I don’t think that’s correct. There was an early discussion about security and one approach was to create the token and then change the password, the token would keep working but the password used to create the token could not be used.
Well I was wrong on this one. Changed my my.tesla password and about a half an hour later got an email from teslalog about an expired token.
So back to the expired-token experiement. Now without an active token my car is not being woken up every minute or so according to shop tech (car is in for service) and because the network is not constantly rebooting, the compressor is not self-assessing and there is no frequent clicking noise. I would think that polling should not be causing the network to reboot (thus causing a hardware survey to run). Engineering may be interested in this as well but while there may be a fix down the road I doubt we’ll be notified when it changes. It will be interesting to see if using the app triggers the same sequence of events. I’ll run that test when I have the car back.