RayK
Active Member
Tesla owner only since July 2018. Driven 7,262 miles since then. Longest drive was a vacation to Los Angeles over three and a half days. During this time the only real reasons why I had to take the car in to the service center was to fix a slow leak (drywall screw) in one of my tires and to clear a TPMS error that essentially came with the car (yellow tire icon was lit from day 1). Nothing that was a side-of-the-road or tow truck incident.
My only complaint about the car that is any way related to reliability is the agonizing wait that occurs sometimes when I walk up to the car and want to get inside. For the first couple of months I used the cardkey. That worked 100%. During the aforementioned LA trip, I activated my phone (Samsung Galaxy J3) as a key. That has not been a 100% success rate. More like 97 or 98%. Those 2-3% failures have come without any perceived changes on my behalf. By "failures" I mean having to wait more than three seconds standing by the driver's door before it unlocks or having to resort to using the cardkey.
I've had a couple of times where the display doesn't activate until maybe a minute after I start the car but I don't consider those to be a reliability issue (yet). And a couple of times where the traffic information doesn't display on the navigation map but it comes back the next time I start the car. Sometimes the radio doesn't start up right away, but it eventually does after a minute or two. No problems with a stuck charging cable. No problems with the drivetrain (battery and/or motor). Windows work fine (but I haven't taken the car up to Tahoe for an overnight freeze). Same with the door handles. I've opened the frunk maybe 10 times without any issues. Brakes are fine. Had an incident a couple of days ago where I felt the ABS working. Headlights are the best I've had on a car since my brother installed some Cibié lights on his 1971 Capri (that I eventually owned). Glass roof panels haven't cracked or chipped. About two weeks ago my wife and I heard a loud crack as I thought something hit the front windshield. No detectable chip anywhere. No water leaks that I've seen or felt in the cabin or trunk. Yes sometimes some water falls into the trunk when I open it but that's not a reliability issue; just a design flaw.
<Ray now goes and firmly raps his knuckles on the wood dining room table>
My only complaint about the car that is any way related to reliability is the agonizing wait that occurs sometimes when I walk up to the car and want to get inside. For the first couple of months I used the cardkey. That worked 100%. During the aforementioned LA trip, I activated my phone (Samsung Galaxy J3) as a key. That has not been a 100% success rate. More like 97 or 98%. Those 2-3% failures have come without any perceived changes on my behalf. By "failures" I mean having to wait more than three seconds standing by the driver's door before it unlocks or having to resort to using the cardkey.
I've had a couple of times where the display doesn't activate until maybe a minute after I start the car but I don't consider those to be a reliability issue (yet). And a couple of times where the traffic information doesn't display on the navigation map but it comes back the next time I start the car. Sometimes the radio doesn't start up right away, but it eventually does after a minute or two. No problems with a stuck charging cable. No problems with the drivetrain (battery and/or motor). Windows work fine (but I haven't taken the car up to Tahoe for an overnight freeze). Same with the door handles. I've opened the frunk maybe 10 times without any issues. Brakes are fine. Had an incident a couple of days ago where I felt the ABS working. Headlights are the best I've had on a car since my brother installed some Cibié lights on his 1971 Capri (that I eventually owned). Glass roof panels haven't cracked or chipped. About two weeks ago my wife and I heard a loud crack as I thought something hit the front windshield. No detectable chip anywhere. No water leaks that I've seen or felt in the cabin or trunk. Yes sometimes some water falls into the trunk when I open it but that's not a reliability issue; just a design flaw.
<Ray now goes and firmly raps his knuckles on the wood dining room table>