Search results

Because I have not elected to pay Tesla $1300 for a software page, that does not exist on my UI. I have no trailer mode to switch on or off.

2016 X, I'm pulling a trailer that is light enough to not trip the "heavy load detected" alert. The car has from the factory the 7-round plug and "accessory hitch" but not their overpriced "trailer mode" software setup. So when I plug in a lighted 7-to-4 adapter (one of those red ones that you...

On my 2016, it still is behaving badly - if you try opening it when standing right next to it or walk up from the back or directly up to the side of the car, it will fight you after opening 1-2 inches. Even if you HIT THE BUTTON ON THE CAR it stops after 2 inches and fights you. And yet...

Oh definitely - after the SECOND test drive they should have been looking around. That's where they elevate dumbassery into an absolute art form, by being "Tesla trained technicians"...

I'm certainly the LAST person on the planet who would defend the actions of a service center.... But in this limited case I think that the error could have happened anywhere. They didn't rotate your tires because they cared about the tire life. When working on the alignment they likely had to...

I got the 2024.20.1 update yesterday... But my 2016 doesn't have anything different in the menus that I can see (described above and it is not there on mine) and the door performance still seems to be in stages. IF I walk up to the car by the nose the door will open 1-2 inches and stop, when I...

I'm definitely down for at least one set, probably two (got two Model S with that motor)... But your directions PDF needs an update. The pictures are great but the instructions are cut off in the next image after installing the barb fitting. Doesn't seem to be any way to open that image / move...

That's their normal price for the FWD glass. If you are still under the original warranty then maybe... But otherwise good luck, they are going to push for the money and probably add "diagnostic fees" to it too - just b/c Lord Musky needs his profit margins.

This would be the first I've ever heard of any parts having an online blacklist.... More than likely the charger from ebay was just faulty. Unfortunately the incidences of Tesla employees just making stuff up is about as common as fraud on Ebay.

Correct - G48 coolant, the same as the rest of the car.

I did not lift the third row. I did nothing in the computer either. Start by sliding the seat all the way forward to get the bolts at the back. You do need to lift up the sliding panels though, there are more bolts under there. If the chairs aren't feeling like they are loose from the floor, you...

The problem (and why there are bunches of errors that pop all at the same time) is not the module itself - it is in the EPB motor units. There is a sensor, two of the four wires that lead to that EPB motor are the sensor. There is no way for the motor to "overload the module" if they get stuck...

The 7 seat non-folding isn't a bench, it is 3 individual pedestals. Even the bench is a 60/40 and is two pieces. The difference with the 5 seat versus the 7 seat in folding bench is that the 7 seat has an additional slide mechanism under the legs and electrical release for the back (folding) and...

It is definitely possible, and I know I'm not the only one that has done it. Not all of the holes lined up however, but a couple did to start with. The "right" way to do it would be to drill the new hole locations and install rivet-nuts that lock into the location with a stronger fastener than...

Make sure to get a QUALITY alignment done after, and get the numbers from them before and after. I had an S with Macsboost arms get an alignment and I thought I got good numbers from them (but didn't get them on paper) and 8k miles later the BRAND NEW 60k mile Crossclimate2 tires were SHREDDED...

How do you know the SC staff are lying to you? They are. Doesn't matter how, they just are.

You "should" get the pricing discount, but then see the above quote. They will do whatever they think will make Elon appear and pat them on the head for making him even more money.

Regen seems to max out at 50 kW, while drive power can be up to 6 times that. I don't think it will contribute much to heating based on the time-of-use and the lower power level... Unless you are regularly coasting downhill from Donner Summit - 47 miles all downhill at a significant grade.

How do you plan to get the drive unit back from Tesla exactly? They don't like handing back old parts even though they are supposed to, and the LDU isn't exactly lightweight enough to just toss in the back.

Well I'm officially scared off of ever attempting this in my own home shop.....

Oh I agree completely - but by the same token, when I have caught them in their obvious lies and called them out on it... There's about a 70% chance that they will fold like a cheap suit and do what they SHOULD have just done originally that would be normal customer service anywhere else. I...

Get them to prove it in writing with a stated policy that a TSB can only be applied once, especially since THIS particular TSB didn't exist 2 years ago (with these updated parts) when it may have been under warranty. They don't like being asked to produce things in writing, b/c that opens them...

No, That has nothing to do with the version of MCU that is in the car.

Put it on the 30 miles scale instead of the 5 mile and you’ll get a much more accurate number.

"has adjusted the seam so it is no longer applying that pressure" Translation: He got a hammer and a grinder and cleaned it flat like it SHOULD have been from the start. Good luck, here's hoping. You definitely had a defect happening that it kept breaking at the same exact spot. I haven't tried...

It’s nonsense. They are charging extra simply because they can. There’s no sway control, what there is is it automatically disabled everything other than basic cruise control. No auto pilot, no extended auto pilot, no highway auto pilot, nothing. It turns on another switch option in the menu...

I do not know about changing the configurations from the captains chairs, because I replaced seven seat pedestals with 7 seat folding bench. But yes. Very much possible. If you make the physical change first and then everything works, do not touch any buttons on the screens for possibly moving...

Sorry for not replying with details but it really would not be very informative because I positioned the chairs and marked and drilled based on where the bench was located. One or a couple of the factory holes did line right up on the initial positioning. But I used a Step bit and attack which...

Yes - you will need to open up the gearbox and cable reel that is attached to the first cable switch that you opened, and release the tension on the cable reel. When it tightens up it pulls the latch up so the seat can move. By moving the metal block (but not the cable) on that cable switch, you...

It is unlikely that the car will change configuration just by reloading the software, it obeys everything in the onboard configuration and if there is a discrepancy, it will obey what it is told from the server. Mine has a 72 amp charger and one of the three cards has failed, so it gives me an...

Looking at the damage, it seems to be along the exact edge of the heat wires. The crack started in the middle and has now spread in both directions on the windshield so there was no impact obvious that started this.

My windshield spontaneously cracked through the camera mount point about 3 weeks ago. It happened without the sunshade installed and while the car was parked at home. There are definitely issues with these windows if this is happening.

My 2016 X developed a crack centered right through the camera / sensor point in the middle of the windshield about 3 weeks ago. There was no impact, this seems to have happened spontaneously while parked at home in CT and there is nothing to feel on the outside of the glass. Can't feel it on...

There are people who firmly believe that the world is flat too. Doesn't make them right.

The alignment will definitely chew up tires if it is wrong - my sister is not a hard driver and a BRAND NEW set of 60k mile Michelin Crossclimate2 tires were trashed in 8k miles because the rear was so far out of spec. I've got over 20k each on the same tires on two other Teslas (X and S) and...

The noise profile is far more affected by the tread pattern than anything else. That foam crap is a gimmick and offers no appreciable difference in the noise level from the tire. Source: I'm a professional sound engineer and had that crap in my tires until I got a huge BOLT in one and the tire...

Does anyone know if there are separate fuses or anything for the turn signals? I was pulling a trailer recently and got the red indicator on the dash that there was something electrically wrong with the trailer. I don’t know if this was the case before this point but I noticed tonight that...

More rubber sidewall is always going to soak up the road lumps better than stiff metal rims.

Looks like the compressor in my sister's X has failed now, unless there's somehow a fuse issue or it is being commanded off by a coolant valve issue. The only service alerts are: THC_d0007_valveRadBypass THC_d0011_presSnsDis THC_w0138_rfrgDisTempRange I still find it very suspicious that two...

Heat transfer in the gearbox, I can see that - and look at the amount of sealant there too on that cover. The water is in and around that casing, but not inside it. The shaft pokes through the lip seal and engages the gearing spline... But isn't wet. What I see on the OTHER end of the drive...

As I understand it (and that's not saying much) the U-revision units that Tesla is installing right now does not circulate any coolant around that area either. So I see two possibilities for that: Tesla are not concerned about the temperature conditions there and the original design was...

Yeah it is a lot better to replace them when they aren't (yet) broken. Usually the indication is a lot higher power usage on home or RV air conditioners, but that's also hard to see unless you are monitoring or they blow the breaker. On something like an EV, if your power usage is suddenly...

Hmm… I didn’t have anything like this difficulty in charging my system. What was the reason you changed the compressor in the first place? I had thought I was having power consumption issues with mine and it turned out that it was working just fine…. I just wonder if you got some sort of...

Brain is right - go with the amounts from the sticker under the frunk lid. I have a 7 pass X, which has the dual systems (it's actually just an additional refrigerant loop from the discharge side with a second evaporator in the rear body) so if you have a 5 pass, then it won't take as much...

At least you have the proper gauge set that reads both sides. This isn't rocket science and you don't actually need service mode for it. Your pressures though show that you don't have anywhere close to enough gas in it - which makes sense if you only got one can into a system that needs 3. The...

Tesla corporate are definitely not thinking any hardware retrofits for the older cars. It is much more valuable to the shareholders to see rising quarterly sale numbers of new cars, and internal features like FSD aren't tracked in the same way in the market. So they will likely continue to...

I'm not a machinist, but I've seen what can happen when you are trying to press-fit parts together and one of them is cast aluminum.... Bang. I'd be surprised if it took that much to press it together at .003, that you will get .006 to fit at all without destroying it. Metal on metal is a...

Either way, that sticker says this is a new pack not a reman - it's missing the R1 suffix.... So why then would they have installed it into an original 90D car? That's bizarre.

It is a replacement pack. Brand new 350v 90kwh pack installed May2022 right at the end of the warranty. They let it out the door as a 90 and then tried to lock it down to 60 after the fact and hold it for ransom. It didn't go well for them. I'm "that guy" that was in the news in July 2022.

Good to know about the Y - the day was pretty windy (the weather was crap actually) on the day that I had it for the drive. So perhaps I thought the resistance to opening was a motor I was fighting, when it was just the wind and a heavy door that I actually had to push myself for the first time...