Car is amazing to drive, but it cant go 3 months without needing to go into Tesla shop. Im a bit scared about how Im going to handle all this when its out of warranty.
Ill skip the first few years during which Tesla service center spent time fixing various issues with cameras, wiper hoses, 12V battery, heat pump problems.
There was a stretch of about 8 months where the car didnt need anything fixed last year, but then in December my rear quarter window spontaneously exploded (no impacts) car parked in home garage. After that I had 12V battery giving errors on screen during sharp turns (turns out connections worked themselves loose). And now 3 issues in one day.
1) Driver side weight sensor died. The way I noticed is that when I sat down in the car and closed the door, the screen turned off. Car throught I was outside. I then confirmed through Service menu that sensor was saying noone is in the car when I was sitting in it. This causes other issues like bluetooth not connecting automatically (it uses the seat sensor), and if going backwards (reversing out of garage and not buckled in, because for example I need to back out 5 feet to be able to open doors) then the car will go into Park mid driving because it thinks person jumped out of the car.
2) In that same Service menu I noticed 2 errors. One of which I dont even know what it is. Its APP_w303_imulrational, says its set when "The Autopilot ECU internal IMU does not match the ESP or RCM IMU". I dont know what this means, but outside service menu there is no error about it anywhere and my autopilot works.... so wtf is that?
3) VCLEFT_a536_trunkFOldFlatSwitchFault, again no errors of any kind outside service menu, but after reading what this one meant I went to the back and yep, the fold backseat buttons in the trunk dont work and dont light up (so no power going to them).
Im assuming Tesla will take care of these under warranty (have apt scheduled later this week), but I am starting to worry what am I going to do once its out of warranty later this year? It seems like every few months it has to go to the service center to resolve one issue or another.
Is anyone nearing 4 years of ownership? Have you had many issues?
Ill skip the first few years during which Tesla service center spent time fixing various issues with cameras, wiper hoses, 12V battery, heat pump problems.
There was a stretch of about 8 months where the car didnt need anything fixed last year, but then in December my rear quarter window spontaneously exploded (no impacts) car parked in home garage. After that I had 12V battery giving errors on screen during sharp turns (turns out connections worked themselves loose). And now 3 issues in one day.
1) Driver side weight sensor died. The way I noticed is that when I sat down in the car and closed the door, the screen turned off. Car throught I was outside. I then confirmed through Service menu that sensor was saying noone is in the car when I was sitting in it. This causes other issues like bluetooth not connecting automatically (it uses the seat sensor), and if going backwards (reversing out of garage and not buckled in, because for example I need to back out 5 feet to be able to open doors) then the car will go into Park mid driving because it thinks person jumped out of the car.
2) In that same Service menu I noticed 2 errors. One of which I dont even know what it is. Its APP_w303_imulrational, says its set when "The Autopilot ECU internal IMU does not match the ESP or RCM IMU". I dont know what this means, but outside service menu there is no error about it anywhere and my autopilot works.... so wtf is that?
3) VCLEFT_a536_trunkFOldFlatSwitchFault, again no errors of any kind outside service menu, but after reading what this one meant I went to the back and yep, the fold backseat buttons in the trunk dont work and dont light up (so no power going to them).
Im assuming Tesla will take care of these under warranty (have apt scheduled later this week), but I am starting to worry what am I going to do once its out of warranty later this year? It seems like every few months it has to go to the service center to resolve one issue or another.
Is anyone nearing 4 years of ownership? Have you had many issues?
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