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I figure I might write this up to help anyone else who experiences this. First thing first, if you're regularly charging at 40A (or more), stop. If you don't need to charge this fast, back it off to 30A. The charger contains two 50A fuses and over time charging at 40A can cause them to fail...

I contacted Tesla about having CCS support installed in my 2013 P85 and was told that only 2014 and newer cars are supported. I went into the service mode, however, and the software implied it is supported and offered to reset the PLC gateway for it. Note that I have upgraded my center screen...

On my 2013 Model S P85, I often close the charge port door only to have it pop back open a few seconds later. Once in a while, it seems to pop open all on its own long after it has been closed. Has anyone else experienced that? When it's locked it feels secure. Also, it looks like the LEDs...

A couple of weeks ago my P85 refused to charge at home right before leaving for vacation. Interestingly supercharging still worked. After a day, Tesla said that it was not recognizing the 1KHz square wave coming back from the wall charger and they suggested replacing the master charger with a...

On Monday when driving back from Reno to the Bay Area I went to charge at the Rocklin supercharger near Sacramento. Shortly after backing in and charging my low tire pressure warning came on, which I thought odd because the tires are less than two months old and I hadn't hit anything. Anyway...

A few years back Tesla briefly offered tire and wheel insurance. I immediately jumped at it since I have the 21" rims and drive in San Jose, who has some of the worst roads in the country. Anyway, I'm glad I did. Only a few weeks later they sadly dropped that option. Early Saturday morning I was...

I just took my MS on a 1600 mile trip from the Bay Area up to Seattle and back. One problem I had was that when heading north the GPS refused to route me through the Woodburn supercharger and kept telling me to turn back to Springfield, even though I had over 90% charge there. I had to manually...

It seems lately that my side rear view mirrors are possessed! When I put the car into reverse the mirrors may or may not point down. Usually they do. When I put the car back into drive, however, often either the left or right mirror does not return to the proper position forcing me to manually...

I am hearing a hum coming from the back end of my model S. The pitch does not change however it grows louder at higher speed. It also does not matter what type of road surface I drive over, but some like grooved concrete make it a lot louder. It is almost as if something is resonating. That's...

I picked up a Blackvue dual dash cam and am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for installers and some idea of what it would cost? I may just try and do it myself.

This weekend I took a road trip down Big Sur to meet up with some friends and do some camping. It involved some dirt roads and evtripper.com indicated that I should have enough charge to get there and back. I took it easy driving there, stopping in Gilroy to do a full range charge before heading...

I noticed that plugging my Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone into the USB port that it does not seem to charge much, if at all and in fact may be losing charge. Has anyone else experienced issues charging via the USB ports? I'm guessing that the USB ports don't put out all that much current, though...

I want to try installing a parking assist module I got but am not sure what the proper method is to gain access under the dash. I see a spot in the firewall where a bunch of wires poke through and I hope to use that to run the wire from the sensor. I just don't know what the best method is to...

Last night when driving home my model S running 4.4 refused to run in night-time mode when set to auto. It was around 2am. I have never seen this problem before, anyone else had this problem? Note that the headlights automatically turned on.

I got my second Supercharger experience at the Folsom supercharger after driving up from Fremont to visit some friends in the area. I got a nice burger at the nearby City Burgers with some friends after a fellow Tesla owner recommended it. By the time we were done the car was just about fully...

http://www.fiskerbuzz.com/forums/14-fisker-lounge/3258-silicon-valley-meet-up-saturday-9am-santana-row.html Might want to have some Tesla owners make a showing. I'd go but I have other plans on Saturday.

Hi all, I was commenting to a friend of mine who works at Tesla about the acceleration whine, which I must admit doesn't bother me at all. Anyway, my friend told me that the noise comes from the gears and went on to describe trade-offs with different types of gears between noise and efficiency...

I started playing around some more with the Bluetooth interface and tried to see if I could see it from my netbook. Sadly I did not see an A2DP profile for it. Hopefully this will be addressed in the future. I also tried to see if my model S would see a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Again, it...

Soon after I got my car I accidentally broke one of the covers that flip up to expose the roof rack mounting points on the Pano roof. These covers are extremely delicate. Anyway, I took my car in to the Fremont service center to fix the creaking Pano roof problem and asked them to also fix the...

I'm looking to upgrade the service panel on my home which is currently an ancient 100A unit for my Tesla model S which I hope to receive on 2/23. Anyway, it looks like the way for me to go is to switch to PG&E's E-9B rate. Doing so requires two meters. Has anyone else done this such that they...

Hi all, I'm in Fremont and need to upgrade my main service panel and add a run to my garage. Any recommendations for an electrician for the East/South bay (I'm in Fremont)? Solar City said they can't do it when they contacted me. I figure I'll put in a 50A outlet but have everything wired for...