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My white interior is still perfect after four years. It's easy to clean with dish soap and water, and it doesn't bubble from UV exposure, as the black interior sometimes does.

I scheduled another service appointment, since I didn't fully understand the problem the first two times I took it in. In response to my service request, which explained the situation in detail, Tesla responded that they "have confirmed your vehicle is currently affected by the firmware. Our...

This is the first time I have read about a known cause for no USB on door handle startup from sleep. Does it occur in all Teslas or just Models Y & 3? Does it affect cars with HW4 as well as HW3? How long has Tesla known what is wrong?

I've seen many threads about Tesla replacing defective entertainment computers. They don't replace a chip. They replace the entire unit. If the cause is defective hardware that can't work with current firmware, then the solution is to replace the hardware. Since it is undisputed that USB...

It's not a waste of time to make a record if they later try to deny service out of warranty and to alert other people to a problem that Tesla service denied had ever been reported by anyone else the two previous times I took the car in for service. The best explanation of what might be...

I'm going back to Tesla service with my third request on this issue since on the two prior occasions I didn't fully understand the problem. My latest service request is as follows: Starting in late November 2023, USB frequently, but not always, fails to activate when I awaken the car from sleep...

I started the earliest thread on intermittent loss of USB after sleep after it suddenly started happening to my 2020 Model Y in November 2023. Plugging and unplugging the USB stick makes no difference, and both USB security and USB music are lost. The solution is either to wake up the car from a...

It's unclear how many cars are affected, whether it only happens to Model Y, what model years are involved, and whether it also affects cars with HW4. I knew immediately when I first lost USB because I listen exclusively to music from USB when driving. Owners who don't listen to music on USB --...

To my knowledge, this had not been mentioned previously. I've tested it more than 10 times, and every time, USB has worked when I woke up the Tesla before getting in. This is a quicker solution than rebooting, which doesn't always work the first time.

Thanks for the illustrated instructions. I put an upside down Sterilite 1693 storage crate under the tire for support, dimensions 17¼"L x 14¼"W x 10 5/8"H. The Tesla pack with 120v charging cable, which I have never used, fits into the back corner space next to the tire.

Nothing has changed, and obviously Tesla Service is still trying the same, useless "remedies." If they tell you that nobody else has experienced disappearing USB, as they told me, show them this thread.

Like all other firmware updates since this started happening last November, 2024.8.7 changes nothing in respect of loss of USB. If you think it has, just give it a few days. The fault is intermittent and doesn't occur every time you park the car with sentry off.

The USB source is irrelevant.

My problem started in late November 2023, several weeks after a software update. There have been several software updates since, and none has made any difference. It wasn't caused by a firmware update, and it hasn't changed when the firmware has changed. The way it goes on and off, it seems more...

Here's another thread reporting the same problem: Sentry Mode red X most of the time

I have the same problem, and Tesla has been unable to fix it. See: Intermittent Electrical Problem Tesla Can't Fix, 5 Months Left on Warranty The White Plains NY Tesla service center claimed that there were no other similar complaints. You should take your car to a Tesla service center to at...

Yes. Before my warranty runs out in August, I will either get the Tesla extended warranty or a third-party warranty. I haven't researched extended warranties yet. I also haven't researched whether a manufacturer can run out the clock on performing a warranty repair simply by claiming that the...

Take your car to a Tesla service center. They won't be able to fix it, but if enough people with the same failure complain, somebody at Tesla may make an effort to troubleshoot the problem. I turned off Sentry when I left the car with the service center so that that USB would disappear when the...

About 10% of the time, my car also requires two consecutive reboots to recover USB. On those occasions, I get a Loading Error after the first reboot. Most of the time, one reboot is all that is needed.

I I'm on the standard update schedule and thus have 2024.2.7, which doesn't deal with sentry. It only made the wipers run every day in dry weather.

This started happening in late November 2023, and several software updates have made no difference.

Lemon laws do not apply to a 4-year-old car.

My 2020 MYLR with about 20,000 miles suddenly developed an intermittent electrical problem that the Tesla Service Center has been able to duplicate and document but not fix. When the car is parked with Sentry off for about 10 minutes or more, it often loses all USB functions, both security and...

The wipers are so much worse under the latest software update, that I leave them off until it starts to rain, then use a voice command to turn them on. When it stops raining, I stop the wipers with a voice command Wipers Off. I would prefer a knob or stalk control, but this is OK. Unlike dumb...

The Tesla service center has been able to verify and document the malfunction, but they have not been able determine the cause and are requesting assistance from national Tesla. They advised me that no other customer has had this problem. In other words, I'm patient zero. To summarize, the...

I have a 2020 Model Y LR with standard 19" wheels. Tesla service gave me a loaner 2021 MYLR with 21" wheels and Pirelli PZero tires. For the first time, I experienced what some people have called a seasick feeling while driving a Tesla. My Y with 19" wheels rides rough and bounces on road...

I won't even consider a vehicle without Tesla quality one-pedal driving. VAG EVs don't offer it.

I have figured out that the actual problem is loss of USB security and music when parked with Sentry off. I have only lost USB once when parked away from home, but it happens frequently at home with Sentry excluded. I turned on Sentry at home, and the problem went away. However, since Sentry...

USB security also disappears when the USB music icon goes missing, and USB disappears from the list of media Sources. Thus, I intermittently lose both dashcam security and music.

Starting in late November, I starting losing the USB icon under My Apps overnight, necessitating a 2-button reboot to get it back and to play music from the USB stick. Removing and reinserting the USB stick has no effect. My USB stick is a Sandisk microSD card reader with a 128gb microSD card...

It was often said that the Germans build good cars, while the Japanese build cars good. Most of the criticism of Tesla is about superficial build quality, not the revolutionary design. Except for one design failure -- the abysmal suspension, which no doubt will be rectified when the Model Y is...

I have a 2020 and like this solution but will wait until somebody with an earlier Model Y like mine tries it first. I suffered a non-repairable flat while driving on a smooth, paved road at less than 30 mph. Something very sharp that I didn't even see penetrated the sidewall just above the...

I would not drive or ride in this car. In all likelihood, there is an electrical system malfunction that will not be fixed by continually replacing drive units.

I kept the Model Y on Auto with AC on at all times until the car started to smell like a garbage can after I left it for awhile because of the defective design of Tesla's HVAC system. Now I try to remember to turn off the AC whenever I park the car.

I had the same problem today for the first time. I went to the store, and when I came out 10 minutes later, the car would not respond to my Android phone or my key card. However, the phone controls worked, so I opened the hatch to store my groceries and opened the driver's door. When I tried to...

It's still not fixed in firmware 16.2. USB still disappears when I leave the car for more than a few minutes. You have to press the right steering wheel button and say "Switch to USB". Then the USB drive reappears and music resumes playing where you left off. If that doesn't work, unplug the...

It doesn't go back to USB. That's the whole point. On startup, USB audio continued playing from where it stopped when I shut off the car throughout 2020 and 2021 until an update in December 2021 broke this functionality. Thus far Tesla have failed to fix it. It's a major annoyance, mitigated in...

I'm aware that you can turn it off, but you can't turn off all the services. If Tidal is off, something worse with pictures of pop entertainers appears. I would rather look at a QR code while I switch to my USB of early opera recordings.

No. The start screen is always the Tidal QR code. I use the voice command "Switch to USB" to change it to USB and resume playing where it left off. Every few days, "Switch to USB" doesn't work, and I have to unplug the SD drive from the USB port and plug it back in, then use the voice command to...

What, if anything, can be done to protect and minimize the possibility of damage to the fragile, exposed parts of the battery cooling system?

Moving the USB-A port from the center console to the glovebox changed belatedly turned into a downgrade when a Tesla software update made the USB drive unreliable. Now I have to unplug and plug back in the SD card reader in the USB-A drive at least once a week to recover USB audio and dashcam...

Switch to USB works.

I'm on the standard track for updates, and I still received the buggy firmware (2022.12.3.6) that disables voice control to resume playing USB after the car has been parked for awhile. They need a third option -- a six-month delay in getting firmware updates. By that time, all the...

Thanks for an even better solution. Now only one click is needed to get to what should work: touching the track that's playing to switch the display from "Songs" to the track list of the folder of the playing track.

I'm glad that someone else has objected to Tesla's unacceptably poor wifi security. It tells anyone in the vicinity that there's a Tesla in my garage. I changed all my other wifi names to long strings of characters that make no sense and would like to do the same with the Tesla wall connector...

The "USB" voice command is an extremely useful discovery. While the Tidal QR code still displays when I get in, as soon as the car wakes up, saying USB resumes playing where it left off. I wonder if there is some undisclosed voice command that will switch from the Tidal screen display back to a...

The only reason there's a problem is that Tesla only allows three sources to be disabled. If I disable Tidal, another service with more junk on the screen shows up when I arrive at the car. Tidal is the least of the evils. I would rather look at a QR code than a bunch of pop entertainers. If...

In this respect, my 2020 model Y is worse than it was when I bought it. Until a software update in early 2022, my car always resumed playing from USB where it left off, regardless of how long it was parked. Now it reverts to a blank Tidal screen if I leave it more than a few minutes, and I never...

Mine worked fine until the latest software update. Now it reverts to a Tidal screen showing a QR code if I leave the car for more than a few minutes, and I have to start over to find what I was playing from USB. I would like the option of turning off all the audio services except USB, since I...

There is far more than enough video evidence in this article for the federal and state governments to ban Teslas with enabled FSD and maybe AP.