Safety restraint system fault - Fixed

[Rottenapplr]

It was doing this with mine as well. You shouldn't have to worry about it unless it does it a lot while driving. We use easy out and swap drivers a lot, so it moves quite frequently.

It happens on your drivers side seat?

 

[Mermaan]

If your car is under warranty, will they charge you for this? I'm asking because the service advisor estimated a cost of $195.

 

[Rottenapplr]

No it’s not covered it’s a wearable item. I swear you think this is a Tesla owners first car.

 

[hohjoe]

If your car is under warranty, will they charge you for this? I'm asking because the service advisor estimated a cost of $195.

If you are asking about the "Safety restraint system fault" mine was repaired under warranty for the passenger seat. I did have an estimated cost listed, but it was covered under warranty.

 

[Jmolloy3]

I'm over 70k miles, so I assume I'm on my own (no warrantee). I can solder though!!!

 

[Jmolloy3]

At least I have another EV I can use for a while...

 

[Emblem boy]

This error just popped up for me and I'm at 49,500 miles.

Anyway to try to clear this myself or just schedule the service center?

 

[Rottenapplr]

It went away for me the next day.

 

[mgs333]

Recently I started getting the Rcm_a021 error when my seat is going into easy entry after I put the car into Park after driving. But the error message goes away right away. My car is out of warranty and I had the mobile tech out today to look at it and he said all the connections looked good and he could not reproduce the code while adjusting the seat to the extremities so didn't charge me anything which was nice. He did say if the error comes back to ask the service center for the OCS recall although that's for the front passenger so that it gets fixed for free.

The initial repair estimate today was about $390 ($175 for the seat harness, 0.72hr labor $190.80 and tax).

 

[EVnut]

I'd like to thank everybody's help in saving me $500 today. I had mobile service coming out tomorrow to replace this harness. Thought I'd swing by here and see if anybody had a solution. And sure enough!

I just cancelled that appointment.

So here are my pictures.

I guess that anodized ferrite core was keeping the wires insulated from each other? I didn't want to risk shoving it back on, so I installed shrink tube over my soldered wires. The core is just shoved up high on the existing wire, out of my way.

Because my connector completely separated from both wires, I took the connector back to my bench and easily added 5" of wire for extra slack. That made soldering it back into the car's harness much easier, without fighting the short wire.

I unbolted the seat so I could tilt it back. But I did not take off the rubber side skirt of the seat. It was a struggle to get the connector off initially. I used a small flat screwdriver to unclip/lift the orange thing by the side ridges. Once that popped up, the whole connector came off the seat. Then the yellow shell needs to be carefully snapped off. My black wire was already separated, and removing the connector popped off the OTHER wire too. These wires came off cleanly. NO fraying, nothing broken. The solder joint was just terrible. So I fluxed and tinned the tabs, and now that solder will not be coming off.

Error gone.

For those who have seen the error, and then it "went away." I predict that it WILL be back. Those connections are not up to the task. It is just a matter of time.