Blastphemy
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Upon entering the vehicle and powering it up, a new objectionably loud fan noise coming from behind the front dash began. It did not seem to be correlated with the climate control fan speed, or the selection of outside air, recycled air, or biodefense filtered air within the climate control pop-up. It was clearly distinct from the noise of rushing air that I consider "normal" when the climate control is operating at a high fan speed. Turning the climate control off did not seem to affect the noise. It was loud enough that it interrupted conversational speech with my passenger in the front seat, and could be heard over the radio.
We recently starting hearing what can only be described as a hollow metal tube vibrating noisily from behind the dash. Normally it's very quiet inside the car, even with the A/C on, but this noise is loud and does not sound right. To my ears, it sounds like there's something loose that's just waiting to break. Turn off the A/C, and that noise disappears completely. At first I thought the noise only happened on very hot days, but yesterday we didn't have any extreme heat and we still heard the noise. Still, it doesn't always happen (maybe 40% of the time?), so I'm not sure what's going on.
We've made an appointment at our local Tesla service center, just to be safe.