Our bumper and whole under carriage fell off in the rain!
No, your bumper cover, and areo shields fell off. The bumper and undercarriage are still there.
How deep of water did you ford through?
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Our bumper and whole under carriage fell off in the rain!
No, your bumper cover, and areo shields fell off. The bumper and undercarriage are still there.
How deep of water did you ford through?
The water was just a few inches. More than what was pictured came off.No, your bumper cover, and areo shields fell off. The bumper and undercarriage are still there.
How deep of water did you ford through?
Nitpicking: Mid Aero cover is still present, the rear diffuser is gone though. (Along with the bumper cover as you say.)
The water was just a few inches. More than what was pictured came off.
About 30. It was when everyone was going to work on a busy road at 7 am.And how fast were you going?
It is 2 month old! These are few more pictures from the body shop.
06/18 is the date on the door.Interesting. What is the build date on the driver B pillar?
We have a significant amount of data from vehicles indicating that around July/August timeframe (as I recall, the posts are around here somewhere...) they stopped installing the middle bolt - and in fact there is no bracket for it on recently built cars. You can clearly see this bolt & bracket in your picture.
Maybe they were trying to recover some rejected frames to build more vehicles, if your vehicle was built after that date?
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06/18 is the date on the door.
Those are the only pictures the body shop sent us. Tesla of course said they had never heard of this issue, so we called our auto insurance.And you lost your parking sensor harness & assembly of course. But that's about it!
The more I think about it, the more I think it should be a warranty repair. Those welds should not just come off; the bolts should rip out. Though, you have to trust someone on the internet about what they drove through, of course.
Do you have the pictures of the inside of the part that fell off, you should be able to see the state of the missing brackets! (And the ripped off bits and pieces of the shredded side ones, perhaps.)
Checks out, it should have the middle bracket and it does. This is an old car. It's 6-7 months old.
Just have Tesla warranty repair it. They probably didn't get the welds right. They're just non-critical spot welds so I can see that going poorly if they're rushing. (I assume that (covering it with your warranty) is what they are doing?)
I'm sure they'll be very interested in knowing this failure mode so they can take corrective action if they haven't already done so. There have been other failures like this so they may have already patched things up in the production line.
We picked this car up the end of September. It was our second one. When we picked up our first one the paint job was all scratched and had air bubbles. They said it would take months to get a new one. # days later we got a call there was one ready to pick up!! Now we know why.Checks out, it should have the middle bracket and it does. This is an old car. It's 6-7 months old.
Just have Tesla warranty repair it. They probably didn't get the welds right. They're just non-critical spot welds so I can see that going poorly if they're rushing. (I assume that (covering it with your warranty) is what they are doing?)
I'm sure they'll be very interested in knowing this failure mode so they can take corrective action if they haven't already done so. There have been other failures like this so they may have already patched things up in the production line.
Those are the only pictures the body shop sent us. Tesla of course said they had never heard of this issue, so we called our auto insurance.
No Tesla said this was not an issue that they knew about, so we had our insurance company take care of it.We picked this car up the end of September. It was our second one. When we picked up our first one the paint job was all scratched and had air bubbles. They said it would take months to get a new one. # days later we got a call there was one ready to pick up!! Now we know why.
Thank you!!!!Tesla should not have said that, since there is evidence on their Twitter feed that they HAVE heard of this issue. They responded to a couple owners who lost their bumper covers & diffusers just like you!
Do follow up with Tesla; they will treat you right. You're armed with the appropriate information now. They particularly need to explain why the welds failed, that's what I would focus on. I believe that could have started the whole process, if you didn't drive through deep water (and actually even if you did).
No Tesla said this was not an issue that they knew about, so we had our insurance company take care of it.
Just have Tesla warranty repair it. They probably didn't get the welds right. They're just non-critical spot welds so I can see that going poorly if they're rushing. (I assume that (covering it with your warranty) is what they are doing?)
I am sure Tesla will say that fording a "few" inches of water at ~30 MPH is not covered under the warranty. In one case it looks like the bracket is still there but the end of it is torn off. I would think that would take a lot of force.