Sounds like an atypically good experience with SC/MS! Nice. They did however used depricated parts that will fail again in another x miles... for anyone getting a FUCA replacement (in/out of warranty) demand the cast iron pieces which rolled out last Fall:
The pic is deceiving. I think it looks like alot cause its just spread all over. If it was enough nobody would be having noise issues, aside from the possible water intrusion causing problems. I bought 2 arms used with less than 5k miles and bought another new set from Tesla parts at the SC...
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Any of the earlier 1044 part numbers all have the same design flaw.