The car problems are crap. Being stuck because an old beater breaks is bad. Being stuck in a new car it’s worse, but being stuck in a new one adze would be top either. Poor driver In Florida, whose Tesla Model 3 was glued to a supercharger, he knows all about it.
The driver failed to disconnect his Model 3 from the charging station and found himself temporarily attached to the charger for hours after stopping. when its Model 3 dropped to 15% of the battery charge status. the driver says received “an error message [and] it was down there. ”
This may be a little more stuck than failed, but it is a case of vehicle failure in both directions, which will destroy someone’s night and the next morning for it. The Tesla driver, it seems.
The driver posted his fiasco Reddit’s the largest under Tesla, r / TeslaMotors. The community there was more supportive than the actual Tesla assistance, which tried to solve the problems over the phone, to no avail. They finally he told the driver this aid would be unavailable for “at least a few hours”.
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Tesla drivers and Reddit users recommended using the manual version and shared their tips and tricks on how to fix a stubborn charger coupling. Many drivers have had their own version of this story and it makes me wonder about the average failure rate for these things.
The driver took some of the comments and followed the instructions, but unfortunately this only made things worse after the manual launch. the mechanism seemed to break, also. Things seemed to get worse for the driver as the hours passed.
I would have been sick right now with a stubborn magazine and a broken manual release. I mean, this is safety! What do you do when failsafe fails?
No difficult restart suggested by Reddit readers worked and the driver received terrible news that its Model 3 will be blocked overnight because assistance will not be available until the next morning. I know that sometimes roadside assistance companies will cover their bets and say it will take hours to get there to appear much earlier. But that was not the case here. The owner of Tesla provided a Update today, sharing how the car was easily released the next morning:
Update 9:30 AM: He came back to check the car, it was fully charged and he was able to disconnect without any problems. Contact Tesla now to suggest they stop the charger until someone can look at it. I will also leave the car at a service center to be checked as soon as possible.
And remember, the solution was not due to Tesla’s support or service. The car came off on its own. And it looks like his manual release snafu was reversible, though I would still see it.
The driver established that despite being in a big city with his own Tesla service center, he didn’t hear from Tesla after their initial troubleshooting call until 11:30 the next morning. The driver shared the following information with Jalopnik:
I wanted to raise awareness about this issue, because I really believe that the future of transportation is in electric cars. But when all these systems become so complex that we cannot solve them ourselves, we trust companies to support us when we need them. This was a new car with 2,500 miles on it. and their best recommendation was to leave her in a random parking lot and go home for the night. There is no reason why assistance should take 15 hours to address something as critical as this.