Tesla Model X with 645+ thousand kilometers mileage. What's broken? [Yalopnik] • CARS

Tesloop operates a commercial passenger service in the United States using the Tesla Model X. The company recently sold a Model X 90D (2016) with over 640 kilometers and Jalopnik has access to a detailed list of all items that have been repaired and replaced with this particular car.

What's breaking in the Tesla Model X?

Table of contents

• What's breaking in the Tesla Model X?
  • Battery and range
  • engine change
  • Tires
  • Other repairs: compressor, 12 V battery, door release buttons, brakes
  • Summary: the first 320 km are super cheap, then the costs increase.

Battery and range

Before moving on to more specific glitches, let's start with a range and Battery. The first towing appears at a run of about 250 thousand kilometers. Professional Tesla Model X drivers tend to know how much they can afford, so it must be assumed that the battery capacity has dropped to the point where a mistake has occurred - the car has suddenly run out of power.

We also know that Tesloop regularly charges its Tesla with superchargers as they are still on the way. This copy probably had a free charge.

Throughout the operation towed four timesthree of which were caused by a dead battery. The last case appeared at 507 thousand kilometers, when the car refused to obey, although the counters showed a range of 90 kilometers.

The actual flight range of the Tesla Model X 90D was 414 kilometers.when the car was new. Tesloop says 369 kilometers. If we assume that when the car shows "0 kilometers" of the remaining range, we can actually drive at least 10 kilometers, the car has lost approximately 24 percent of its battery capacityif we take manufacturer / EPA data or 27 percent if we think Tesloop coverage is realistic.

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This would mean a loss of about 5 percent in bandwidth for every 100 kilometers.

Apparently, this was considered a serious failure. Tesla replaced the battery with a range of 510 thousand kilometers... Now this is no longer possible, the current warranty for motors and batteries is 8 years or 240 thousand kilometers:

> The warranty for engines and batteries in Tesla Model S and X is 8 years / 240 thousand rubles. kilometers. End of unlimited run

engine change

In an internal combustion vehicle, “engine replacement” sounds like a death sentence. Probably, only the replacement of the hull with the entire supporting structure would be more expensive than this operation. Electricians have compact motors, so replacing them is a much faster operation.

In the Tesla Model X 90D, owned by Tesloop, the engine that drives the rear axle - the car has four-wheel drive - has been replaced at 496 km. Interestingly, the aforementioned battery discharge, despite the remaining 90 kilometers, and the battery replacement occurred only within 1 month after the engine change. As if the new component revealed a weakness in another element of the car.

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Tires

Tire changes appear most often on the list. The axis on which the change occurred was not described in all cases, but when such notes were made, more replacements affected the rear axle... According to our estimates, the average mileage between purchases of new sets of tires was about 50 1,5 kilometers. The exchange took place every 2 to XNUMX months.

Other repairs: compressor, 12 V battery, door release buttons, brakes

Among other items that wear out or break, it draws attention to itself at the top of the list. air conditioning compressor. The company admitted that it realized then that the compressors were not designed to run continuously – with the cars running almost all the time because the cars were driving through the desert (to Las Vegas).

At 254 thousand kilometers, he approached battery replacement 12 V. During the entire period of operation of the car, three such operations were performed. Tesloop also required the screen to be repaired as it was starting to shut down - the entire MCU computer was replaced at a cost of almost $2,4.

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As with the Tesla Model X, there were problems with the falconry door switches and rollers on the steering wheel. It is interesting that in all cars of the company The charging port flaps have also been replaced at least twice.. According to a Tesloop representative, this is the fault of ... people - in his opinion, the leaves are not designed for manual closing.

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Brake pads and discs were replaced for the first time after 267 thousand kilometers. Drivers were trained to brake as little as possible and to use regenerative braking. This produced results: second replacement of discs and pads passed 626 thousand kilometers.

Summary: the first 320 km are super cheap, then the costs increase.

A company spokesman admitted that up to 320 thousand kilometers, the operation of the car was very cheap., he even compared her to the Prius. Indeed, the list includes mainly small items and tires. Only in the immediate vicinity of this track did the parts wear out, the parts became more and more expensive, noise and more and more unusual repairs (for example, axle) also occurred.

The total cost of the renovation was about USD 29, which is equivalent to PLN 113 XNUMX.

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