Falcon Wing Door Phantom Obstacle

Looks like I get to experience Tesla service already. Yay?

My passenger side FWD is getting phantom “obstacle detected” issues and the door won’t open. I can force it by holding the button, but it’s still not fun.

If I leave the door settings up on screen as I drive, you can see the “obstacle” come and go even though there’s nothing ever there. And I swear it’s behaving as if every time I take a left turn it appears, then if I take a right turn it goes away. This could be indicative of a loose sensor or connector, but who knows. All I know is it doesn’t work reliably, and that’s probably the more important of the two doors as that’s the side I’d need to let my kid in/out of for school. So next Tuesday it goes in for diagnostics.

The driver’s side door has been working flawlessly, as has the rest of the car. Hopefully they can rectify this and I won’t see any issues for quite some time.

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