Rare Issues With Tesla - Thanksgiving Road Trip Home - Part 1

[@tsuehpsyde]

Lake City, Florida; the home of Fu King Chinese! My father lived there for a spell, so I always enjoy seeing someone from the area either online or in person! :)

[@thenetworkarchitectchannel]

We lived in Broward (FtLaud) for about a decade. Never got to freezing. Only north of WPB. Bummer bout the glitch. Makes for nervous road tripping till isolated, I guess. Hope it works out. That CirK TesSC at the end looked like a pretty sweet stop (panic mode besides). Thanks for the video. I enjoyed watching.

[@SteveBirkett]

Interesting trip to ride along with, thanks Antonio. Do you typically hang out in the car during charging or was it just that the timing here meant nothing was open?

[@MidwestCharge]

I usually find somewhere to hang out for a few minutes, but I thought (incorrectly) that the Starbucks was closed at the first stop in Tifton, and I actually did go into the convenience store in Ashburn, but after all the troubles with getting charge started, I wanted to keep a close eye on the charging haha!

[@SteveBirkett]

@MidwestCharge I hear that! Thanks again for the useful travel info.

[@Maks4G4490]

Damn, some teslas look like prototype cars

[@MidwestCharge]

And some look like a child's triangle drawing!

[@Maks4G4490]

@MidwestCharge haha, true

[@epcalderhead]

Do you have the LR RWD? That's great efficiency on your trip. Something is wrong with charging on your car. Very unlikely all the stalls were the issue. Have Tesla pull your logs while they are available.

[@MidwestCharge]

Yes, I do have the LR RWD. Yeah, I'm pretty convinced it's my car but I need it happen again (not that I want it to!) so I can have them check the logs.

[@epcalderhead]

@@MidwestCharge Any other issues with your car? Been tempted to upgrade from my 2019 LR RWD to the 25 LR RWD. Test drove two Highlands and both cars had issues. One was a simple door rattle. The other car had a creak on acceleration, deceleration and hard turns. Searching suggested it was a body seam issue. Tesla build quality is luck of the draw unfortunately. Spent a lot of time correcting my car's issues and don't want to go through that again! But my battery, motor and electronics have been great. Good luck with the issue. Regards from another Buckeye.

[@MidwestCharge]

Not really. I've been getting some bad condensation inside the headlights but that's unfortunately common, and fortunately, an easy fix, and the occasional creak from the plastic V in the steering wheel. My previous vehicle was a 2023 Model Y LR AWD and that car had issues galore with wind getting through every seal despite multiple corrections by Tesla Service, and lots of creaks and rattles, but this M3LR RWD has been pretty much problem-free, aside from the handshake problem I can't seem to duplicate, the headlight condensation, and that steering wheel creak that only happens below freezing. Overall it was a fantastic upgrade, but yeah, YMMV.