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Unfortunately, that looks like you dented the rear quarter panel. Hopefully a paintless dent removal guy can get that out, although it's a big dent. If not, you are looking at some major surgery as that panel extends most of the length of the car. I had the rear quarter panel replaced on my 3 over the summer and it was over $10k with a lot of welding, gluing, and painting of half the car (to blend the paint).
Bring it to a scratch and dent place. Remind them that it may be aluminum. I’ve seen way worse get fixed. But they often need access to the back. The paint looks ok.
The way I look at these types of accidents is statistically your less likely to have another any time soon
What did you hit that didn’t get picked up by sensors.
BTW we’re you creep on or off? I swear these types of accidents happen more often with creep off because you’re not riding the brake the majority of the time like you do with it on. Friend did the same thing to his Model 3 the first week. He creased his trunk lid lip and damaged paint, $1000 to fix. He was creep off. No convincing him though. Free rolling backwards is just asking for trouble.
Bring it to a scratch and dent place. Remind them that it may be aluminum. I’ve seen way worse get fixed. But they often need access to the back. The paint looks ok.
The way I look at these types of accidents is statistically your less likely to have another any time soon
What did you hit that didn’t get picked up by sensors.
BTW we’re you creep on or off? I swear these types of accidents happen more often with creep off because you’re not riding the brake the majority of the time like you do with it on. Friend did the same thing to his Model 3 the first week. He creased his trunk lid lip and damaged paint, $1000 to fix. He was creep off. No convincing him though. Free rolling backwards is just asking for trouble.
I don't feel comfortable with creep, it is too fast in reverse. I have better control "creeping" manually with the go pedal.
I had a dent like that on my quarter panel. "It was too close to the seam for them to pop it out." Full quarter panel replacement. Hopefully not the case for you. I'll be very curious to see how it turns out. I can take your before and after pics to the collision center and show them it can be done. He refused to even try. As I wasn't the one paying for it, I didn't care as long as it looked like new.
You can go as slow as you want with the foot on the brake the whole time (most of the time). The time between go pedal and brake you can crunch. Much easier to “creep” in creep mode (forward or reverse). Maybe that’s why they call it “creep”.
Guess you couldn’t drive ICE automatics either? Automatic ICE could have easily done no creep as well, and probably saved fuel too. But they never did. I wonder why? My Volt only Creeps, I wonder why? But it has more options in regen than Tesla does. So it’s not like they could not have offered it. They don’t, because it would be a liability, not because they don’t know how.
Has anyone tried the "Hairdryer & Compressed Air" dent repair method? And, if so am I risking more damage - or is it a case of it won't make it worse, just might not solve the issue?
Tesla does quick and cheap replacement parts but they don't do PDR, or aluminum panel replacement. Hopefully that changes soon. The two approved body shops in the state have a racket going. Teslas parked on the street AND turning away customers. Something is wrong.A bit off topic, but a friend scraped the front of his car backing out of his garage and took it to Tesla who repaired it for half the cost that it would have been at an independent body shop. Just a thought.
Hate to say it but this is why 360 degree cameras come in handy IMHO...just a PSA for what the sensors can and can't do.
With those points in mind, its just the ultrasonic sensors doing the work, its also worth remembering that they are just like the ones fitted to other cars but are active all the time.
- There is no rear radar, only front
- Cameras don't (as of the day of posting) perform parking proximity warning
- Proximity is currently (see above) handled by the ultrasonic sensors
I'm sure some folks expect their cars to be able to have omnipresence as it moves around, but ultrasonics aren't very good at that.
Basically its on you to make sure you don't hit anything while parking.
Not long after I got the car I assuming it would see low curbs and got rim rash finding out it didn't