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This is a link to a parts car in Vancouver, Canada. Canadian dollar is cheap so there might be some good deals to have. Not a water damaged car.
tesla p85
Success is having a running Tesla that I can drive to Quantum's house.
Before I continue, can I get a show of hands of people who do not think I can finish this project successfully? Curious to see whats going through everyone's mind.
UPDATE
Still alive and kickin!!! Here is why I have not updated the thread recently
1) Last weekend was Valentines day and I've been a bad boy so I couldn't disappear to work on the car for hours on end,
2) Its been about 5 below zero in the northeast so my wife wants her car in the warm garage.... problem is that my wife's car can't be in the garage when I'm trying to work on the pack, I need room to slide the pack out from underneath the car and take the cover off so with her car in the way I can't really do that
While I was hanging around one night I decided to disassemble the center console... welp. Judging by the weight of the console I swore that there was an aux blower motor in there and boy was I wrong. The center console in the model S is unnecessarily heavy and overengineered. I spent a long time taking the whole thing apart for basically nothing, I'll take pics of the 10000 pieces that it comes in.
No offense, but I don't see how you're going to get it working without spending a crapload on repair parts (replacing almost everything to the point of just buying a new vehicle) directly from tesla or from other salvage vehicles and even then I have doubts that tesla will enable things remotely for it to work if that makes sense aka supercharging , wireless, updates, nav, etc.
Yeah, that whole centre console is among the worst designs of any console I've seen before. Most consoles of that size would include storage in them, but not the Tesla one.While I was hanging around one night I decided to disassemble the center console... welp. Judging by the weight of the console I swore that there was an aux blower motor in there and boy was I wrong. The center console in the model S is unnecessarily heavy and overengineered. I spent a long time taking the whole thing apart for basically nothing, I'll take pics of the 10000 pieces that it comes in.
Before I continue, can I get a show of hands of people who do not think I can finish this project successfully? Curious to see whats going through everyone's mind.
I think that if you were more careful/cautious with your approach in dis-assembly that you'd have a greater chance of pulling this off. Your reckless approach is rapidly deteriorating the chance of success without ending up costing you more than a CPO would have cost in parts alone. As an example, you're an IT guy and should know better than to power up wet electronics and yet you did it anyway...
It's great that you're learning a lot about the car, and sharing the educational experience with us, but unless you start getting serious about proper dis-assembly... I'm kind of disappointed in your efforts thus far, while entertaining as they may be.
I think that if you were more careful/cautious with your approach in dis-assembly that you'd have a greater chance of pulling this off. Your reckless approach is rapidly deteriorating the chance of success without ending up costing you more than a CPO would have cost in parts alone. As an example, you're an IT guy and should know better than to power up wet electronics and yet you did it anyway...
It's great that you're learning a lot about the car, and sharing the educational experience with us, but unless you start getting serious about proper dis-assembly... I'm kind of disappointed in your efforts thus far, while entertaining as they may be.
oh heavens, thank goodness you are here then!! Why don't you post a link to your Tesla kickstarter here so you can get it funded and show me how its done?
[chuckling intensifies]
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Still would like to know exactly what this circular component does, I also found one near the chargers and drive unit
Yes, those circular devices are LF antennas for the RFID part of the keyfobs. They can detect a key with no battery if you put the fob right on the antenna, also they trigger the fob to respond on 315mhz so the car knows the key is present.
Should also be in the ends of the dash.Thats what I had assumed. Its the location of the one under the rear seat on top of the drive unit that threw me off. I figured there would be one in the pillar at the rear, I do however understand the front location.