2025 Tesla Model 3: battery replacement at 8800 miles

You have to wait 3 weeks to take your car in? Or to get your car back? Will the provide a courtesy car?

I would park that way outside.

I am stuck with a faulty car with up to 50% battery for 3 weeks. The repair will last 3 days and I will get a loaner car during that time. It is very disappointing since I was planning to have a road trip during Thanksgiving.

HV packs are replaced all the time by all manufacturers, nothing interesting here. What is disappointing though is you chose to support Tesla in 2025. I made the same mistakes you did years ago, though CEO wasn’t helping elect authoritarians at the time.

I would guess they have to drive it with limited range then once parts are in they will get a loaner during the repairs.

Yes. Limiting charge to 50% is to avoid risks of further battery problems like fire.

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That sucks! Hope it all works out in the end! You might have to grab a rental or borrow a car for your roadtrip

Are they going to replace it with a new pack or a used one?

brand new car now with a refurb battery.

I have sent a request to the service center to clarify this. You are right that Tesla may use remanufactured battery packs in repairs.

Why does it take 3 days to do this? I thought it wasn't that hard? The three weeks to wait with a substandard car seems unacceptable to me, I can excuse busy times ahead of thanksgiving but this seems to suggest a lack of staffing.

Ya, Tesla fan sites not gonna let you post this. Elon is LORD! I'd park WELL AWAY from the house just in case. Push under the lemon law, your vehicle service history now has a major red flag costing you in resale value.

Working as designed

Literally nothing here except strawman arguments. Even if no company is a “saint”, some are far worse than others, and it’s quite possible to skew one’s purchases to the least unethical ones, even if they aren’t “saints”. And nobody’s “only focusing on the negative”. 0 for 2.

Oh but electric is so much more reliable! Stats do not bear that out.

So no loaner on a brand new vehicle with under 10k on the clock?

Just Tesla things.

Used of course.

vote with your wallet

Sucks now the car will have a refurb battery.

All hail Elon our lord and master! May he live so that we don’t have to!

They will give you the cheapest option available for them. Screwing customers is almost like a kink to Tesla.

Electrics fail differently, there are no catastrophic engine failures. But there sure are a plenty of battery and electric motors fails. Most commonly they are caused due coolant leaking where it shouldn’t or electrical isolation failures.

For anyone who buys a new Tesla this day an age, they kinda deserve it. There are so many reasons to steer away from that unethical brand.

Electric cars are much safer than combustion engine ones. And on top of that they are more reliable. https://www.drivencarguide.co.nz/news/evs-outperform-ice-cars-in-major-reliability-study/

Tesla stats.

Take the car to the service center tomorrow and tell them to fix that shit ASAP. Don’t sit and wait for their bullshit. They don’t tell you this though because they want you to follow their shitty queue and system.

Pretty normal for Tesla. Wait until you here how shitty most of their repair work is, despite only having a few models and iterations on the matket.

You bought a new Tesla in 2025 after all the previous information was made available to you easily 🤷‍♂️ You played yourself.

That's what you get when you buy a car from a nazi.

You did Nazi this coming?

Do you base all your purchases off of the CEO’s political choices?

I do when they're this crazy. He could go crazy one night and decide to remotely autopilot all the cars at 100mph until they hit something. He's indirectly led to the death of 100,000 people in Africa by blocking USAID. He's called for a revolt in the UK to overthrow the government. He's called that british caver a you-know what - with no evidence. He's lied about FSD for 7 years.

HV battery replacement is about 1% of cars under warranty across the industry. Why else would they give 100k mile guarantees?

I'd ask for the courtesy car from now - I'm sure UK would do that. Given the low mileage on the car - I wouldn't expect that for something <1y old. I'd also hope they'd give you a new battery given the low mileage of the car. What if they give you one that's already done 50k miles!

that's what you get for buying vaporware

when he's a complete drugged up lying dumbfuck and he makes that clear with each and every public appearance.. ..yes

Buying Tesla in 2025 was like buying Mercedes in 1943.

Just take the loaner on the road trip, what’s the problem?

Just park it on the street in front of the dealership. By not scheduling service immediately they already decided there’s no safety risk, right? And they certainly wouldn’t want a burning car in front of their dealership, especially if the owner explained to the police he reported a battery problem and the dealer said they won’t fix it immediately. They CAN fix it immediately (special order, check other dealers, or swap from a new car in stock), they just don’t want to.

I'm trying hard not to be a jerk here...but how in the world are adults with access to the internet still getting duped into buying Teslas? I could maybe understand giving someone a pass if the year was 2015, but come on people.

The loaner was only offererd for 3 repair days, not for 3 weeks waiting days before the repair starts. I have requested a loaner for the waiting time. Lets see how it goes.

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Just remember when you get comfortable and it fails with a split second to react its all your fault.

Yes. I am a semi-expert in AI. I am fully aware of its limitations.

Yet your happy to risk the lives of those around you by using it to drive a vehicle on public roads....

Don't worry he is a "semi expert in AI" lmfao. You can't make this shit up.

Honestly if people kill someone in an accident while using FSD at this point it should be classed as negligent homicide with reckless disregard or the local equivalent charge. Its limitations are so publicly known anyone still using it in public should be held accountable for making a deliberate decision to risk the lives of others.

Good move to request it. They have a lot of gall if they refuse.

You know why? Because it’s more than the car is worth by 5 years in. So the car is scrapped or it otherwise doesn’t happen.

So you're telling them to guarantee you a brand new pack in writing or lemon law buyback the car, right? Then again you deserve this and worse for using your money to support Nazism in 2025.

"Tesla decided to replace the entire high-voltage battery pack instead of trying to repair it" OP please tell me, since when did Tesla ever repair a HVB? As far as I remember, HVBs were never repaired, only replaced. But I could be wrong.

My Ioniq 5 with under 8k miles has been parked since September 6 at the dealership, waiting on a back ordered main battery pack, plus side I got a free rental EV, but currently in Lemon Law process with an attorney— will probably lease a used Model 3

\>I bought my 2025 Model 3 in January. that is all I need to hear. Buy from a Nazi con man, receive the service you deserve.

well, they guy got a tesla, this year. He should be there on those sites fellating Elon as well.

right?

~~kinda~~

\>I'm trying hard not to be a jerk here stop trying.

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