CharleyBC
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It wasn’t as grisly as I’d feared. Poor deer. Poor Tesla. Poor you!Unfortunately, that's all I could get before the car was towed away to the Authorized Tesla body repair...
Good luck, and keep us posted.
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It wasn’t as grisly as I’d feared. Poor deer. Poor Tesla. Poor you!Unfortunately, that's all I could get before the car was towed away to the Authorized Tesla body repair...
Tesla (and all manufacturers) collect data on collision damage. If they see a trend of critical parts being damaged, they will design protection for them.
Example is when some Model S were having batteries damaged by road debris, they quickly developed a titanium armor piece. Put it on all production cars after that and offered free retrofit to the existing fleet as well.
I guess I should have said that I’ve never seen a car where it’s so easy to do damage that costs a third of the value of the car to fix. Having plastic bits on the battery that are exposed to road debris and require a full pack replacement to fix is not great.
Here's a thread: M3 $15K in damage from hitting a rock to the underbody?I don't know that any of that is true.
I'll have to see the research and data. ( especially about having a battery pack having to be replaced ).
I'm not a person that believes something to be true just because "its stated".
Lastly...concerning "the cost of repair". There are a lot of things that Tesla requires concerning repair that other manufacturers don't. The requirements to repair a Tesla does not exist across the board.
Here's a thread: M3 $15K in damage from hitting a rock to the underbody?
I think there are others. Here's a picture of where it can break and require pack replacement.
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Unfortunately, that's all I could get before the car was towed away to the Authorized Tesla body repair...
Now.....Labor and Time might be high if they had to drop the battery pack, but not if they just have to replace that hose adapter.
They do not repair battery packs at the service centers. Look carefully and you can see the plastic piece coming out of the battery pack is broken and can only be replaced by opening the battery pack.hmmmmm…….I just don't know.
It does not look like battery pack damage. Now.....Labor and Time might be high if they had to drop the battery pack, but not if they just have to replace that hose adapter.
Anyway......
They do not repair battery packs at the service centers. Look carefully and you can see the plastic piece coming out of the battery pack is broken and can only be replaced by opening the battery pack.
If this happened to my own car I would probably just glue it back on or try to mount a different fitting. It's pretty poor design IMHO.
That port can be replaced without destroying the battery pack via removing the 4 screws and replacing the port.
Yes, Tesla charges $15k to replace that plastic fitting by replacing the entire battery pack. Removing the battery pack is not nearly as easy as it was on the Model S/X and opening a Tesla battery pack is a destructive process that requires new parts to reassemble (which Tesla will not sell you!).We aren't talking about replacing the battery pack. We are talking about repairing a part inside of the battery pack - that requires the removal of the pack.
That's labor labor labor by someone that knows what they are doing - with the correct equipment and training - which makes it easy for them. That port can be replaced without destroying the battery pack via removing the 4 screws and replacing the port.
Its not a poor design. Its a great design.
Tesla's aren't built for the average "gorilla glue" enthusiast to exercise their skills. <------ and I like it that way.
Looks like your front motor took a big hit. I know you mentioned battery coolant, but I wonder if it was the motor fluid that leaked.
There's only one coolant loop so the break could be anywhere.Are you referring to this photo? Tesla's support said coolant levels look low (according to the logs they can see on their end).
I asked if they mean the battery and he said yes. Front motor definitely took a hit.
This should be covered by your insurance under your collision coverage (minus deductible).
followed by a slight increase in premium
But a deer and only a deer? Comprehensive.
How do you figure? That looks physically impossible to do without disassembling the pack (I guess upon re-reading that's what you're saying they would do). It's clearly pulled in from the inside using those bolts, not pushed down from the outside! (There's no plate on the outside!) And even if there were, there is likely going to be an internal connection to something, on the other side, that would probably need to be undone.
There's no way that particular damage would be touched at the service center as it does require pack disassembly - I guess we both agree on the disassembly part. If they have the pack out they're going to put in a new or factory-refurbished one. I'm still hopeful the OP's damage will prove to be more accessible and more easily addressed.