2 years and 7 months ago, my Roadster was not charging due to the "BSM isolation fault" errors.
The battery was still good for 65% of charge but over the next months, especially when Tesla was working on the car, the charge level went down fast, to the point where it reached 0%. It took Tesla 7 months to realize they had "special tooling" that could charge the battery when separated from the car. When that special tooling finally arrived from Tilburg (only 200km away), it was already too late and battery was declared dead.............
OK a bit off-topic, but on a supercharger tour of N Europe ... (UK to Sweden and back, as you do with free, easy and fast supercharging
)...
I recognised the Morph number plate on a model S .
I guessed the owner, as
@m0rph on here, who was in the restaurant next door .. amazing odds: 2 roadster owners meeting by chance, somewhere in N. Europe
Sorry to hear the familiar tail (above) .. basically that Tesla have so few Roadster experienced tech's that often repairs revert to whole system plug/play/guess.
Discussing this at a recent UK meetup (with Roadsters this time) .. as below:
We discussed 'keeping roadsters on the road' .. either
a) '
on-grid' (with Tesla .. needed where some parts are still under warrantee)
or
b) '
off-grid' (independent of Tesla .. ie out of warrantee, and where servicing not by Tesla).
Current situation is complicated by Tesla policy on non-sharing information, or even supplying parts and worryingly, refusing to work on cars with non-tesla mods / work
In UK we have
For a) '
on-grid' Sam at Tesla Gatwick
For b) '
off-grid' Neil Wise ex Tesla (up to 2012, Roadster specialist) now independant
From here these forums there are also independent techs in USA, Switzerland, Germany.
Perhaps we need to collectively compile a list of on and off grid Roadster Expertise ???
But for now, here are the pix ....
