Hey all,
I’ve scoured this forum and been looking all over the web for a similar issue and can’t find anything thus far…
Main issue:
When I tap the WiFi icon at top right to connect to a network the dropdown menu appears and says “searching for WiFi” with the cycling circle for approx 30 seconds then seems to timeout without displaying any options.
This is a 2012 model S with the original MCU still installed. (3g was never upgraded to LTE)
History:
I bought it used and lost warranty, had been driving it since 2021 on this and just kept on truckin even after the 3g disconnected. I’ve never cared to connect to WiFi since it still functioned.
About 6 months ago the gearbox blew out and the car became immobilized. I had it towed to my driveway where I would periodically recharge the 12v and HV battery. Finally swapped out the drive unit with a used one from a salvaged Tesla about a week ago. Once back off the jacks, I rebooted and had the car driving. I did one test drive around the neighborhood and put it in park, it now has a handful of errors:
GTW_f208 “unable to start vehicle”
GTW_f084 “software update required”
GTW_f014 “software update required”
MCU_w008 “Air Pressure in tires very low”
MCU_w007 “navigation unavailable”
The air pressure is a nuisance error due to the batteries in the wheels being dead, so not worried about that. Same with the nav unavailable, that’s obvious since 3g has been disconnected for almost a year.
I assume the “unable to start vehicle” is due to the two software updates being required.
Initially after the drive unit swap the car would power on, let me shift and drive then would lock me from shifting after I put it in park. Somewhere either on this forum or another I discovered that toggling the “wheel configuration” is the deepest level of computer reset available from the GUI. So I spent a couple days of powering on, rolling the car forward, then reversing back to its parking spot, hitting parking brake, getting locked out, then toggling the wheel configuration so the shifter would unlock and let me drive again. (I performed this cycle roughly 30 times)
Now the car seems to be allowing me to get in and drive despite the caution error “GTW_f208 unable to start vehicle” still displayed through my entire test drive. I’ve slowly increased the radius of my test drives from home but do not entirely trust that it won’t lock me out at some point.
I believe getting a connection to the internet and updating everything would clear most of these codes, but the WiFi is acting as if it is completely dead. So with all that, has anyone found a way to get the WiFi working when it seems to be in that timeout state?
I’ve scoured this forum and been looking all over the web for a similar issue and can’t find anything thus far…
Main issue:
When I tap the WiFi icon at top right to connect to a network the dropdown menu appears and says “searching for WiFi” with the cycling circle for approx 30 seconds then seems to timeout without displaying any options.
This is a 2012 model S with the original MCU still installed. (3g was never upgraded to LTE)
History:
I bought it used and lost warranty, had been driving it since 2021 on this and just kept on truckin even after the 3g disconnected. I’ve never cared to connect to WiFi since it still functioned.
About 6 months ago the gearbox blew out and the car became immobilized. I had it towed to my driveway where I would periodically recharge the 12v and HV battery. Finally swapped out the drive unit with a used one from a salvaged Tesla about a week ago. Once back off the jacks, I rebooted and had the car driving. I did one test drive around the neighborhood and put it in park, it now has a handful of errors:
GTW_f208 “unable to start vehicle”
GTW_f084 “software update required”
GTW_f014 “software update required”
MCU_w008 “Air Pressure in tires very low”
MCU_w007 “navigation unavailable”
The air pressure is a nuisance error due to the batteries in the wheels being dead, so not worried about that. Same with the nav unavailable, that’s obvious since 3g has been disconnected for almost a year.
I assume the “unable to start vehicle” is due to the two software updates being required.
Initially after the drive unit swap the car would power on, let me shift and drive then would lock me from shifting after I put it in park. Somewhere either on this forum or another I discovered that toggling the “wheel configuration” is the deepest level of computer reset available from the GUI. So I spent a couple days of powering on, rolling the car forward, then reversing back to its parking spot, hitting parking brake, getting locked out, then toggling the wheel configuration so the shifter would unlock and let me drive again. (I performed this cycle roughly 30 times)
Now the car seems to be allowing me to get in and drive despite the caution error “GTW_f208 unable to start vehicle” still displayed through my entire test drive. I’ve slowly increased the radius of my test drives from home but do not entirely trust that it won’t lock me out at some point.
I believe getting a connection to the internet and updating everything would clear most of these codes, but the WiFi is acting as if it is completely dead. So with all that, has anyone found a way to get the WiFi working when it seems to be in that timeout state?
