STE$LAR
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just shows how much Tesla Service/Elon Musk cares about cars that have parts that have manufacturing defects,which can cause serious injuries.is yours a P85? a high percentage of P models have subframe failures where the drive unit is mounted to the frame are flanges made out of thin aluminum welded to the aluminum sub frame the torque from the Performance is to much for those flanges they crack off and sometimes the crack continues onto the sub frame. tesla refuses to fix it as "good will".that is a major design flaw. Did you get your emmc upgraded to 64gb under the recall yet? Tesla service tries their hardest to 1 avoid doing it as long as possible 2 try selling you a Lte mcu as replacement to make $ on a recall. There are many more scandalous things tesla does and continues to do.Elon said that eventually the model s will last 1,000,000 miles he first needs to last 100,000 miWife was backing down our 1% grade driveway on Tuesday AM to go to work, turn wheels to back onto our side street and "Bang" the drivers side wheel is tilted at some weird angle. She called me out and I found a piece of aluminum with a two fracture points on it. We carefully move the car off the road into our driveway blocking our garage and 3 other cars. I hit the Service App and they tell me that I can't get an appoint until 6 October IN ANOTHER STATE!
I jump in my car and head to the local SC in Tysons and ask for the control arm part, told they can't sell it to me. Then they call someone else and tell me that they can. They bring out the wrong part after I already paid for it.($295)...no returns! I'm like FUK it get the AFT front control link for a 2016 AWD, he returns with the $265 part, doesn't tell me to get the other side as well, so I am headed back to get that tomorrow.
I jack the car up, pull the wheel (I hate these cheap ass acorn crush nuts they use - wasted time removing wheel with nuts they had already stripped- replacing with Gorilla Nuts) remove the wheel liner and a couple of clips from the belly pan (didn't have to remove many as Tesla failed to replace 9 of the clips and two screws at the last service explains the flapping sound on the highway). 22MM bolt released from frame knuckle in about 5 minutes, 21MM bolt at the wheel hub released in another 5 minutes using an T25 Torx to keep the ball joint from spinning.
Done. This could have killed my wife, my 22 year old daughter or me and its a known issue....what if she had been doing 70MPH and slammed into the concert barrier lined highway with no shoulder on the way to work? We got lucky as hell. I am so fukking pissed at Tesla right now. I have come off ramps in this car doing triple digits.... never again...don't trust it anymore.
Headed to the NHTSA site to file a report next...
Hey NHTSA, if you want the part, call me I will FEDEX to you for analysis... this had nothing to do with an impact, you should see the difference in the weight and engineering of the new link... Tesla freaking knows this OEM part from 2016 is an issue... cheap bastards are going to kill someone.
Link to NHTSA and question they will ask:
Report a Safety Problem | NHTSA
File a complaint with NHTSA if you experienced a vehicle, tire, car seat or equipment safety problem that could be a safety defect.www.nhtsa.gov
When describing what happened, try to answer these questions as specifically as possible:
- What component or system failed or malfunctioned, and is it available for inspection upon request?
- Suspension Component: LH Front Aft Control Link - I will provide the damaged/exploded part via FEDEX to your office
- How was your safety or the safety of others put at risk?
- Loss of vehicle control, flying/exploding metal debris from highly torqued part.
- Has the problem been reproduced or confirmed by a dealer or independent service center?
- Yes see link to Another front suspension control arm failure
- Has the vehicle or component been inspected by the manufacturer, police, insurance representatives or others?
- Vehicle Manufacturer could not get the car in for inspection for 3 weeks (in another state), owner is a former mechanic, who acquired massively reengineered part from Tesla and installed himself, documenting damaged Front LH Aft Control Link fracture
- Were there any warning lamps, messages or other symptoms of the problem prior to the failure, and when did they first appear?
- Zero warning before part exploded/fractured at 70,736 miles on a MY 2016 Model S.
Here are the pics
He should uograde all MCU1's to MCU2 on his dime. they were s**t from the start. plus the model S is his flagship car. How much would it cost him? they sale the upgrade for$1500-$2000 so say 50% mark up 300,000 cars had the mcu1 minus 50,000 totaled/salvaged 250k say at $1000 mcu2 cost tesla =250m Elon net worth 200b+. for somebody who wants his cars to last 1m miles his service division needs a major overhaul at the very least. p.s. there is going to be members on here that will vote this down, they either work for Tesla service and/or heavily invested in them.
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