PCS failure rates by year...is it just a matter of time?

[M0unt41nm4n]

Have you checked Service Mode for older inactive alerts?

I hadn't because mine was AC charging fine at 40/40. When I saw it drop to 24/24 I checked and found an active alert for the PCS and a long list of inactive alerts related to the PCS.

If you have those, maybe that'll be enough to get your SC to do the swap?

Interesting... it's not charging now. I dont know if it's my paranoia... but I have a crap ton of these:

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[kpanda17]

First looks like -E per repair invoice and the this last was -G.

looks like Rev -G is the golden ticket
Lets hope we don’t see -H

 

[kpanda17]

Yeah they won't touch mine until it evinces problems. Based on the VINs I'm very likely affected, but I only have 13K miles. I almost never use a DC charger so who knows when it may get tickled. Being 3.5 hours from a TSC, I would hope they would take care of me. I guess only time will tell and hope it shows up before May of 2028 or 50K miles.

I’d add in occasional DCFCs
Get it to fail
Don’t wait

 

[Jager]

looks like Rev -G is the golden ticket
Lets hope we don’t see -H

PCS failures have been happening for years, long preceding the Cybertruck. There is zero evidence that Tesla is pursuing a solution. I suspect the incrementing PCS2 Rev versions simply reflect changes in supplier components, entirely unrelated to any kinds of failures.

On forums such as this there is an innate bias to over represent problems. And as consumers, we can't imagine that this kind of "expensive" repair isn't getting all kinds of attention.

Tesla knows the precise failure rate. My guess is that they have run the numbers and have calculated that it is cheaper to warranty those periodic PCS2 failures than it is to engineer a PCS2 update or replacement.

The current PCS2 failure rate is acceptable to Tesla.

 

[no%X#XMVk65v#cq]

PCS failures have been happening for years, long preceding the Cybertruck. There is zero evidence that Tesla is pursuing a solution. I suspect the incrementing PCS2 Rev versions simply reflect changes in supplier components, entirely unrelated to any kinds of failures.

On forums such as this there is an innate bias to over represent problems. And as consumers, we can't imagine that this kind of "expensive" repair isn't getting all kinds of attention.

Tesla knows the precise failure rate. My guess is that they have run the numbers and have calculated that it is cheaper to warranty those periodic PCS2 failures than it is to engineer a PCS2 update or replacement.

The current PCS2 failure rate is acceptable to Tesla.

There's the hard truth no one wants to hear!

 

[Sjohnson20]

mine had the drive inverter recall and Tesla did the work. No alerts for me right now in service mode at all.

 

[kpanda17]

There's the hard truth no one wants to hear!

Or it took a -G design revision to get the final fix
Hoping
I’ve owned five teslas, 10x Toyotas and two wranglers
A $6-7K failure out of warranty would be the most expensive for my experience ever
Worst ever warranty was $12K engine failure in my 2016 wrangler

I give companies the benefit of engineering toward stability/design/min failure
We have a 2014 Apple MBP that limps along, not in use, but proud of that engineering lasting 12 years

btw, due to complexity over time, if I hold the Cybertruck long term, I expect air sus, battery, motors to fail
Either this one we have, if long term, or the next Cybertruck, my plan is an extended warranty
Coupled with top design engineering to result in a satisfied consumer

 

[FL370]

Updated list.

00xxx
03xxx
05xxx
067xx
07xxx
081xx
11xxx
139xx
26xxx
41xxx
49xxx
493xx
51xxx

You can ad 016xx to your list.

 

[Known-Background]

Is this part of the reason they won’t offer us CT an extended warranty? I’m pissed I think they are waiting for FS trucks to be outside of the timeframe and don’t want to cover these failures especially if they can make 6k or more per failure.

 

[steveanderson3]

Add 63xxx.. mine failed but allowed me to continue driving and supercharging. I opened a ticket Friday afternoon and stated in the ticket it was a pcs failure, they had a appt spot open for me on Monday! I think it got prioritized. I tested this and tried to open a ‘rattle’ ticket in my Model Y, and the service wait was 24 days.

 

[noobla3]

Add 63xxx.. mine failed but allowed me to continue driving and supercharging. I opened a ticket Friday afternoon and stated in the ticket it was a pcs failure, they had a appt spot open for me on Monday! I think it got prioritized. I tested this and tried to open a ‘rattle’ ticket in my Model Y, and the service wait was 24 days.

What does your charging profile look like? Mostly home 40amp?

 

[boley]

Updated list.

00xxx
03xxx
05xxx
067xx
07xxx
081xx
11xxx
139xx
26xxx
41xxx
49xxx
493xx
51xxx

40xxx at 25K

 

[SCTesla]

17xxx failed at 15k

 

[kpanda17]

40xxx at 25K

78XXX at 6K

 

[shopaholic]

40xxx at 25K

Just a quick question - are all above VINs had a documented “PCS replacement” by Tesla service or people with suspected failures? Thanks

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