Inverter Recall - potentially 3 months downtime

[bigbangbadaboom]

My Cybertruck is my primary and only vehicle. The inverter recall poses a serious risk, especially when driving on highways.

The soonest I can get a service appointment is 2 months out at any Tesla Dealer in South Florida not to mention that with Tesla’s track record, it may be a few more weeks before even get it back, potentially limiting my ability to drive it by 3 months. This will be the second time I’ve been through this process with the Cybertruck as I had a bad converter in March and was without my CyberTruck for 3 weeks.

I am trying to figure out what my options are as I need my truck for work, which requires extensive driving. This recall really puts me in a bind. The only options I see are either having to buy another car because my new Cybertruck that I paid $100K for is unreliable or spend thousand more paying for a rental car. Either way, this isn’t what I signed up for.

7k miles in and no issues with mine even though I qualify for the inverter recall

So hope for the best plan for the worst

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[mongo]

Thanks for sharing the additional information about the recall. The MOFETs meter voltage to the motor, I’m guessing this acts as a throttle. There are multiple MOFETs on each inverter. I’m wondering how the MOFETs are failing? Is it in reaction to the gate current, or regulating flow between the source and drain terminals? Do the replacement inverters still use MOFETs or is it of a different design entirely? If using just a different lot of MOFETs, how is the QA more reliable?

The MOSFETs are on/off switches that toggle at 10s of kHz to produce a decent approximation of a three phase sine wave to drive the motors. So six sets per inverter (high/low x 3)

The replacements are also MOSFET, minus whatever manufacturing issue the originals had.

 

[Crissa]

Just to make tings interesting, where I live they run high speed rail straight through urban areas. This has resulted in the highest rail fatality rate in the nation.

A) This isn't high speed rail.
B) No, it's not in more urban areas than other rail. CalTrain doesn't have that many suicides.

It is bad to stop on the tracks.

C) Very. But it's not the trains' fault when people go around the barriers.

Can't really save people from themselves.

-Crissa

 

[Cultmember]

My Cybertruck is my primary and only vehicle. The inverter recall poses a serious risk, especially when driving on highways.

The soonest I can get a service appointment is 2 months out at any Tesla Dealer in South Florida not to mention that with Tesla’s track record, it may be a few more weeks before even get it back, potentially limiting my ability to drive it by 3 months. This will be the second time I’ve been through this process with the Cybertruck as I had a bad converter in March and was without my CyberTruck for 3 weeks.

I am trying to figure out what my options are as I need my truck for work, which requires extensive driving. This recall really puts me in a bind. The only options I see are either having to buy another car because my new Cybertruck that I paid $100K for is unreliable or spend thousand more paying for a rental car. Either way, this isn’t what I signed up for.

 

[Cultmember]

I'm a little suspicious about your post. Are we to believe that Tesla will not give you a loaner? Why don't you use your Rivian?

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