My steering wheel buttons and scroll wheels stopped working yesterday. I had an "Alert" message pop up that I had not seen before, and it did not go away. This is not exact, but it was ~"View around entire vehicle partially obstructed - auto lane change not available". I looked in a couple of Tesla forums and saw that someone else who had experienced this had wiped off his cameras and that fixed his problem. So, in spite of the fact that my cameras were clean, I got out and wiped them all off. No help.
Just the day before, I had gone to the car to go to an appointment, only to find the large center screen black, and message displayed on small display, "Systems powering up. Press brake when this message goes away". The message did not go away after several minutes, so I pressed the brake pedal several times, message cleared, and it let me put it in gear. Main screen still not working, Bluetooth, and a host of other things not working, including the garage door opener. I had to make it to that appointment (oncologist), so I opened the garage door with the wall switch, pulled out of the garage, went back in, closed the garage door and went out the front door. I had left the driver door open and when I got back in the car, the powering up message was back, and car would not do squat. I repeated pressing the brake multiple times, I was allowed to put car in gear, and off I went, not knowing whether Id make it back home. I found out the turn signals were not working, and the small display was so dim I could not read it most of the time (sunny day). After the appointment, I looked for the problem online. I found none that described my problem, but saw where a guy said he had cleared up a "glitchy" screen by rebooting. To do this held down the steering wheel buttons above the scroll wheels simultaneously for a few seconds. Waa laa! Screen came back on and all appeared normal. Then the next day, this new problem.
Well, I tried this reboot trick to try and clear yesterday's problem, after wiping off the cameras. It rebooted, but message was still there. Tried it a second time. This time it did not reboot, and I quickly discovered that none of my steering wheel buttons or scroll wheels were working.They still are not working. I contacted tech support, when I encountered the first problem 2 days ago. Have no update of status, other than "We're looking at it".
I accepted delivery of my Model X this past March, and no glitches until this week. When it rains, it pours...
