2021 Model 3 Vibrating in park

[TBrownTX]

Yep, mine does this too. The vibration is usually followed by a slight "breath" from the in car ventilation.. like a push of air into the cabin.

It can make all the noise it wants, I love the car. LOL

 

[clerks]

Is it pretty much decided that this is normal 2021 model 3 behavior? I noticed this today while in park. It does it twice in a row then stops for about 30 seconds. Then again.

 

[Faun2]

My 2019 just started doing this. It feels like 2-3 little earthquakes shaking the car from under the driver seat every few minutes. I sit in my car with the A/C on a lot running a pop-up drive-in and today was 100 degrees + so I bet it is the compressor. Just the first time I’ve ever felt it or whatever it is.

 

[toddkageals]

Update: I've had my car about 4 months. The weather has changed from cold (needing heat in the car), to hot (needing cooling in the car). The deep bass rumbling sound stopped at some point. Have not heard it for a couple of months. Beats me! The only change that I know of is that it got MUCH hotter outside.

 

[clerks]

Update: I've had my car about 4 months. The weather has changed from cold (needing heat in the car), to hot (needing cooling in the car). The deep bass rumbling sound stopped at some point. Have not heard it for a couple of months. Beats me! The only change that I know of is that it got MUCH hotter outside.

Mine doesn’t do this anymore either.

 

[MikeyC]

Mine doesn’t do this anymore either.

Ditto. Mine either. My guess is it only vibrates like that when the car is demanding heat. Now that it is always demanding AC, I hear a sound sometimes but no rumble/vibration.

Mike

 

[toddkageals]

Interesting.....maybe it only does it when it's producing/moving heat into the cabin.

 

[TBrownTX]

Interesting.....maybe it only does it when it's producing/moving heat into the cabin.

Or maybe fixed with a software update? I don’t remember it being cold when the condition happened originally, I live in Texas.

Tim

 

[Gasaraki]

Or maybe fixed with a software update? I don’t remember it being cold when the condition happened originally, I live in Texas.

Tim

Everyone in the US knows that is gets cold in Texas...

 

[TBrownTX]

Everyone in the US knows that is gets cold in Texas...

LOL. Well not in April/May when I was noticing the vibrating.

Tim

 

[MikeyC]

LOL. Well not in April/May when I was noticing the vibrating.

Tim

I'm in FL and noticed it in April. It was by no means cold but what happens is even if it is slightly cool overnight and is warm when you enter the car, the interior could still be a couple degrees below the set point. That happened to me several times where it was probably 75-78F in the garage and I had my HVAC set to 72... and the car would demand heat for maybe 30 seconds or so when I first got in. Once I backed out and started moving, it'd switch to AC. It was during the time it commanded heat that I felt the vibration although on my car, it was subtle enough that it didn't feel like too much of a problem.

Mike