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LOL, I guess I should have read every post.
So, ideally, we should get this repaired under warranty and get a whole new unit, but if no longer on warranty, we should prophylactically replace with SS bolts -- got it!
So that's how they screw bolts in Quebec ?!
You can blame autocorrect or ESL, both are valid answers.
@zax123 thanks for the pics! I'm still on warranty for another 10 months but plan on doing this mod just before the warranty expires. As of this week I had the frunk tub out and gave it a good once over but it's holding fine. Did you use any locktite on the bolts or just the lock washers?
For now I just sprayed ACF-50 all over the frunk area. I know Tesla doesn't recommend it but this thing is built more like an aircraft than a traditional car and its safe for use on aircraft and their electronic components. I used to have a vintage Cessna from 1953 and the stuff worked great on it. If the Tesla can last 65 years in our climate I'll be pretty happy too but i'd settle for 30.
zax123, great work. Did you make sure to tension it so no belt slippage can occur?
If you have not done so yet,
Please call Darryl Malone of Transport Canada at 1-800-333-0510
to report this failure. They need to know about all of these failures.
I would say that there is a very high likelihood of the bolts shearing when trying to preventatively extracting them.
Were the alternate set of adjacent bolt holes already threaded and ready to go?
Did you need to chase those threads with a tap or clean them with anything / compressed air .. before using those holes? Looks like corrosion got into those holes too.
p.s. I'm quite dismayed at how poorly the O-ring gasket appears to be "keeping corrosion out" of the working parts...
Possible to size up the thickness of the O-ring?
Put additional sealant on the faces of those parts around the outside of that O-ring?
Oh another thing... my SS bolts are 65mm long. Next size up was 80 or 85 mm.
These bolts are only threaded on the last inch or so of its length, other wise I'd buy the longer and just cut off.
Do you think 65mm are sufficient, with maybe just a lock washer, or zero washers and loctite instead?
Can someone please use calipers and measure the length of the OE bolt, if you've got a whole one out, thanks!?
I bet the system works fine with only two bolts
@mongo, oh yes, I wasn't suggesting to use only two. I was just saying that even if one bolt was already sheared/broken/weakened, the driver probably wouldn't notice it until it was too late and all three sheared off.
What's the easiest way to get a look at this? Take out the frunk liner?
@mongo, oh yes, I wasn't suggesting to use only two. I was just saying that even if one bolt was already sheared/broken/weakened, the driver probably wouldn't notice it until it was too late and all three sheared off.