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Model 3 Heat Pump PT Sensor Replacement (P2) - recall - service message
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I'm booked in for Thursday @ Dartford (appointments seem to be available immediately these days!). They called yesterday and said it'll be an hour and a half to replace the sensors and they'll start as soon as I get there. I will believe the latter part when I see it!
SpareHeadOne
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My service centre have told me 2-2½ hours, I'm going to drop the car in the morning and pick it up at the end of the day.
No, I had a mobile tech visit booked for a minor interior trim problem and they contacted me to say they need the car to do this fix. The service guy was surprised that I hadn't had the alert in the car as their system had added the report to my service request automatically.
SpareHeadOne
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Accidentally really, I noticed a problem with the armrest bin so I booked a mobile tech to get it sorted, then got a message saying that they needed the car for the fix and asking me to call. When I called the service guy said that there's this soft recall taking place and the system must have automatically added it to my service request.
He was surprised that I'd not had an alert in the car and said they could split out the two tasks, but as I'm barely using it at the moment it seemed easier to just get it out of the way - I'm only about six miles from the place anyway, so it's not a huge chunk of time from my day. I'm going to drop it off as soon as they open in the morning then pick it up at lunch time or when I finish work.
My guess is that they're taking the opportunity with anyone booking in for anything at the moment.
During. I believe there were issues removing the sensors. Maybe seized?
I didn’t get a real chance to question it further so don’t know the specifics. Booked back in for end of June, but might have to slip further if the part hasn’t arrived.
Car seems to operate fine so nothing has failed (yet).
SpareHeadOne
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Same for me.
Service chap said that sometimes when the sensors are removed they take the threads with them & that's that's happened in my case (and presumably yours), so they have to replace the whole thing.
It's starting to look like the sensors may have been over-tightened during the build and that's probably what damaged them in the first place.
I have a tentative appointment in about four weeks for the super-manifold.
Mine is booked in for some other fixes tomorrow and they have added the sensors as well.
Keeping my fingers crossed that it all goes well
K44ENT
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Not even had the message through to the car yet so wonder if they are waiting till parts are available until they contact owners
I got bumped back last minute as well, they have been having problems since it's been taking much longer than expected on some cars. So I will need a courtesy car and I don't need to worry about waiting around.
Can't quite believe it will have an air con re-gas already. All this type of servicing, throw away parts,.etc, kinda offsets the sustainable future marketing.
However... I now think I'm happy to wait for any teething issues to creep out of the process.
Can't quite believe it will have an air con re-gas already. All this type of servicing, throw away parts,.etc, kinda offsets the sustainable future marketing.
However... I now think I'm happy to wait for any teething issues to creep out of the process.
SpareHeadOne
Member
Not really a re-gas, they extract the gas currently in the system and put it back afterwards because it'll still work - they'll top up the system if necessary afterwards, of course.
It's not legal to just release the gas, it hasn't been since the 1990 EPA came into effect; waste refrigerants go for processing and are either recovered (if they're still viable) or incinerated because they're quite bad for the old Ozone layer.
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