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How do I disable the noisemaker in my Tesla Model 3
- Thread starter Vern Iverson
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PACEMD
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But did you capture the smoke so you can put it back in? If not I might have a small bottle of genuine replacement smoke around somewhere.
You sure it's Tesla OEM smoke? I ain't using none of that foreign smoke now, no sir.........
HankLloydRight
No Roads
The speaker could be left functional but at reduced output either by resistive means or a higher tech sock stuffing approach.
Only if Tesla implemented some kind of load detection to verify a speaker was there.
But, I doubt Tesla went that far.
At around page 20 of this thread someone will finally try snipping the wires to see if that works.
HankLloydRight
No Roads
The original post said: " demand for a dummy speaker that looks like the real thing but just a resistor."
So I'll ask again -- why do you need a dummy speaker when just a resistor would do the same thing? It's not like anyone can visually inspect the speaker without taking the bumper panel off. So the dummy speaker would be there to what? Fool the Tesla service techs? I don't get it.
HankLloydRight
No Roads
But you can just pull the connector and install a resistor and leave the original speaker in place.
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PACEMD
Active Member
So when the Highway Patrol takes your bumper off to verify the existence of the speaker? Just spitballin' here...........
But anyway that's silly. They will probably just have you drive a straight line, forward and backward, you know, like a drunk driving test but for sound.
HankLloydRight
No Roads
And of course, every LEO is going to know the exact cutoff date for cars having the PWD (Oct 1, 2019--oh wait, or is it 2020???)... AND the exact build date of the car in question? There's essentially no way to realistically enforce this law.
PACEMD
Active Member
A special FBI Tesla sound task force could work............take a bite out of crime, as it were............
I just got mine on Saturday and have the same software. Isn't that software already old at this point? Teslafi lists lots of newer software but my car is not pulling any of them.
Also patiently waiting for someone to be the guinea pig with disabling the speaker. It is annoying. Im sure if I just did the Duck tape mod, i would still possibly hear it inside the cabin.
DopeGhoti
Active Member
I also had old software when I took delivery; I asked about them installing the latest but they said to just wait. The night I finally linked the car with the wireless network, I had firmware waiting within half an hour.
XLR82XS
D M C
CharleyBC
Active Member
Let’s turn this into an opportunity. Rewire the new bumper speaker to the stereo. Then you can share the Stones or Mozart or Supertramp with the outside world.
jamaro
Member
TBH, Van Halen and a rolled down window is how I've been alerting parking lot pedestrians to my model 3's otherwise stealthy approach.
CharleyBC
Active Member
Yeah, that works. And having a window open at parking lot speeds is insignificant in efficiency impact.
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