I removed the two 2nd row seats of my Tesla Model X 6-seater and converted it into a 2-person camper.
Happy camping!
Happy camping!
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My Tesla camper
- Thread starter cvonken
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Hi, yes, there are warnings. Each time you 'start' the car it does a self check and fails on 6 components. Both the airbags (in the chairs) are displayed on the instrument cluster permamently, but it does not affect the behaviour of the car at all.
(downside: any software update will fail during installation)
You can see it in my Dutch version (@12:04):
Thx - Feel like I just watched the directors cut. To confirm, the warning only goes off when you first get in the car, but stops going off until you leave and come back. I had a sensor stop working on my MX and it would beep every 5 or 10 minutes to remind me the sensor wasn't working. As you can imagine, this was very annoying.
webbah
Active Member
Nice video! I camp in my Model 3 quite often. Here's a few additional creature comforts I added you might find useful:
Coffee on the go with 12v:
On-board machines
Shower on the go when nothing available at campsite, or staying off grid, heated via 12v:
RinseKit® PLUS with Pressure Booster Pump (Sprays 5 minutes)
Coffee on the go with 12v:
On-board machines
Shower on the go when nothing available at campsite, or staying off grid, heated via 12v:
RinseKit® PLUS with Pressure Booster Pump (Sprays 5 minutes)
Nice 
I didn't think of removing the 2 captains chairs. I found a airbed kit for 6 seater Model X on Amazon but I fail to see how this would work for 2 people, unless your partner is shorter than 5'.
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07CK8HB76/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I didn't think of removing the 2 captains chairs. I found a airbed kit for 6 seater Model X on Amazon but I fail to see how this would work for 2 people, unless your partner is shorter than 5'.
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07CK8HB76/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Camp mode won't turn the screen off; it displays the animate campfire, which is quite bright.
I used the campmode with a cloth over the screen(s) or simply used 'keep climate on' (but doesn't keep usb powered) which turns the screens of in 30 minutes or so.
Tam
Well-Known Member
There's a tiny lock icon on top of your screen.
As others indicated above, click on "Keep climate on", not dog, not camp.
As others indicated, the screen will time out itself if your HVAC is on "Keep climate on" and not camp, not dog modes.
Tam
Well-Known Member
If you lock your car by an app or a fob and your fob is still around there somewhere, a stranger can still open your doors/trunk from outside.
The tiny lock icon on your screen would disable outsiders from opening your doos/trunk even when the fob is present.
Tam
Well-Known Member
I didn't find out about the tiny lock icon on the screen until it personally happened to me: I used my phone app to lock my door while sleeping at a Tesla Supercharger and lo and behold, a stranger opened my trunk trying to load the shopping stuff into my car!!!!
Nice one, cvonken. I've been thinking of doing something similar for quite a while now. I would like to make it somewhat more flexible though such that one still can use the two rearmost seats thus being able to transport up to 4 people. Right behind the front two seats I would imagine some kind of a boxn across the whole width of the car. A box that unfolds into a desk (so you can sit on the rear seats and eat or work with a laptop, for instance) but also can be flattened out to generate the even surface (like you have it on a permanent basis) to hold a (possibly inflatable) mattress.
To questions you might be able to help with:
1) Do you know if it is at all possible to use the two seats in the back after you have removed the middle row captain seats? That is, can you fold/unfold them? I seem to remember having read somewhere else, that have an issue with this.
2) Do you think the conversion might have a negative impact on the guarantee? My experience with Tesla and especially the service part has not been particularly positive (in context with the eMMC chip on my 2017 MX, for instance) and therefore fear that Tesla will jump at any chance to render the battery and drive chain guarantee void.
To questions you might be able to help with:
1) Do you know if it is at all possible to use the two seats in the back after you have removed the middle row captain seats? That is, can you fold/unfold them? I seem to remember having read somewhere else, that have an issue with this.
2) Do you think the conversion might have a negative impact on the guarantee? My experience with Tesla and especially the service part has not been particularly positive (in context with the eMMC chip on my 2017 MX, for instance) and therefore fear that Tesla will jump at any chance to render the battery and drive chain guarantee void.
I removed the two 2nd row seats of my Tesla Model X 6-seater and converted it into a 2-person camper.
Happy camping!
How did you do it? Any videos on this?
1) Doesn't look like it according to some other threads and this video:
2) they usually can't legally void your warranty due to the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act void warranty According to the Act, an automobile manufacturer cannot void your vehicle warranty due to the installation of aftermarket parts. Unless the aftermarket part that caused the vehicle failure or contributed to it (15 U.S.C. 2302 (C)).... which they would have to prove.
I am still looking for an instructional video, several folks on this forum have done it and one guy said he could do it now in 30 minutes since he has experience, I'm still trying to find that thread.
Also might be helpful to reference my post in this thread: Has anyone removed rear seats in a model X 6 seater?
