Brake Fluid replacement, bleeding sequence

[gigg]

What is the caliper sequence when changing brake fluid. I know it should be furthest to shortest, but i thought i read at some point because of the ABS it is not, Passenger Rear, DR, PF, DF

 

[gearchruncher]

All the Tesla service manuals are now free, so you can follow that if you want. They however assume you have Toolbox and can trigger ABS bleeding, and are using a pressure bleeder. They have a weird order due to that, starting with front driver side, then front passenger, rear pass, rear driver.

I've always bled farthest to closest and it seems to work fine.

Don't forget to do inner and outer bleed screws on the front calipers.

 

[MasterC17]

Yeah I always do RR, LR, RF, LF and have never had any issues. FWIW I typically only bleed the outer screws on the front calipers unless a caliper is being replaced.

 

[Occhis]

All the Tesla service manuals are now free, so you can follow that if you want. They however assume you have Toolbox and can trigger ABS bleeding, and are using a pressure bleeder. They have a weird order due to that, starting with front driver side, then front passenger, rear pass, rear driver.

I've always bled farthest to closest and it seems to work fine.

Don't forget to do inner and outer bleed screws on the front calipers.

Where are the manuals available? They were taken down last fall/winter.

 

[gearchruncher]

Where are the manuals available? They were taken down last fall/winter.

Last week Tesla opened up their service manuals for free. You have to subscribe, but it's $0 for a year. Pretty cool of them. Toolbox access still costs though...

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/utivlj

 

[gigg]

Yeah I always do RR, LR, RF, LF and have never had any issues. FWIW I typically only bleed the outer screws on the front calipers unless a caliper is being replaced.

Do. you know if LR has bake temp and or high temp warning, or is that only available with track mode on P3?

 

[MasterC17]

Do. you know if LR has bake temp and or high temp warning, or is that only available with track mode on P3?

The only way to display it on the UI is with Track Mode. I think you can get the values using ScanMyTesla on a LR though.

 

[gearchruncher]

Even if it does have it, brake temp is just a calculated estimate, not an actual sensor. This weekend my car was showing "blue" (aka cold) tires and brakes within just a few minutes of coming off track.