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Valet mode for service?
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XHabjab
TSLA Bull
Don't waste your time. There is a hidden "Service" mode that ignores any of your settings. You won't have any access from your phone app either.
C141medic
Active Member
As others have posted, valet mode is irrelevant if you’re having work done at the service center. However; if you’re having any work done at an offsite repair center I’d at least enable speed limit mode. I did this last year when I had mine at an authorized repair shop and got multiple alerts that the speed limit I had set (50MPH) was being reached. The max speed limit for the surrounding area where the shop was located was 40 MPH.
swaltner
Active Member
Tesla service center? Ignore the valet mode.
Any other service center (tire shop, etc...)? Definitely enable it!
Besides the fact that, as others have mentioned, the Tesla folks can bypass the valet mode with their systems, why would they go out to have fun in my lowly Model 3 when their loaners are P100D Model S?
For the other guys, I stopped at a Midas (or something like that) in the Ariel Atom one time to buy an oil filter. As I parked it, some kid came running out of the service bay and loudly declared "I'M GOING TO TEST DRIVE THIS VEHICLE!" before I had even gotten out of the car. If I had been planning on leaving it (just needing an oil filter, so no, wasn't planning on that), I would have maybe said something to the manager and left without leaving the car for service. That's the kind of attitude that valet mode is designed to address.
Any other service center (tire shop, etc...)? Definitely enable it!
Besides the fact that, as others have mentioned, the Tesla folks can bypass the valet mode with their systems, why would they go out to have fun in my lowly Model 3 when their loaners are P100D Model S?
For the other guys, I stopped at a Midas (or something like that) in the Ariel Atom one time to buy an oil filter. As I parked it, some kid came running out of the service bay and loudly declared "I'M GOING TO TEST DRIVE THIS VEHICLE!" before I had even gotten out of the car. If I had been planning on leaving it (just needing an oil filter, so no, wasn't planning on that), I would have maybe said something to the manager and left without leaving the car for service. That's the kind of attitude that valet mode is designed to address.
There's MUCH more to it than that. I highly suggest reading the manual
I would have probably yelled something different and left immediately. No way is someone going to do that to my vehicle!Tesla service center? Ignore the valet mode.
Any other service center (tire shop, etc...)? Definitely enable it!
Besides the fact that, as others have mentioned, the Tesla folks can bypass the valet mode with their systems, why would they go out to have fun in my lowly Model 3 when their loaners are P100D Model S?
For the other guys, I stopped at a Midas (or something like that) in the Ariel Atom one time to buy an oil filter. As I parked it, some kid came running out of the service bay and loudly declared "I'M GOING TO TEST DRIVE THIS VEHICLE!" before I had even gotten out of the car. If I had been planning on leaving it (just needing an oil filter, so no, wasn't planning on that), I would have maybe said something to the manager and left without leaving the car for service. That's the kind of attitude that valet mode is designed to address.
davewill
Active Member
You DO want to disable PIN to Drive, if you have it enabled. I forgot once, and they had to call me to turn on the car remotely.
I have read the manual. I was replying to ignoring it when bringing your car to Tesla service. Are you saying they're going to load up one of my profiles and change the seat settings?
Why do you think they would service your car, move your seats, then save the profile?
Even IF they did they. Why not get back in your car and readjust the seats?
I quickly glanced over your link and it reads as though it still needed to be taken out of valet mode by someone. It may not have been an override but sounds like it was still taken out of valetNot true at all.
Service Mode keeps Valet Mode?
Just to make others aware, having arrived at a service centre yesterday and cruising in Valet Mode (to reduce a problem being attended to) I found my Tesla automatically entered Service Mode on arrival at the geo-fence zone, greying out the various in-car security options and app control too...teslamotorsclub.com
