Nope, just said “short of a Ferrari”, but supposed to find out more tomorrow. I am more worried about how they treat my car. Not putting my car on an enclosed transport when I have put less tha 55 miles on it is quite worrisome.
if they gave you the option of repairing and giving back this original car (assuming it'll take a few weeks), or giving you a new one off the factory line (couple months again), which would you choose? it must be devastating and a big blow for your confidence towards the car....
I am truly sorry. They really need to get their damn shit together. It’s becoming pathetic.
I wouldn’t call it pathetic - shit happens, granted we are a small section of Lucid owners, and any drive motor failure is shitty, there haven’t been that many. I don’t think it could’ve happened to a more unfortunate person as @CLTGT has been kicked when they are down. I know Lucid has been studying the drive motor failures and hopefully they can limit it in the future. Nobody can blame the OP for how they feel as it’s been an all around rough experience. I just hope it gets remedied soon, and as others have said, no further issues..
Perhaps I worded it too strongly , but it is just a manifestation of how stressed I am about eventually receiving the car and having the constant worry that something horrible will happen.
Please keep us informed and again so sorry for the constant frustrations you have experienced.
I mean, it's weird right? A lot of the earlier owners who should have the same drive units have put thousands of miles on their motors with no issue. The failure seems to come very early in the life of the vehicle. Maybe Lucid does need to break in the vehicle with 75 miles of driving as part of their factory PDI, but that is an unrealistic expectation.
So sorry to read your problems!! If they cannot provide an enclosed transport trailer, you might request a Lucid car cover be used with the flat bed trailer. That is not difficult and the manner of transport when it traveled from the factory.
Never ever use a regular car cover with a open trailer. No matter how well fitted and tight even the most minute wrinkle in the fabric will buffet in the wind and act like sand paper on the paint. Even the softest cover will do this. It will leave a haze on the paint in that area. I have hauled antique cars all over the U.S. for 45 years and have seen this damage many times. This is why car companies use shrink wrap instead of car covers.
Yes, I thought about that at about midnight last night. It sounds like they have it "covered", so to speak. I told him the car would sit here until they had an enclosed option and they seem to have that lined up.
I was thinking the exact thing, but is that even permissible?
Yea, sadly the negative experiences on here can stick with you. For the vast majority of us, the car has worked great outside of occasional software gremlins that are settled after a reboot. We all wish for improvements on the car, and you should absolutely continue reading on here to inform yourself of the possibilities so that you’re educated. But there aren’t that many instances of failures - we’d like there to be none - it is a rarity. I love my car, but, I haven’t had any major issues either.
I am so sorry to hear about your latest experience. At least you discovered it at home instead of in the middle of a long trip. You and I waited so long through the Grey delay and it just sucks to have this happen. Hoping that they have diagnosed it properly and it is a quick fix.
Good to know and I realize the majority of experiences for owners on the forum have been mainly positive.
Well, I kinda had to laugh after I got it cleaned up. I went and got one of the big sheets of cardboard I keep to put under the Mustangs to alert me to a leak and put it under the Lucid. Good news is that the leak appears to have dropped down to a just a few drips. It must have been pretty catastrophic to have put all that fluid on the floor and then be just a few drips since. The spot on the cardboard is probably only 4" in diameter, still alot bigger than any spots under the Mustangs.
In 2016 our brand new Model X lost coolant from the rear Motor soon after it was delivered. Tesla picked up the Model X at 10AM the next morning and dropped off a rental car for us to use. Tesla called around 2PM the same day to tell us our drive unit was on its way to Tesla so it could be analyzed and a new drive unit was shipped air freighted to the service center . Two days later our car was ready. I am not posting this to praise Tesla and/or compare companies. I learned from that experience that electric drive units in EV's is no big deal. The Tesla service center happens to be twenty minutes from my house but other than the time to and from this failure is not as catastrophic as it seems. Lucid does need to solve the motor fluid leaks fast before it becomes their Achille's heel. I can understand how it feels to wait for a car a couple of years and have it break after a few miles but it is a fantastic car and would be a shame to miss out on a great experience.
The motors could be tested/run on a machine test stand before they are installed in the cars so no mileage would go on the cars.
