bkp_duke
Well-Known Member
It took 5 hours, approximately. I would contact @AutobahnEV, as yesterday he stated he did have another P motor in stock. I do not have any details on it.
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Drive Unit Failure- No warranty- Going to Catalog my experience with repair or replacement
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It took 5 hours, approximately. I would contact @AutobahnEV, as yesterday he stated he did have another P motor in stock. I do not have any details on it.
Really? Can you link me to where they say that as I have never seen that on the Tesla site. Here is their warranty page: Vehicle Warranty | Model S and Model X
And the warranty document: Tesla
So all of their official documentation, that I can find, only says "Drive Unit". The only mention of powertrain is that the battery and Drive Unit are powertrain components, but I'm sure the cooling system, charging, and half shafts would be powertrain components as well.
Sure:
Model S | Tesla Under the specs section
Regardless its all semantics, which is why I thought it was rude of the previous poster to mention it in the first place.
Model S | Tesla Under the specs section
Regardless its all semantics, which is why I thought it was rude of the previous poster to mention it in the first place.
Thanks for the advice I just got off the phone with autobahnev, seems like a nice guy and was willing to ship a 2014 driveunit to me here in WA. I’m tempted to just get it from him but I might be able to get a 2016 driveunit for a few more $$$ hopefully that will ensure a longer future of the DU. I’m still going to try and repair what I have so maybe I can sell the repaired unit to offset some cost. I would like to have the drive unit ordered by the end of next week at the latest.
I do agree. The point that I terribly made was referring to these restricted parts, or parts in general. If there is any requirement for manufactures to keep parts available for sale, maybe this would untie the hands of Tesla to allow the do it your self crowd to get the replacement parts that are needed.
According to my service invoice from December 2015, that's the exact same part that Tesla put in my S60. (It's an original 2013 S60.) So it seems like it should be compatible with your car, too.
Do we really know that? Would a performance motor not work in a non-performance car? It could be Tesla only had performance drive units on hand when they replaced mine. All I know for sure is my invoice says 1025276-00-Q.
The Q revision is a non-performance motor as far as everything I have seen. And Tesla putting it in your non-performance acr would seem to confirm that.
Not rude. That product page is a moving target and who knows what the marketing department was thinking?
Many folks have made the mistake about talking about an 8 year/infinite mile or 125K mile powertrain/drivetrain warranty on Model S when there isn't one (sometimes including components that aren't covered by the drive unit warranty). There are countless threads on this and it's been covered and corrected countless times.
Besides the warranty page and docs already menntioned, see https://web.archive.org/web/20140815203753/https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/infinite-mile-warranty was when it was first announced in 2014. Notice the mention of drive unit? Model S Specs | Tesla Motors also talks about a drive unit warranty, not powertrain nor drivetrain warranty.
Being specific about drive unit, matching the warranty pages and docs avoids confusion and ambiguity.
BTW, I'm not the only stickler about being accurate here. Examples:
Warranty and maintenance
Charger repalcement part of the 8 years/unlimited miles warranty?
Has Tesla ever had Unlimited Mile Warranty?
See why the OP at Half shaft cured my issue can be confused and why being specific about the DU is much better?
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This thread cracks me up! Someone trying desperately to get his car fixed (with is really good tech reading) while some other dudes perpetuate a debate about the whats included in the extended warranty. LOL!
PS: I am not a troll so for God sake don't reply to me, just ignore me! But did get the giggles reading this one, carry on everyone.....
PS: I am not a troll so for God sake don't reply to me, just ignore me! But did get the giggles reading this one, carry on everyone.....
bnsfengineer
Active Member
I really feel like they don't want or need the repair business!! To me it seems all they are focused on are sales. Why is it they don't have any repair only service centers? They are all in one and if you have been to one in So.Ca. lately they are Crazy Busy especially after they started cranking out the 3's. They even now want to Uber you back home or work since they don't have enough loaner vehicles including there new fleet of ICE cars they will ask you to take. I'm not complaining about the service just an observation they need more service centers and reap the repair business as well as service salvage vehicles if the customer is willing to pay the price!
I think it's Simple supply and demand. Tesla have people waiting on cars to be built and they have every available part going towards that. If they take a widget from the supply line it holds up a $80k car for a 200 dollar part, this doesn't make sense when they are strapped for cash. Same reason why they are fixing cars by LRU (Line Replaceable Units) Aviation does this. It's easier to replace a whole DU rather than supply the bearing. Tesla is working through the Logistics of their suppliers, and they can't afford to buy a bunch of extra parts to warehouse and not be used. To pull apart a DU at the SC is asking for trouble at this time. Lets say we think it the bearing in a DU. So the SC orders the bearing, this is now pulled off the line. 3 days FedEx the bearing shows up, the SC takes a team and tears down the DU, now every SC has to have all the special tools (cost unknown) also training. Then they find they need another 20 dollar part, same process. For the same time they can take out a whole DU, then send the DU back to the factory where they have a smaller team that does this all day with the parts right there...Cost savings for them.
