mine just passed warranty several days ago, and i started to notice that right side starting to squeak.... This should be a "RECALL" from tesla. The dripping rain water also right on top it, what a Genius design!!!!Guaranteed making it squeak!!!

FYI: The ball joint torque is 60Nm. That is around 44lb-ft of torque.

Just completed this fix on my 2019 Model 3 that just so happens to be out of warranty, and it worked perfect! Squeak is all gone! No extra grease. No injections with oil. Jacked up the car, removed the wheel, took out the upper control arm bolt, rotated the ball joint in multiple directions for a good minute or so, buttoned everything up and the steering sounds good as new! Did both front driver and passenger sides in under an hour! Thank you for saving me a trip to Tesla and a several hundred dollar service charge! Cheers from Seattle WA USA! Subscribed to your channel as well! Thanks again!

Crazy... I never replaced my upper control arm when mine started squeaking. I used a needle to inject grease in to the upper control arm joint.... is been over a year and no squeak issues since

I just did this fix on my '19 model 3. Worked great. It isn't shown in this video but I was able to apply manual pressure down on the control arm to freely pull the bolt out. The arm raised up several inches when pressure was released to allow room for rotating the lug. I did not need to support the wheel assembly at all. To get it fitted back in I partially inserted the torx bolt, then pressed the control arm down from above while playing with the lug alignment until I was able to fully seat it and push the bolt back through. From wheel on the ground to wheel on the ground no more than 10 minutes with a single unskilled person.

2:15. You CAN peel back the boot and add grease easily without taking the upper control arm off. I did both boots on the front end in less than 90 minutes. It looks like he was able to add grease but cut that part of the video out.

Finished the massage rotation tip this afternoon and no more creaking! Thanks for the tip. My closest SC is 2 hours away so I’m happy to have gotten some more life out of this ball joint for a while. In case anyone wants to know, you need a T50 torx bit to remove the bolt holding the ball joint to the spindle.

Worked a treat! Brilliant solution. I was having to wait another two weeks for Tesla parts to arrive for service call. This fixed a very noisy upper control arm immediately. Great tip. Many thanks.

WD40 was my fix. I had this exact noise problem with my 4 year old Model 3. Drove it less than 35K miles, but it's past it's warranty. Tesla in Portland, OR wanted to charge me $497 upfront to fix this. Shocked that there's no such thing as a free estimate for them to look at it first and discuss with you after your warranty expires. I found this expense for my low-mileage car ridiculous, so I just sprayed WD40 in the areas described in this video. It's been months and the squeaking has completely stopped! I didn't expect my stop-gap to last this long, but I'm happy that I didn't have to spend anything.

my 2018 Model Xsounded more like a truck from the flintstones - embarrasing - creaking was horendous - not sure if covered by any warranty now - i decided nothing to lose and followed this vid - amazingly accurate - found was only the drivers side -thank you so much

Unbelievable thank you so much just fixed mine. I broke the ball joint loose from the spindle. It was very stiff, moving outward, but I kept rotating around until it moved freely ,that horrific noise I had is totally gone. Thank you thank you thank you.

Thank you! I have a 2018 Model 3 and I was avoiding driving the car while waiting for service because it was so damn annoying and embarrassing. It was loud enough that it turned heads in the parking lot as you drove through. This did the trick and is making the car bearable until the warranty replacement.

Thanks so much for this informative, no nonsense and 100% spot on fix for this problem. I had it done in twenty minutes all up! Thanks again.

I do a similar trick to the lower rear joints on BMW cars what I do is remove the clips on the rubber boots and spray or inject grease with a grease gun with a needle under the boot not piercing the boots.

My 2022 Model 3 RWD had a loud squeak from the driver's side for several months that gradually got louder. I initially thought it was from the driver's side interior door panel. But as it got louder, it couldn't be the interior door panel. It recently got so loud I had to do something. I quickly took off the front driver's side wheel and noticed that the upper control arm is revision J. I figured that I would do the full sweep ball joint articulation sweep anyway to spread the grease around since I have nothing to lose. Sure enough, when I did the first sweep, the ball joint felt a little dry, but not very bad. After I felt that the grease got spread around, I put everything together. I even sprayed the bushings and the ball joint boot with silicone lube. The noise is immediately gone. I think I still heard a little bit of squeaking from the door, but much better. I hope I solved the problem. It seems that no matter how much grease the manufacturer injected into the bushings, it is useless if they don't move the ball joints around to spread the grease.

This is an awesome channel. Just sub'd. Please create more in-depth videos for the fixes and maintenance for us Tesla owners. Especially those who live far away from Tesla service centers and or out of warranty on their Teslas and wouldn't mind getting under the frunk.

June-2018 LR RWD Model 3, and replaced both left and right upper control arms under warranty. (both of them have revision "-G" after replacement) It could cost ~$600 so this is very useful information. I had suspicion that Tesla knew this problem since Tesla SC had the part ready to replace on the same day.

I rotated only the right wheel ball-joint and it stopped squeaking for the past month. I used a grease injection kit with water-resistant grease as well as the rotation on the left wheel ball-joint. I'll report if one is worse than the other. I had tried rejuvenating the bushings alone on the left side and that was insufficient. This solution saved me well over a thousand dollars.

My early 2020 Model 3 started squeaking at 3 and a half years and 56K miles. Was only the LF upper ball joint. I had to inject a lot of grease into ball joint with needle attachment and slightly warm joint and force ball to move and work by kneading grease into joint for 5 mins before squeak finally went away. Greased RF as well, it was not making any noise and was free moving.

2020 MYLR 61k miles. Started this squeak and your advice fixed it! THANK YOU! Only had it on passenger side, but did driver’s side as well while I was at it. Again, THANKS!!

Was able to remove lower piece to allow me to just move the ball joint in the upper control by hand for a while and is working for the moment. Thanks!

Just paid $400 to get just the right upper control arm on my 2018 Model 3 replaced...argued a bunch because this should have been done when they replaced the left last year under warranty...but they wouldn't reduce it any further...glad to know the new revision will last longer.

I've wondered if it's possible to get a reasonable amount of grease in there by jabbing a needle/grease filled syringe through the boot, or pulling the boot spring off maybe. Anyhow, great content here, look forward to more.

I had this same exact problem on my 3 and Tesla replaced the upper A arm on driver side for free. I tried to move the ball joint after Tesla took it off and it was seized up tight, no way you could move it.

You guys should set up a Tesla repair shop! Finding someone to do maintenance on a Tesla can be difficult so I'm sure there's a market for it

Are you apply more grease through the zerk fitting hole on top of ball joint? Or are you just turning the joint in hopes that the grease already in the joint re-spreads

You mentioned that telsa paint the bolds but no explaination about why and is there anything to do with it when removing thebolts?

Just did the fix myself. I'll see how long it lasts. Thanks!

What size wrenches to we need for the bolt and nut?

Thanks for the video, just did the repair on my 2018 model 3 and the noise is gone! Thanks again.

just had my 2019 tesla model 3 replaced on the drivers side by tesla service under warranty

1:30 Why not open the rubber by taking off this "metal ring" on the bottom of the rubber jacket? Fill it to the max with grease containing MoS² or Boron Nitride ("white graphite"). There you go. The nerd and/or farmer would put a zerk fitting there in his Autobahn harvester. 😉

Works great! How long until it starts squeaking again?

What if the bolt joint does not rotate freely. Mine is very stiff.

Thanks for this video! It fixed my squeaky suspension on my Model 3.

This is the second time I am having this issue (first time was fixed under warranty two years ago) and the Service Center just postponed my service appointment just now until next month despite the fact I scheduled it more than 2 weeks ago. It's an embarrassment to say the least when I am on the road. Quick question for those of you who DIY'ed, do you need to lift up the car and / or remove the wheels to get to the control arm?

Is the control arm only covered under the basic warranty?

My 2019 M3 started to squeak every time i turned the steering wheel. This is on the front driver side. I bought a grease gun and needle to inject grease into the boot of the control arm. After 50 miles of driving, the squeaking has reduced quite a bit, but it is still there. I heard Tesla was charging people between $500‐$1000 to replace the control arm. That's why i was hesitant to call Tesla and went with the DIY route to inject grease. Out of curiosity, i made a service call to Tesla. They quoted me $225 to replace the front left and right control arm assembly. FYI, I'm long out of warranty. For $225 with labor included, i think it's a great deal. I'm in California. So, why is there a big discrepancy in price for Tesla to replace the control arm?

awesome I did exactly as per the suggestion! , no squeak - thanks 👌

I have squeaking noise in my 2019 model 3, right at 100kmiles mark. So they have replaced it, but that wasn't a case, noise still there, not sure why they replaced that and charged me.. Do you know what that can be and how i can fix that? If that possible. Thank you for reply

Thanks for the content! Just found your video. Super helpful. You mention that they don't have the ability to grease the upper ball joints, but they seem to have a zerk fitting. Does that mean the fitting isn't useable to put more grease in the boot? I would like to try your method of rotating the joint, but I'd also like to add some grease. Is that possible? Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the video. I think I'm having this issue as lately I can often hear creaking when turning the steering wheel at low speeds on my 2015 Model S with ~145K miles. Is there a way to confirm? Could the noise be anything else? Around 130K miles I had the lower control arms replaced by a 3rd party shop (seems different though). I don't have air suspension on my car and I have 21" tires but I can reach in to touch this part. Do I need to jack the car up?

My M3 with only 15k miles had this start as a loud groaning and creaking noise. I put in service request in late March (2023)and here it is mid May and still no service from our mobile team. They say they will be here in late June. I tried injecting grease and it now squeaks. Am ordering a new one ($90) and will install myself. Tesla customer service sucks and has since before we picked our car up in 2019. I hear the same is true at Starlink. Garbage customer service. Elon can shove it as far as I am concerned.

If you take that the spindle loose to exercise the fitting does the car need a ailment?

What kind of grease do I put in the upper ball joint?

Can you still drive with the squeaking without issue? My apt with Tesla is in 2 weeks?

Great video. Thank you!!

I've done this workaround today but after a small 5km trip it's still squeaking. Does it take some time or should I invest more (a way to put grease in it for exemple ?)

I did this, and it worked. For one day.

Thank you!

wow this saved my hide! thanks so much for the hint!

Anyone know the toque spec on that T50 control arm bolt?

Quick ass video

I loosened the nut and attempted to separate the knuckle to release the ball joint while I used a pickle fork without any luck. Any trick how to get the ball joint out of that knuckle?

Mine just started sqeaking like mad on the driver side. Early 2019 M3. Thinking of doing the massage rotation thing to get some More mileage out of it before Tesla changes it early January. Do I need to support any part of the suspension or can I loosen the upper arm with just the car on a jack? What torque shall I used when retightening the nut?

I have revision g and it still squeaks. Sitting at 57k miles..

Thank You!!

Just got mine fix today tesla service center just called me that it is done lol.

What kind of tools would I need to do this as well as the grease?

Same problem. Anyone knows if we can still drive it safely ?

Can confirm. I had to do mine at 80k.

Damn.. Everyone seems to have 2018 or older model 3's with this issue.. I have a 2020 Y with just under 10k miles and my driver side just started squawking like a duck... Should be under warranty but my SC is 2 hours away.. AHHHHHH

My balljoint nuts are welded, anyone else have this?

I don't know what the referee/VAR was thinking here

Can't get the bolt out? The video didn't show how the bolt was taken out.

What size torx bit is needed?

⬆️👆👆thank to the group Same thing happened to me. I live in Florida and there’s a lot of lighting.,,

You said ball!

I have a 2023 Model Y with 25k miles & It's SQUEAKS = This is just B.S, 5 months old and this. It's my LAST Tesla ever

How i can learning more from your 😔

I wouldn't want to be near you when you release that strap stay faaaaar

⬆️👆👆helped me out now my problem has been solved,,,

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How do you think Tesla is going to warranty or replace cell to structure batteries when they come with them? I don't think they will be able too, seems like engineered obsolescence.

I guess Elon is a shoemaker. ( Mechanics will know what I mean )

115Keuro piece of junk buy a mercedes or a toyota