My 2023 3 Performance has been a reliable car... until recently...
I believe I had a total of 1 black-screen in the almost 2 years of owning the car...
Until now...
First indication something something might be wrong was when I got into my car after work and the screen stayed black. I had to actually turn my head to get out of my parking spot, and was fearful of the traffic indicators (which all worked - found out by looking at my blinker's reflection in the tail lights of a car in front of me). Eventually it rebooted and all was good.
Until now...
Today, I was driving and while driving, the screen went dead on a city street. The software tried to auto-reboot 4 times (the "T" appeared in the screen, it was in dim mode, then died again). Oddly, the image of the car didn't even appear!!! A little concerning. I verified my signals were working (even if there was no "click" noise) by looking at my turn signal's reflection in a car in front of me. One slightly amusing characteristic: the clicking of the turn signal went from "click-click-click-click..." to "click-click-click, pause, click-click-click, pause, ...". Kind of amusing.
When I parked, I did a hard reboot. Battery had about 130 miles remaining. I returned a few hours later and headed home with a quick stop to drop a friend off at a store. While I waited in the parking lot, the "T" of death (I think I'll trademark that
) came on 2 more times. It rebooted successfully. Then I went to a drive through, and my friend pointed out that the "Temperature" on the top of the screen appeared as "--" (not 65 degrees or whatever). The system rebooted itself again...
When I got home, it appears Tesla sent me an update: 2033.44.30.5.1.
Just curious if anyone else has had unusual experiences with the last update? Any contact with Tesla to learn their thoughts? I'm wondering if the whole "recall" thing may have caused them to push the software out a little bit before QA had a chance to thoroughly test everything... That's my hope - otherwise, fearing it could be a CPU going bad...
Thanks, and happy holidays!!!
I believe I had a total of 1 black-screen in the almost 2 years of owning the car...
Until now...
First indication something something might be wrong was when I got into my car after work and the screen stayed black. I had to actually turn my head to get out of my parking spot, and was fearful of the traffic indicators (which all worked - found out by looking at my blinker's reflection in the tail lights of a car in front of me). Eventually it rebooted and all was good.
Until now...
Today, I was driving and while driving, the screen went dead on a city street. The software tried to auto-reboot 4 times (the "T" appeared in the screen, it was in dim mode, then died again). Oddly, the image of the car didn't even appear!!! A little concerning. I verified my signals were working (even if there was no "click" noise) by looking at my turn signal's reflection in a car in front of me. One slightly amusing characteristic: the clicking of the turn signal went from "click-click-click-click..." to "click-click-click, pause, click-click-click, pause, ...". Kind of amusing.
When I parked, I did a hard reboot. Battery had about 130 miles remaining. I returned a few hours later and headed home with a quick stop to drop a friend off at a store. While I waited in the parking lot, the "T" of death (I think I'll trademark that
) came on 2 more times. It rebooted successfully. Then I went to a drive through, and my friend pointed out that the "Temperature" on the top of the screen appeared as "--" (not 65 degrees or whatever). The system rebooted itself again...When I got home, it appears Tesla sent me an update: 2033.44.30.5.1.
Just curious if anyone else has had unusual experiences with the last update? Any contact with Tesla to learn their thoughts? I'm wondering if the whole "recall" thing may have caused them to push the software out a little bit before QA had a chance to thoroughly test everything... That's my hope - otherwise, fearing it could be a CPU going bad...
Thanks, and happy holidays!!!
