New extreme cold weather casualty: bass from speakers

[pcons]

So last night I left my car charging in a public lot while visiting some friends. It was cold out (-18C), and even earlier in the day when leaving work I got the 'battery warming' message, and had no regen since the car cold soaked all day.

Anywho...when I got into my car just before midnight a song came on the radio and it sounded horrible. No bass whatsoever coming from the speakers, and I thought to myself maybe the speakers were frozen over and not producing low frequencies.

Low and behold, I played the same song this morning after pre heating the car and having it parked in my garage all night (un heated garage mind you) and the bass was back. I wish I had thought to take an audio recording, because it would have been interesting to put it through a spectrum analyzer to confirm what my ears were telling me.

Anyone else notice something similar? With the cold snap we have been having there must be other observations of this.

 

[Zirak]

Be careful though, not sure if Tesla has some sort of sensors to mitigate this issue, but from what I've heard, really cold temperatures can actually cause speakers to crack if you tune em up really high.

 

[silentcorp]

This sounds more like the issue everyone is having in this thread than a cold weather issue:

Sound system lost it's "punch" after latest update

 

[Node-1]

I observed the exact same issue, after a day with the car sitting in -21C weather. Once it sat in my garage and warmed up over nite, bass was back. My horn changed sounds too... sounded more like a weak beep than the normally throaty horn (recovered once warm)

 

[pcons]

This sounds more like the issue everyone is having in this thread than a cold weather issue:

Sound system lost it's "punch" after latest update

In my case there was no software update. Just super cold to less freeze-your-face-off cold was the only difference.

 

[silentcorp]

The issue has been around a while if you look at that thread, it's not related to any single update.

 

[PhaseWhite]

The Model 3 has 2 woofers in the front doors and one in the rear, these types of speakers can be damaged when they are too cold. It's entirely likely the software is smart enough to limit base or power to the speakers until they are warmed up.

 

[jsmay311]

Just came here from 5 years in the future to say that I’m seeing the same thing in my 2023 Model 3 in -2F / -19C temps. Hopefully it fixes itself in warmer temps as others experienced above.

I don’t recall ever having this issue in my old 2018 Model 3.

 

[pnwadventures]

Also wonder if it’s possible that your 12V is actually what’s going on there…