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I have the same experience with the end of charging notification indicating a strange value for kWh when the amount is very low. For example, Last night the car charged for 3 minutes at a low rate (I hadn't driven it since the previous day). It started and stopped on its own as expected. The...

So sorry for your loss. That was one of my favorite Roadsters. I almost bought it before you did.

To clarify (what I think you meant to say), it balances after it finishes charging if the SOC is high enough. They changed the firmware in 2011 so it would balance at the end of a std mode charge. It never balances during charge. It sounds like you have a misunderstanding of the balancing...

Probably with carbon fiber cutting tools. You can make pretty clean and accurate cuts with carbide-grit cutting wheels on rotary tools. If you need to follow a line you can often use a very small circular saw (3"blade) with a fence clamped on the part.

It's interesting to reflect on the evolution of custom car modifications, particularly engine bays. A lot of hot-rods had part or all of their hoods removed to expose the engine which was usually accented with shiny parts and colorful paint. A number of high-end mid-engine sports cars have had...

I enjoy hearing those memories. Today I met an original Roadster owner in my community and we both shared stories from the "old days" about how we discovered Tesla, early ownership experiences, etc. We're both very busy people but we took the time to listen to each other's stories and loved it!

If I was looking for a Roadster I would buy this one. Like you said it has some very practical options/features and you don't see many 2.5s.

The padded hard top storage bag was $500 on Tesla's web site for several years before they ran out and removed it from the site. I'm not sure what you mean by a "service record." Did you purchase one at a store or service center? Maybe they had a different price if you picked it up vs shipped?

It was a $500 option.

Actually it's much better to perform a lot of small charging sessions than one large session, given the same number of miles traveled. @nwdiver summed it up nicely in his post. One of the factors that contributes to cell breakdown is the volume of expansion and contraction of the Li particles...

I agree with hanknum. Did the person who changed your tires check to see if the wheels were true? My Roadster is very stable and smooth at high speed. The only time it wasn't was after I hit a pothole and put a tiny wobble in the rim. It was only off by a little bit but you could feel it. I had...

I'm having a hard time believing the PEM design does not have enough cooling capacity. I'm leaning strongly on the theory that something is wrong with your specific PEM or your cooling system. I can't see any reason why the new pack would create heat at a higher rate in the PEM than the previous...

I'm pretty sure it's about 3.55 for the original Roadster cells. I used to know exactly but can't find it right now.

This idea has been explored and may still have potential. A guy in Austria has already done this at 11 kW. He was rectifying 3-ph AC and then inverting it to single phase AC. This is really useful in Europe because most charging stations are 3-phase and the Roadster can only use one of them...

I’ve charged off the 12v battery several times without any problems. Then again my RC models aren’t that big. Today I charged a 13v 2amp-hr battery 3 times. Then I charged a 6v 4.5 amp-hr Pb battery but it was at least half full before I started. I opened the doors multiple times during these...

If it’s the closest one to where you live then you’ll probably never use it. Well, OK if you don’t have charging at home or work then you might need it. But if that’s the case I probably wouldn’t buy an EV. In other words, don’t let the status of this supercharger effect your decision to buy a...

I was curious about that, too. I wonder if that's the date that it was removed from another vehicle before refurbishing. Tesla isn't building any new PEMs and they've had an ongoing shortage of PEMs so it's not likely to be the year it was upgraded or rebuilt.

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I had to notify Tesla of my intent to exercise the contract by June 2021. I waited as long as I could and let them know in May. At first they said there's a shortage of replacement packs so I should expect to wait at least a year and possibly 18 months. Then in July they called me (yes, a human...

I'm going to guess that they will use all the individual sheets to repair original battery packs. Then they will take the case and use it to build another 3.01 pack. Just a guess.

Today marked a big day in the life of my Roadster. I drove it almost 200 miles (on one charge) to the service center to have its original battery replaced. Most of the drive was interstate highway at 67mph. Despite that I beat the rated range by almost 10 miles. To answer the question in this...

I brought my car in today for a 3.0 battery. I purchased the replacement program when my Roadster was new. Another label said the CAC was 215; minSOC was 25.6; maxSOC was 35.6. My original battery is in pretty good shape. CAC is 138.12 and charged up to 210 miles after settling (range mode)...

8 months ago is not that bad. More than likely it can be revived but you're not going to do it with a 240v charger. You need to have special equipment. I strongly recommend @ML Auto 's advice - ship it to somebody who knows how to bring it back to life.

My recent delivery experience was the polar opposite of yours. The staff went over the top to make sure I was happy and took the time to answer all my questions. The car was flawless and very clean. The operation at Paramus NJ was well organized, and despite being quite busy, they took the time...

I just got off the phone with the Tesla rep who is now handling Roadster Support. He took over from Matt K about a year ago. He provided a lot of answers to the important questions we've all been asking. The reason for the phone call was I exercised my option under the Battery Replacement...

Congrats! You've been waiting a long time to get this car!

Yes. Those have been selling for $500 to $1100 depending on condition. Check ebay sales history.

How confident are you in the answer that you got? Tesla has held on to this information very tightly. This would be the first time that they've released any cell details to anyone who could pass it on to a customer.

The NYT has always had it out for Tesla ever since Musk embarrassed several people in their Automotive section in 2013. He basically caught them lying in an article they published about superchargers. The paper did an internal investigation and concluded the author of the article had...

Sorry but this is anything but "well written." It's not just "devoid of facts," it contains multiple outright false statements (no fact checking), multiple misleading comments, extremely biased reporting. There's one comment from a Tesla employee not even related to or responding to the accident...

Does the New York Times even bother fact-checking their articles any more? I'm surprised to see such a biased and misleading article from the Times. I'm not even going to link it here because I don't want to give it any more clicks, but it's on the front page of the online paper and the Business...

I have all three of these problems, too. I've learned not to swipe all the way on the app until you get a glimpse of what you're swiping towards. For 2) they really need to lengthen the timeout duration by at least 20 seconds. Pressure on the charging port door is not feasible when your hands...

Yes, that's what he's saying. @chrisro described it accurately as well as @X.l.r.8. The difference is big enough that the plastic sheet frames and cooling tubes require difficult modifications. Once you conquer that problem then you have to overcome the hardware and software limitations of the...

It resolved itself when the new software update was installed at the end of January. We do not have a screen protector. My advice is to contact Tesla Service via the app on your phone. They have been very responsive with issues like this. You probably need a gateway firmware install which Tesla...

The high cutoff voltage is not the problem. They were able to change that by modifying a small board in the PEM for the 3.0 cells. The issue is the low voltage. To get the full capacity out of the Model S/X cell variants they go down to 3v or slightly lower. The original Roadster cells went down...

This is not an easy thing to do. Several people have looked into it who are well qualified including Gruber and others with extensive Roadster and EV experience. It would take a LOT of resources to reverse engineer all the BMBs, create expensive injection molds for parts, and a mountain of...

Sorry but I'm not giving them any kudos for almost completely flubbing an obligation that they KNEW was coming. Providing packs to those of us who purchased them in advance was NOT an optional upgrade program. They knew this was coming but are still barely doing anything about it. They've got...

There's evidence for both possibilities (new, improved chemistry vs 3.0 poor-performing chemistry). I'm in the same boat you are. I have the battery replacement program and recently had to put in my order before 10 years was up. It would be REALLY nice if they could give us a little...

My recent experiences with both customer service and vehicle service have been excellent. I believe things have improved quite a bit. My mother (age 92, still driving) has also been "treated like a queen" as she puts it. My brother, my sister, and my wife's colleague at work have all reported...

Took delivery of a new Model Y last week and I've driven it 480 miles so far. About 100 miles of that was at night in the rain. We also have a '18 M3 (long range, dual motor, just like the new Y except the 3 has radar). The Y appeared to perform as good or better than the 3 in the rain using...

I remember those calls and emails. Our summer camp had no cell service so I would get messages like, "We haven't heard from your car in over a month. Are you keeping it plugged in?" They seemed to stop shortly before the warranty expired. If you got any kind of error message you could call the...

I'm about to take delivery in VT which has a lot of bad weather. The reports I've heard so far about no radar in the rain are mostly positive. A lot of people are reporting less phantom braking depending on what kind of road they're on. We have a Model 3 with passenger lumbar but we have never...

Very cool project! I hope you keep us posted on your progress. I'm surprised you're converting it to water-cooled. I would have thought being air cooled was an advantage of the Roadster motor. What size battery will you use? It takes a pretty heavy battery to put out 215kW. Have you done other...

Have you looked at the specs for heat dissipation? The motor can't produce 288hp for very long before it overheats. You might be able to take off and climb for a minute or two before reducing output to 50 - 100hp for several minutes to cool off. It probably has a better horsepower to weight...

I figured out who you were after I posted and realized you already had a CAN EU! Sorry for being a little slow! There's really two different things that you need. A single-phase Type 2 cable rated for 32A so it's small for un-tethered stations. And a mobile charge cable to plug into electrical...

slcasner pretty well summed it up. I would strongly advise against trying to crimp a new cable into the Roadster connector, or splicing the cable for both safety and practical reasons. A better idea (but still not easy) would be to cut the existing Tesla cable off at the controller and crimp...

You mean they're doing this to everybody up here? My SA is working on finding a closer location. They haven't even offered me the option to pay $750 for home delivery. Let's see if the SA has any luck. What happened to the Mt Kisco, NY location?

I've now been assigned a SA so I'll ask him. Given the fact that multiple service centers exist that are much closer, it seems like they would have offered them if they were a possibility. Maybe we were spoiled by the two previous home deliveries, but that doesn't make it reasonable to drive 12...

There are 3 stores and 3 service centers a reasonable distance away. They didn't offer me any of those choices. I will cancel the order before I pay for a carrier service. It's not an inventory car.

I just ordered a MY and the only choices for pickup location are 5 - 6 hours and 3 states away. Is that normal? If that's the case then I will cancel the order. Our first two Teslas were both delivered to our door (2011 and 2018). Are they likely to offer me a better choice? I live in VT and the...