Service Manuals Now Free?

[laservet]

Pray you never damage your front drive unit.
Per the manual, it's 266 steps to remove & replace, including post-op checks and alignment. Just a guess, but that's probably a $5k-$7k job minimum, including the new drive unit. Looking at that and a few videos, owning an out of warranty Tesla might require somehow having $10k in assets you can liquidate in a worser-case scenario

Replacing both turbos in my BMW was a $20k job at the dealer, $10k with a private mechanic using BMW parts. If a front motor fails in a Lucid Air going over 5 mph it wipes out the electrical system, the BMS, inverter, and the battery, a $75,000 repair.

Gotta have context.

 

[MP3Mike]

If a front motor fails in a Rivian going over 5 mph it wipes out the electrical system, the BMS, inverter, and the battery, a $75,000 repair.

Do you have a reference for that? (I had heard about that for the Lucid Air, but not for the Rivians.)

 

[laservet]

Do you have a reference for that? (I had heard about that for the Lucid Air, but not for the Rivians.)

Ooo, thanks for the correction, a senior moment on my part. I've corrected my post.

 

[metroplex]

I am glad I came across this thread. I thought once my 1 year free access was up that I had to buy Toolbox 3. Looks like the service manual links still work up top for your particular model.

 

[israndy]

Between that and everyone having access to Service Mode now I wonder what the benefit of having Toolbox would be