Thats nothing. I had to use my pocket knife to cut a hole in the dash to climb into the frunk tub and use the open button and climb out the frunk. The new dash and firewall was $9,000. Crazy.
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Locked IN my Tesla
- Thread starter TexanEV
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Thats nothing. I had to use my pocket knife to cut a hole in the dash to climb into the frunk tub and use the open button and climb out the frunk. The new dash and firewall was $9,000. Crazy.
Once out of warranty I think I will switch to the aftermarket 12V lithium battery so fewer worries (and a full replacement 4 year warranty).
My boss has had 2 batteries replaced in his model S, but in his case both times the car warned him and they were replaced under warranty.
But lead acid batteries can be so finicky with temperature changes and will die with little warning (and of course we can't depend on the slower cranking like on an ICE to know the battery is sick).
My boss has had 2 batteries replaced in his model S, but in his case both times the car warned him and they were replaced under warranty.
But lead acid batteries can be so finicky with temperature changes and will die with little warning (and of course we can't depend on the slower cranking like on an ICE to know the battery is sick).
Electric700
Active Member
Sorry to see this happened. The manual door release should work. Also to the other posters rating this as funny, it's really not. Let's be more kind.
Also I agree that there should be a 12 V battery low warning message. You can relay this suggestion to the service center or through the Tesla app.
C141medic
Active Member
Agree. Definitely not funny being trapped in the car and not realizing or knowing there’s a manual release for the front doors. It’s just ludicrous that there’s no such release for the rear doors as well. And if the battery is dead, how is one supposed to open the rear doors (without breaking windows) from the outside since the mechanism is electric and not mechanical (as I’ve found out in this thread)? Regarding the low 12V battery warning, I believe that’s in the works from an Elon tweet some months ago.
qingshan
18 lr rwd fsd
After the door release that was my thought but if you could play some mission impossible music while making the crawl and then popping out of the trunk (hopefully not on the roadside just before rear-ended) very cool
qingshan
18 lr rwd fsd
Apparently the C5&6 Corvettes which had electric doors too had a big parasitic draw. Middle aged guy in TX couldn't get out and died. The heat build up could happen so fast that your brain would shut down
RayK
Active Member
9 days after getting my 3, I ordered this: Lifehammer Brand Car Safety Hammer
I keep them in the seat pockets in back and told my family where and what they are for. Hopefully we will never have to use them.
I keep them in the seat pockets in back and told my family where and what they are for. Hopefully we will never have to use them.
Assuming you don’t take delivery during the end of the quarter or anything. Coworker just bought a 3 at the end of June and they just had him sign the papers then let him find his own car in the lot with the app and drive off. He said it was crazy.
deonb
Active Member
On my last Model 3 I literally took possession on the last day of the quarter where the Tax Incentive fell away.
thanks for the helpful post. Hope the idiots who laughed at this get trapped outside their car and they leave their cell phone in the car and can’t call for service bc their doors won’t open. I was gonna say they leave their pets in the car and get locked out bc the battery fails, but that’s just mean on the pets.
hopefully Elon makes some changes.
My only choice was to make a small thermite device using materials I always keep in the car. I melted through the passenger floor. Obviously this melted through the battery as well and created a crater deep enough for me to not only escape my car, but the inferno that was now raging in the Kroger parking lot.
Can you guys believe that Tesla denied my warranty claim, and even Kroger is mad at me now. Someone tweet Elon.
hope your cars doors don’t open
hope you have a 12V failure while your fat wife is sitting in the backseat and gets stuck in the back , she’s too fat to move to the front sit and then gets stuck between the two front seats trying to get to the front doors which the only ones with a manual lever. So then u actually have to use this thermite device
Dolemite
is my name
She won’t like the vegan leather, she likes the REAL good cow that’s fills up her belly
It does. A message tells you 12V battery needs replacement soon.
