Recent content by jplasmd

From past personal experience: You might want to try removing any crud from the contacts in the HPWC's handle as well as the Tesla port with some electrical contact cleaner and soft pipe cleaners.

Yep, looks like a shotgun approach to repair. However, the quoted prices for some of the louvers are quite a bit less than those paid by other members within the last couple of months for the identical parts. Maybe some Tesla parts guys just make up the parts prices on the fly, lol. In...

12 volt refrigerators (like my Engel MT35) work great in the rear well, but not so in the frunk. Why? There is no ventilation in the frunk. Without ventilation, the little air that is in the frunk will quickly become hot, and the refrigerator will not be able to dump heat efficiently to the...

I recall it being listed at $385 in a post I read a while back. The side louvers were $239. Motors included in both.

I think your AC is out. When working normally, the BMS never lets the battery temp get above 113.5 degrees (at least, prior to Batterygate/Chargegate). Without your AC working and the battery chiller cooling your battery with evaporating R134a, the car is trying to dump heat solely through the...

It's been discussed before: Sudden Loss Of Range With 2019.16.x Software Currently at 614 pages, and 12,272 posts.

Gruber Motors, as well as the Electrified Garage (former Tesla tech) have videos on YouTube about removing the MCU. If you go to all the effort to remove your MCU, fix the fan problem, then reinstall the MCU, you are almost guaranteed that the eMMC chip on your MCU will fail within a month or...

You could try private messaging "norm". To PM someone in this forum, left click on your icon in the upper right and go to "conversations". Then "start a new conversation". Use the name "norm". It doesn't look like he comes around this forum very often anymore: he was last seen 4 weeks, 5...

They did at the time I wrote that post in June, 2018. Anymore, I would assume so, but can not say for certain. Tesla seems to have morphed into something unrecognizable to us older (gimped) Tesla owners. (I need a few parts too, but haven't figured out how to contact the new Tesla SC in El...

The reference to Van Horn pertains to 4A and 4B that have been dead since, at least, June 2018. That's 20 (or more) months out of the 35 months that this Supercharger has been opened.

I was there last night around 9pm. 3A and 3B are dead, but the other six chargers work, including 2A. The latter has not lit up at night since (at least) Feb. 2019, but otherwise has always worked fine.

Yes, I'm referring to the 2012-2016 Tesla Model S Service Manual, which contains three main sections. The first section is the actual service portion. The second section contains ten wiring diagrams along with connector references for each diagram. And the last section has the Theory of...

Agree. From the "Charging" section of the "Theory of Operation Guides" found in the early MS service manual: " 1. Tesla Supercharger The Tesla Supercharger recharges Model S quickly on road trips that exceed the range of a single charge. Superchargers are not intended for everyday use...

Thanks for the links. I need another cable since a Tesla tech cut my first link cable and kept the Tesla connector end when he came out to my house to replace the steering gear bolts. He was nice enough, though, to tuck the remaining cable back into place so I wouldn't immediately notice his...

2A apparently not working either. I was at the Van Horn SC earlier this morning and saw four of the eight superchargers with their cables wrapped around the top of the units. It does not present a very good image of Tesla to the many travelers who stay at this frequently sold out Hampton Inn...