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I got notified on March 3rd and the notice said 60 days and that I would get a letter of approval if I qualified. The email had the date and cost when the replacement was performed. When i log into the Tesla website, it says that I am approved. Wondering if your check is representative of other...

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So it has come time to sell my 2013 Model S 85. When I looked at the odometer to put the mileage into an add, it read over 200,000 miles. I took it to the Tesla shop and they said that the car was displaying the correct mileage. A month ago, I had a tire patched at my local shop and they...

This is the article that I used for the source. It might be just California.

Do we have the basis for a class action suit?

I have had several disappointments recently in dealing with Tesla service, and some of the issues may be relevant to consumer protection laws in effect. 1) Last year our MCU failed in the replacement cost (over $2,700) was something we could not afford at the time. I bought a salvaged MCU from...

The driver side rear door handle on my 2013 Model S will not extend and also will not trigger the lock. After doing much online homework, I think the problem might be a worn ribbon cable. I assume the third gen handles have fixed a lot of issues, can I take one from Ebay and use it to replace my...

Can I substitute a gen 3 door handle for a gen1?

Took it to Tesla service yesterday and they said that the slave charger is exhibiting some screwy data and they want $2300 to replace it and we do not have that kind of money right now. Just paid $2300 to have the MCU replaced. My business partner is trying to lynch me right now.

We went to the local Tesla service center and the car charged at over 40 amps. So it is the wall charger right? Well I had someone else with a Model S come by and try charging with my charger and they got more than 40 amps. Go figure. The problem seems to be pairing my car with my charger. Well...

My 5 year old HPWC just dropped to a max of 40 amps. My dual charger Model S charges fine elsewhere. Reset the electrical panel circuit breakers and no change. The other clue is when I press on the reset button, the lights do not go out for a moment but just stay green. Should I just buy another...

I am worried what's next.

I think the drive train is still under warranty.

The car has 135,000 on it. In our normal commercial use for a Lincoln Town car, we see somewhere between 60-100K use per year, so the Tesla has been actually used rather lightly in comparison. We added extra sound proofing within a few weeks of the car's arrival in March of 2013 (correct guess...

So the drama continues. After replacing the charge unit, the drive unit failed again and got replaced. Then I got a call from Tesla that the telemetry from the car indicated something wrong with the battery. We we took it in and the gave us a loaner for a little over a month and then put the...

The replacement unit is a newer one and displayed info about sensors and other things that our early unit did not include. It seems that Tesla service might figure out something was up the next time I put it in for service.

I am returning the replacement screen to Autobahn who has offered to refund the purchase. It makes no sense to use ingineer to program it if I run the risk of being banned by Tesla Service

So the whole thing fell apart. When we took it to the Tesla service center, they refused to work on it and said the part was "restricted" and cannot be installed then and serviced by Tesla. Last week I asked what it would cost to program the MCU but did not tell them I was planning to install...

The Burlingame service center can take us next Monday morning. Still waiting to hear from ingineer. With the help of Alfredo from SoCal we got all the brakes unlocked using a booster battery so the car can roll out of the shop and on to a truck. We are buttoning the baby back up now...

I was actually referring to an earlier post in this thread but I am charmed that you found that one from a year or two ago. At that time I was sorely disappointed by the lack of support for fleet buyers and people like me in the livery (limousine) trade that were taking a chance by putting a...

So I figured out how to send him a pm. I also got his email and sent him a note that way. The shop doing the MCU installation is in South San Francisco about 6 miles from the Burlingame service center. The tow should not cost too much, but I don't know how backed up they are until I call tomorrow.

Anyone know which Bay Area service center has the shortest wait?

So I also hit the valet button and now can't do anything at all now. Henry, the Tesla Specialist at, Autobahn Auto Dismantlers in SoCal put me in touch with a guy named Alfredo that buys salvage Teslas and puts together race cars. He gave me some great advice on getting the brakes released and...

Unfortunately the work order is lost in accounting, I will see if we can dig it up. Now I need to find the fuse to de-power the MCU and hope that resets the valet mode.

So the car won't start. The screen seems to function fine and we made the additional error of hitting Valet mode and cannot get out of it. Maybe we disconnect the battery and it will reset. We cannot put it in tow mode either. The shop needed to close so we gave up for the day.

The MCU went south so it was the whole thing

The screen showed up this morning and my baby just came out of surgery. Going to the shop to see what it looks like.

I mentioned all the other big issues in a another post here.

Oh, and rear seat belt retractors replaced. These are all issues covered here in forum posts.

I think we are on drivetrain #5 and it is now that one clunking intermittently, so maybe we take that one back in. We are on battery charger #2 and battery rebuild #3. We had most of the upgrades (wind noise on the door windows, etc). We had a left rear door handle start to go bad, took it to...

Ordered the screen today,Shipping was around $20 coming from L.A.

135K, limousine company.

I watched the sped-up video of a swap on YouTube and during the extraction the guy goes around to the frunk to do something. Not sure what that is about. Can you pass along some pointers or aspects that we need to be careful about?

Thanks for all the posts. There is no music and the Tesla shop said it was the MCU that died. On YouTube I found the accelerated video of a MCU/screen swap and then took my laptop to my local service shop that specializes in limo work. I showed the video to the shop owner and 3 service writers...

Not sure how to contact him on this forum. Can see the posts that he participated in but I guess I am a little klutz at pinging someone.

So it looks like @Ingineer is definitely the go-to guy about the screen and MCU, but I am in SF Bay area and he is in NY. And it seems that he has a backlog of service requests way into the future. What a great resource! I think I will have to leave it to my local service center to get it up and...

I thought it might piss them off, turning down the repait work and then asking them to program the used unit I put in. But I just picked the car up and the rep was not sure they could reprogam it and said if they could it would take a "long time" and the charge would be about $175. Too many...

So we took the 2013 Model S to the shop when the screen went black. We were beginning to get bubbles on each side of the screen as well. So it looks like the MCU croaked. The repair is $2700 and a premium MCU and screen is available online for $1100. But the seller says that it will need to be...

I searched this forum but could not find anything about having another shop replace the front pads. I have my regular shop replace the tires when needed and the last time they pulled the wheels off, they said I needed brake pads but did not want to do it because a special tool was needed.

I wish there was a commercial PG&E plan but the EV rate plans from them are only for residential.

Thanks

I cannot find this on the Blink site. PG&E wants at least $50k to bring 440v to my business and then the charge station is about $50k also. Just remember I have an hourly paid driver in the vehicle, and a lunch break is about the only legal time we can charge it without needing to pay the...

In a few days, my ChaDeMo adapter will arrive and there are several fast DC Blink charge stations near me just north of San Francisco International Airport. They could be of great help in keeping our limousine service's model S on the road all day long because it would be able to charge twice as...

Does anyone know what the Chargepoint Chademo stations prices. I know that they will probably vary depending on who is the owner, but for now the Blink chargers near me might be $5 per charge.

Electirc700 and others that made helpful suggestions; Late last night (Thursday), I sent off the following message: Hello; I received my Model S in April of 2013, vin 5YJSA1DN6DFP05782. We are now on our 4th drive unit this year and then the battery failed had to be rebuilt in Fremont last...

We are always upside down in the middle of a lease, no matter what the vehicle is. We keep the vehicle for the entire period of the lease. We use a lease structure because the accounting is much easier, no guessing about depreciation, etc. At the end of the lease, we assign a small value $5k or...

In the process of Shopping the car 2 years ago, and then driving the Model S, I have become a huge fan of electric cars, and the future of EVs. I and all my drivers certified to drive the Model S absolutely love the car. Man passengers do too. Others still prefer the roomier soft ride of a...

Good point. If Musk says the drive unit problems came down to a single wire, then maybe the same for the charge unit. About contacting ownership, tell me more about this. -P

The figure is rated miles, and is in the center of the speedo. So far so good on charge rating, though I thought that I saw on other posts that the depletion curve might have got steeper on older batteries so that the actual driven miles were less than the rated figure. - - - Updated - - -...