I have a 2022 model s that was salvaged due to a small suspension accident. Supercharging has been turned off and I would like to have inspected to have tesla re-enable supercharging. But, when attempting to do this, the service center (macadam avenue in portland oregon) said tesla has not finalized the procedure for the 2021-2023 model s cars and therefore they can only do the battery inspection and supercharging will be re-enabled until the procedure is finalized at corporate and the 9ther two inspections are done. Anyone else have experience with the refresh model s cars getting supercharging re-enabled after an accident?
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Salvage 2022 model s supercharging?
- Thread starter BoNosAll
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I am a dealer in NY. I specialize in salvage rebuilding and am an EV proponent. I have just joined this group and have now purchased 2 model s cars. a 2016 85 and a 2023 plaid that was sold by tesla corporate at a salvage auction but with a clean title. I am not sure why exactly. I have a full service and collision center but not registered with Tesla as a repair center but did get registered as a parts distributer. i bought a spindle for the Plaid from Tesla and then was able to move the car ownership to our Tesla app today. now they are saying the care is unsupported and wont sell my service department any parts. I would love any information on used dealer purchase and sale process, salvage recertification for super charging, will FSD work, etc. Any info on these topics will be gratefully accepted as I'm head first down the Tesla rabbit hole. Thanks
They will sell parts for anything via EPC. They will try to say 'we cant work on it' however their policy is clear- they are allowed to work on anything that's not HV until the 'salvaged' car has had the HV inspection.
I have a 2014 MS 60 I bought last fall that isn't enabled for SuC. I tried everything I could with the SC and at one point one of the SC's scheduled my car for a battery inspection for $800 and told me that if it passed the inspection they would re-enable SuC. Huh, "RE" enable?!?!?
Somehow they got it in their mind that my car had been a salvage car. I don't know how or why they thought this, I never said that it was a salvage and they should have records showing that. I did not get the inspection done because when they actually checked my records they wanted to sell me SuC for $12K which is f'ing insane.
But, if yours originally HAD SuC which was removed when it became salvage, and it's now been repaired and now no longer a salvage, then it may "only" cost you $800. That's a whole lot better than the original $2500 to add SuC post-sale to my car back in the day, now $12,000 FREAKING Dollars!
Good luck!
They will actually work on the HV system after you pay for the HV inspection (half of getting the supercharging re-enabled). If it passes, they will work on it too. You just have to pay for all repairs. According to Tesla, they have not finalized the procedure in order to re-enable the 2021-2024 Model S cars. Once this is done, then they can do the inspections and re-enable supercharging. I think it is bogus, but I contact them every month or so to ask if they can re-enable it and that is the response I get. Seems Elon is shooting himself in the foot. This is a revenue stream that would help the company. It is not like any of the 2021+ cars have free supercharging.
little update, I called SC in Columbus, Oh twice. At first they quote me $2000 plus tax and a week to get SuC back. Then I call again after a week they quote me $1350 but also a week. I called Dayton SC and they quote me $800 and within one day to get the inspection done, and if passed they will report to Tesla headquarter and re-enable it in a few days. So I scheduled service at Dayton on this 24th. finger cross