I have a small trolley jack, also purchased from Repco. The car weighs 2 tonnes, so a 1 - 1.5 tonne capacity should be fine. (I bought it for this car). I have used it when i installed my Alloygators. Worked perfectly. It fits nicely into the centre of the wheel and i just wrapped the handle end (all metal) in a microfibre cloth (extra cheap for a whole bag of them from Bunnings). The other end is two plastic wheels and the whole lot just fits firmly into the wheel well with no rattling. It is also very low profile and the car is very low to the ground, so a bottle jack which would have been my other choice, is not really a viable option. The trapezoidal wind up type are just too much like hard work. The pumping handle is in two parts which i have installed either side of the wheel forward, so they don't rattle, and the torque wrench in its plastic case fits inside the wheel as well. None of this stuff is especially expensive. The breaker bar and socket for the nuts slides between the wheel and the inside of the microwave. If any of this starts rattling, then my daughter will have a job to make an appropriate bag to hold everything. Actually, all this is crazy, it should be standard just as it is in all other cars i have owned.
I have cyclone wheels, but they are too expensive, so the standard rims such as on your car, Meloccom, are quite reasonable. Tesla does NOT recommend this because of crumple zone issues, but hey, I think the wheel may be an additional buffer.
Total cost, including everything approx 1 grand. The torque wrench was sourced on eBay.
Now, i will just cut myself a couple of wedges from some scrap timber i have lying around and also a bearing piece to protect the car from the jack, which will complete my emergency kit.
Also, just checked, because of the angle the wheel sits in, there is no possibility of the tyre fouling the emergency froot release. So, all is good!! You just lose the front as storage space, but many of us are scared of the dreaded froot crease anyway.
With this solution, a flat is just a PITA, but other than a TPMS warning which can safely be ignored if you use this, you can drive at normal speeds until it is convenient to have the affected tyre fixed. Incidentally, i do have a small compressor - an el cheapo i have had for years, which is in the boot to top up in emergency as well.
I will post a photo in due course of all this.
The car, with air suspension is now probably 50/50 balanced. I have decided to leave it all permanently aboard.
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I remember reading somewhere on TMC that the tesla has a very high torque setting on the wheel nuts, much more than can be applied with a wheel brace. Any truth to that? I couldn't come up with a reason for it and put it down to fiction myself...
It is true, this why i went the breaker bar route. 60cm allows a huge amount of undoing torque to be applied!! Torque wrenches are geared to allow the set torque to be applied. 129 ft/lbs.
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Incidentally, i was told today that the air suspension cars with 19in wheels have an air pressure of 45 psi. If they have coil springs then the figure is 42 psi, which may explain why my car was delivered with 42 psi, in error.