Are they truly heating the fluid, or just thawing the nozzles?Or do the GM thing of heating the washer fluid... because glass loves thermal shock.
The fluid itself. The cars were recalled and the systems disabled because they set the car on fire. Which, to be fair, solves the icing problem. I've also heard of the heated fluid causing chips to expand into cracks.
On this one, Tesla have done nothing wrong for a change. The "hack" was this dude finding unsecured instances of some owners' third-party software for logging data from their car, and using a vulnerability in those to pull the login tokens. I run that exact software myself, and all installation manuals explicitly state to secure it properly to prevent exactly this, offering several ways to do it. Getting it to run sufficiently unsecured for the "hacker" to be able to access the tokens is pure negligence by whoever setup the software themselves.19-Year-Old Hacker Has Taken Control Of 25 Teslas
It looks like yet another technical crisis may be heading for Tesla if these tweets from a young hacker in Germany are anything to go by. While we're not sure whether this affects the Tesla Model 3, Y, S, or X in particular, the account user initially stated that he had gained control of over 20...carbuzz.com
The early Mercedes systems used coolant and inevitably they start leaking one way or other by the thermostat housing.
The new heaters are likely electric?
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Tesla ran out of brake pads?
Didn't stop them driving it 20 miles like that!Everything is difficult to get right now.