Hi All,
new to this forum, hope you can help. i just started to read through model s related data but can you help me to understand if there are concerns with model year 14-16 model S for battery/motor issues?
Also would p90d be more reliable than p85d, i was in one of the posts that 85kwh batteries failed so wanted to confirm.
thanks again!
I purchased a used 2014 P85D from Tesla over a year ago, and while I've had my fair share of little repairs, it has been an amazing car.
Mine is a very early P85D (11-2014) and I still have 248mi of "rated range" at 100% and I've seen supercharges of up to 120kW just a few months ago (end of Feb) and I have the original battery pack. The car goes like heck and is the most fun I've ever had behind the wheel!
To answer your question directly, I think the most common issue for these is the death rattle, which is a well-documented issue while under moderate-to-heavy acceleration, you get a rattling noise (kinda sounds like a ball bearing in a tin can). Also, if you do get one of the "batterygate" packs, you'll still have a way awesome car, it may just take longer to Supercharge on trips and someone from 2014 who drove one new may say that it isn't as fast
Here is everything that I have had replaced on mine over the last year:
- Driver's side door handles (front and rear)
- Sunroof (rattled while closing)
- Front axles (dead rattle fix)
- Chargeport/door (Wife ran into it while I was open, Tesla still fixed under warranty!)
I'm thankful of these fixes as a lot of them made my car better. The sunroof is a new model with a retrofit kit, the chargeport is the nice, quiet one from the newer cars, and the door handles are the updated model that are *more* reliable