Acceleration shudder
I'm starting to feel fairly frustrated that there still isn't a fix for the shudder the car does when accelerating quickly. Service center told me about 20% of model x cars have this issue and that they are working on a fix. Meanwhile it's been months and there still isn't a fix. Considering a spent my entire life savings and then some on a 120K car, I feel like it should be fixed within a certain amount of time or it should be replaced with a car that fits in the 80% group. (I love Tesla and this is my first negative thread. I still love my car, but I like to accelerate often and a car that shakes this much, or at all, while accelerating is not what I thought I was paying for. My shudder is bad!).
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Just trying to help.
Anyway, let us know the outcome...
I will report back once I take the car in
PXChanel That's interesting. Could it be the tire pressure that did it? I can't think of anything else that could make the difference between a cold and warmed up car.
Good point. In the Summer there's nothing to warm up on a BEV except the tires.
After extensive dialogue with Service, many of it apparently was aggravating for the customer and full of Tesla trying to "manage expectations", he eventually initiated a Lemon Law process.
Now he doesn't say much about his 2017 Model X, same color and layout, but he does have AP2, although not happy about it.
I guess you need to decide if you are willing to accept what may be a normal variant (20%) or could be a manufacturer defect.
This is an example of the risk of not having access to vehicle service independent of the automaker.
After extensive dialogue with Service, many of it apparently was aggravating for the customer and full of Tesla trying to "manage expectations", he eventually initiated a Lemon Law process.
Now he doesn't say much about his 2017 Model X, same color and layout, but he does have AP2, although not happy about it.
I guess you need to decide if you are willing to accept what may be a normal variant (20%) or could be a manufacturer defect.
This is an example of the risk of not having access to vehicle service independent of the automaker.
'Engineering is working on a solution' to 'Some shudder is normal for this car, but it does it less on lower suspension settings'. Sub-optimal to say the least. I hope I am proven wrong. They have had well over a year to determine root-cause and devise a permanent fix.
Way more that 20-percent of 'X's have this shudder.....way more. I would venture an educated guess (I actually did a poll) that more than 80-percent have it to some degree. I would love to see anyone on this forum put their suspension on High or Very High, perform a maximum acceleration from a standing stop to 60, and report back no shudder.
As always, I was blown away by the Tesla service! Santa Barbara service center has their act together. I will miss my signature red P90D loaner! Wish they had taken more time with my 90D! Hahaha
Side note: The problem originally started at low suspension, when I switched to starndard it helped and slowly got worse on standard. When I switched back to low a couple days ago, the issue was dramatically reduced. It seems like switching the suspension helped in my case.