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Car wont start after software update

Discussion in 'Model X' started by Sid the Kid, Feb 12, 2021.

  1. Sid the Kid

    Sid the Kid Member

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    I was either on n2021.4.3 or just updated to it and now my car won't start. I am beyond annoyed - they ought to have a clean rollback approach if there's an issue with an update. Anyone else having issues?
     
  2. Bigriver

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    By “won’t start” you mean the screen is black? You’ve tried a reboot?
     
  3. jboy210

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    Do a full reboot. Hold down both steering wheel buttons and brake pedal. Count to 10 and release. In 30-50 seconds, the car should start to come back to life.
     
  4. SabrToothSqrl

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    so... a brick? cue the pitchforks!
     
  5. Sid the Kid

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    Technically a boulder ;) The reboots didn't work unfortunately. I had to have Tesla tow it to their service center.
     
  6. jboy210

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    Sorry, the reboots didn't work. What year X do you have? And if it is before April 2018 did you do a MCU upgrade?
     
  7. mbp11

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    I am developing a hobby of resuscitating dead or misbehaving Teslas in my small sphere of influence and there seems to be three levels of severity of reboots. However I am not an engineer, just a user and and an enthusiast. The first level is the double scroll wheel reboot that seems to reboot the MCU and fixes small issues.

    A more severe reboot is located under safety and security and forces the car to "turn off." This seems to have fixed persistent misbehavior that the scroll wheel reboot does not. I think this reboots the whole car. I just fixed a MS that would not drive for its owner today. (I hope this fixes the problem, gulp!)

    The most deep reboot that seems to clear caches and misbehavior I learned from this forum is to reset the wheel size of the car. I have done this on my MX once or twice and after resetting from 20" to 22" wheels, forces the whole car to reboot and clear memory caches... and then I set the wheel size back to to correct size. That has fixed a few problems I have had.

    I wonder what that does? What do you guys think?
     
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  8. jboy210

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    FWIW, the first week I had my car it refused to go into drive or reverse. They had to tow it to the SC. At the SC they fixed it in a few minutes. They disconnected the first responder cable, waited a couple of minutes, and reconnected it. The cable is pretty easy to reach, there is an access port on the right side of the frunk. It shows where to cut, but if you a little beyond there is a connection you can disconnect and reconnect.
     
  9. Sid the Kid

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    its a Raven that I purchased in Jul 2019.
     
  10. Sid the Kid

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    Thanks, if I run into this again, I'll try some of these!
     
  11. Sid the Kid

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    Got the vehicle back - it was tied to the hardware issue with the charge port - the wiring detached somehow and they had to replace the whole unit. The detached unit was sending a signal to main computer to prevent the car from driving.
     
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