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My 2013 P85 just started doing the same thing. Door opens, but that little pawl at the bottom of the charging port isn’t moving so I can’t plug in the charging cable. And I suppose if I did, but shoving the pawl out of the way with a thin shim, I would then never be able to remove it. Old...

5-month Model S LR owner here. In California. Tesla just jacked my rate from $144 per month to $198. No explanation given. Two drivers, 0 points, Elite driver discounts, etc. So - ”nothing personal” I figure. Just another huge increase tossed out for a CA insurance renewal.

And now my Homelink performance is also fantastic. Same hardware as before - simply bounced the transmit mode back and forth during reprogramming. Multiple reprogramming attempts in the past never improved anything but toggling the transmit mode twice seems to have fixed everything.

Changing transmit modes may provide a firmware update to the Homelink module. I've always had signal strength problems with the homelink transmitter in my 2013 Tesla. A handheld remote will work fine from the car but the Tesla's transmitter would generally not work unless very close and even...