My rear glass is all fixed
Report Card:
Schedule Appt: A+ (1 Week)
Approve Warranty Repair: A+ (Just had to send photo to a text message that they requested by sms after I scheduled an appt)
Part Availability: A+ (Already in stock)
Loaner: A+ (Loaned Model S Dual 85) Liked that car a lot.
Other Work: A+ (Asked address frozen charge port, happened once in winter, not critical, took my word for it, replaced with new rev]
Badge: A+ (Asked if I wanted Dual Motor Performance Badge and I said yes)
Glass Install: A+ (Looks factory)
Interior: C+
Several issues with interior.
Rear pillar covers (same color as headliner) running along the sides of the window had darker marks all over them.
I didn't choose the color for the headliner, Elon did. I prefer everything to be DARK (like the loaner S I had, very nice).
Light colors are a PITA.
I asked that they note it and I will attempt to clean it myself first. I used a "Janie" and they came 95% clean. Hard to notice.
There was a good bulge in one cover. I assumed they just missed a snap. Nope.
I took the cover off and found the problem. So glad I did.
There is a module for the rear defog behind that cover and some bulky cables.
The cable is supposed to be clipped to the body and keep it clear of that module.
It was not clipped in and running across the top of the module causing cover to bulge out, wait it gets better.
It was bulging right about where the rear window defrost wire attaches to the glass.
The clip was attached to the cable, but were does it go?
Wait there is hole with a cable clip in it, at just the right place with no cable attached !!
I yanked the orphaned cable clip out of the hole and plugged the clip with cable attached into the hole. Fixed !!
I suspect it was this way from the factory and they just manage to "tuck" the cable out the way without the cable clip fastened.
The glass repair guys didn't recognize this assembly error nor route the cable out of the way and just left the cover bulging.
It's important things are tidy here because there are air bags 6 inches away from that cable clip.
Since I took the cover off I could see the glass gluing and it looked very good.
I'm a little anxious to test that the rear defog all works.
Inside of new glass was pretty dirty. With spots of sticky stuff that took elbow grease to remove. I would rather they clean the new glass they just installed than add armorall to the tires. I hate armorall (or anything like it). I think shiny rubber looks stupid.
This is the cable with clip attached but not clipped anywhere (I unplugged cable here thinking I could remove the clip). But it was easier to pull out the other clip. See below.
This is where the cable should attach but it's occupied by a cable clip with no cable. I removed it and chucked it.
This is what it should look like. That mounting spot is the bottom of the rear defog module and the cable was on the right side of that module between the module and the cover.
Sample of the darker marks, there was probably twenty marks like this. I even added a couple myself while fixing the cover because you pull a black rubber gasket out of the way then put your hand on the light colored cover and leave marks all over it.
