I got the car back today. I submitted the NHTSA report. Frankly I think this was caused by my actions somehow, and I think the others may blame it on themselves as well...
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Another front suspension control arm failure
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I got the car back today. I submitted the NHTSA report. Frankly I think this was caused by my actions somehow, and I think the others may blame it on themselves as well...
Picked up the revised fore links today. Will replace this weekend:
After rounds and rounds of email with Tesla to try and get them to tell my car is safe and that the existing links won't break, I've given up and am just going to replace them myself.
After rounds and rounds of email with Tesla to try and get them to tell my car is safe and that the existing links won't break, I've given up and am just going to replace them myself.
Forelink breaks frequently. Upper control arm breaks now and again.
Got it.
Everything is peachy.
Frequently breaking suspension components is never peachy. I drive 50K miles a year and have driven well over 1.5 million miles and have never had a suspension component fail. I keep cars for 300K miles typically.
Would it be possible to post a pic of the old fore links next to the revised ones? My used S is at about 45k miles and I don't know if I should be worried about this. Not sure how to check what I have.
Save your receipts; you'll likely be getting reimbursed at some point . . . .Picked up the revised fore links today. Will replace this weekend:
After rounds and rounds of email with Tesla to try and get them to tell my car is safe and that the existing links won't break, I've given up and am just going to replace them myself.
What exactly snapped? What month was your Tesla produced. It should already have had the revised forelink.
Isn't the part that failed part of the US Recall?
If so, how is the UK part different?
I'd posit that the entire repair should be a warranty/safety defect replacement and repair, no?
This isn't right; please escalate with your Tesla leadership team, and suggest a follow up complaint to the UK version of the US NHTSA--along with a copy of the recall.
As far as I am aware there have been no suspension related recalls in the US. (There have been power assist steering bolt recalls for the S&X.)
Just had this happen 6 days ago. Tesla replaced my MX90D's front left forelink... My car only has 13k km on it and it is 3 years old. It just snapped backing out of a spot, but then it drove as normal (I thought the sound was just the parking breaks at the time). Car drove normal for 5km, parked at work. But then when i took my car back out, there were scratching sounds when going down hill. Almost could not get out of the car park as the scratching got worst on the downslope. It was hard for the tow truck to get the car since it was in an indoor car park. Now I am afraid this will happen again when the car is no longer in warranty. Tesla said normally this would cost $400USD per leg to repair.
Interesting, another report of a snapped forelink on a car that will have the revised part.
Picked up the revised fore links today. Will replace this weekend:
After rounds and rounds of email with Tesla to try and get them to tell my car is safe and that the existing links won't break, I've given up and am just going to replace them myself.
Where did you refurbished them?
The forged links look better..... not so sure about those 2 part ball joint stems welded together.
I seem to recall a number of cases where those bolts snapped off near the weld.
[Speculation] Second-hand report of ball joint broken after parking
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I have a 6 month old 30k miles Model 3 which I just brought into service. Both left and right upper control arms were bad.
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