Wind, Bearing, or Coolant Noise?

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Dropped the truck off today and did a ride along with the tech. Unfortunately it’s 67° in Pittsburgh and the truck is not making the noise. I did have a few videos to show him and he said he was going to do some checking then let me know what he thinks.
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Dropped the truck off today and did a ride along with the tech. Unfortunately it’s 67° in Pittsburgh and the truck is not making the noise. I did have a few videos to show him and he said he was going to do some checking then let me know what he thinks.
I was going to say the same thing. It's 65 today and no noise at all.
 

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I did find that with it warmer or not making the wind sound, accelerate hard from stop or under 20mph up to 40mph or so and the sound will come back if it’s not making it.

 

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My FDU was replaced and it’s so silent, you would think I had a RWD.

However, temperature made no difference in “my noise”, so you likely have something different than I had.
 

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My FDU was replaced and it’s so silent, you would think I had a RWD.

However, temperature made no difference in “my noise”, so you likely have something different than I had.

Do you have any videos of your noise before the fix? Did anything change your noise such as speed, etc?
 


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3rd attempt at a repair. First was a windshield seal replacement. Second was a brake burnishing process. They acknowledge hearing the noise and now claim it’s “normal characteristic when temperatures are cold.” Considering options. Not opposed to lemon-law the truck. Never done that so if anyone has guidance, I’d appriciate it. Please DM me.
 

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3rd attempt at a repair. First was a windshield seal replacement. Second was a brake burnishing process. They acknowledge hearing the noise and now claim it’s “normal characteristic when temperatures are cold.” Considering options. Not opposed to lemon-law the truck. Never done that so if anyone has guidance, I’d appriciate it. Please DM me.
Lemon law process varies by state. Tesla is often times willing to re-purchase the vehicle from you for repeated repair attempts and defects. I would start there, you have to notify the service manager at your service location that you would like to request a buyback of your truck. They usually then ask you to submit their request formally by email, which is then forwarded to their business resolutions team. I know this process well as I’ve gone through it myself. It’s not that people don’t go through with the lemon law cases, but Tesla would much prefer a voluntary buyback to a truck labeled as a lemon, which is how they’ve been able to avoid so many of them being labeled as lemons. Voluntary buyback are private, lemon law branding is very public.
 

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Lemon law process varies by state. Tesla is often times willing to re-purchase the vehicle from you for repeated repair attempts and defects. I would start there, you have to notify the service manager at your service location that you would like to request a buyback of your truck. They usually then ask you to submit their request formally by email, which is then forwarded to their business resolutions team. I know this process well as I’ve gone through it myself. It’s not that people don’t go through with the lemon law cases, but Tesla would much prefer a voluntary buyback to a truck labeled as a lemon, which is how they’ve been able to avoid so many of them being labeled as lemons. Voluntary buyback are private, lemon law branding is very public.
The little research I’ve done suggests it requires 4 attempts for non-critical/safety related issues. Think I should go for another visit? Would going to another Service center help if they can’t/wont fix it either?
 

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The little research I’ve done suggests it requires 4 attempts for non-critical/safety related issues. Think I should go for another visit? Would going to another Service center help if they can’t/wont fix it either?
I guess it depends where youre at with the truck. If you want another repair attempt because you just want to meet lenon law criteria, then it might not be worth your time, you can still just ask for a buyback. If you still want it fixed, you can try another SC. Ive been thinking, with this noise, a lot of people have it. This is a very cold winter. If its normal, id hope they'd at least be able to say “this is why the truck makes this noise when its very cold, this is whats doing it.”
 


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I guess it depends where youre at with the truck. If you want another repair attempt because you just want to meet lenon law criteria, then it might not be worth your time, you can still just ask for a buyback. If you still want it fixed, you can try another SC. Ive been thinking, with this noise, a lot of people have it. This is a very cold winter. If its normal, id hope they'd at least be able to say “this is why the truck makes this noise when its very cold, this is whats doing it.”
Went to Yosemite last year when it was snowing and my truck did not make this noise. So it’s not just cause of the cold; something changed. Tempted to replace the DU oil filter, cut it open, and look for metal shavings.

Other than the noise, I have no concerns with the truck. Rather not risk getting another truck and running into other issues. Although, I do realize swapping out the DU could induce issues.

Kinda leaning towards letting this ride for a little bit; want to see if it gets worse and if a TSB/other update comes about. Hopefully the issue becomes more wide spread and a good fix is put in place before getting mine done. Waited on replacing the cantrails and content with how that turned out. Just curious about lemon law/buy back in case I end up pulling that lever.
 

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Went to Yosemite last year when it was snowing and my truck did not make this noise. So it’s not just cause of the cold; something changed. Tempted to replace the DU oil filter, cut it open, and look for metal shavings.

Other than the noise, I have no concerns with the truck. Rather not risk getting another truck and running into other issues. Although, I do realize swapping out the DU could induce issues.

Kinda leaning towards letting this ride for a little bit; want to see if it gets worse and if a TSB/other update comes about. Hopefully the issue becomes more wide spread and a good fix is put in place before getting mine done. Waited on replacing the cantrails and content with how that turned out. Just curious about lemon law/buy back in case I end up pulling that lever.
My truck did this last winter and went away in the spring and came back again this winter exactly the same. Yesterday it was 65 and no noise, today 45 and it's back.
 

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Kinda leaning towards letting this ride for a little bit; ...
Scratch that idea. It was mid 30s last night and the truck sounded even worse this morning. I've reached out to Tesla and let them know if the issue can't be corrected, I want to initiate a buy back. Let's see where this goes.
 

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Any updates on this noise? I havnt seen a solution yet 😝
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