Rear doors don't self open from inside ...?

[holmgang]

Front doors = PRESS button, door unlatches and electrically swung open beyond the striker --> push door to fully open

Rear doors = PRESS button, sound of latches undone. doors release slightly. but still captured by striker. push door --> cant open.

If I HOLD the button on the rear doors, then of course i could push it out fully. But then its not behaving same as front (where i only need to press the button once).

Is this normal? Manual doesnt describe that behavior. It shouldnt be the child-locks, because the child locks should fully disable the rear buttons.

 

[C141medic]

Doesn’t sound like it’s operating normally to me.

From the manual:

“Opening Doors from the InteriorModel 3's doors are electrically powered. Toopen a door while sitting inside, press thebutton located near the top of the interiordoor handle. Doing so releases the latch sothat you can push the door open.”

 

[ZOMGVTEK]

This is normal, you need to push the doors while pressing the button.

 

[DMBM3]

Probably like this for child safety in the event doors are unlocked and child accidentally presses the button.

 

[N54TT]

Doesn’t sound like it’s operating normally to me.

From the manual:

“Opening Doors from the InteriorModel 3's doors are electrically powered. Toopen a door while sitting inside, press thebutton located near the top of the interiordoor handle. Doing so releases the latch so that you can push the door open.”

I highlighted the last sentence. the only thing pushing the bottom does is release the latch. Different build quality and alignment might cause some doors to pop open past the latch. OP’s car is completely normal.

 

[WilliamG]

Front doors = PRESS button, door unlatches and electrically swung open beyond the striker --> push door to fully open

Rear doors = PRESS button, sound of latches undone. doors release slightly. but still captured by striker. push door --> cant open.

If I HOLD the button on the rear doors, then of course i could push it out fully. But then its not behaving same as front (where i only need to press the button once).

Is this normal? Manual doesnt describe that behavior. It shouldnt be the child-locks, because the child locks should fully disable the rear buttons.

My car behaves exactly the same way as yours.

 

[355rockit]

I asked service about this and they did realign the door latch since it was rubbing. They said since rear door is heavier, so you have to hold the button down and push unlike the front door which is press and then push. Weird and confuses the rear passengers. Appears to be normal behavior per Tesla Service.

 

[MentalNomad]

It never occurred to me or my passengers to try to open a door without pushing it.

Wait, not true... one person expected automatic gull-wing doors until we walked up to my car.

Other than that, everyone expected the doors to work like normal doors, which they do.

 

[N54TT]

I highlighted the last sentence. the only thing pushing the bottom does is release the latch. Different build quality and alignment might cause some doors to pop open past the latch. OP’s car is completely normal.

wow wish I could edit my post lol... just noticed I wrote bottom instead of button

 

[hmmwv]

wow wish I could edit my post lol... just noticed I wrote bottom instead of button

No way to take it back anymore, now the entire Internet will forever know where your mind had been.