I thought I'd share a strange problem, that I may have created myself.
This past weekend when entering the car to return home, the driver's door handle came out and didn't open the door. That single handle self retracted, then extended fully to it's limit without opening the door. The window was partway open so I opened it from the inside handle. It never retracted after that, even while driving or locked. I figured it was probably one of those micro-switch wires.(I called Tesla Parts, but always have to leave voicemail and they never call back.)
Yesterday after work (already tired of climbing across from the passenger side) I resolved to fix the handle. But I knew I needed to retract it to get it out of the door; so my only hope was to unplug and re-plug and hope it retracted, and unplug before it extended again. Well it retracted and stayed retracted.
This is where I made my biggest mistake, not testing it for fear it would get stuck extended. I removed it from the car and tested the 2 usual micro-switches with a test meter, but both were fine. I plugged it in and tested it successfully a few times before mounting it.
THEN the window started acting up, it would not auto-open or close; only manual up and down. THEN it stopped working entirely, with it open all the way. With rain expected today, I tinkered for a while, considered trying to get at the window motor plug and manually power it up; but with the window down that was hopeless. (Good thing too.) Fully reassembled, the window worked manually, but only with the door shut - I hadn't tried latching the door this whole time. Also every opening of the door lowered the window by 1/2 inch, but it wouldn't go back up when the door closed.
I found a few threads on here about re-calibrating using the down-hold up-hold method, but by break time today it was automatically reset.
Here's why I think I may have caused both these issues: I probably tried to pull the handle to open the door before it fully extended, and possibly even a second time as it self retracted and extended. That probably put the handle in the permanently extended mode. What I believe caused the window issue was testing the door latch several times without the window switches connected. I don't know for sure if it needs those controls for the door-window-action or not, but it's my best guess.
This past weekend when entering the car to return home, the driver's door handle came out and didn't open the door. That single handle self retracted, then extended fully to it's limit without opening the door. The window was partway open so I opened it from the inside handle. It never retracted after that, even while driving or locked. I figured it was probably one of those micro-switch wires.(I called Tesla Parts, but always have to leave voicemail and they never call back.)
Yesterday after work (already tired of climbing across from the passenger side) I resolved to fix the handle. But I knew I needed to retract it to get it out of the door; so my only hope was to unplug and re-plug and hope it retracted, and unplug before it extended again. Well it retracted and stayed retracted.
This is where I made my biggest mistake, not testing it for fear it would get stuck extended. I removed it from the car and tested the 2 usual micro-switches with a test meter, but both were fine. I plugged it in and tested it successfully a few times before mounting it.
THEN the window started acting up, it would not auto-open or close; only manual up and down. THEN it stopped working entirely, with it open all the way. With rain expected today, I tinkered for a while, considered trying to get at the window motor plug and manually power it up; but with the window down that was hopeless. (Good thing too.) Fully reassembled, the window worked manually, but only with the door shut - I hadn't tried latching the door this whole time. Also every opening of the door lowered the window by 1/2 inch, but it wouldn't go back up when the door closed.
I found a few threads on here about re-calibrating using the down-hold up-hold method, but by break time today it was automatically reset.
Here's why I think I may have caused both these issues: I probably tried to pull the handle to open the door before it fully extended, and possibly even a second time as it self retracted and extended. That probably put the handle in the permanently extended mode. What I believe caused the window issue was testing the door latch several times without the window switches connected. I don't know for sure if it needs those controls for the door-window-action or not, but it's my best guess.
