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I hope by "sleep mode" you mean the battery service disconnect was pulled. Normally you should be OK for 2 months but not if the vehicle was moving very much. Being on a ship will often wake the car up because of motion and drain the battery faster than if it was sitting in a garage. I've got my...

I might know somebody who can make something like that. Send me a PM. /wink

Check out this thread Trunk Release Issues It's easy to replace the actuator if you remove the taillights. You probably also need to replace or at least tighten the cables on each side. Be sure and order a replacement actuator with high force. Most of them are a bit wimpy but if you can find a...

I've been using 14-50 receptacles for 14 years of Tesla ownership and I've never found that the good ones (Hubbel, Bryant) wear out unless you're performing live disconnects, but in some cases they definitely need cleaning. I use a good quality contact cleaner. This is especially necessary in...

Have you tried a cold reboot?

That's the sixty-four dollar question nobody knows the answer to yet. Tesla was aware of the issues when they released the new version and they made some changes. Were those changes enough to prevent the problems of the first gen 3.0? Time will tell.

Twice I have participated in the WAVE Trophy rally. Once in a Roadster and once in a Model X. More than twice per day we would roll into a small town in the Alps with over 100 EVs, and they would all start charging at once! We used almost no public charging. We did this for 8 or 9 days in a row...

I was wondering this as well. That site always has lines. I bet a lot of people stayed overnight in the Walmart parking lot!

My daughter & her husband live in St J and reported that the main roads into and out of town were basically parking lots for part of the day. I imagine that supercharger was hard to get to.

Those chargers require serial comms with the car in order to implement the billing/payment system. The Roadster is not capable of serial communication. I thought about implementing the serial comms in the CAN SR but it would require a lot of development time for a very limited market. You can...

I left out the instructions for replacing the lenses. Let me know if you need those.

1. Look inside your trunk/boot and locate three rubber access covers behind each taillight. They are round, about 1.25 inches (3 cm) diameter. If it’s above 72 deg F (25C) you can remove them with just your fingers. If it’s colder you should warm them up with a hair dryer. 2. Behind each rubber...

My wife and I had an excellent experience a couple months ago renting a dual-motor long range Y in Pittsburgh for a week. We scanned the bar code and it popped up in the app. Hertz passed through the supercharger fees at cost, no markup. Their policy at all locations now is return it with at...

I watched this movie and really liked it. Thought provoking about many things. I have to wonder how they created that scene with all the crashed and crashing Teslas. Was that all special effects? Were those real cars? Where did they get them and why did they use only white ones?

Yes I am still making the CAN EU. This would not be the first time I've sent one to Spain. I will send you a PM with details how to contact me.

I don't know any Roadster owner who's installed one of those yet but I'd be shocked and amazed if it wasn't compatible with the Roadster using either CAN adapter.

The best solution is to buy better quality rotors with plated or aluminum (or both) hats. For example, many of us participated in a custom group order from Titanium Dave to get rotors with plated aluminum hats. The steel parts were also treated with a coating that is slower to rust. They were...

Congratulations! And welcome back! I hope we see lots more of 1418.

How do you contact them?

@TEG is correct. All you will get is a "Invalid Pilot Signal" message on the VDS. There are several layers of safety with multiple stages of 2-way communication before the cable would ever get energized.

My car will do that sometimes when it cools down for a few minutes. It looks like yours cooled down for about 20 min. It's also harder for the algorithm to accurately detect range when it's that low.

Been there done that. Is it April fools day yet? OK, not really. At least I didn't have to pay idle fees! ;)

This one's coming to Vermont! My neighbor bought it!

It's hard for me to diagnose the charging problems you had without more information. Your description of the events is almost exactly what happens when the non-recommended sequence is used. Having said that, there are other things that could have also caused the same behavior. Generally...

You almost have to wonder if there wasn't something wrong with that car that nobody knew about. The battery is old but in excellent condition, only 12k miles, pretty good configuration. The buyer already has a Roadster. He bought it for the low price and I won't be surprised to see it up for...

The life of the original battery was 10 years and 9 months if you count the day my Roadster was manufactured as the beginning of the battery's life. If you read the whole thread you will find the answers to your questions. The reason I replaced the pack was because I had already paid for the...

I drove the same route yesterday in our MY and I don't remember the autopilot disengaging once, ever. It's true the ride was not as smooth as our Model 3 or our older Model S would have been, but it was comfortable. When trying to decide which car to take before the trip, my wife never thought...

What insurance company did you have?

No, because you have an open diff. Instead of locking the right side, the left side spins backwards to make up for any movement on the right.

The North American Teslas - all models - are set up for single phase charging and can't take advantage of 3-ph like you can in Europe and UK. But if S-2000 lived in Europe then your guess would have likely been the case.

Jason Cobb @jcobb volunteered to take over cable lending duties. I don't know if he's still active here. If he doesn't respond to this thread or DM in the next day or two then I will try his email.

I'm going to guess that S-2000's building had the electrician initially set up all the chargers for 12A. Tesla's newest generation of chargers do not have dip switches to set the max current. You have to use Wifi to set it up. Hopefully they are not permanently wired for 12A. I wonder if the...

The recommended sequence when plugging in a Roadster using a CAN SR is to twist-lock the adapter into the car first, then plug the cable into the adapter. If you don't follow this sequence it's not a big deal, it usually works anyway. There is no requirement that you hold the switch open while...

It's been a while but I think a cold reboot helped. Then a software update a few days later completely eliminated the problem. We still have the car and it's never happened since. It was not an electrical problem and we never had to take it to Tesla Service.

I'll second that notion.

I tested the lock cylinder fit on every pair of taillights I made. I don't know if your supplier did that or not, so it's hard to say if the problem is your technique or the opening is the wrong size. Before you cut anything I would contact the vendor and ask a few questions. I wish I'd had the...

You have to make one (the special tool). There's a thread here somewhere describing how to take it apart... can't find it right now.

I can build one of those for you. It's called the CAN EU and enables you to charge your Roadster from common Type 2 chargers using one phase.

Some things to check: Is the wave spring broken? When it breaks the different broken parts overlap and cause it to bind up. To check this you have to unscrew the circular retaining nut under the rubber gasket inside the open end of the connector. This requires a special tool. If the connector...

The Washington Post article says he bought two "nearly identical" Tesla Roadsters.

Nominating @markwj for Roadster MVP...

Congrats and thanks for the update. I hope everybody appreciates your persistence to overcome some major hurdles to get this done.

Sounds like you're knowledgeable and have a good handle on it (no pun intended!) I'm afraid I don't know anybody who has tried a Taycan with the load sharing system. Please do report back to let us know the specs on the thermistor, and how the Taycan works out.

Thanks for clarifying. Does the EV that throws a charging error automatically reset and start charging after a few seconds? Many cars will do that, and they should if they are strictly J1772 compatible. If I remember correctly the master charger will allocate 6A to a car that is plugged in but...

^^^ @miimura is correct. The system already enables charging almost immediately when there is no response to the CAN comms over the pilot wire. I've seen several of these Gen 2 load sharing setups that work fine with one node connected to a J1772 vehicle. Maybe we're misunderstanding what you...

It's initiated by the WC. It it doesn't get any response it times out and stops trying. At that point it assumes it's connected to a non-Tesla vehicle. If you remove the bypass circuit in the adapter then the load sharing should work fine. The load sharing protocol assumes that a car that's...

He wouldn't even have a job if it wasn't for your Roadster.:rolleyes:

I always assumed that Sig100 #1 was Elon's car. How did you determine that it's not the same car? Does Elon's P1 have a Founder's VIN?

Welcome to the forum! I just responded to your email. For others with the same questions, @Cheetah 's post #2 above is spot-on.

I've used a ball-end hex wrench as @ML Auto recommended. Pay attention to his advice to protect the seat. After nearly damaging my seat I also made my own tool by cutting off a short portion of the hex wrench, so that when inserted in the bolt would extend about 3/8 inch above the top of the...