Here is my story on what happened to mine. About 3 weeks ago I saw my battery range drop and I also saw my efficiency drop as well. I just had my AC repaired due to stinky smell so I thought it was still the ac system, I reached out to Tesla and someone from their customer support in Draper Utah reaches out to me. He said that I had some errors on my logs that could be causing the problem of me losing range. I scheduled a service appointment for about 2 weeks out. I live about 200 miles away from the nearest Service center.
Fast forward a couple weeks Tuesday morning I hop into my car to begin my commute, I see an error and it says no power to rear motor, ok to drive. I need to go so I would use the front motor to drive, no big deal. I put it in drive pull forward about 3 feet and hear a massive clunk and about 5 error popped up, car not safe to drive, no power, pull over, car needs service, etc. It stopped halfway between my garage door. I was able to get the car in tow mode which allowed me to push it out of my garage door path, while pushing I heard a grinding noise coming from the rear motor as we were pushing it out of the way.
I called roadside they said someone would pick it up in about 2 hours. They were very efficient on towing the car which is nice, about 5 hours away I get a call from a technician saying my rear pyro fuse blew because it detected a collision, my car thought it hit something. I told him no, I just pulled it 3 feet out of the garage and everything quit on me. They agreed as there was no damage to the car and was a faulty report.
Here I am now, they need to replace my rear motor and I finally got a loaner from them, actually a second loaner, the first loaner had a flat tire. The errors on my logs in the beginning, I don’t know if it was for the motor or not, Or related to the AC system, but that’s what happened to mine, felt like it was out of the blue on it dying. I have a Model 3 AWD with about 16k miles and have owned it for about a year now.
Fast forward a couple weeks Tuesday morning I hop into my car to begin my commute, I see an error and it says no power to rear motor, ok to drive. I need to go so I would use the front motor to drive, no big deal. I put it in drive pull forward about 3 feet and hear a massive clunk and about 5 error popped up, car not safe to drive, no power, pull over, car needs service, etc. It stopped halfway between my garage door. I was able to get the car in tow mode which allowed me to push it out of my garage door path, while pushing I heard a grinding noise coming from the rear motor as we were pushing it out of the way.
I called roadside they said someone would pick it up in about 2 hours. They were very efficient on towing the car which is nice, about 5 hours away I get a call from a technician saying my rear pyro fuse blew because it detected a collision, my car thought it hit something. I told him no, I just pulled it 3 feet out of the garage and everything quit on me. They agreed as there was no damage to the car and was a faulty report.
Here I am now, they need to replace my rear motor and I finally got a loaner from them, actually a second loaner, the first loaner had a flat tire. The errors on my logs in the beginning, I don’t know if it was for the motor or not, Or related to the AC system, but that’s what happened to mine, felt like it was out of the blue on it dying. I have a Model 3 AWD with about 16k miles and have owned it for about a year now.
