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I have the same issue on a 2024 Model Y and it infuriates me. 9 years with a 2014 Model S and it never failed to register a signal once. The 3/Y stalk problems are just them trying to save a tiny amount of money or some really bad engineering. I do believe this should be an NHTSA issue...

My Model S 60 battery is now replaced with a 75kWh for $12,820.93. So it took exactly 3 weeks from when I approved the estimate to get the battery. They said it's a "2.0" pack but I have no idea what that means and I don't see any matches in an online search. My original battery was labeled...

Gruber replied to my enquiry about repairing my dead battery with "At the moment we are not receiving any vehicles due to a significant amount of Model S’s undergoing similar battery related issues. It will be an 8 month wait time until we can touch any cars." which doesn't quite jive with their...

This concerns me because wk057 says replacing a module will never last. Within a year, the BMS will detect the replaced module as too different from the rest of the modules and shut down the pack. But ce2078 of Hybrid ReVolt says he’s been able to replace modules by also downgrading the...

I asked Tesla if they could upgrade my battery instead of replace it with the same. I'd heard they stopped offering upgrades so I expected a "no", but to my great surprise, they sent me a $12k estimate (incl misc parts and labor - no mention of goodwill discount) to upgrade my battery to 75kWh...

I'm not so upset at not having a longer warranty but I'm quite upset that the replacement pack they gave me only lasted 1.5 years almost like they're giving people something just good enough to run out the original warranty. Maybe I'm just a pessimist. They've quoted me $18k for another...

As another data point, my 2014 Model S 60 got an error about maximum battery power reduced in Jan 2021 which I thought was related to cold weather. I reached my destination ~120 miles away, came back to the car an hour later, backed up out of the parking space, and the car stopped and refused...

I hope it's somewhere much farther inland than 3rd street. With traffic and being so close to the ocean, 3rd street is only convenient if you want to go park there and shop. Maybe it's also a good location if you're going north/south on PCH. Other than that it's pretty useless for travelers...

This location is one I've been waiting a long time for. Normally I have to charge to 90% or more at Inyokern to get home from the north but this makes it easy.

It sounds like you're assuming Tesla should support supercharging cars near where those cars are homed. This has been debated, but my sense is they want you to be charging at home, not supercharging near home and then going home. It's a lot more logical in my opinion. This does leave...

I will confirm the rs485 ports on gen3 do not output anything during normal operation or respond to anything I've tried sending. I don't know why the ports are even there though I theorize they want the option to do something with them in the future, if they ever get around to it. The manual...

Finally, a charger directly between Santa Monica and San Bernardino that isn't valet. Now, if they would only add Pomona and/or El Monte. With traffic, any detour is a lot of wasted time so we need as many chargers as possible.

The manual makes no mention of master or slave so that's a bad sign. However, the web site says: Wall Connector hosts a Wi-Fi network for easy configuration of breaker size, Wi-Fi connectivity, and power sharing. This Wi-Fi network is broadcast for five minutes after the Wall Connector is...

I came through Jan 4th and the situation was the same with I think 9 chargers damaged and unusable. It's been this way since at least Dec 25th and that's totally unacceptable. Esp since this location is heavily used and there were long lines at some times of the week even when most of the...

Which body shop was willing to install a used power steering rack for that price?

I'm sure it's too late for you but for the benefit of future readers, if your car has a safety/drivability issue, you can tow or drive it to a service center without an appointment and they have to take it in for repair. I was told this by roadside assistance and I did it and it worked. The...

At some point after I wrote the above post I realized it hadn't done touchscreen unresponsive for quite awhile. I tried turning on "Energy Saver" mode which has always caused touchscreen unresponsive almost every time I enter the car since my first touchscreen replacement, but this time it was...

Another reason I kept bringing the car in for service is that it used to show what superchargers were out of range by showing them as ghosted images (50% transparent). Around the same time my GPS started freezing, all chargers became ghosted no matter how close they were. I assumed the...

I've actually been fine doing manual calculations for the previous 3.5 years of ownership. Take distance * 1.3 for a safety margin, +1 for each 100 foot elevation rise or -1 for each 50 foot elevation fall between start and end of trip. Only issue I've had is through the wind farm in Coachella...

Not always true. In my case, when my original 3G, 2014 MCU without tech package (no GPS nav) had a failing GPS module, they replaced the MCU with one with maps and LTE under warranty, no charge. I didn't ask for any upgrades, nor did I realize it had GPS nav capability until about a year later...

My 2014 Model S 60 without tech package had its GPS go bad in the MCU so they replaced it. They mentioned it was some form of older hardware with 4G LTE manually retrofitted in. The fact they're manually building units with older and newer parts stuck together implies to me that older cars are...

I have a 2014 Model S 60 without tech package and last year the GPS started frequently freezing. To fix that, they replaced the MCU. I later learned that I got an upgraded MCU and so they could give me GPS navigation for $145. I had them do that. My only frustration is that it doesn't show...

Probably people still go to RC out of habit, or to visit the mall, or because the food is better. Maybe they hope for faster charging (except when it's near full you may get slower charging than the 72kW urban chargers). RC is more likely to be on someone's route when headed east or west. But...

As another bit of evidence for them being 72kW is that Tesla is not likely to install 120kW+ chargers in any location so far off a highway. 120kW+ are meant for road trips and charging as fast as possible. 72kW are meant to be stayed at longer while eating or shopping, with more stations...

You're right - I saw on the in-car map that 1 of 10 was being used yesterday. I just found it interesting that before I posted, everyone had mentioned 2 were in use. I wasn't trying to claim nobody pays $11 to charge. Here's where in-car map shows Parking fees apply. Valet only: I do think...

I went there yesterday. First tried to head down into the parking structure. It says "Press for ticket" on screen, yet 30 seconds later after a few presses a lady comes on the speaker instead. I say I'm looking for the Tesla superchargers and she says they're for guests and residents only. I...

I got my car back today. Apparently, they found something in the MCU had been burnt out by something I connected to the USB ports. This was at least the second time they found this had happened and the second time they replaced the MCU and all the wiring between it and the USB ports. They...

I've gotten touchscreen unresponsive on average once every week or two for the last 3 years. It comes in waves where I get the error almost every time I get in the car for 1-3 days, then it goes away for 2-4 weeks. Power saving mode was on, always connected was off. After 3 years, my GPS...

I just noticed this question. The last line, "FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0" sounds like it's working to me. What exact error are you seeing? If you're still convinced it's the USB device, try ordering another one. I did find a slightly cheaper ($25) version of the...

Unfortunately Tesla has not enabled updating TWCs through cars at this point. There was some evidence that they tried to enable it and it ended up stalling during update, which they probably fear could brick TWCs or at the very least create calls to support asking about error messages. I'm...

In my last post I said people wanting to create versions to support things like Tesla Powerwall should create a Branch. I should have said they should create a Fork. To do so: Log in or create an account at github. Visit the TWCManager github repository. Click the word "Fork" in the upper...

Friend showed me pictures and yeah, they're urban chargers. She thought they were bigger than superchargers because there is a big box between the chargers and multiple chargers on a pallet. She thought maybe the two chargers next to each other might plug into two ports on a single semi-truck...

Hi all, Wow, as soon as I stop paying attention, suddenly there's a ton of interest in this project! I've gotten really busy lately and have been hired to code stuff for chargers professionally so my time has become really limited, but let me try to answer all the questions from the last...

Weird hearing so many complain about this location. I ended up having to stop around 5pm Monday for a few months and again later at night and it was usually just a couple other cars there. I've also stopped on weekends and other weekdays a few times with never an overcrowding problem, daylight...

The console insert has now been sold. Thanks for reading! Original ebay listing in case anyone wants to ask the seller if they still sell them. Also, I was mistaken on the price when new - it was $150.

This console insert was designed by a little husband and wife team and sold on ebay for $100 for awhile but I don't think they're made anymore. They originally sent me one with a few paint chips, so I asked for a replacement and got one. I'm selling the one with the paint chips for $10...

I've finished decoding the 11 new commands in the new firmware. Although two of them are clearly intended to stop/start charge, they mostly just flip the main relays and fail to send a CAN message to the car telling it to start or stop. When the TWC stops charging, the ring around the car plug...

Please move this question to this thread.

As far as I've been able to tell, there is nothing in the RS485 protocol to indicate a difference between car finished charging and car unplugged. That's why the message reads "Finished charging, unplugged, or waking up." rather than distinguishing between those three states. The only thing...

I charged here two days ago and there are definitely 12 chargers at this point. I counted three times. About half were in use and I tested the ones at each end. I don't think there were any two in a row that I didn't see being used at some point. Screen on car still says there are 12...

Definitely a good idea. Unfortunately I don't have time to work on that (anyone want to help?). I've got hold of firmware from a TWC with serial number starting with A18F which means it was made between Mar 12th and Mar 25th 2018. Firmware version has increased from 4.4.D to 4.5.3 and...

Slow is pretty likely when most spaces are in use so he may have been hoping to improve speed. I was charging at 70 miles an hour a week ago instead of the usual 240. Oddly, I had 140 miles added when I returned ~45 mins later so it was much faster than 70 miles an hour.

I use these chargers 1-2 times per month at random times/days and have had to wait in lines of 1-2 cars around 10% of the time. I've rarely seen more than 3-4 spots free in the last year. So it's definitely operating near capacity and at popular times there are lines. Someone here says one of...

I just published an update on github that fixes some things: Only check for car API vehicles to be at home if more than one vehicle is registered in the car API. New onlyChargeMultiCarsAtHome config parameter lets you disable checking if vehicles are at home even when there are multiple...

This situation is definitely one of Tesla's larger failings. The future chargers map has continually claimed there would be chargers on this route starting in 2016 or earlier. What makes it worse is Elon claimed last year that you can reach anywhere in America on the supercharger network...

Please send me a log of TWCManager's output as follows: Hold Ctrl, then press A Release Ctrl and A Type the following (including the leading colon): :hardcopy -h log.txt Private message me the log.txt file which will be located in ~/ or ~/TWC If the time of the error has already scrolled off...

Corrections/clarifications: git config --global user.email "[email protected]" git config --global user.name "Your Name" only needs to be run once and can be skipped next time you want to pull the latest git version. Obviously, replace the email and name with your email and name. I'm not sure...

To integrate the latest version with any changes you might have made to your local version, run the following commands: cd ~/TWC cp /var/www/html/* HTML git config --global user.email "[email protected]" git config --global user.name "Your Name" git stash git pull git stash pop Most people won't...

I've published an update on github to fix some bugs with the car API and improve the speed of waking the car, especially when the car is set to max power saving. Green energy check and car API commands are now handled on a background thread with a 60 second timeout instead of 10 second timeout...

Floating point isn't supported. Please use whole amps. The RS485 protocol does support floating point, but the actual amount of power the charger uses rounds to the nearest half amp (I think). Setting half amps in the UI would add too many options and not serve much purpose. The car's...