Gravity Service Appointments and Time In Service

[Xminus6]

Half shafts were an issue in early R1Ss. Mine included.

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, my rear drive unit in a very early Tesla X P90D failed after a week.

I agree, we hear about them more with EVs because there are fewer EVs and they’re scrutinized more.

There are all sorts of failures and issues with ICE cars, but folks have just gotten used to them.

Early Model S cars and rear halfshaft problems very commonly. I had it on my 2014 S85. I still hear some old Model Ss around town with that weird whining noise coming from the back of their car.

 

[borski]

Very glad they worked you in. I agree with @Bunnylebowski that Lucid service really does their best.

it looks increasingly less likely, though, that we'll not have our car back in time for our trip next week. They told me today that they're still working with the Engineering team on some of the issues and don't have an ETA on getting the car back to us.

I'm going to get the oil changed in the trusty old Honda Odyssey to get it ready just in case. Every time I tried a Supercharger in the Gravity and found it worked seamlessly I thought, "wow, finally, an EV you can road trip in as easily as an ICE car!" Then the NACS adapter arrived for our Air, and it was a different story. It worked at the two Tesla SC's but, as I already knew, too slowly to be of any real use other than an emergency on a road trip where our first day will be 10 hours of driving not including charge stops. And both the Electrify America stations we tried with the Gravity were out of service for equipment upgrades. It seems that EA is following their usual pattern of shutting down entire stations along a major route at once instead of staggering the shutdowns. And I don't want to depend on seeking out charge stations from other providers with which I'm less familiar.

So . . . the Gravity is in the shop; the Air will stay within reach of home charging;, and we'll be keeping the Honda a bit longer than I had anticipated. In fact, I'm rethinking the plan to let it go at all once we have three Lucids in the garage. I thought the time had arrived to go all-EV in the household. Now I'm not so sure.

I would take the Air and just charge at any of the popular stations; because I am not EA-dependent. I just charged at any EVGo yesterday. Flawless experience.

 

[Pragmatic]

Pilot Flying J - EVGo are all over the interstates in FL, GA, NC, SC no reason to limit yourself to EA.

 

[jered]

Early Model S cars and rear halfshaft problems very commonly. I had it on my 2014 S85. I still hear some old Model Ss around town with that weird whining noise coming from the back of their car.

Our model X has had the front half-shafts replaced, and I know people who have had this done 3+ times under warranty even on recent model years. It seems to be a fundamental design flaw of Tesla that they have no interest in fixing -- perhaps many buyers of a $100k car think it should be grinding and rough to drive?

 

[msaunders9430]

Received text today with update on my replacement center console. Shipped yesterday with 3-day expedited arrival.

The personnel change made at the service center this week is showing immediate improvement in response time. No more waiting two three days for a response. Response with minutes now.