I want to share a video I made with the rest of my Canadian Model 3 owners. Have you also experienced this issue????
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I want to share a video I made with the rest of my Canadian Model 3 owners. Have you also experienced this issue????
It is plugged in to a 240v 32a charger already.I wonder if having the car do a brief spate of high power charging would help keep this from happening with the 3’s same as it does for the X and S’s. 15-30 minutes of 240 @ 32 keeps my X from getting frozen up. I know the mechanism is different on the 3’s, but maybe that might work.
The whole point is that for the $75K car you should not do that. I've never had to buy a Silicon spray or use a hair dryer for My 07 Mazda Cx7. I have owned the car for 11 years now and never had any issue under rain/heavy snow/freezing rain. Didn't need to do any of this non sense before for the car costing half of my current M3 back then.I had a similar issue before the "winter update" with the lock pin being frozen. I put a hair dryer in the trunk of my car aimed at the charge port from the inside and left it there for about 30 min (trunk closed except for a crack to allow for the extension cord). This solved my problem. Now I have a hair dryer/extension cord ready to go in case the lock pin gets frozen again, although I haven't come across the problem since the winter update. My suspicion is that some water got into the charge port and froze, leading to the issue. I've since been super careful about charging when exposed to rain or snow. I also make sure to give the charge port a quick wipe after charging to soak up any moisture in the area.
Also how crazy is it we're thinking about where we'd plug in our hair dryers in an emergency while travelling?
I've been having the inverse problem. The pin won't go down when I try to remove the charge cable. Even the emergency latch inside the trunk won't release it. Anything that can be done to help with this ?
Tesla recommended running the heating in the car for 30mins with the rear seats down...
You can have those concerns if you spend all your time reading about the problems the cars have on the internet. I had a charge port pin locking issue with my S. Was replaced under warranty. Point is all cars can have problems. I haven't had any issues with my 3 yet. Love the car. But I'm in the Tesla fan group and will always have one in the garage.I'm scheduled for a test drive of a Model 3 this afternoon at the Montreal store. I'm a big TSLA fan but these winter stories make me uncertain to continue with the ordering process until Tesla comes up with a solution