I was going to say the same thing. It's 65 today and no noise at all.
Lemon law process varies by state. Tesla is often times willing to re-purchase the vehicle from you for repeated repair attempts and defects. I would start there, you have to notify the service manager at your service location that you would like to request a buyback of your truck. They usually then ask you to submit their request formally by email, which is then forwarded to their business resolutions team. I know this process well as I’ve gone through it myself. It’s not that people don’t go through with the lemon law cases, but Tesla would much prefer a voluntary buyback to a truck labeled as a lemon, which is how they’ve been able to avoid so many of them being labeled as lemons. Voluntary buyback are private, lemon law branding is very public.
The little research I’ve done suggests it requires 4 attempts for non-critical/safety related issues. Think I should go for another visit? Would going to another Service center help if they can’t/wont fix it either?
I guess it depends where youre at with the truck. If you want another repair attempt because you just want to meet lenon law criteria, then it might not be worth your time, you can still just ask for a buyback. If you still want it fixed, you can try another SC. Ive been thinking, with this noise, a lot of people have it. This is a very cold winter. If its normal, id hope they'd at least be able to say “this is why the truck makes this noise when its very cold, this is whats doing it.”
Consistent 25-45mph. Check my other posts for details.
Went to Yosemite last year when it was snowing and my truck did not make this noise. So it’s not just cause of the cold; something changed. Tempted to replace the DU oil filter, cut it open, and look for metal shavings.
My truck did this last winter and went away in the spring and came back again this winter exactly the same. Yesterday it was 65 and no noise, today 45 and it's back.
Scratch that idea. It was mid 30s last night and the truck sounded even worse this morning. I've reached out to Tesla and let them know if the issue can't be corrected, I want to initiate a buy back. Let's see where this goes.
