Recent content by Coulomb's Claw

I'm guessing this is what happened...I wasn't actually at the car when he showed up and was able to get it unstuck. The tips of the connecting pins on the car's charging port were broken off in the process of whatever he did. A mobile ranger replaced the charging port when we returned home...

No, there was no charge. Everyone we talked to at Tesla was very apologetic about the circumstances, and tried their best to get us back on the road. The main problem was that Goodland, KS, where we got stuck, is kind of in the middle of nowhere. Consequently, it took a while for a technician...

Yeah, I just plugged it in. Never thought about looking at them before. I'm looking now, though!

Back on the road! The mobile tech was able to get the cable detached. I wasn't there at the time to see how he did it, but it sounded like it was not something just anyone can do. The tech said that sometimes the cables fail and this happens. So not a car problem, and we didn't have to get...

Not really sure if it's the car or the charger. I'm hoping once it gets unlocked we can try a different charger and it will work, thus not needing to do the whole towing thing. Supercharged it several times before this...always within a few miles of our home! Never any problems.

The car is no longer charging, and it stopped at 11%, so unfortunately there's no way to set the limit to less than where it is. Tesla is sending a mobile tech that will be here this evening to unlock it. They are saying, though, that the car will need to be towed 3+ hours (in the wrong...

Yes, we've tried the manual release and a reboot. Thank you for the suggestions, though. Following the advice of roadside assistance, we also tried turning the car off for a few minutes. I'm not real hopeful at this point, but thought I'd ask.

My family and I embarked on 3500 mile road trip this morning in our 4 month old LR AWD MY. We pulled in to charge at the Goodland, KS, supercharger for our first stop 200 miles down the road and started charging. After a few minutes there was a "Charging equipment reports error" message and the...

Care to share where you got it done? I'm picking up my model Y in a couple weeks, and would like to get PPF for the front. I assume you were happy with how it turned out? Did they wrap the edges? Thanks!

So I have next to no knowledge about towing. Why is it undesirable to use an adapter?

As entertaining as this is, the obvious answer to a scientific problem is to conduct an experiment. We get a non-performance Model Y and measure the stopping distance from 60 to 0 mph. Let's say for example it is 100 feet. We then get a performance Model Y and put the same wheels and tires on...