Hi Everyone,
I'm the owner of an early production Model S P85, vin#7128. Even though I took delivery of my car in the beginning of 2013, I haven't driven it a lot, and just hit 20,000 miles. When I brought my car into service, they mentioned that the treads on my tires were worn out, and recommended I replace all four tires. I am not a super aggressive driver, and I drive mostly highway miles. I found this to be extremely surprising but I ordered new tires and went to a local shop to put them onto the car. At that time, I requested they do an alignment of all four tires, and they noticed that the wheels were severely misaligned. My car has never been in an accident or driven in a way to cause severe misalignment of the wheels, so I suspect this misalignment was due a manufacturing problem of the early production cars. I have been following Tesla for a long time and have been on TMC for quite some time. I remember many of the early production owners complaining about misaligned wheels, and tires giving out in less than 20K miles. I was wondering how you resolved these issues, and what Tesla did to help fix them. Can any of the early owners provide some guidence/insight on how should proceed with the matter?
Thanks,
Hersh
P.S.
For reference, here are the alignment numbers:
Front Left: 1.0degrees chamber, 0.14in Toe
Front Right: -2.7degrees chamber, 0.30in Toe
Rear Left: -2.1degrees chamber, -0.38in Toe
Rear Right: -2.3degrees chamber, -0.15in Toe
I'm the owner of an early production Model S P85, vin#7128. Even though I took delivery of my car in the beginning of 2013, I haven't driven it a lot, and just hit 20,000 miles. When I brought my car into service, they mentioned that the treads on my tires were worn out, and recommended I replace all four tires. I am not a super aggressive driver, and I drive mostly highway miles. I found this to be extremely surprising but I ordered new tires and went to a local shop to put them onto the car. At that time, I requested they do an alignment of all four tires, and they noticed that the wheels were severely misaligned. My car has never been in an accident or driven in a way to cause severe misalignment of the wheels, so I suspect this misalignment was due a manufacturing problem of the early production cars. I have been following Tesla for a long time and have been on TMC for quite some time. I remember many of the early production owners complaining about misaligned wheels, and tires giving out in less than 20K miles. I was wondering how you resolved these issues, and what Tesla did to help fix them. Can any of the early owners provide some guidence/insight on how should proceed with the matter?
Thanks,
Hersh
P.S.
For reference, here are the alignment numbers:
Front Left: 1.0degrees chamber, 0.14in Toe
Front Right: -2.7degrees chamber, 0.30in Toe
Rear Left: -2.1degrees chamber, -0.38in Toe
Rear Right: -2.3degrees chamber, -0.15in Toe