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What on earth… that’s terrible, sorry. How could the radar possibly lead to water intrusion in the cabin? I’m not sure where it’s located in 2021+ but that explanation is strange. The wet floor board was probably source of moisture that led to mold.I went on a month long vacation to find my car’s interior with mold on it (seats, yoke, door panels) when I returned. Also, the floor board on the driver’s side is soaking wet. The mold wiped right off, I had the car detailed and made an appointment with Tesla service. Their fix is the “front radar replacement due to water intrusion.” We’ll see if it fixes it. I love the car but the build quality is laughable. Here’s a pic of the mold.
Holy mother of…I went on a month long vacation to find my car’s interior with mold on it (seats, yoke, door panels) when I returned. Also, the floor board on the driver’s side is soaking wet. The mold wiped right off, I had the car detailed and made an appointment with Tesla service. Their fix is the “front radar replacement due to water intrusion.” We’ll see if it fixes it. I love the car but the build quality is laughable. Here’s a pic of the mold.
of course they will say that. do you have it in writing in your service note? if you can share it here.I have a 2021 Refresh S that also started making this same noise after a recent update.
The SC here says "We changed the frequency of part of the high voltage system, and an unwanted side effct is this whining noise. It does not indicate a malfunction and the noise does not affect wear, longevity, or reliability of your Model S. The team is working on reverting this frequency change, you can expect a fix in a future firmware update."
We have 3 in the family, this is the first real issue and hopefully the last one (knock on wood).I view Tesla less favorably in recent years than in years past. Definitely feels like they will be viewed as a “flash in the pan,” once competition gets online. Probably my last Tesla purchase.
That’s unhealthy. You need to have them decontaminate the entire enterior and duct system as the mold spores are EVEREYWHERE!I went on a month long vacation to find my car’s interior with mold on it (seats, yoke, door panels) when I returned. Also, the floor board on the driver’s side is soaking wet. The mold wiped right off, I had the car detailed and made an appointment with Tesla service. Their fix is the “front radar replacement due to water intrusion.” We’ll see if it fixes it. I love the car but the build quality is laughable. Here’s a pic of the mold.
Tesla has serious issues and will alienate a lot of future buyers. They should not be releasing updates without substantial testing.
There's got to be more to this story. Mold on the seats and yoke make me think temperature and humidity changes caused condensation to hang around and fester. Maybe there's moisture in the floor boards that evaporated but stayed in the airtight cabin to condense. Hmm, did the radar sensor drain water from front of car to the floor boards. It's a mystery ....The weird thing is that this happened while the car was just sitting. Not like I drove through water or the garage got flooded. Yes summers are humid in Miami but this was never an issue with my other cars that were parked next to the Tesla. We’ll see what the service center says.
I'm inclined to believe HVAC drain is more likely. But it's all speculation. Ever since Kamala used the phrase "root cause" I've come to that phrase.It seems more likely that a wet floor board has the same root cause as every other pre-2021+ car… an HVAC drain that’s loose. The Refresh runs an evaporator or something when car if parked and “off”. And then the wet floor caused mold to grow over extended timeframe sitting with high humidity.
The radar water intrusion may be unrelated, but I guess we will see.
I have a 2021 Refresh S that also started making this same noise after a recent update.
The SC here says "We changed the frequency of part of the high voltage system, and an unwanted side effct is this whining noise. It does not indicate a malfunction and the noise does not affect wear, longevity, or reliability of your Model S. The team is working on reverting this frequency change, you can expect a fix in a future firmware update."
Hahahaha. Honestly, the SC are full of CRAP! We changed a... frequency of part of the high voltage system? Seriously? That's a joke of a report, truly.
They may as well have said, "Yeah, we made a thing go BUZZZZZ! At some point, maybe, it won't go BUZZZZZ! anymore."
And the SC truth of course is, "Yeah, it's buzzing. We don't know why. We can't fix it. We'll just tell you it will be fixed in a future firmware update, because that's our go-to response when we have no f'ing clue what's wrong."
That’s hilarious And true; some of those SC reps just make up stuff. Hard to get a straight answer.total tech bro bs