This Tesla Owner Is Having Serious Problems With His Steering
As a company that’s only been producing cars in decent numbers for a handful of years, you do expect Tesla’s products to come with the odd niggle to iron out. And it seems owners are - for the most part - happy about how Tesla deals with such issues.
However, prominent tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee has been experiencing an issue with his Model S P100D that goes beyond what can be described as a ‘niggle’. In the video above - which at the time of writing is on over 400,000 views despite being posted only 13 hours ago - he describes a worrying fault with his power steering.
Several times the power assistance has seemingly dropped away entirely. In response, Tesla took the car and replaced the steering rack, only for the issue to arise once more. The car went back to Tesla, and Brownlee is currently waiting to hear what the service centre’s solution will be.
We’ve reached out to Tesla for comment, and are awaiting a response.
UPDATE: Brownlee has since sent out a couple of Tweets about the work being done to his car, stating that Tesla engineers found “contaminant” on the power steering circuit, which could well be the culprit for his steering issues.
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The Tesla’s taking over.. 0.o
Looks like he still needs to put his hands on 10 and 2 https://www.carthrottle.com/post/we2ky56/
So if someone has steering problems with an everyday car, its a column in the car advice newspaper and a trip to the auto repair shop, but if its an electric car its news? It really seems like people take every opportunity to make this car’s shortcomings seem so much worse than they are
I mean, I’m no fan of Teslas, but this isn’t like a massive recall. It’s a manufacturing defect, happens all the time. Not to mention they’re doing the best they can to take care of him
But my dream cars a rotary and im fully prepared to replace the apex seals twice a year
Twice a year? Damn man you must really like revving
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Mr.PurpleV12 Qian Li GeoBaz
Does anybody knows how tesla builds its steering mechanism? If its a mechanism?
If this is pure electrical then im kina worried about our future….
They replaced the steering rack, which is a mechanism. The guy said that it was hard to turn, not impossible. That means that even with a failure you still have control. Now power assisted one, but still a mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the wheels.
Imagine having steer by wire…
Infinity has that already. I forget the name of the model but Motor Trend (the youtube channel) did a video on it
this is why hydraulic steering
Well,that proves why a car shouldnt rely on electronics & electricity
You mean like EFI, traction control, and stability control, etc.?
You know what? Good idea. I’ll be in the garage removing my alternator if anybody needs me
Doesn’t it prove they just need to inspect and test things better?
My Astra once hat the power steering shutting off sporadically because my alternator was faulty and sometimes produced no power just to kick back in a few seconds later. But instead of making a fuzz I simply replaced the alternator. Cars break sometimes.