Airplane mode?

[Saghost]

This is something of an off-the-wall theoretical question, but is there a way to turn off the car's built in 3G cellular radio?

As long as the service is free, I'm not sure there's an obvious reason to for most people, but I was curious...
Walter

 

[Johan]

This is something of an off-the-wall theoretical question, but is there a way to turn off the car's built in 3G cellular radio?

As long as the service is free, I'm not sure there's an obvious reason to for most people, but I was curious...
Walter

There isn't, to the user. Until recently here in Norway the 3G/GSM-data would loose connection and not come back until after a big screen reset, but since the last firmware update this hasn't happened for weeks. I could see a setting where the user would want to turn it off, but no there is no way to do that other than of course if you plug in a jamming device in the 12V socket

 

[castor]

I know we love the model S but take the car with you in an airplane for a trip seems too much :biggrin:.

 

[Saghost]

There isn't, to the user. Until recently here in Norway the 3G/GSM-data would loose connection and not come back until after a big screen reset, but since the last firmware update this hasn't happened for weeks. I could see a setting where the user would want to turn it off, but no there is no way to do that other than of course if you plug in a jamming device in the 12V socket

That seems rather radical. I would have thought you could at least pull a fuse, if it came to that...

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I know we love the model S but take the car with you in an airplane for a trip seems too much :biggrin:.

Well, Amtrak has that Auto-train - which seems like an easy way to have a car at your vacation destination. But I suspect that airline might be a little unreasonable about the baggage fee...
Walter

 

[Johan]

That seems rather radical. I would have thought you could at least pull a fuse, if it came to that...

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Well, Amtrak has that Auto-train - which seems like an easy way to have a car at your vacation destination. But I suspect that airline might be a little unreasonable about the baggage fee...
Walter

I'm guessing it would be under fuse 51, but it would turn off the whole 17" screen...

 

[Saghost]

I'm guessing it would be under fuse 51, but it would turn off the whole 17" screen...

Huh. That's certainly not an easy answer. Thanks for the information.
Walter

 

[Jason]

Wouldn't having it use a wifi hotspot turn off the 3g - thought it disables it while using wifi. You could rig up a cheap router to run off 12v and have it link to it, with router not hooked to internet the car should not be able to get info...