Probably going to sound silly here so please bare with me…
Had my M3P for about a month now and only drove today in the rain. The rain was pretty normal for the journey until one part when out of nowhere the heavens just opened and it rained hard for about half a mile and then back to normal.
Now when I say hard, I have never experienced rain that hard! The traffic pretty much came to a crawl with hazard lights on, you really couldn't see in front of you, the wipers were useless.
This is the first EV for me and crossed my mind that there was a lot of water coming down, but a lot of standing water on the road. Not flooding but just heavy rain standing water as it was trying to run off the road, maybe like one inch.
I know these cars go through rigorous testing, but any possibility of water getting into places it shouldn't in those conditions?
Even going slowly water has to spray in all directions under the car. Can't get out of my mind there's a huge battery right under there.
Assuming it must be fine as most car washes have high-pressure undercarriage sprays (I don't use those washes) that Tesla must have considered, right?
Had my M3P for about a month now and only drove today in the rain. The rain was pretty normal for the journey until one part when out of nowhere the heavens just opened and it rained hard for about half a mile and then back to normal.
Now when I say hard, I have never experienced rain that hard! The traffic pretty much came to a crawl with hazard lights on, you really couldn't see in front of you, the wipers were useless.
This is the first EV for me and crossed my mind that there was a lot of water coming down, but a lot of standing water on the road. Not flooding but just heavy rain standing water as it was trying to run off the road, maybe like one inch.
I know these cars go through rigorous testing, but any possibility of water getting into places it shouldn't in those conditions?
Even going slowly water has to spray in all directions under the car. Can't get out of my mind there's a huge battery right under there.
Assuming it must be fine as most car washes have high-pressure undercarriage sprays (I don't use those washes) that Tesla must have considered, right?