Shipping cross country + vampire drain

[Urbancowboy]

Shipping company picked up my M3 this morning. SoC was about 73% at drop-off. For obvious reasons I have both valet and sentry modes enabled.

I keep checking and the car hasn’t moved. Guess the driver isn’t headed east yet.

But my battery is now down to 63% and I am getting range anxiety when I’m not even driving

For those of you who park your AWDs for days at a time, what’s typical vampire drain?

And those with similar experience, would you opt for turning off sentry if it may be in a trailer for 5 more days?

Thanks.

 

[AlanSubie4Life]

Shipping company picked up my M3 this morning. SoC was about 73% at drop-off. For obvious reasons I have both valet and sentry modes enabled.

I keep checking and the car hasn’t moved. Guess the driver isn’t headed east yet.

But my battery is now down to 63% and I am getting range anxiety when I’m not even driving

For those of you who park your AWDs for days at a time, what’s typical vampire drain?

And those with similar experience, would you opt for turning off sentry if it may be in a trailer for 5 more days?

Thanks.

You're going to lose something like 24 miles a day with Sentry mode, and doesn't it turn off at 20%? You're likely going to have to turn it off and take your chances on the shipping company having proper insurance if something happens.

I mean, I guess you could leave it on until it gets to 20%, just to provide you coverage for as long as you can get it - it might be nearly long enough - as long as your hard drive/USB key doesn't fill up! If he's moving the car around on the truck and getting in/out of it, hopefully Cabin Overheat Protection is turned off as well.

I hope it's an enclosed truck, otherwise that USB key is going to fill up awfully quick! You'll set a record for the number of events detected I think.

It might even play the loud music or whatever it does when it gets really upset - all the jostling should be plenty for that but no idea really. Could be exciting (distracting?) for the truck driver.

 

[JPUConn]

Turn off sentry mode bc you’re gonna burn 10%/day with it on vs 2-3% if it’s off. I’ve shipped a handful of Tesla’s coast to coast before sentry mode existed and always relied on the bill of lading for any issues.

 

[Urbancowboy]

Thanks guys.

Truck is enclosed, and BoL specifies not a single bit of damage. I also forgot to turn off cabin overheat protection.

Guess I’m going to rely on insurance and turn off Sentry mode. It’s all through a corporate relo so if anything goes wrong I’ll have a way to get it sorted.

@AlanSubie4Life maybe something major will go wrong, I can re-buy a P3D-, and then delete that now-bloody-obnoxious-lovers-quarrel-speculative-bitchfest thread I started about unlocking AWDs

 

[KenC]

Unfortunately or fortunately, the 20% cutoff will turn off your Sentry mode in a few days.

 

[ewoodrick]

If Sentry is on, and the transport has access to the car, any good driver is just going to disable it, since it will tend to go off as the car bounces a long. Do everyone a favor and turn it off.

 

[geometro]

I had a friend ship his and the GPS never seemed to update so he couldn’t tell where his car was (it kept showing the location where the truck picked it up... in reality it was two states over).

 

[brkaus]

I had a friend ship his and the GPS never seemed to update so he couldn’t tell where his car was (it kept showing the location where the truck picked it up... in reality it was two states over).

True. The gps doesn’t update unless the wheels are moving in drive or reverse. Why? Who knows...

 

[Urbancowboy]

True. The gps doesn’t update unless the wheels are moving in drive or reverse. Why? Who knows...

Ahhhh ok that makes so much more sense. I was wondering why the trailer sat there all day.