Been a long while (years) since I posted, but Maggie’s in the shop for the first time since I got her 4 years and 3 days ago. . .very bummed. She’s still immaculate after 40K miles.
Was driving short drive from home to lunch, about 4 miles away. All back roads, never got over 40 or so MPH due to speed limits. Was halfway to destination and I felt / heard a “pop” sound behind and below infotainment to right of accelerator. I instinctively looked in rear view mirror thinking I might have struck something, but when it happened I had eyes ahead, didn’t see anything and there was nothing in rear view mirror.
30 seconds later I start smelling a toxic electric smell. Was warmish in Chicago so I had sunroof open. Couldn’t tell whether it was me or I was downwind of something or some other car, but yet smell was definitely there. 30 seconds after that I received the following alert at bottom of cluster, “Car may not restart; contact service”. . . Uh oh.
Kept driving, and 30 seconds more, about quarter mile to my destination I had what can only be referred to as an “Apollo 13” moment. Everything started beeping, alerts in rapid succession started filling my infotainment screen. Maggie started shutting all systems down 1 at a time but 100 alerts popped up in seconds. It was intense and chaotic. As I pulled into destination, I lost power steering, the accelerator stopped responding and I luckily coasted into the parking lot and rolled to a stop. I intentionally parked away from everyone because I thought I might be calling the fire department.
Once out of the car I noticed smoke coming from below car and through seam in hood by wipers. . .not quite billowing, but was easy to see. So. . .do I call fire? Or do I call Roadside? I gave myself 2 min to watch the smoke to see if it appeared to be getting worse, better, or staying the same. If worse, or the same I decided I would call fire.
Thankfully, the smoke dissipated once the car was shut down so I called roadside.
It’s been solid Tesla performance since then. . . Towed within 30 min to service center. Service Center has been very communicative (even this morning). Still waiting to hear the verdict but I’m really happy so far with the Tesla response.
Stay tuned for update.
By the way, anyone else have something like this happen?
Was driving short drive from home to lunch, about 4 miles away. All back roads, never got over 40 or so MPH due to speed limits. Was halfway to destination and I felt / heard a “pop” sound behind and below infotainment to right of accelerator. I instinctively looked in rear view mirror thinking I might have struck something, but when it happened I had eyes ahead, didn’t see anything and there was nothing in rear view mirror.
30 seconds later I start smelling a toxic electric smell. Was warmish in Chicago so I had sunroof open. Couldn’t tell whether it was me or I was downwind of something or some other car, but yet smell was definitely there. 30 seconds after that I received the following alert at bottom of cluster, “Car may not restart; contact service”. . . Uh oh.
Kept driving, and 30 seconds more, about quarter mile to my destination I had what can only be referred to as an “Apollo 13” moment. Everything started beeping, alerts in rapid succession started filling my infotainment screen. Maggie started shutting all systems down 1 at a time but 100 alerts popped up in seconds. It was intense and chaotic. As I pulled into destination, I lost power steering, the accelerator stopped responding and I luckily coasted into the parking lot and rolled to a stop. I intentionally parked away from everyone because I thought I might be calling the fire department.
Once out of the car I noticed smoke coming from below car and through seam in hood by wipers. . .not quite billowing, but was easy to see. So. . .do I call fire? Or do I call Roadside? I gave myself 2 min to watch the smoke to see if it appeared to be getting worse, better, or staying the same. If worse, or the same I decided I would call fire.
Thankfully, the smoke dissipated once the car was shut down so I called roadside.
It’s been solid Tesla performance since then. . . Towed within 30 min to service center. Service Center has been very communicative (even this morning). Still waiting to hear the verdict but I’m really happy so far with the Tesla response.
Stay tuned for update.
By the way, anyone else have something like this happen?
