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I had the Model S frunk open in front of me while driving. Lucky to be alive. On my last Model S (2018 model year), I was driving up on a bridge and it suddenl
by mehrdada 5y ago
I had the Model S frunk open in front of me while driving. Lucky to be alive.
On my last Model S (2018 model year), I was driving up on a bridge and it suddenly opened and blocked my forward visibility, with a trailer on my right. The vehicle was looked at by service a number of times because I got intermittent “Front trunk hood status unknown” (which I had also seen on a couple loaner Model S’s) and service despite taking it in a number of times and looking at it presumably a few days each time was not able to reliably reproduce and investigate the root cause. After the incident, they looked at the car for a couple weeks and. To their credit, they were quite good at resolving the issue and when I asked they <strike>lemoned</strike>“Goodwill bought back” the vehicle and I ordered another Model S. Their diagnosis, I was told, was that the emergency escape button inside the frunk had some sort of glitch and activated and was causing the frunk to open at times, but this must have been part of the problem. Glad to see this issue addressed at large, as it was super scary, but it took 2+ years since I first reported my own frunk problems till now that the recall is being issued.
- asddubs 5y agoyikes. so it was an electronic failure, where the computer decided that the hood goes up now, not a mechanical one?
- mehrdada 5y agoThat was my understanding. Ironically the "emergency escape button" inside the frunk is a dubious regulatory requirement for such a small space but could cause a major problem.