That heat in the corner is not from the instrument cluster. It's from the relays that are right there under the cover and draw current all the time, creating heat. Pop the cover off and you can see two hot spots.
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Tesla says 7-13 miles range loss per day is normal
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That heat in the corner is not from the instrument cluster. It's from the relays that are right there under the cover and draw current all the time, creating heat. Pop the cover off and you can see two hot spots.
Brass Guy
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Just a thought - I seem to recall reports of excessive loss when the 12V was beginning to fail; it needed to top off more often. Has it always done this or is it worse than is used to be? Is your car old enough for a 12V issue? (Strike that last question, apparently any 12V can fail.)
You are working yourself up and making unsubstantiated extrapolations.
First, the 5% isn’t what most people define as “normal”. Beyond 5% is likely the level beyond which Tesla will consider out of the ordinary and will look into it.
So 5% is the top end. The average, as reported by many here, is much less.
It may be poorly worded, as I also would be very surprised if that changed between different battery sizes. I would suggest raising that question with a service tech.
Tesla did not say it was normal to discharge completely in three weeks. Don’t panic.
By day 5 I had lost 9 miles of range. That means if the rate never changed it would take 231 days to drain from the 90% charge I started with. This does not seem excessive at all for a car with Always Connected still turned on. If the rates some are talking about in this thread are happening in moderate temperates with smart precondition off, energy saving on, always connected off, remote access off, and the keys all in a Faraday cage of some sort, something is just plain broken. Might be the 12 volt battery, or one of the modules, or the HV pack. Doesn't matter, at that point it is entirely on Tesla to correct.
I find find that when the car goes into sleep mode the drain is often close to 0 but can be as high as 5 miles in a day although that's extremely rare. 1.5 miles a day is probably about average.
In Idle mode the drains about 0.5 miles per hour which is in line with what some are complaining about.
For a while I was having problems with the car not going to sleep and thus the drain was pretty crazy. It turns out that it was Teslafi that was hitting the car and never letting it sleep. I fixed a couple of settings and now it sleeps fine although there have been some changes since an upgrade a bit back. At night the car sleeps for an hour then idles for 5 minutes and then back to sleeping for an hour. After 12 hours of this it'll just go back to sleep and stay asleep.
In Idle mode the drains about 0.5 miles per hour which is in line with what some are complaining about.
For a while I was having problems with the car not going to sleep and thus the drain was pretty crazy. It turns out that it was Teslafi that was hitting the car and never letting it sleep. I fixed a couple of settings and now it sleeps fine although there have been some changes since an upgrade a bit back. At night the car sleeps for an hour then idles for 5 minutes and then back to sleeping for an hour. After 12 hours of this it'll just go back to sleep and stay asleep.
