So I have been dreading this day for a while and it has finally happened. My beloved 2013 Model S 60 is now posting the infamous BMS_029 fault. The car is about 11 years old and has 241,500miles. It has given no warning signs or any weirdness signaling impending failure. Just went to the car after a typical overnight charge to see that it's now showing the fault. The car was working fine, gave about 160 miles of rated range @90% and I was able to recently drive the pack down to <18 miles of range without issue. But I guess that just means the BMS was working well. Anyway, is what it is... the battery is toast. ...and I just dropped $2,200 in suspension work last week on it.
So anyway, the point of this thread is not moan about it. I would really like to save this car, as it has some sentimental value to me personally and the car is otherwise in good condition. But I think Tesla's repair options will be unpalatable. I am still awaiting a quote and set of options from them, but based on other threads here I don't think I will like their responses. I don't think it's worth dropping $20K on a new battery when I can buy a p100D for $30k or $20k Model3/Y from Hertz.
I have a few questions for the experts on this forum:
-How long can I drive the car in this degraded state? Currently, the car charges to a max of about 60 to 68 miles. Not good, but this is enough to make it to work, where I can charge it to drive home. I need the car to function at minimum for this basic task. I wonder how long I can keep it going this way while I find solutions for repair...
-The real question and point of this thread is a discussion about swapping the battery. I have read other threads on this forum and there have been discussions about it, but my situation is slightly different. I already have another 85kwh pack. I can follow-up on the exact model number of battery, but I believe it is compatible with a "classic" model S. The problem is my car is an S60. If it were already an S85, I could just physically swap the pack, do a reset in the service screen and the replacement pack would just work. Not so easy for an S60, as I assume it requires some reconfiguration of the firmware to make the car think it's now an S60. Tesla did not want to make that easy. I am trying to avoid solutions such as Recell because I want to try and use the pack I already have, and not buy another repaired pack which appears to be all the Recell offers. Obviously, my goal here is to spend as little money on this repair as possible. Even Recell's $7.5K solution is a but much for me. And because I happen to already have an 85Kwh pack sitting around, I would really like to use it. Can this be done and can anyone help me do it? What else do I need to take into consideration? Do others have any thoughts on this plan or other options I should consider? Hopefully, battery experts can chime in.... @WK57 @Recell
The Car is currently based in Burlington Wisconsin, not far from the Milwaukee/Chicago areas. Any local Tesla experts that can help me? Not opposed to sending to Recell or 057 Technology, but it is a long way to ship the car.
Thanks,
Chris
So anyway, the point of this thread is not moan about it. I would really like to save this car, as it has some sentimental value to me personally and the car is otherwise in good condition. But I think Tesla's repair options will be unpalatable. I am still awaiting a quote and set of options from them, but based on other threads here I don't think I will like their responses. I don't think it's worth dropping $20K on a new battery when I can buy a p100D for $30k or $20k Model3/Y from Hertz.
I have a few questions for the experts on this forum:
-How long can I drive the car in this degraded state? Currently, the car charges to a max of about 60 to 68 miles. Not good, but this is enough to make it to work, where I can charge it to drive home. I need the car to function at minimum for this basic task. I wonder how long I can keep it going this way while I find solutions for repair...
-The real question and point of this thread is a discussion about swapping the battery. I have read other threads on this forum and there have been discussions about it, but my situation is slightly different. I already have another 85kwh pack. I can follow-up on the exact model number of battery, but I believe it is compatible with a "classic" model S. The problem is my car is an S60. If it were already an S85, I could just physically swap the pack, do a reset in the service screen and the replacement pack would just work. Not so easy for an S60, as I assume it requires some reconfiguration of the firmware to make the car think it's now an S60. Tesla did not want to make that easy. I am trying to avoid solutions such as Recell because I want to try and use the pack I already have, and not buy another repaired pack which appears to be all the Recell offers. Obviously, my goal here is to spend as little money on this repair as possible. Even Recell's $7.5K solution is a but much for me. And because I happen to already have an 85Kwh pack sitting around, I would really like to use it. Can this be done and can anyone help me do it? What else do I need to take into consideration? Do others have any thoughts on this plan or other options I should consider? Hopefully, battery experts can chime in.... @WK57 @Recell
The Car is currently based in Burlington Wisconsin, not far from the Milwaukee/Chicago areas. Any local Tesla experts that can help me? Not opposed to sending to Recell or 057 Technology, but it is a long way to ship the car.
Thanks,
Chris