Strange Color on Charge Port

e4chan · Jan 17, 2014

Has anyone seen this before? Should I be concerned?

Shumdit · Jan 17, 2014

I have never seen that, but the second one is quite pretty!

No warnings on the screen and charging normally?

MichaelS · Jan 17, 2014

It looks like two of the blue LEDs failed in the ring. The colors around the ring are created by mixing red, blue and green colors together in different intensities.

Doug_G · Jan 17, 2014

MichaelS has the right idea. It's a bit unlikely that two LEDs failed simultaneously, so it's probably either a bad connection on the circuit board, or the two LEDs shared a single driver chip and that failed.

andrewket · Jan 17, 2014

It's indicating you're limited to 90kw charging. Sorry, couldn't resist.

e4chan · Jan 17, 2014

It appears to be charging fine....but I am a little worried. We will see how it goes tomorrow. I receive no warnings.

cinergi · Jan 17, 2014

e4chan said:
It appears to be charging fine....but I am a little worried. We will see how it goes tomorrow. I receive no warnings.

Nothing to worry about. Just have Tesla replace it the next time your car is at the service center. I had a couple of my lights in the charge port ring fail a year ago and it didn't affect anything (it's purely cosmetic). They replaced the charge port and all's been well since.

Chris TX · Jan 18, 2014

Maybe it's Canadian?

Doug_G · Jan 18, 2014

Chris TX said:
Maybe it's Canadian?

Not getting the joke...

jerry33 · Jan 18, 2014

Chris TX said:
Maybe it's Canadian?

Can't be. The lights on the bottom don't form a maple leaf.

e4chan · Jan 18, 2014

Well...I can confirm that charging is find. Guess I will get it replaced the next time I go into the shop.

gg_got_a_tesla · Jan 19, 2014

e4chan, before you get it fixed, a pic when the rest of the LEDs are glowing green - when charging or fully charged - will complete the set.

NigelM · Jan 20, 2014

This thread prompted me to look at my charge port; it's developing a black line down the right side which actually looks much worse than this picture suggests:

I've got my second service coming up so will get it looked at.

e4chan · Jan 21, 2014

Kudos to the Toronto East Service Center! The Service Manager sent me an e-mail to follow up on the post here. Where else would I get such service! Never expected it, but feel that I've been heard and assured that there is nothing to worry about and that it will be taken care of, when I call the service center

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NigelM · Jan 21, 2014

e4chan said:
Kudos to the Toronto East Service Center! The Service Manager sent me an e-mail to follow up on the post here. Where else would I get such service! Never expected it, but feel that I've been heard and assured that there is nothing to worry about and that it will be taken care of, when I call the service center .

Similar experience with Tampa. I noted it over here.

NigelM · Feb 4, 2014

Car was in for 25k and Tesla replaced the charge port under warranty. All pretty again.

han170 · Apr 24, 2014

I have the same problem when I go to charge. Some of the charge port lights are red and the rest are blue. I talked to the Mt. Kisco service center and said not to worry about it. They will fix it the next time I need service.

sgblank · Apr 24, 2014

Just to pile on. Had the same problem. They replaced the charge port lights at my 12K service.

shark · Apr 24, 2014

Had this for almost as long as I can remember:

Then it turned into this:

gg_got_a_tesla · Apr 24, 2014

Shark, hope you are keeping this as is. Rather unique

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