I’m on the pirelli scorpion tires not Goodyear but yah leaves a bad taste on my tongue if it was designed to work and does not. Now Tesla’s telling me the replacement warranty has to come from Pirelli themselves.
It sounds like the foam separation is much worse on yours than mine. The tire I had with the chunk removed still mostly has the rest of the foam inside and they were able to properly balance it at a local americas tire in my area.
So after breaking down the tires and checking for foam separation, my tires are fine. So the Head Tech at West Chester, Pa. SC took it out for a test drive. He put it in service mode and disabled the rear drive. After about 10 seconds of driving he basically new it was the front inverter. Part is a week out, appointment for next Thursday. Tesla allotted time for repair is 2.7 hours?
Edit: procedure now calls out dropping the drive unit. Book time is 3.6 hours though. (Edit: new time study updated today)
Thought it seemed kinda fast!!!! Not the first time Tesla’s timeline has been a bit off?!?!
Interesting.....thanks for sharing good to know what to look for if this ever happens.
Good pic, always wanted to see the foam inside. I would expect Tesla to cover that under the warranty
Yes, I just learned that at least two of my tires had foam that was loose in there and causing instability. This was assessed at my local tire shop I’ve been using for years. The source of the issue is bad glue. There’s barely any glue on it. It’s a linear stream in the middle and they said that other high tires that have foam in the inside are glued 100% to the surface and it’s almost impossible to pull it out. These were pulled out with about 1/2 pound of pressure…for safety reasons and instability at highway speeds, I’m having to remove the foam. We’ll see if the sound is bad.
The new vehicle limited warranty explicitly excludes several things including:
So in this case they are Goodyear. So do you figure Goodyear would cover it without issue?
