Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather::A number of Tesla owners have taken to Reddit after their front cameras fogged up and stopped working in cold weather, leaving several features, including the US$10,000 FSD Beta, inoperable. Tesla has declined to assist to these customers, despite many of their vehicles being covered under warranty.
It’s only a problem if you use your cars outside…
I swear I saw an article about someone whose tesla shorted out in the rain and they basically said you shouldn’t have gotten it wet.
That’s mind boggling. I do not understand why people continue to buy cars from that trash company. Tesla has had a long history of shit build quality/quality control. With so many EV options on the market now, there’s literally no incentive to go for Tesla anymore.
What irks me about this is I own an ev (not a Tesla obviously fiat 500e) and I slog/bash that thing through mud/snow/rain/several inches of water on the regular and even do what id consider rally driving with it at times and it’s fine. You know why? Because this was always a Tesla engineering failure and not an ev failure. But it sucks because people will think ev= unable to get wet which just is not true.
Neighbour in my old area got one of those “Gone to Plaid” (???) models, supposedly quite expensive. It had more panel gaps than my roomie’s Golf, which was only a fraction of the price.
In fact the Golf has held up really well! He bought it second-hand for 160k, and is now looking to switch to a Miata. The dealership offered him 150k for it. He’s been driving it for over a year.
Currency here is Swedish Crowns.
I was going to say, is this golf made of gold.
We’re both genuinely baffled by it, definitely not telling the dealer.
That’s funny, I had a Golf GTI that the engine died on and bought a Tesla to replace it. 95k miles
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No Teslas in the wet or the cold. Pretty soon they’ll only function, most of the time, in a climate controlled area.
Well, designed and built in SoCal, an area not known for its incliment weather, and Tesla is too cheap to do any sort of environmental testing. No real surprise they have so many issues the moment it rains or the temp drops below 50F
The car works just fine. You shouldn’t be using autopilot in bad weather anyway.
Cold = bad weather? How elitist.
Nah, relying on FSD and whining when it goes out is elitist.
Obviously cold counts as bad weather to the machine if it messes up your camera system, so just drive it like a normal human.
When you spend $10k on FSD do you get a map of all the places you’re not allowed to live or visit?
I wouldn’t know. I’m not stupid enough to spend money on an unproven product.
Since you seem to know a lot about Tesla: when people pay those $12,000 for the “Full Self-Driving package,” does Tesla tell them they can’t use it when it gets cold outside?
Not very “full” then is it?
It’s full of something.
I don’t know a lot about Tesla, but we all know their marketing is lies.
So, the only way to have anything covered under warranty is to never have your Tesla leave the indoor track which is temp/humidity controlled.
Oh how far we’ve advanced.
No point in doing warranty work when you don’t have a fix for the problem, this is what happens when you buy hard goods from a manufacturer that runs itself like a software company.
I don’t know much about this world, but I do know it’s ironic that a car feature called Vision is fogging up.
I mean how hard is it to give us tiny wipers on them. Cmon now.
It’s probably internal fogging because the units aren’t well sealed.
They aren’t normally sealed in most integrations, but will often have heater wires around them or embedded in the windshield that will heat up the windshield/sensor enclosure, just like the defog on a rear window or mirrors.
Elmo’s douchbaggery rears its ugly head again.
