Another front suspension control arm failure!
Driving down the motorway in the UK, a new smooth flat straight road, I touched the brakes to avoid a car cutting in, heard a sudden pop and then a crunch and grinding as I headed towards the crash barrier at 70mph! I managed to regain control by letting go the the brakes! I was very lucky that the car in front didn't slow down - it would have been a choice between the crash barrier & the car in front to hit! Fortunately It was late evening but still had a number of near misses getting across 5 lanes to the hard shoulder (lucky again that there was one)!
I then waited 9 hours on the side of the road to get recovered by the AA. The AA was convinced I must had hit something for this type of damaged to have occurred, once on the back of the recovery lorry he had a closer look and was shocked that he couldn't find any sign of any impact, nothing.
This happened at 4yrs & 11hrs old / 55,000 miles and just passed an MOT two weeks prior, so no sign of any damage then. Mine is a Nov 2015 85D VIN 96,xxx
My car is just out of warranty and the SC manager was quite rude & abrupt. They have accepted it in for inspection but no idea when they can take a look or how long this will take. They repeated 5+ times that my car is out or warranty. Extremely disappointed with how I have been treated. I'm lucky not to have injured myself or others, not even a sorry to hear your Tesla has let you down, nothing!
Critical suspension arms shouldn't fail so early on, considering this is known issue I expect Tesla to fix this FOC & replace the other front forearm as precaution.
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10110741-9999.pdf
What do you think my chances are / anyone else had theirs replaced post warranty expiry? I think the UK Consumer ACT 2015 will help but hopeful I won't need to resort to such measures.