So had my first big issue with my used Model 3 today, unfortunately on a highway.
Preface this by saying I noticed 3x in the last 3 days when I hit the accelerator the car abruptly buckled as if it was hard braking. I had initially thought this was the Emergency Brake Assist having a false positive.
Well today on my way home I was on the highway and I experienced that same buckling hard brake when I tried to accelerate. I was going about 70mph and this time the alerts VEHICLE SHUTTING DOWN/UNABLE TO DRIVE began displaying and the car began to coast to a dead stop. I was super lucky to be near an exit and limped to the side of the road out of the path of exiting traffic.
My cars a 2018 LR RWD that was purchased used in wonderful shape with 25k miles this past Dec. It is an August 2018 build. I have to say it was very scary to lose all acceleration on a busy highway like that. Thankfully I was alone and not with my daughter and also I had just passed a curvy bridge that had no shoulder. If I had come to a dead stop on that bridge I would have been in extreme danger from oncoming traffic.
Oddly everything seemed to be functioning other than D and R. I had no luck soft/hard rebooting the car or getting out and walking away and coming back either. I was able to get it into Transport mode for the tow but it did display low power alerts.
I was towed to my local SC and will see what they say Monday. A kind employee had been late leaving and was there after hours and set me up with a P85 loaner which feels like a boat.
Anyone have anything like this happen to their Model 3? I would be lying if this hasn’t shaken my trust a bit on my first EV having never had something like this happen in my decades of driving and owning many different ICE cars. Did I just have really bad luck? Feel free to give me some confidence back as my friends and family had scoffed at my decision to get a Tesla and now this happened I don’t even want to tell them. I have lost some faith a bit as this thing was supposed to make me feel safe and what happened today was so sudden and the complete opposite of safe.
(sorry my cam lens is cracked)
Preface this by saying I noticed 3x in the last 3 days when I hit the accelerator the car abruptly buckled as if it was hard braking. I had initially thought this was the Emergency Brake Assist having a false positive.
Well today on my way home I was on the highway and I experienced that same buckling hard brake when I tried to accelerate. I was going about 70mph and this time the alerts VEHICLE SHUTTING DOWN/UNABLE TO DRIVE began displaying and the car began to coast to a dead stop. I was super lucky to be near an exit and limped to the side of the road out of the path of exiting traffic.
My cars a 2018 LR RWD that was purchased used in wonderful shape with 25k miles this past Dec. It is an August 2018 build. I have to say it was very scary to lose all acceleration on a busy highway like that. Thankfully I was alone and not with my daughter and also I had just passed a curvy bridge that had no shoulder. If I had come to a dead stop on that bridge I would have been in extreme danger from oncoming traffic.
Oddly everything seemed to be functioning other than D and R. I had no luck soft/hard rebooting the car or getting out and walking away and coming back either. I was able to get it into Transport mode for the tow but it did display low power alerts.
I was towed to my local SC and will see what they say Monday. A kind employee had been late leaving and was there after hours and set me up with a P85 loaner which feels like a boat.
Anyone have anything like this happen to their Model 3? I would be lying if this hasn’t shaken my trust a bit on my first EV having never had something like this happen in my decades of driving and owning many different ICE cars. Did I just have really bad luck? Feel free to give me some confidence back as my friends and family had scoffed at my decision to get a Tesla and now this happened I don’t even want to tell them. I have lost some faith a bit as this thing was supposed to make me feel safe and what happened today was so sudden and the complete opposite of safe.
(sorry my cam lens is cracked)
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