P3D Help - Odd bulge/panel gap close to undercarriage

[keith819]

Hey all - my P3D that I posted about with autopilot issues (fixed! thankfully!) has this odd bulge/panel gap that's close to the undercarriage. I was actually able to pop part of it back up but can't get the rest up. Has anyone seen this? Is this a cause for concern? There's two photos, the first is when I noticed it and the other one is after I was able to push part of it back up. Thanks in advance for any advice!

Screen Shot 2019-04-27 At 9.29.10 AM

• keith819
• Apr 27, 2019

Screen Shot 2019-04-27 At 9.29.43 AM

• keith819
• Apr 27, 2019

 

[M109Rider]

Yup, looks like you’ve hit something, or something has hit your car.
Take it to a body shop privately to get it repaired, or go through insurance.
Those are your only two options.

Certainly didn’t come that way from factory.

 

[Raechris]

Hopefully just a broken clip or two. I would have Tesla look in case it's the battery pack

 

[UngaBunga1989]

By any chance was your car lifted at a garage at place that didn't know how to properly lift a Tesla? That is the only other thing that I can think of...

 

[S4WRXTTCS]

I have something similar, but not as dramatic.

I'm concerned that it's related to a design defect with the 3 in that always debris (like small rocks, sand, etc) a free ride.

https://electrek.co/2019/03/05/tesla-model-3-design-flaw-underbody/

So I'm just going to schedule a service appointment with Tesla to see what they say. I haven't taken a close enough look yet to know what's going on.

 

[keith819]

Got the problem solved. Spoke to my service center and they just had me pop it back in. I just had to push one piece back a bit with a plastic trim tool for it to go through the port/hole for it. Was pretty easy. They sent me an email apologizing that it was missed before I took delivery of it. Definitely did not hit anything... from what they said it sounds like this is not totally rare especially since they knew exactly what I was talking about over the phone. Car looks perfect now.

 

[TheWalkingDad]

I also had this happen and yes I just popped this back in. I'm not sure if its because of the thermal expansion of the battery packs or something else but it happened more than one occasion.

 

[C141medic]

I also had the same exact thing on the driver’s side. Mobile tech was at my house a few weeks ago to fix other minor issues and pointed this out to him. He said it was coming loose from the clips and was able to pop it back in. As long as there aren’t any missing clips you should be good. Hopefully that’s the end of it.