So Thursday was fun. My new M3LR completely died on us on it's first long trip. We got about an hour from home. Full charge when we left and software up to date. Stopped in lane 1 in queueing traffic on the A556 just before the M6 junction.
The traffic started moving and I went to pull away and all manner of alarms sounded and warnings appeared on the screen:
- Power reduced (exiting and re-entering the vehicle may restore operation*)
- Acceleration and top speed reduced
- Automatic emergency braking is disabled
* - it didn't!
The P R N D on the display was replaced with 4 dashes and I couldn't move nor select any gears.
Cue the police attending to protect us as we couldn't move over to the hard shoulder and a ride on a trailer to Tesla Stockport SC. They gave us a knackered old Model X as a loaner and whilst it was filthy inside and out and sounded like a bag of spanners we were very grateful to continue our journey!
Anyone had anything similar? I searched and I could only find people with the same warnings that were able to continue in limp mode, unlike us.
Anyway, very scary and felt vulnerable and completely useless. I assume I'll see the car again but who knows! When the chap on the Tesla breakdown number connected to the car remotely he saw all manner of faults with it, the volume of which he'd never seen before with any Tesla, let alone a 4 day old one!
So apologies to anyone delayed by us, nothing we could do I'm afraid. Everyone had that look of "oh look, they've ran out of battery"!
The traffic started moving and I went to pull away and all manner of alarms sounded and warnings appeared on the screen:
- Power reduced (exiting and re-entering the vehicle may restore operation*)
- Acceleration and top speed reduced
- Automatic emergency braking is disabled
* - it didn't!
The P R N D on the display was replaced with 4 dashes and I couldn't move nor select any gears.
Cue the police attending to protect us as we couldn't move over to the hard shoulder and a ride on a trailer to Tesla Stockport SC. They gave us a knackered old Model X as a loaner and whilst it was filthy inside and out and sounded like a bag of spanners we were very grateful to continue our journey!
Anyone had anything similar? I searched and I could only find people with the same warnings that were able to continue in limp mode, unlike us.
Anyway, very scary and felt vulnerable and completely useless. I assume I'll see the car again but who knows! When the chap on the Tesla breakdown number connected to the car remotely he saw all manner of faults with it, the volume of which he'd never seen before with any Tesla, let alone a 4 day old one!
So apologies to anyone delayed by us, nothing we could do I'm afraid. Everyone had that look of "oh look, they've ran out of battery"!