Right Where It Belongs (NIN).

Our car is finally home after 29 days in Tesla hospital.

Tesla have been fantastic, we have had loan cars, and been looked after during the time to get our Model 3 back on the road.

@sydney_ev @TeslaStraya @TeslaGong @_TeslaTom @Tesla @elonmusk
The car was gone for 29 days in total, 30 if you include the Sunday when the fault first appeared.

Pyro fuse on the HV battery blew, and they spent a week diagnosing why it blew.

Turns out it was a fault with the inverter in the rear drive unit.
The pyro fuse was shipped up from Melbourne, but the rear drive unit was shipped from the USA. It arrived on a ship on Monday 13th (Thanks @VedaPrime), and was installed in the car on Thursday 16th.

On Friday 16th they had issues installing firmware one the rear drive unit.
They fixed that issue yesterday (20/7), and the car was returned to us today 21st, repaired, cleaned and fully charged, thank you Tesla.

Tesla service has been fantastic, they provided us with rental's (first and ICE car, then a Tesla Model S).
What could Tesla do better?

Communication could be improved, use that app you have there on my phone, give me daily updates, even if that is just a simple no change, waiting on parts. But service did call me regularly.

Improve your spare part inventory in Australia.
Otherwise, the car was repaired, and all is good in the world again (except that it is still 2020, so, yeah, all cards are still playable I guess).

Thanks Tesla, loving having our car back.
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