Pull Over Safely, Restart Car to Drive

brianman · Feb 4, 2014

Has anybody else run across this message before? It happened when I floored it while entering a freeway on-ramp. Fortunately, I was in the middle of nowhere (no traffic behind me).

Notice the orange and red gear letters.

Upon restarting the 17" and then putting the car into drive it cleared itself and the car behaved normally from there on out.

For what happened next, look here:
PocketDyno, Sig P85 A after 23k miles

PatP · Feb 4, 2014

Yep. Check with Tesla as after 3-4 times they finally had to replace my whole battery pack. Do you have a Sig?

brianman · Feb 4, 2014

patp said:
Yep. Check with Tesla as after 3-4 times they finally had to replace my whole battery pack. Do you have a Sig?

Eep! And yes.

PeterK · Feb 4, 2014

brianman said:
Eep! And yes.

Brianman, perhaps it's a message that type A personalities and type A batteries don't mix. Time to move on to a type B?

lolachampcar · Feb 4, 2014

Nice one Peter!

I've set up next to a bud in a Sept. delivery S85 to run him. I made sure he moved first before moving to keep from jumping him. Both times we tried this (back to back) his car did exactly the same thing. The throttle was non-responsive and the car simply shut down until he stopped and cycled through park. It would not repeat with just one car twenty minutes later at the service center. We have yet to do it again to confirm but I suspect something in his car was upset about something coming from my car (FM???).

zax123 · Feb 4, 2014

lolachampcar said:
Nice one Peter!

I've set up next to a bud in a Sept. delivery S85 to run him. I made sure he moved first before moving to keep from jumping him. Both times we tried this (back to back) his car did exactly the same thing. The throttle was non-responsive and the car simply shut down until he stopped and cycled through park. It would not repeat with just one car twenty minutes later at the service center. We have yet to do it again to confirm but I suspect something in his car was upset about something coming from my car (FM???).

@lola,

Are you serious? Do you honestly think there's some kind of wireless interfere from one car to the other? That would be completely insane!

Chipper · Feb 4, 2014

PeterK said:
Brianman, perhaps it's a message that type A personalities and type A batteries don't mix. Time to move on to a type B?

Personality or Battery??:tongue:

Robert.Boston · Feb 4, 2014

I had a similar error message and red-out of the PRND on the dash, in a similar situation. I had just punched the accelerator from a low speed, and the car completely lost power. In my case, Tesla replaced the Power Inverter unit. Like you, I have an early-production car (Nov.2012).

yobigd20 · Feb 4, 2014

I guess that means that everyone with an 'A' pack doesn't need to hunt for tow-hitches to drive over any more. Just keep punching it over and over until it craps out on you and then go get your new 'B' pack and 120kWh supercharging!!!

brianman · Feb 4, 2014

Let's not jump to conclusions just yet.

Zextraterrestrial · Feb 4, 2014

yobigd20 said:
I guess that means that everyone with an 'A' pack doesn't need to hunt for tow-hitches to drive over any more. Just keep punching it over and over until it craps out on you and then go get your new 'B' pack and 120kWh supercharging!!!

ya, this doesn't seem to work :wink:

just dropped off my second set of 21"s to get the tires flipped and my 19" fun tires with ~200mi need the same thing done.
I think I have well tested the punching it repeatedly.
never had any sort of drive failure or error msg related

lolachampcar · Feb 4, 2014

Zax,

Yep, I know. We really need to reproduce the problem as it just could not be that I was next to him although it happened twice back to back and then would not do it 20 minutes later at the service center (when I was not next to him). He's out at the airport and we've been talking about lining up again.

jerry33 · Feb 4, 2014

Zextraterrestrial said:
ya, this doesn't seem to work :wink:

just dropped off my second set of 21"s to get the tires flipped and my 19" fun tires with ~200mi need the same thing done.
I think I have well tested the punching it repeatedly.
never had any sort of drive failure or error msg related

I think you'll need someone with an "A" personality to punch it.

PeterK · Feb 4, 2014

brianman said:
Let's not jump to conclusions just yet.

About your personality or your battery?

strider · Feb 4, 2014

My wife got the same message except the car would not not move after a restart. Even did a hard reset by pulling the yellow fuses. No dice. Car stayed powered up and HVAC still worked. Tesla towed it and ended up replacing the inverter. It also showed this:

zax123 · Feb 4, 2014

You got the P40!! You should keep that car safe, it'll be worth a lot sometime in the future.

deonb · Feb 4, 2014

zax123 said:
You got the P40!! You should keep that car safe, it'll be worth a lot sometime in the future.

Now the question that will bug us until the end of time...

Does the software actually contain artwork for a single P40 bitmap, or are the P and 40 two separate bitmaps?

It has pretty profound implications.

N4HHE · Feb 4, 2014

zax123 said:
You got the P40!! You should keep that car safe, it'll be worth a lot sometime in the future.

A Performance 40?

Yup, I'd say the computers were not happy about something that day.

brianman · Feb 4, 2014

N4HHE said:
A Performance 40?

0-60 in one full charge

strider · Feb 4, 2014

N4HHE said:
A Performance 40?

Yup, I'd say the computers were not happy about something that day.

It was still showing the correct range based on an 85kWh battery. But yeah, it really tossed its cookies that day. Worked perfectly before and after -<shrug>-

Pull Over Safely, Restart Car to Drive

Burrito Founder

Member

Burrito Founder

Model X, 3 & Y Owner

Well-Known Member

CDN Model S 100D

Active Member

Model S VIN P01536

Well-Known Member

Burrito Founder

Me

Well-Known Member

(S85-3/2/13 traded in) X LR: F2611##-3/27/20

Model X, 3 & Y Owner

Active Member

CDN Model S 100D

Active Member

Member

Burrito Founder

Active Member

Similar threads