Hello folks,
I am a new owner of a 2017 model s 100d that I just purchased from Tesla couple of weeks ago. I spent 73k for 39k miles on it. The car has used limited warranty till 50k or august 2023 and also drive train and battery till March 2026. I have been driving the car and have some questions to confirm if this is normal or not so that I can take it to the SC.
1) I do preheat the car by setting the departure time at 7Am. I go drop my kids first and then hop on the interstate to go to work. Whole driving on the interstate in the morning 7:30am with 60 degree Fahrenheit temperature , I am hearing some wiered voice from rear drive side window or door. It feels like a vibration and can only be heard from driver rear side. All the other sides are normal. I took it to SC and they replaced the half shaft for rear and front. Took the car back and still the noise is there. I can take it back but I want to confirm as to what might be the problem ? Also, coming back with 80 degree temperature, I didn’t hear any vibration noise from that window. I am shocked cause it should be consistent but it only happens in the morning. Does not happen later at noon. Any help will be really appreciated since I want to go to SC with some concrete analysis. I did record the audio and below is the audio that I recorded. It starts from 11 second till all the way to end of the cideo
2) while driving on 75 or 80MPH, It feels like the car is not smooth. Let me try to explain it a little. Whenever I am driving on the interstate with 80MPH, It has the feeling of light vibration if that makes sense. The steering wheel I can feel it as well. But it’s not massive vibration. Very annoying . Does not happen on the streets with low speed. It drives perfect on the streets very silent but on the highway with 80MPH, have some vibration. Is this normal ? If not then what can be the cause so that I can work with the SC
3) one last thing that I am trying to figure out the power for 100d. Now I don’t know if this is Norma or not but I feel the torque what I’ve heard from the forums is like a rocket for 100D. Not like P100d but it 100d has plenty of torque and power. Now for me, Whhe I floor it from 30MPH. The car takes off but then at 60 or 50, it looses power. Is this normal ? I did this when I had 55% battery left. It looks like something stoped that power from going more and I didn’t had any cars in front of me. Same thing from the stand stil launch as well. The car picks up from the start really good but as soon as it reaches from 0 to 20 or 30MPh, it feels sluggish after that.. so I am not sure if this is just the car or what but I feel that the loaner 75D was faster than my car I. Terms of torque and my is kinda limited. What could be the problem ?
4) I do usually keep my car charged every night til 80%. Even though my daily drive will consume only 30of the battery for 50Miles. Is it ok to charge 80% every night even though I am only consuming 30% every day ? Also, yesterday I set my charge to 80% but it only charged 78%. Never happened before but first time.
I really appreciate if folks can help me answering the question so that I can work with the SC to actually fix these issues and I am hoping that all of this is covered under warranty
I am a new owner of a 2017 model s 100d that I just purchased from Tesla couple of weeks ago. I spent 73k for 39k miles on it. The car has used limited warranty till 50k or august 2023 and also drive train and battery till March 2026. I have been driving the car and have some questions to confirm if this is normal or not so that I can take it to the SC.
1) I do preheat the car by setting the departure time at 7Am. I go drop my kids first and then hop on the interstate to go to work. Whole driving on the interstate in the morning 7:30am with 60 degree Fahrenheit temperature , I am hearing some wiered voice from rear drive side window or door. It feels like a vibration and can only be heard from driver rear side. All the other sides are normal. I took it to SC and they replaced the half shaft for rear and front. Took the car back and still the noise is there. I can take it back but I want to confirm as to what might be the problem ? Also, coming back with 80 degree temperature, I didn’t hear any vibration noise from that window. I am shocked cause it should be consistent but it only happens in the morning. Does not happen later at noon. Any help will be really appreciated since I want to go to SC with some concrete analysis. I did record the audio and below is the audio that I recorded. It starts from 11 second till all the way to end of the cideo
2) while driving on 75 or 80MPH, It feels like the car is not smooth. Let me try to explain it a little. Whenever I am driving on the interstate with 80MPH, It has the feeling of light vibration if that makes sense. The steering wheel I can feel it as well. But it’s not massive vibration. Very annoying . Does not happen on the streets with low speed. It drives perfect on the streets very silent but on the highway with 80MPH, have some vibration. Is this normal ? If not then what can be the cause so that I can work with the SC
3) one last thing that I am trying to figure out the power for 100d. Now I don’t know if this is Norma or not but I feel the torque what I’ve heard from the forums is like a rocket for 100D. Not like P100d but it 100d has plenty of torque and power. Now for me, Whhe I floor it from 30MPH. The car takes off but then at 60 or 50, it looses power. Is this normal ? I did this when I had 55% battery left. It looks like something stoped that power from going more and I didn’t had any cars in front of me. Same thing from the stand stil launch as well. The car picks up from the start really good but as soon as it reaches from 0 to 20 or 30MPh, it feels sluggish after that.. so I am not sure if this is just the car or what but I feel that the loaner 75D was faster than my car I. Terms of torque and my is kinda limited. What could be the problem ?
4) I do usually keep my car charged every night til 80%. Even though my daily drive will consume only 30of the battery for 50Miles. Is it ok to charge 80% every night even though I am only consuming 30% every day ? Also, yesterday I set my charge to 80% but it only charged 78%. Never happened before but first time.
I really appreciate if folks can help me answering the question so that I can work with the SC to actually fix these issues and I am hoping that all of this is covered under warranty