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I would 100% prioritize length of battery warranty on any used tesla. Most owners charge at home on a daily basis, so you might only use supercharging a couple times a month and safe a few bucks each time with FUSC. An out of warranty battery that fails is a 10k - 25k event. I learned the...

If you are still under your bumper to bumper warranty it will be covered. If you are just under the battery and powertrain warranty it will not (If i remember correctly, this post is 2 years old)

Based just on looking at the map, it appears that Anchor Way Hood river location is the quickest in and out if traveling on 84 west, and the Cascade Ave location would be quicker traveling east. Is this correct?

I work near this location. The bubble tea spot T4 is my favorite for taiwan style bubble tea.

Man I'm so jealous. I specifically inquired about that pack and they told me it would be 23K plus a suspension adjustment or something like that. I wish I could have good range and decent supercharging so my car would be good to use for road trips. As it is now it is fine for short/medium...

Yes, I did. It works as expected for an 8 year old remanufactured battery. max range around 235-240 and crappy supercharging with max speeds around 70kw even in favorable conditions. Came with a 4yr/50k warranty so I should have a least a functional battery until 2026, at which time I will be...

I'm really curious how you found out that it was only a shunt resistor. Did the service center tell you that?

I finally got my car back after 5 weeks in service. Replacement pack charges to 214 at 90%, which estimates out to about 238 full. That's a bit better than my old pack, which topped out around 218-220 recently. Not sure if things will change much after I drive it a while, can't imagine it...

I have a 2013 S85 with 100k miles and had the same error. I was quoted a remanufactured 85 battery for 11k or a new 90 battery for 22k plus suspension adjustment. I was told both would have a 4yr/50k warranty. I chose the 85 and my car has been in service for 5 weeks waiting for the pack to...

My S85 has been at the Portland OR service center for a month waiting for out of warranty HV battery repair and I have had a loaner the whole time.

My car has been sitting in service for 3+ weeks with no ETA for completion. I assume they are waiting on locating and transporting a replacement battery. But I'm cruising around in a loaner 90D so they can take as long as they want. My expectation is that my $11k will get a battery that...

I didn't ask. I understand that it is valuable in theory, but I don't have any way to transport or store a 1,000 lb battery, and I don't have the knowledge to mess with something that has enough voltage to kill me. Has anyone actually tried to sell a failed or used battery pack? Who bought...

My experience was similar to what david posted above. 2013 S 85 with about 100k miles with a pack failure a couple months out of warranty. Was offered the 1088815-01-B pack for 10,500 plus 500 labor with a 4 year warranty. When I looked up the product number online it looks like this is a...

All this talk about cost of battery replacement made me realize how high the $/Kwh still is. I feel like years ago there was talk of tesla being down to $150/Kwh and on their way to $100/Kwh which would be when battery cars could really compete with gas cars on a cost basis. But now we are...

If there was any way I could be sure I would get a pack like that, I would happily do the replacement. Unfortunately I think it is more likely I will get a heavily used 85 that is batterygate limited and similar to what I had before (220 max range and reduced supercharger speeds)

Just sent the email this afternoon, which was evening on the east coast so I wouldn't expect a reply yet. Sorry if my post made you look bad, wasn't my intent Do you have a clear sense of exactly what I will be getting with this battery? If the refurbished cells are from a 2013 or 2014 car...

Well looks like the service center feels I need a new pack. They are offering a pack described on the invoice as "Batt, s3, BB, Remanufactured, MDLS (1088815-01-B) for a cost of $11k including labor. Has anyone received a similar pack and can tell me what the performance might be...

That's interesting. I called service and they said that they would remotely look at the battery and call me back. Of course they never called me back and a day later I called them… they said "it looks like you will need a pack replacement, just have your car brought in." After their...

I've seen those services mentioned, but I can't imagine it would work to have my car shipped from Oregon to NC or FL and back. I would think that with the shipping charges, it would be cheaper for me to just buy a new battery. Unless I'm way off on how much it costs to ship a car across the...

Took it in today and initial eval suggested I will need a new battery. They said they are working on putting together an estimate. Obviously I can choose to buy the battery they offer and the car would work again. But what happens if I don't want to buy the battery they offer? What other...

I just had the same problem on my 8/2013 S85 with just over 100k miles. Battery had degraded from 100% of 240's to 100% at 220 over the past 2 years, and max supercharging was throttled to about 70kw even in ideal conditions, but the car was still great for local driving and short/med road...

I tried it at a destination charger and received the same error message. Tried it at a supercharger and it worked fine. Only possible explanation is the onboard charger. Weird that it failed, then worked for a couple weeks, then failed again. At this point I can't trust it so I am just...

I was able to supercharge without problems, but still won't charge on my home charger or tesla destination charger. Guess I will just bite the bullet and get the onboard charger replaced, unless anyone has any better ideas

I have a 2013 model S 85 that I charge at home with a NEMA 14-50 outlet. No charging problems ever. A few weeks ago the car would not charge. When charging started the volts would ramp up to 240, then the amps would go up to 1 or 2, then go back down to zero, and an error message would pop up...

I have a 2013 Model S with 90k miles. Center screen was working fine and then went completely black and dead last week. Took it to the Portland, OR service center. They fixed it and the invoice says "Replaced daughterboard. Part MSX MCU TEGRA DAUGHTERBOARD-PROV (64GB)" Sounds like I got the...

Thanks for that info. Exactly where are the lower louvers? How can you tell if they are open?

That's what I figured. Just wanted to see if anyone had found any hardware issues that were causing slow charging.

I'm assuming the above summary is reasonably correct. I have a 2013 S85 that has 87k miles. I would guess that <5% of my charging has been supercharging. My supercharging seems to be limited where even under ideal conditions I max out at 75kw and rapidly taper down to the 60s. A year ago I...

I live in Portland and travel to Walla walla, Pasco, Spokane, Yakima, Tacoma, Moses lake, Burlington, etc. I'm sure there are ways that people could help me out. But they aren't convenient like a hotel charger would be. Am I going to hang out at your house for an hour or two? I usually...

I live in the pacific NW and travel about once a month with my Tesla. The supercharger situation is good enough around here that I can get to and from most destinations. But sometimes there are destinations that require a lot of local driving. That that makes getting from the last...

Been about a year since I posted this. Centrailia -> Seattle -> full weekend of local driving plus vampire drain -> Centralia trip is still a major thorn in my side. Really wish they could get something done in the Olympia/Tacoma area.

Looks like Oregon jumped from 12 cents to 24 cents. Electricity prices are going up!

I think the ideal spot would be the Great American Casino 10117 S Tacoma Way, It is right off the highway at the intersection of I-5 and 512, and there is a lot of food options within 1-2 blocks. Casinos seem like the place with the most to gain by people driving 70K cars being stranded for...

That looks like an excellent location right near the I-5/I-205 junction. Really will improve things for those coming from Seattle and visiting Portland. Easily can get there from anywhere in Seattle, skipping centralia. Then a charge up to 50-70% should be plenty to get to Portland, do a...

Maybe we could take up a collection to steal away the midwest supercharger coordinator. 9 superchargers under construction and 1 in permit in michigan and wisconsin!

Well that might explain why the PNW has been a dead zone for new chargers the past 6 months. I've been jealously watching all the new chargers go up in other parts of the country. Hopefully our time will come.

Well, the new supercharger map certainly has a lot of "coming soon" chargers in the Seattle area! Although it is exciting to see all those future sites, I'd be a lot more impressed with one actual new site between Seattle and Portland. It's getting old having to do a very long charge in...

That's a good thing. I was there on Sunday 9/3 around 6pm and 7 out of the 10 stalls were occupied! That's the busiest I have ever seen it.

I was just noticing an ICE driver giving another ICE driver a jump start. It got me thinking. Would it be possible to charge one model S from another model S? This would be a rare situation but if you were almost out of charge and needed a few extra miles to get to the nearest supercharger...

Interesting. Did not know that. Where could I get one of these 5-20 adapters? How much are they? Edit - just answered my own question after 5 seconds of google. Available from Tesla for $45

I hear what you are saying. But if I pull into a hotel at 9pm with 40 miles of charge, and I need 150 miles of charge to get back to the supercharger, it isn't a good situation if the L2 charger is not usable for any reason. First I have to talk to the front desk to figure out where an outlet...

While I don't agree with the thread title that destination charging in general is worthless, I do agree that the current state of destination charging is too unreliable to be very useful. I am mostly talking about hotel destination charging here. If I am planning a trip and that trip requires...

I don't know anything about that particular route but I can say that I my experience EVtripplanner has been very accurate IF I set the speed multiplier to 1.15 or 1.2. i find the estimates with the speed multiplier set to 1.0 to be a little optimistic. Also, is a 10 minute charging stop on a...

Quite a few new superchargers in the Seattle area since this thread was started. Although I'm always happy for more chargers, the one problem that actually affects me has not been improved. There still is only one SpC between Portland and Seattle. It's location makes a weekend trip to Seattle...

I was talking about the economics of putting in a string of 14-50 outlets. Is it really true that there is no cost to the hotel to install a Tesla destination charger? That seems like a very good deal. I would think that the larger hotel franchises would jump on that more quickly than they...

20% sounds like a pretty good success rate to me! Currently the number of long range ev drivers are so small that the economics don't really work out. It might require some government incentives to make it work.

I think all would agree that hotels are ideal spots for level 2 charging. Most people sleep at least 6-8 hours at a hotel, which is the right amount of time to get a full or nearly full charge even at 40 amps. Currently, I find hotel charging very stressful. Usually there are only 1-2...

I am in Portland Oregon and interested in getting the NVX sub upgrade. i don't have the premium sound so I assume I would need to get the package that includes the amp and connector. I have a 2013 rear motor Model S with rear facing seats. I want it to BUMP! I have zero skills and zero tools...

Is there any way to count the number of new locations planned? Just eyeballing, it looks like there are more "coming soon" than currently active. Tesla is known for making bold predictions that they don't always meet, but to say they are going to more than double the supercharger stations in 8...

Not really a big deal but something I've always been curious about. If tesla offered a model S with nothing else changed except that the motor was less powerful, would that improve the range? For example if the motor was only powerful enough to push the car 0-60 in 7 seconds, would that be a...