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I've had a Gen1 (80amp) HPWC and P85D (dual 40 amp chargers; MCU1; software 2020.48.37.6) for about 6 1/2 years now, and never had a charging issue until the last couple weeks. The car's now refusing to charge on the HPWC -- I get the message: "AC charging interrupted -- Check power source and...

My son left the door open as he climbed into the back seat. Without realizing it, I backed up and clipped my wife's car on the way out. I stopped as soon as I heard contact, but the rear door hinge/pillar had already been pulled back slightly, maybe five degrees beyond where it normally stops...

My 4-year warranty is almost up on my 2015 P85D in a couple weeks and I'm taking it in for it's final service under the pre-paid service plan (I did not buy extended service plan when offered, so I think I'm on my own going forward.) Due to life circumstances, I have not been very active in the...

I've had my AP1 Model S since early 2015 and enjoyed the constant improvements to AP1 until right around the time that AP2 came out, then it pretty much stopped improving. Not that I'm complaining... it's certainly more useful than cruise control in many highway situations, but I sort of...

Can't say how widespread this issue is, but on my Feb 2015 build, it had become such a major issue for me that my satisfaction with the car was diminishing quickly. I had it into service twice (including Fremont) to correct this problem and despite adding various bits of felt tape and thick foam...

I've taken my Model S into two different service centers (including Fremont) to get, among other items, two nagging rattles taken care of, but in both cases, despite assurances that both were fixed, they completely eluded the staff. The first is a squeak coming from the right side dashboard on...

I've noticed pretty consistently over the past while under many driving conditions that my right front sonar sensor(s) have a tendency to miss nearby obstructions (cars, trucks, medians) much more often than the other three when I'm on the highway. It *will* come on, but it seems that there has...

Has a 5/2014 build date stamp. If you're seriously interested in this particular car, I'd be happy to give you excruciating detail and even photos on its condition and features. I'm finding all the little differences between my 9 month newer P85D and this car quite interesting... 85 kWh...

I'm taking my Feb 2015 build in for its one year service (and L upgrade!) tomorrow morning. Biggest issues I have are squeaks/rattles. In particular, there's a creak in the rear hatch. Has anyone had a rear hatch creak fixed? It almost sounds as if the glass is clicking against the frame or...

I noticed tonight that as my wife took the car out of the garage and I had the Tesla app open on my phone several rooms away, that the "Summon" button appeared, even though I was clearly well out of visible range of the car. That led me to start thinking about what it is exactly that allows...

So, I've been on vacation for a week and only installed 7.1 (2.9.154) last night. I drove to work on my usual 20 mile route on CA-101 this morning. I've driven this route on 7.0 auto-steer maybe a hundred times, so I'm very familiar with its quirks and such. My main gripes with 7.0...

Yesterday morning on my ~25 mile commute, I decided to engage the Max Battery mode now available on my P85D. I had already driven 5 miles up to that point, so the car wasn't completely cold and the outside temperature varied between 61-64 degrees according to the 17” screen. The final 20...

The plastic guide at the top of the rear (Feb build next-gen) middle seat belt came off (images are here: http://imgur.com/a/JRoGh), and I can't seem to figure out how one might actually re-attach it. There is a metal bar just inside the seat that would seem to fit right into a little trough in...

Not really keen to be an early AutoPilot beta tester at this point and frankly don't like the speedo changes in 7.0, so I decided to stick with 6.2.5.36 (at least for now) on my P85D. Honestly, not sure if I'll wait for 7.1 or not, but in the mean time, I wonder if anyone wants to compare...

I spent the weekend in Reno, NV -- as it turns out with about 30,000 bikers all up there for the Street Vibrations festival... Headed up in the ol P85D. The outbound route was to leave San Mateo Friday morning, stop in Tiburon for a passenger pickup and head east on 37 around the bay to I-80...

So I recently noticed that my Feb 2015 build Model S without premium lighting oddly has a light under the front passenger seat that provides light for the rear passenger footwell, however that light assembly is completely missing on the driver's side. I figure that I either got a free light that...

I've got a trip planned from the Bay Area to a camp near Yosemite (technically Groveland, CA). I will be there for 4 days total and do not believe I will have any access to a plug, though I will contact them and see if there's any chance that perhaps a 120v might be available. Bay Area to...

You know that scene in "This is Spinal Tap" where the guitarist is explaining that a particular amp goes to '11' and Rob Reiner asks him why not just make 10 louder? Clearly, Tesla UI Engineers know what I'm talking about, but I have the reverse question with regards to the way my car counts...

During night time charging i almost always get 64amps sustained for as long as i need to charge (HPWC dip switches set to 64) but during the day if i flick a few things on like computer and lots of lights and/or run the AC in the house, it'll sometimes drop to 48amps and the car will display...

supercharge.info The pace has really picked up lately... Including the last 6 days of June, Tesla has opened 43 new supercharger locations in the last 41 days (June 25th - Aug 4th) worldwide.

Superchargers That's a pace of almost 0.92 new supercharging locations per day in July. Pretty good, eh? If they can keep up this pace for a couple years, Model 3 rollout should be fairly smooth.

First of all, I'm not complaining. Just mostly curious about the rate at which Lithium Ion density improvements are being made over time... I also get that having something in the lab and mass producing it are completely different things. However, Tesla was essentially mass producing 85kwh...

Not clear to me from the live blogs whether the P85D actually get's an upgrade to ludicrous mode, or if the updates discussed are relegated to new cars only...

Brother-in-law's bachelor party is coming up this Sept in Reno... Assuming a range charge to start out, is there any reason why I can't do San Mateo --> Tiburon --> Reno with a single supercharge at Roseville Galleria for dinner? No matter what assumptions I enter, EVTripPlanner always picks 2...

I'm excited to be taking my first roadtrip this weekend, but am having some trouble figuring out how to ensure I've planned it properly. In a nutshell, my 157 mile route looks like this from the Bay Area to Auburn, CA: Google Maps On EVtripplanner, I plugged in very conservative settings...

Over the past few weeks I've built a script that runs on my wireless router (using Tomato firmware) that looks at my car's state of charge each night and intelligently determines when to start charging in order to hit charge targets I set for weekdays (right before my electrical rates go up) and...

Anyone find a useable, inexpensive organizer that fits in the yacht floor? I'd like to find something that fits the space inside the yacht floor well that provides a few (configurable?) compartments for loose change, pens, notes, tire gauge, sunglasses, etc. As is, these items have a tendency to...

I had my entire car wrapped in XPEL and wanted to de-badge just the P85D. It came back with the 'Model S' debadged as well. Just curious how one might go about putting the 'Model S' back on. 1. What adhesive tape should I use? I assume I'll need to do some pretty intricate cutting with an...

Got upgraded from .153 to .188 yesterday and noticed that TACC seems a bit more well behaved in heavy traffic now. I haven't noticed whether it pays any attention to cars encroaching into my lane yet, but generally speaking it seems to be doing fewer questionable things now (like accelerating...

Ok, so perhaps this is not a completely definitive answer, but if we make certain assumptions, we should at least be able to determine whether the prepaid $1900/$3800 plans make sense versus $600/yr pay as you go. The assumptions we're going to make up front are: 1. There is no qualitative...

I've had a couple recent incidents with TACC enabled that have me questioning whether its reliability. The first incident was back in the 6.1 days (believe it was with software .179), where I approached a car slightly ahead of me in the lane to my right that proceeded to put its left turn...

So I've had my P85D for 3 days now and twice I've had the HVAC system act somewhat strangely. The latest incident was this evening... Let me start out by saying that I can confirm 100% that I'm NOT in Range mode and running firmware 167. Before my commute home today, the iPhone app said my car...

Great car. Everything I expected and then some. Few comments/questions: 1. Did my first mod tonight: LED license plate bulbs. They look great, yay! But shouldn't those be standard by now? I can't see any reason why such an advanced car should have any incandescent bulbs at this stage, aside...

HPWC installed on lightly used 100amp subpanel. How to measure total current draw? So my model S arrives end of this week (yay) and I got an electrician out to install my HPWC the other day on an existing 100A subpanel in my garage... Based on my rough calculations, i figured that the subpanel...

I have my HPWC install happening in about 2 weeks. I've ordered my car with dual chargers, but until now assumed (erroneously?) that I'd only be able to make use of one when charging at home unless I got a new 100 amp line put in. The electrical situation in my home is that I already have a...

I called Travellers for a quote because they advertised a replacement value policy add-on for up to 5 years in case of a car getting totaled, while my current insurance only covers the first year at replacement value. Travellers said they could add such an add-on for my upcoming P85D for around...

VIN 741xx. In the P85D tracking spreadsheet, delivered VINs only go up to mid 60s. Extrapolating that out in Excel didn't show much of an obvious trend, so just curious where that VIN would put me in terms of production.

I've read the 17 page thread and am still somewhat undecided on whether to go with the NG rears as ordered, or fall back to the standard seats. Told the sales rep I'd make up my mind within 48 hours... Any further wisdom to impart? In any case, I have a 10 month old and 3.5 year old. The 3.5...