Advice for leaving car in airport car park

[Pd2717]

going on holiday in two weeks and I’m leaving the 100d in the airport car park for 7 days. Any advice or tips I should be doing?

I think it will have at least 50% charge in it when I leave it.

Thanks

 

[Rockster]

If I couldn’t plug in, I would charge to more than 50%. Probably 80%, just to be sure.

 

[JHWJR]

It's hard to advise without knowing more.

First, charge your car to the % you think you will leave it at (apparently 50%) and see how much power it loses overnight. Multiply that by 14, and you have an idea what you'll have upon return. Will that get you to a charger?

Does the airport have a charger (more and more do).

Is there an off site location to leave your car that will courtesy charge it for you just before you return? That's becoming more common.

I take from your question that it's a hike to the airport, and that's why you will be down to 50% or so. Is there a location near the airport you could boost that before departure? Could you stay at a local hotel the night before and more fully charge your car before leaving?

Finally, do you have another car. The Tesla is not the answer to every question.

Good luck.

 

[Lasttoy]

Tesla told me to max charge it in case it had to cool itself. I would think that applies to heating itself?

 

[Tevvy]

Seriously don’t worry about it. Just turn off always connected and try not to wake it whilst away by constantly going into the Tesla app.

You’ll be coming home to >40% I’m sure.

 

[Pd2717]

Thanks for the replies gents. It’s down to Gatwick. We are staying the night before, I was planning to supercharge on the way down so it will be probably be more than 50% when we leave it. Only away for 7 days so wouldn’t of thought it would be that bad and I won’t check on it while we are away.

Have got another car but I would much prefer to drive the Tesla!

 

[ebyard]

Yeah I've done this 100 times - a week is fine. Charged mine to 80%, drove from Oxford to Gatwick, left it 7 days in late Jan (when it was very cold last year) and lost about 4 miles a day. As other said, switch off the always connected thing to save juice.

 

[Pd2717]

It’s 180 miles to Gatwick for us. Was going to leave with 100% and then supercharger at Oxford whilst we feed the kids and then leave it in the hotel car park from the Friday night until the following Saturday lunchtime so, it’s actually eight days.

 

[Fellsteruk]

Kinda related. Went to the airport to pickup my parents early this morning “Liverpool airport” they have Ecotricity chargers on free vend so I thought I’d give them ago.

I must have been at the charger all of 50mins and they wanted £35 for the parking as the chargers are in long stay.

Thankfully the parking office was manned and they gave me a pass to get out FOC but that was a WTF moment lol

Enjoy your trip

 

[ebyard]

I also left my car for 5 weeks mid Dec-mid Jan. Charged to 80% and when I came back, I had lost 100 miles. I didn't switch off always connected though, which was a bit silly. In any case it wasn't an issue.

 

[Terry_B58]

Charged to 80% and when I came back, I had lost 100 miles.

What is the correlation between the 80% and the 100 miles?

 

[WannabeOwner]

Belt & Braces you can change password (in MyTesla) to stop any 3rd party APPs being able to connect to the car.

I find that a bit of a PITA though .. .weeks later Wife castigates me for forgetting to reset the password on her phone APP and then, not unreasonably, she needs it.

 

[DaveMUK]

I’ve left mine for 2 weeks twice this year at Gatwick, I tend to stop at the Heathrow supercharger on the way down. As everyone else has said, turn of always connected, disconnect your dash cam if you have one, make sure cabin overheat protection is switched off and finally if you use teslafi make sure you enable the sleep mode on the website.

I do sometimes make sure the app on my phone is not doing background refreshes as well.

It does sometimes feel like I need a checklist, but by doing all this I tend to lose 10 miles per week.

 

[Pd2717]

Thanks Gents.

 

[culverwood]

My admittedly minor problem when leaving the car for 2 weeks at Heathrow (meet and greet) is that I cannot connect to the car from my App. Maybe it has something to do with Valet being on?

 

[WannabeOwner]

Maybe it has something to do with Valet being on?

I've turned Valet off, remotely, from the APP (someone needed to get into the Bonnet, which was locked during Valet-mode), so don't think that should be an issue

 

[Peteski]

My admittedly minor problem when leaving the car for 2 weeks at Heathrow (meet and greet) is that I cannot connect to the car from my App. Maybe it has something to do with Valet being on?

Don't know about that, but I find that App connection is hit or miss pretty much anywhere! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and I haven't found any obvious pattern or clues as to why.

 

[GoHyperActive]

Don't know about that, but I find that App connection is hit or miss pretty much anywhere! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and I haven't found any obvious pattern or clues as to why.

I noticed that the app doesn't work if the car system is shut down. It could connect after hard reboot.

 

[mrkisskiss]

How are you guys only losing 4 miles on a cold night?! I've seen mine lose nearly 20 miles in a single cold night... it can't be due to the always connected option or checking the app... I do that anyway, and it loses only 1-2 miles per night on warm days/nights or in a garage.

The only time I get some range anxiety (and I have a P100D) is when it's near freezing and I'm leaving the car parked outside for a few days...

My advice: max charge it!

 

[arg]

I've seen mine lose nearly 20 miles in a single cold night

Is that really gone, or would it come back if the temperature increased? If the latter, then it's not going to get any worse after multiple cold nights.