Tesla Model S Door Handles Not Presenting

The tesla model s uses automatically retracting door handles and those fancy handles are the subject of a new lawsuit recently filed in florida.

Tesla model s door handles not presenting.

The door handles should auto present when a body moves near the driver or passenger side doors while the fob is present even if the fob isn t on you which is what happened in the model s theft case in vancouver. Tesla model s door handle repair the tesla model s has a recurring issue with the door handle especially on the earlier cars which are now increasingly out of warranty. Just a quick video showing a tem. One of three faults typically occur the first is the handle is not presenting it stays flush to the door maybe slightly raised and maybe you can hear a clunking noise.

This happened on a sunday. The owners kept the spare fob in the car and the handles presented when a stranger walked by. It seems the engineers at tesla might have benefitted from this idiom around the time the door handles on the model s were designed. The design of the earlier.

Called tesla monday morning and it was fixed by 4pm at no cost.