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Yes, unplug your Dashcam. No extra vampire drain that you can control.
You can expect EV-Fixme, to be accurate with what he said. He know what he’s talking about. From what you described, I agree with him, yours is on its final breaths. If the Chicago SC can get you up and running, go straight home. Do has EV-Fixme suggest, turn off Pin2Drive. Also turn off scheduled charging. We believe this prevents home charging.
Tesla is experiencing a shortage of MCUs. Some folks are reporting waiting 2-3 weeks. Get home, so if you are waiting, you can make other arrangements. Those of us thinking we are going to keep our old MCU1 with the upgrade - can forget it, unless we are willing to pay the core charge. The answer is no. I already asked. Don't argue with me. Take it up with Tesla. They need the old MCU1s.
I can understand your anxiety and worry particularly because you are not home when you had this problem. 2016? MP3Mike is right. You are not going to see an offer to move up to MCU2 for another month or two. You might as well remove that from your wish list.
Do yourself a favor. Since you have access to the Internet, look for all the service centers in your area. Be prepared to call them yourself asking if they have a MCU1 in stock if the SC you are going to says they don’t have it. Yes, it’s reasonable to expect them to do it for you, but what if they don’t. They don’t own your car, they simply are not as interested to get your car back on the road home as you are. I’d be prepared.
I don’t like that the eMMC is failing on cars either. You said, you wish that Tesla would acknowledge the situation and set our minds to ease. I don’t understand what your expectations from Tesla are? Tesla does knowledge it. They have a way to replace your eMMC with a refurbished MCU and get you back on the road. If they didn’t acknowledge it, what would their reaction be? We don’t know how to fix it? We don’t know what the problem is? We don’t fix those? They know.
Components fail. Transmissions even engines fail within warranty and out. Yes, we’ve not see a lot of MCU/eMMCs fail in other manufacturers. But not many are using the same stuff – YET. How many are too many? How wide spread is the eMMC failure?
Yes there’s a number of less than 100 reports here on TMC for the Model S eMMC failures. Yep, less than 100. And there’s also less than 100 reported on the Tesla forum. The exact number that I have been able to find is 161 counting yours. This surely is not all. This is only those that have been reported on these two forums. Sources tell us that MCU1 is in about 330,000 Tesla’s worldwide. 1 or 2% of that number would be what 33,000-66,000. If we had to guess, based on what we are owners are hearing about, - more like a fraction of 1%. While a lot of us are pissed off its us, it not a large number.
Yes, unplug your Dashcam. No extra vampire drain that you can control.
You can expect EV-Fixme, to be accurate with what he said. He know what he’s talking about. From what you described, I agree with him, yours is on its final breaths. If the Chicago SC can get you up and running, go straight home. Do has EV-Fixme suggest, turn off Pin2Drive. Also turn off scheduled charging. We believe this prevents home charging.
Tesla is experiencing a shortage of MCUs. Some folks are reporting waiting 2-3 weeks. Get home, so if you are waiting, you can make other arrangements. Those of us thinking we are going to keep our old MCU1 with the upgrade - can forget it, unless we are willing to pay the core charge. The answer is no. I already asked. Don't argue with me. Take it up with Tesla. They need the old MCU1s.
I can understand your anxiety and worry particularly because you are not home when you had this problem. 2016? MP3Mike is right. You are not going to see an offer to move up to MCU2 for another month or two. You might as well remove that from your wish list.
Do yourself a favor. Since you have access to the Internet, look for all the service centers in your area. Be prepared to call them yourself asking if they have a MCU1 in stock if the SC you are going to says they don’t have it. Yes, it’s reasonable to expect them to do it for you, but what if they don’t. They don’t own your car, they simply are not as interested to get your car back on the road home as you are. I’d be prepared.
I don’t like that the eMMC is failing on cars either. You said, you wish that Tesla would acknowledge the situation and set our minds to ease. I don’t understand what your expectations from Tesla are? Tesla does knowledge it. They have a way to replace your eMMC with a refurbished MCU and get you back on the road. If they didn’t acknowledge it, what would their reaction be? We don’t know how to fix it? We don’t know what the problem is? We don’t fix those? They know.
Components fail. Transmissions even engines fail within warranty and out. Yes, we’ve not see a lot of MCU/eMMCs fail in other manufacturers. But not many are using the same stuff – YET. How many are too many? How wide spread is the eMMC failure?
Yes there’s a number of less than 100 reports here on TMC for the Model S eMMC failures. Yep, less than 100. And there’s also less than 100 reported on the Tesla forum. The exact number that I have been able to find is 161 counting yours. This surely is not all. This is only those that have been reported on these two forums. Sources tell us that MCU1 is in about 330,000 Tesla’s worldwide. 1 or 2% of that number would be what 33,000-66,000. If we had to guess, based on what we are owners are hearing about, - more like a fraction of 1%. While a lot of us are pissed off its us, it not a large number.
