new Plaid bitching

[brur]

I bought a beautiful new red Plaid. Absolutely the best car I've ever owned. That lasted two days. Then I got a list of failure codes and a worthless car.
So two days of driving heaven and two weeks of "we will start working on your car when we get the parts." WTF man. FedX from Fremont, do something.

 

[Phlier]

Please take the "Like" in the spirit that it was meant... that being that man, I'm so sorry this has happened. There are just too many of these kinds of posts.

Let us know how it goes?

 

[brur]

Please take the "Like" in the spirit that it was meant... that being that man, I'm so sorry this has happened. There are just too many of these kinds of posts.

Let us know how it goes?

thanks, hard to accept bad luck

 

[whitex]

Let us know how Tesla takes care of this. Loaner Plaid? $100 in Uber? Wait time? Or perhaps a brand new car?

PS> What are the errors you are seeing. Do you have a picture of the error list perhaps you could share here?

 

[dannycamps]

This seems to be a semi-common problem with the new Plaid S in that it's happened to more than a few. I do wonder if there is some faulty component causing the issue.

 

[Cheburashka]

Thank you for being a beta tester.

 

[whitex]

Thank you for being a beta tester.

I think that applies to all Tesla customers, as they keep changing hardware often (Elon used to be proud of every 2 weeks), and software is always Beta.

 

[brur]

Let us know how Tesla takes care of this. Loaner Plaid? $100 in Uber? Wait time? Or perhaps a brand new car?

PS> What are the errors you are seeing. Do you have a picture of the error list perhaps you could share here?

clean newer model 3, they don't have plaids to throw around. They offered $100 uber, but that doesn't work for me being partway to the sticks.

below, there were more problems, auto-hold was a big one. unnerving to have the car just start rolling, one way or the other, as if it was in gear. Without regen going anywhere is tough, have to use the brakes all the time.

 

[brur]

Picked the car up today. I'm a happy camper again.

 

[whitex]

clean newer model 3, they don't have plaids to throw around. They offered $100 uber, but that doesn't work for me being partway to the sticks.

below, there were more problems, auto-hold was a big one. unnerving to have the car just start rolling, one way or the other, as if it was in gear. Without regen going anywhere is tough, have to use the brakes all the time.

I would have been more worried about driving Plaid with traction and stability controls disabled (two of the error messages).

 

[whitex]

Picked the car up today. I'm a happy camper again.

Did they tell you what was wrong? Loose ground connection perhaps (forgot to secure, or overtightened and broke off)?

 

[brur]

Did they tell you what was wrong? Loose ground connection perhaps (forgot to secure, or overtightened and broke off)?

front desk thought it was a wheel sensor

 

[brur]

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ok, evidently this was part of my previous driving issue with my Plaid. Service fixed some errors that I had, now noticed I have intermittent none functioning front and side cameras. The result is no auto pilot, cruise of course, and lots of other related failures. Hi beams, auto window wipers... anything that needs vision is gone.
Tried the two thumbs restart ... nothing.
Also get less frequent back camers failure.
pic of what the car sees

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[Phlier]

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ok, evidently this was part of my previous driving issue with my Plaid. Service fixed some errors that I had, now noticed I have intermittent none functioning front and side cameras. The result is no auto pilot, cruise of course, and lots of other related failures. Hi beams, auto window wipers... anything that needs vision is gone.
Tried the two thumbs restart ... nothing.
Also get less frequent back camers failure.
pic of what the car sees

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Is this a brand new issue that has happened since you picked up your "fixed" car, or is it more information on what *was* wrong with the car but fixed now?

 

[brur]

I may have been a problem hiding behind the other issues. I get drives where the car is fine and the next drive may have faults

 

[brur]

It seems the first drive of the day diving visualizations doesn't work. And it is not a matter of driving 5 miles and shutting it off. From what I have encountered it takes some amount of time maybe 20 minutes. If I come back to the car after that time it seems to work fine.