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Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts!Um. Back when my M3 developed a bad case of the squeaks last year, I thought to myself, "This is the suspension! There's nothing particularly EV about a suspension!" and took the car to a local tire shop/service center down here in NJ whose work I had trusted in previous years.
They correctly diagnosed the issue as being the ball joint. A stethoscope was involved. They had two comments:
They didn't charge me anything but did state that this was the kind of work they could do.
- Not the kind of part they carried in stock.
- If it was a warranty repair, They Were The Wrong People
I set it up with Tesla. They didn't charge me for the labor, just the parts. A mobile tech came to the house and, right there in the driveway, swapped out the upper control arms on both front wheels. Pretty odd looking at the wheels canted over at a funny angle, just like the car had been in some kind of major accident, but the guy got it all back together sans problems. And the squeaks were gone.
Implication: Any competent mechanic can do this? And, if you're sweating wheel alignment, any place that can do that might be preferable.
Um. Guess I should have mentioned the following:Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts!
Point 1 touches the essence of the issue. Tesla suspension story has been retold by many people for many times. Many people in the past have the experience that alignment shop got puzzled why the data all in spec but customer was so close to disaster and no one could see it from outside. I simply want a shop who has gone through this myth set by Tesla that I don't need to persuade the technician to trust me.
The still lagging behind Tesla service sys. continues to be an obstacle for its products to perform and show the world what EV could do. The real risk for Tesla overall is: there could be a point, when EV do more for Tesla, than what Tesla do for EV.
Thanks again.
Thank you and you are not wrong at all. That's the way it should be.Um. Guess I should have mentioned the following:
The SO and I decided to drive her 2021 MY to Dallas and back for the eclipse. So, in the run-up to going, we thought, “Maintenance!”.
Turns out that the wheels hadn’t been rotated in quite some time. And, doing a quick web search, discovered that somebody-or-other suggested getting the wheel alignment checked.
The local AAA, it turns out, does both. And the wheel alignment actually was out a little: the toe was a bit off front and back. So had them do that, too, about $150 for a four-wheel alignment.
So, places that can do alignments can do Teslas, I guess.