Recent content by Ruester

Thanks to you and everyone else for all your responses. I’m closing up this thread for now. If I do find something definitive, I’ll post it. There’s a slim chance we might even see the other driver again. Also, this experience reinforces the benefit of having a PIN code, which we’d already set up.

Zero chance of that.

I get your points. Thank you.

Thanks for your thoughts, but he was a stranger who we’ll never see again unfortunately. Wow, had not heard about the 10k!

It must have been their app because we were not close enough that my phone was in play. He was not even touching our trunk or car when he opened it. Fyi, he was equally stunned when the trunk opened and he realized it was not his car.

Yes, we saw him approach our car with his phone in hand and open the driver-side door.

Hope that’s the case :)

Also, I don’t know what brand of phone he had. Wish we’d taken more time to dive further into the situation, but we had to leave.

Hmmm. Lots of possible causes. We’ll have to wait snd see what Tesla says. Thanks for your help!

Good points, we’ll also try to talk with Tesla on this incident. Thank you!

To clarify, he headed directly to OUR car, thinking it was his. He was standing next to our car when he opened our trunk. His car was parked two parking rows away (50-60 feet). We were leaving the store heading towards our car, 30-40 feet behind him. We were both shocked when he opened our trunk...

Yes, he was too far away from his car (50-60 feet) and just 3 feet from my car. When we got home, we experimented how close I needed to be to my car before my wife could manually open the trunk. I needed to be within around 6 feet of the trunk.

Good to know. Thank you!

Both cars are new and no after-market products. You do bring up a good point. I always have my Bluetooth on and will start turning it off when leaving the car parked. Thank you!

Thank you for your suggestions. We do have a PIN code. See my response to another person below.