A couple of years ago service told me that they would not replace the leaky fender camera for free because FSD was beta. Maybe they changed their stance since the beta nomenclature was removed.
It would help if someone can cite the service bulletin number.
Um. The Model Y whose camera was replaced week before last had been in a shop for some minor repairs associated with the bumper. As such, it had been parked outdoors; usually, it's garaged. When we got it back the camera view on that side was BLACK and no image, there was a message that FSD and auto braking was disabled, "Until the next drive, maybe". A little thinking about, "They were working on the bumper.. not the front fender?" and a quick search on these here forums revealed that People Had Been Having Trouble With Water Inside the Fender turn signal/camera assembly.
At which point I went out to the garage and, with my eagle eye, noted a chain of water droplets on the inside of the clear plastic ridge along the top of the left camera assembly. Definitely on the inside. I checked the fender camera on the other side: No droplets. Checked the two fender cameras on the other Tesla: No droplets. Hauled out the cell phone and took close up pictures of that and the screen inside the car.
And, looky at that: The screen, instead of being black, looked like somebody had taken the image and hit it with an inadequate coat of whitewash. It having been roughly three or so days until I got around to this, and I guess it was drying out.
Went to the service app, wrote it all up, added the pictures, and sent it off. Within an hour or so Tesla had scheduled a mobile tech for the service a few days later. Over the next couple of days the image would go black (mostly), sometimes that whitewashed view. Whenever the image was black it was No Emergency Braking or FSD for you, but it never stayed whitewashed for very long.
I did check the warranty on this 2021 MY: Still covered, bumper to bumper, and I figured that Something Like This was pretty much a manufacturing defect.
When the techie showed.. heh. The SO and I had been out for a walk that morning around 10 a.m. when the man called and said he'd be there in five minutes, rather than at noon to 5 p.m., because some of his appointments had cancelled. I told him to go there and wait and jogged a mile and some home. Not like Ye Olden Days when I used to be able to do a 7-minute mile.
He got right to work. While we chatted (and I drank a quart of water) he mentioned that he'd been doing "lots" of these, so I'm a-guessing it's a common defect. Although, based on the one-bad-out-of-four here at my place, not exactly uniform. And he mentioned that bit about a service bulletin on the
old lights that had the LED bleed-through-the-via-holes problem. Which was not water damage.
No charge for the repair on that MY, though. I presume because it was under warranty.