My car is showing codes DIR_126 and DIR_103 which from googling can be anything from drive motor failure, to a pump gone or going bad to a value to a coolant leak. I'm sure there could be other reasons. Luckily no coolant puddles or anything else pudding underneath the car. This occurred yesterday, I parked the car, got back in errors are gone but I've also not driven it again since for fear of being stranded on the side of the road somewhere. Yes I can call roadside but I'd rather not risk it to begin with.
So I open the app, schedule service and it tries to give me the next available appointment which is great but it's about two hours away. I do not trust this car to not fail on me or reduce speed again to 62mph while I'm on a toll road. I select the closest service center and the wait time is three weeks which either the app didn't want me to pick or froze every time I tried to pick Eatonville. I honestly don't know can this car make it three weeks? I also don't know if I can drive it over two hours if I avoid toll roads without issues. This is assuming it makes it another week? I know there's no way to talk to anyone at Tesla and I knew this going in three years ago but three years on I stupidly assumed this would be fixed by now or a better system put in place.
It seems my options are to wait and hope I don't end up having it towed back to Tesla. Drive it to Eatonville, hoping it makes it their when service opens on Monday morning and hope they don't have me wait three hours only to send me home with $100 uber credit which will be blown just to drive me home. Hopefully they have a loaner but going by Google reviews it seems this location is somewhere between great to absolute chaos. This is my frustration, it might all be for nothing. My car might be fine and make it three weeks? This is exactly where legacy automakers have Tesla beaten and Tesla badly needs to get service up to par.
So I open the app, schedule service and it tries to give me the next available appointment which is great but it's about two hours away. I do not trust this car to not fail on me or reduce speed again to 62mph while I'm on a toll road. I select the closest service center and the wait time is three weeks which either the app didn't want me to pick or froze every time I tried to pick Eatonville. I honestly don't know can this car make it three weeks? I also don't know if I can drive it over two hours if I avoid toll roads without issues. This is assuming it makes it another week? I know there's no way to talk to anyone at Tesla and I knew this going in three years ago but three years on I stupidly assumed this would be fixed by now or a better system put in place.
It seems my options are to wait and hope I don't end up having it towed back to Tesla. Drive it to Eatonville, hoping it makes it their when service opens on Monday morning and hope they don't have me wait three hours only to send me home with $100 uber credit which will be blown just to drive me home. Hopefully they have a loaner but going by Google reviews it seems this location is somewhere between great to absolute chaos. This is my frustration, it might all be for nothing. My car might be fine and make it three weeks? This is exactly where legacy automakers have Tesla beaten and Tesla badly needs to get service up to par.