Just got off the phone with Tesla and reporting back. If you receive this error and the fuse needs replaced. You should be receiving one of two costs:
- If your fuse is on top, expect about $550. There is a labor charge to drop the battery to access the fuse. Sorry, that's just how it is unfortunately.
- If your fuse is on the bottom, expect about $250. But there was confusion on the actual make up of that $250, rough numbers show 1 hour in labor and $75 for parts OR $175 for part and 1/2 hour of labor. Not sure why different service centers would break it up different, but the cost is the same. Caveat, your hourly shop rate may differ from other people's so expect a slight variation.
**If you are getting numbers drastically different from what I outlined above, DM me so I can report it and hopefully resolve**
Side notes:
Warranty question. I brought up TPMS and they responded with key fob battery not being covered. There was mentioned that TPMS battery is a grey area and if they could go back, they probably wouldn't include that in a warranty repair. But that's such a low occurrence, it's not worth having a policy for.
Communication. They mentioned this is a great opportunity to improve internally. The costs estimates shouldn't have been all over the place and the error message could stand to have more details when you click on the error message for more info. Something to the effect of "service will determine if your vehicle needs this part replaced, here is what it is and what it does."