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I got the spare parking brake box and it didn't work any better after software update. Then I realized I had forgotten to measure those two wires going to motor. Took the connector off the motor and measured both wires all the way to the electronic box. Another wire was fine and other had...

Oh, forgot to mention that in my previous post. If I remember right official way of doing is was by dropping battery. Maybe it also explains bigger quote.

Hello, My Model X gave me some headscratching few weekends ago. Entered the car and got notified immediately about parking brake not releasing or being applied. I tried to switch between P and D many times and could hear only rear left side engaging. Right side was completely quiet. Car would...

Getting heater core out is like 30min job. Rest will be cursing in the frunk trying to reach fuse box or lifting the car up and trying to access it from below. Just disconnect hv-loop and 12V first and start disassembling everything.

Thank you for sharing. I lost some hair with this as well as the rattle appeared on both front struts. Tesla would only replace the whole strut with hefty pricetag. The plastic top cap lifted off easily, no tools were needed. It is sealing and nice fit so maybe yours was just dirty? Be prepared...

Maybe it is leaking slowly. Mine was leaking from o-ring seal inside the strut. Took the strut off the car, lifted the lower part up to expose the seal and applied pipe thread tape, or whatever it is called, to o-ring groove and reassembled the strut. No more leaking. It is also easy to test for...

I got the same issue with parking brake. MX 2017. Mine might be similar to tommytunas as there is only one brake caliper at the rear. Motor side has star-shaped nut that does not turn by hand/tools and car side has the opposite end. You can release parking brake by stuffing in 7mm flathead...

Did you replace the fuse located in front HV junction box? The box itself is not dc-dc converter. There are two similar fuses inside the box. Broken fuse should measure as open-circuit, infinite ohms.

I had similar problems with passenger side falcon wing door. First it was small rattle at power struts and then error messages like there would be some obstacle. It would work randomly but mostly I had to force it to open/close. I replaced both main power struts and problem disappeared right...

Got it done today. Getting strut out and back to the car is starting to get easy, hehe. Previously put threadlock was nowhere to be found and nut was loose as suspected. This time put way more of threadlock (bigger the blob, the better the job). Original nut has fine threads and no regular nut...

On mine the right falcon wing door opened randomly on its own even if doors were locked. It could close, open up halfway and then close again. I took 12V battery leads off and same for HV loop and let it be like that overnight. Some body controller module got reset and its been fine since. This...

Hello. Good to see fellow Finnish people here. I have read a used part with different logic board might not work right away. Maybe full software reinstall gets new part working? This is something to research before the original heater gives up.

Now about 1000km later after writing that post the rattle is back at front left corner. It goes away when lowering suspension to lowest or rising to standard. It could be something else but I strongly suspect it is the same nut loose again. I think I will try to replace it with some locking nut...

This is interesting. I am having intermittent charging problems like EVSE not recognizing car or car telling me CP signal is not present. Charging always starts but it might take 0-45 minutes for car to get that CP signal. After that it charges just fine. This is a bit off-topic but maybe once...

The actual PTC element is just a passive component. It is like multiple big resistors in one package. One of those "resistors" traces is broken inside the element in my case. You (or your electrician) can measure it with multimeter and see which one has too much resistance. I think if the logic...