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The charging door spring on my 2.5 fell/broke off when opening it this evening. Is this an easy repair or am I looking at taking off the entire left rear panel? I have no idea where the spring went (it appears to be somewhere in the inarards). The door still works so I suppose I can live with...

The front TPMS Antenna - What tends to go bad with it? Is it corrosion on the connection, or do the internal electronics fail and if so is the only remedy a new one, and is it only available through Tesla or can I obtain one elsewhere? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks!

Need assistance with a TPMS issue on my Roadster 2.5. I am consistently getting the TPMS dash and VMS error messages about 20 minutes into each drive which in the past have indicated either the TPMS monitors were not synched after a changeover from summer to winter tires, or alternately a...

Hi. Can anyone help me with where I could find a replacement trunk latch for my roadster? It appears to be a Ford part from a number of older Ford cars but I do not see any US listings for it anywhere. Thank you.

The outside shell of the coded anti-theft socket for my anti-theft wheel bolts split apart. One of my coded anti-theft wheel bolts became almost impossible to remove. Therefore I decided to replace all of the wheel bolts. Looking through the posts I found some dimension information for...

The message below has been appearing on my VDS each time I start the car for the past several months. When I press to dismiss it, it goes away for the drive but pops up next time I start the car. It is always shows the Dec 22 / 11:07 AM date/time. I am told that the ID:50 notation in debug is...

If you have not tried your emergency lock under the driver's door for some time (or maybe never), it is prudent to do so. I found out the hard way. When the VMS went out in my Roadster last month, it kept my door locks from functioning. The windows were closed and my car locked. So, I...

For a long while, I wondered why my RH door made a clang noise when closing, different than the LH door. I finally opened up the door and discovered that the window rail toward the rear of the door had become completely disconnected and was just loose at the bottom of the door. Notably, the...

I am getting a vibration above 70 mph from the rear drive train, which particularly manifests itself when accelerating above 60 mph. I know that it is impossible to definitively diagnose something like this from just describing it. But, I am wondering if anyone has had this symptom before, and...

The plastic cover that goes over the parking light bulb in my left headlight assembly somehow became dislodged and is now sitting in the front of the headlight assembly (see it in the lower left portion of photo below). Is there an easy way to remove the plastic cover to the headlight assembly...

After connecting and disconnecting my Roadster UMC from my Roadster maybe 2,500+ times in the past seven years, the slide switch on the connector stopped working, seeming to only push forward about 1/4 of the way. The blue halo light around the charge port did not come on. The issue was that...

The windshield wiper assembly on my Roadster just started making ugly scratching and high-pitched screeching noises. At first I thought it was the wiper blade scratching across the windshield but it is not - it is the motor/assembly itself. In looking at Lotus posts, I see several Lotus owners...

I have a rattle coming from the inside of my RH outside mirror. How does one go about disassembling the mirror to get inside and see what is rattling? I recall seeing posts on removing the mirror but not disassembling it. I know that the answer is likely obvious such as just pry off the front...

I have been noticing in the past few months the proliferation of dedicated 80 amp Tesla charging stations at hotels and B&Bs within "road trip" driving distance in the Washington, DC area. This weekend, we took a road trip to North Fork Mountain Inn in West Virginia that now has an 80 amp...

This above is a quote from the thread: Tailgate Release Actuator Issue - Page 2. The refusal of Tesla to provide parts listings and diagrams, and service manuals, is troubling. I just wrote this below to an FTC blog post on the subject of Tesla (Direct-to-consumer auto sales: It’s not...

I am having an issue with the tailgate (trunk lid) release actuator which I assume is the solenoid or relay that pulls the cable to the two latches to open the trunk lid. About nine months ago, the actuator started working intermittently. I took my roadster to the Tesla service center for...

For some reason that I guess I can understand and maybe even appreciate, my wife thought this cartoon in the newspaper this morning was hilarious:

I am a very satisfied OVMS device user in my Roadster so I really do not need this, but this caught my eye this morning. It is a device similar to OVMS that purports to plug into any car's diagnostic port (1996 and later), and gives the car two-way connectivity through the AT&T cell network and...

In the quest to have more space for road trips, I am considering the purchase of this bag that apparently fits over the back of the roadster driver seat: http://www.amazon.com/Roadtrip-Luggage-EUR-Roadster-Seatback/dp/B008HSLE34 To date, I have just stuffed a hanging bag behind the...

I received the error message below today for no apparent reason. I was not sitting without moving for more than 20 minutes, nor did anything occur that might have dislodged or otherwise disconnected the tire pressure monitor assembly. At least twice previously in my 2+ years of roadster 2.5...

Many thanks for the Hotels in Florida with Charging Stations sticky thread. I appreciate the efforts of everyone who contributed to that. We will be taking the Amtrak Auto Train with our Roadster to Sanford in February, with the intention of driving around for a week or so ending up in Key...

The first time it happened, it took me two or three days of driving with my Roadster smelling of a foul cigarette stink before I was able to figure out what happened. Someone apparently tossed a burning cigarette out of a car window in front of me and it got sucked up in the front air dam...

I thought I would share some of the things I have done with my Roadster 2.5 to attack squeaks, rattles and noise. None of it, of course, makes the Roadster a quiet car either topless or with the lid on. But the effort has made a difference. Sqeaks. I noticed plastic upon plastic types of...

I would like to remove the inside door panels on my 2.5 to install sound deadening. Do I just use a panel separator and the panel is held on by clips or are there hidden screws or other fasteners? Should I buy new clips in advance because some will break? Any description of how to remove the...

Can anyone tell me how I might get some inside the windshield rubber molding that is the same as is used to cover the radio antenna on the right hand side of the 2.5?

The General Lewis Inn in Lewisburg, WV (Lewisburg WV Hotels ~ General Lewis Inn ~ 888.697.5902) is an excellent destination for a TESLA road trip as it now has a J1772 charging station. I had to be at the General Lewis Inn for a meeting with a small group of engineers last week so I emailed...

Next week, we are taking a trip with my Roadster going the approximate 250 miles from Reston on I-66 west, I-81 south and I-64 west to Lewisburg, WV. I need a place to stop and charge somewhere on I-81 between I-66 and I-64, particularly on the return trip on Sunday. I see that PlugShare...

With the new crop of double-DIN navigation receivers being released early this year, I decided it was time to make the move to replace the Alpine IVA-NAV-10 in my Roadster 2.5. To say that I detested the Alpine would be an understatement as so much of it, in my view, was poorly designed...