Be careful parking near a radio tower

[derekmw]

Happened to me at Mt. Soledad in La Jolla. The TV transmitters for local stations are nearby. I did get through using my app.

yes, me too. The first time, I thought maybe the battery was going bad. But since then, it's happened every single time we've parked up there. Thankfully I always have my phone with me and able to unlock that way.

 

[Doug_G]

Other than keeping the key fob in the same pocket with my phone (which is known to interfere) never had that issue.

That reminded me... I gave a group of several young guys a ride in my Model S a while back, and of course all of them had their phones out doing stuff. I couldn't start the car at first - I think the FOB was being overwhelmed.

 

[K-MTG]

The Model X's fob is Bluetooth so I don't think it has this problem. I believe the S still use RF?

 

[Gizmotoy]

Do we know in which band the fob operates? My old apartment building had a cellular repeater in the garage, and my spot was pretty close to it. It did all kinds of flakey stuff to the car: car would lock while I was in it, wouldn't lock when I walked away, completely disabled the parking sensors about 50% of the time, refused to auto-present on approach, etc.

Tesla installed a BCM with better RF shielding, which helped, but basically just reduced the frequency of the issues. Parking on the other side of the garage seemed to eliminate the issues. I also moved and it's mostly been fine since.

Tesla even sent some technicians to the garage to investigate at one point.

 

[Max*]

5. or the need to put a watermelon in the driver seat to keep the wife cool when I run into the grocery store.

Is she.... eating the watermelon?

 

[pinball_player]

I was going to also say that I have had the exact same behavior at You-Do-It Electronics parking lot in my cars also.

I would not want to work there or nearby. Imagine the amount of radio waves energy being dumped into heads..

 

[JohnnyG]

Do we know in which band the fob operates? My old apartment building had a cellular repeater in the garage, and my spot was pretty close to it. It did all kinds of flakey stuff to the car: car would lock while I was in it, wouldn't lock when I walked away, completely disabled the parking sensors about 50% of the time, refused to auto-present on approach, etc.

Tesla installed a BCM with better RF shielding, which helped, but basically just reduced the frequency of the issues. Parking on the other side of the garage seemed to eliminate the issues. I also moved and it's mostly been fine since.

Tesla even sent some technicians to the garage to investigate at one point.

Model S --> 315MHz
Model X --> 2.4GHz

 

[Electroman]

Keep the EV drive train, Superchargers and AP. Screw everything else.

In fact I have come to love and depend on AP more than the fact that this is an EV. Which means I can live with AP on an ICE, but not an EV without AP.

Back to topic: automatic door handles. Who cares?

 

[Shock-On-T]

...but is an M3 exciting and a focus for peoples interest?

Probably not as much as the S, but who knows. It will depend on the fine details of the final product, which we don't really know yet.

 

[Gizmotoy]

Model S --> 315MHz
Model X --> 2.4GHz

Huh. As far as I can tell, there are no cellular frequencies in that range (~315MHz, I have a Model S). Wonder if the repeater device was just spewing garbage all over the spectrum? Must have been.

I almost brought a Spectrum Analyzer home from work one day, but then realized that's a lot of work and so I didn't.