Hi!
I had my Model S since November now and it runs great! I am experiencing an interesting problem though - on hot (esp humid) days, the air conditioner will stop pumping cool air for about 1-2 minutes in the cabin. This causes the temperature to spike very quickly. I even have this plotted on TeslaFi (see the dark red line)
At approx 11:47 am today, I jumped on a freeway onramp and roughly at the same time the air conditioner stopped blowing cold air. I bumped the temperature from 68 down to LO in hopes that would fix it, however, nothing changes and the car gets warmer for another minute or so to a peak temperature of 84 degrees. After about 90s, the air conditioner abruptly turns back on and the car is cool again. The fan runs the entire time, just the temperature of the air is different. The air seems to be being pumped directly from the outside - it is noticeably more humid and warm compared to air that would otherwise be air-conditioned.
This seems to happen only on hot days, and only whenever I accelerate hard the first time of the drive. I'm not getting any error codes and service said this was normal when they looked at my logs (which is beyond me as to how this is acceptable in any car, let alone a higher-end car like the Model S) Service claimed that if the air conditioner is not set to LO it may do this to warm the car back up to the expected temperature, but with my temperature being 68 and the actual temperature being above that, I'm not sure why it would consider doing that, especially if it just cools back down to the original temperature shortly after. I also debunked this theory by setting my car to LO and then accelerating hard - the car still does the same thing.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is this normal? I'm not sure if I should accept this as a normal known issue or if this is something that is repairable. If it is repairable, I will need to go back to service to insist they look at it (which is something I absolute hate doing
)
Cheers!
Andrew
I had my Model S since November now and it runs great! I am experiencing an interesting problem though - on hot (esp humid) days, the air conditioner will stop pumping cool air for about 1-2 minutes in the cabin. This causes the temperature to spike very quickly. I even have this plotted on TeslaFi (see the dark red line)
At approx 11:47 am today, I jumped on a freeway onramp and roughly at the same time the air conditioner stopped blowing cold air. I bumped the temperature from 68 down to LO in hopes that would fix it, however, nothing changes and the car gets warmer for another minute or so to a peak temperature of 84 degrees. After about 90s, the air conditioner abruptly turns back on and the car is cool again. The fan runs the entire time, just the temperature of the air is different. The air seems to be being pumped directly from the outside - it is noticeably more humid and warm compared to air that would otherwise be air-conditioned.
This seems to happen only on hot days, and only whenever I accelerate hard the first time of the drive. I'm not getting any error codes and service said this was normal when they looked at my logs (which is beyond me as to how this is acceptable in any car, let alone a higher-end car like the Model S) Service claimed that if the air conditioner is not set to LO it may do this to warm the car back up to the expected temperature, but with my temperature being 68 and the actual temperature being above that, I'm not sure why it would consider doing that, especially if it just cools back down to the original temperature shortly after. I also debunked this theory by setting my car to LO and then accelerating hard - the car still does the same thing.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is this normal? I'm not sure if I should accept this as a normal known issue or if this is something that is repairable. If it is repairable, I will need to go back to service to insist they look at it (which is something I absolute hate doing
)Cheers!
Andrew
