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2017 S100D No Acceleration above 85 MPH !
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In Texas I ran into this, speed limit 85 MPH and people in slow lane at 85MPH. Coming up an on ramp, I needed to merge. I was over 90MPH to get a space between cars then slowed to 85 MPH. Trivial merge with Nicki, dangerous with an 85 MPH cap.
IANATE, but I would doubt it. You have full control of the car for the duration. Loaners and demos and whatever, make sense. Lease, no.
I punched my car on a local highway, and I was over 80 in a heartbeat. <eek> Have I gone over 85? Not so sure... Need to get out 66 some weekend and see....
It's a little harder for those of us in Metro DC than in Colorado, etc.!
This kind of issues makes me feel very sad. These items should clearly be part of a checklist. Missing/forgetting to clear a software restriction when selling the car just says basic processes have not been set right. Such mistakes dent customer confidence a great deal, in my opinion. If they forgot this, what else did they forget?
The other day I went for my annual service, and had requested realignment of washer nozzles. They offered to completely replace them with the new style. I was super happy with the experience, wrote a positive service review after I got my car back - thought it was much needed given all the negativity lately. My mistake - did not check everything at pick up. I found the next day one of my key fobs was not working, had to be replaced. This had to be part of service checklist. And then a week or so later, when it rained, I found wipers were not working, at all. This could have potentially led to some very dangerous situations. I took the car to the SC, and they found that they forgot to reconnect power to wipers. The plug was just hanging lose under the hood - which means after installing new nozzles, they never tested it.
To me, inability to fix everything reported at service is a smaller dent to Tesla confidence than basic systems (such as going through checklists) not being in place, or not being taken seriously.
The other day I went for my annual service, and had requested realignment of washer nozzles. They offered to completely replace them with the new style. I was super happy with the experience, wrote a positive service review after I got my car back - thought it was much needed given all the negativity lately. My mistake - did not check everything at pick up. I found the next day one of my key fobs was not working, had to be replaced. This had to be part of service checklist. And then a week or so later, when it rained, I found wipers were not working, at all. This could have potentially led to some very dangerous situations. I took the car to the SC, and they found that they forgot to reconnect power to wipers. The plug was just hanging lose under the hood - which means after installing new nozzles, they never tested it.
To me, inability to fix everything reported at service is a smaller dent to Tesla confidence than basic systems (such as going through checklists) not being in place, or not being taken seriously.
BrokerDon
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Hey at least you didn't have your Tesla's 155 mph advertised top speed limited to 130 mph. Our P85D was built between Dec 2014 and March 2015 and the speed sensor on the rear motor needed replacing to enable 155 mph top speed. It was a warranty replacement (if the customer requests it). Had our Tesla SC check the speed sensor and replace as per Bulletin SB-15-40-001 which requires Tesla to replace Motor speed sensor 1002722-00-C My P85D doesn't go past 133MPH. I thought the limit was 155MPH?
First world problems...
First world problems...
You would think with all the paperless (which never really happened) delivery, servicing would be the same: a process would be on an iPad, and the steps would be 1,2,3,4. Including plugging in the wipers, in this case!
Again, people may think they know what they are doing, and don't (re-)read the checklist!
Similar story. Purchased a Showroom/Loaner S100D with 1,100 miles. Read this or similar thread, realized the car seemed to lose thrust above 80 mph. Emailed Tesla support, a week later they had removed Demo mode limitation. Also assured me it was uncorked. Not much later took it out one night, ensured the battery was warmed up then confirmed there was a lot more pep in its high speed step.
Captainvideo
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Doesn't always have to be the case to make high speed merging more sensible.
My golden rule of driving: All traffic problems can be solved by accelerating harder! Just some people need to do that over a cliff.
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