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Screen went black while driving
- Thread starter r1200gs4ok
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Alysashley79
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keep an eye on it. When I first got my car it would do similar things. Over the course of a week then my nav decided I was in Fremont full time but I live in wa state. They had to do a remote reset and everything was ok. Since then I’ve never had it reboot while I was driving.
YES you should be worried. NHTSA is currently investigating this as a potential safety issue.
Safety regulators probe Tesla over touch-screen failures
Saw the article as well. It concerns earlier vintage cars which use eMMC. Am sure you are familiar with the issue, but the OP is likely not. Tesla fixed this particular issue for newer cars. Mine is susceptible. As is usually the case, Tesla won’t address it proactively; if it fails Tesla will replace, or you can buy a new MCU 2, which offers other improvements as well. Net is that issue OP is experiencing is unlikely to be the subject of their investigation.
MCU2 cars will also fail from eMMC usage, However the duration may be longer, and possibly the life of the car. And yes there has not been enough reports for a probe on MCU2 cars yet.
the duration Green calculated was like 100 to 200 years for MCU2 compared to the current 4-5 years for MCU1.
What would bother me about this description is the "clank sound." When my Model S screen reboots, which it does more and more often as the car ages, it does not make any noise. Since the OP's car is quite new, there should not be any mechanical failures making clanking noises, so I wonder what that was....
MCU2 reboots sometimes pop the speakers (some kind of amp timing thing). MCU1 don't. I think that's what is at play.
SilverString
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Mine has done this but not in a long time since summer last year when new.. Every time it happened there was a software update that followed within a few hours. Maybe coincidence no idea.
I may have mis-spoke about the sound.....but there was a definite noise associated with the screen going blank...first off was the dash followed by the screen....it did re-boot after a few minutes and the wi-fi was turned off but came on next drive....my wifes M3 is getting the newest update now but the MS has not got it yet....
Interesting possibility. I had not experienced that (MC1 car), but I could see why that might happen.
And I know it is tough to diagnose or even recognize a brief, abrupt sound.