is it's an internal Telsa doc and the best we could do is get a service rep to give us the article number or id. Maybe thermal expansion? Hard to say. Also I'm not sure anyone has confirmed it's a wheel bearing, the only thing...

I'm also having constant issues with Spotify. The play/pause button will just spin endless when trying to play content. I'll try switching to Streaming, which plays perfectly, and then switch back but that rarely fixes it. Album art in Spotify loads, so something is getting back from their...