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@pgiralt, the SoC correlation is a great clue. I'll explore that a bit more - thanks!

Appreciate your post @KOL2000 . Been driving my 2013 P85+ since sept 2015. Not ready for a plaid yet, but one of these days ...

I'm starting to notice this too on my 2013 P85+. 95k miles. Tires are OK. Might be a temp thing, its been a little cool here lately

Is there a way to add on to an existing complaint, or does each person have to file a new complaint?

This morning I picked up my circuit board from Tony where he replaced the faulty chip. Although my screen had gon completely blank, Tony was able to recover my certificate off the old chip and install it into the replacement. When I plugged the MCU back in, it came up and the screen started...

@David99 , thanks to your outstanding video, I pulled the unit out no problem. @EV-Fixme , I'll be headed to your location now to drop it off. Thank you.

OP here. @feffions - sorry about that. Have you tried to charge it? Hopefully you have enough to make it to the service center, or they will send out a flatbed. My experience, in Southern California back when this happened in July '17, was it took them a few days to install a loaner battery...

@phaphaphooey Thank you! Here in Southern California rain is pretty rare but when it does happen it's good to know the PS4S can handle it. Appreciate the response.

Hi all, I have 20" aftermarket rims on my P85+ so I can run a square pattern (245/40/20). I've had good luck running Mich Pilot Super Sports but it is time to retire them. Looking at the Michelin web site it looks like the PS4S is the next thing, destined to replace the PSS. Anyone have any...

I have to admit - the supercharger installation I'm most exited about is 400 miles from my house, in the town where I lived growing up and where most of my family still resides.

I'm looking forward to this! I live in southern California but all my family is in Concord, Walnut Creek, etc. Now I won't have to hijack my brother's electric dryer outlet any more. I'm sure that will please my sister-in-law...

@agloutney The display says 243 rated miles at 89% charge. I haven't been keeping track, and I usually display percent, not miles. It does seem that my daily round trip commute of 56 miles seems to use slightly less percentage of the battery than before. I'll start keeping track and let you know.

Still on the loaner battery. Been two months now. Car runs fine - I'm in no hurry to get my original battery back.

2 ton Compact Trolley Jack I have one of these. It was recommended in another post (I have to find the post). It works.

"Loaner pack" means they loan you a battery while they fix your original battery. It took them 3-4 days to get another battery - apparently a new 85 kWh manufactured just a month or so ago - and they took my battery out and stuck this new battery in my car. Then they sent my battery back to...

Battery Charge Level Will Be Restricted

Similar happened to me three weeks ago and I got a 85 kW loaner pack, manufactured this year. Been driving on it for two weeks now.

@apacheguy - I stopped at the Rancho Cucamonga supercharger on my way to Big Bear Lake Thurs evening. This charge schedule is after I switched to an unpaired charger. I did see a peak of 110 kW when I first plugged in. After leaving the SC @90% SOC, I made it to Big Bear Lake with 52%, then...

I've been driving from LA to the East Bay for 30+ years, as I live in the former but grew up in the latter. The Kettleman City exit off of I-5 was always the halfway point, and we always made our single stop there back in the ICE days. Great location for a big supercharger station, but you...

@apacheguy - Copy, will do. It will be a couple days. I'll post charge rate as a function of % charge. Does the "17" in "T17F..." mean the battery was manufactured in 2017?

@MP3Mike not the best pic, but you get the idea. I don't know much about the idiosyncrasies of the different battery revisions.

Update - I got my car back Friday with the loaner battery. So it took from Monday to Friday, with July 4th holiday in the middle, to get a loaner battery. Seems like a reasonable time frame; I know others have waited longer. They will notify me when my battery is repaired and I will update...

FYI, I took my car into Buena Park this week - need a battery replacement. They were out of loaners; I was told end-of-quarter, we sold a bunch of them off, etc. Enterprise was on-site and rented me a Lincoln. The car was on-site - they didn't bus me over to the local Enterprise office. The...

@Electric700 Thank you for your post. I was unaware of the updated contacts. I purchased my car as a CPO in Sept 2015 and am not sure if this was work was done. I'll ask about it, and I'll be sure to post the details of the repair in this thread.

I got a loaner one out of four times (all nonscheduled) and my SC is a CPO center - couple dozen cars on the lot. They don't loan those out. I'm currently waiting for a loaner battery as my battery died Sunday.

I picked up the subject warning Friday. Car seemed pretty normal. Did not attempt to charge that day. Saturday the warning went away. I charged overnight Saturday night, car charged to 90% as requested. Sunday morning the warning was back. I did some running around then went in to work to...

@BrokerDon - Lots of great nuggets in your post. Thank you! Didn't know about the restriction in CA on low freezing point windshield washer fluids. Should have expected that from CA. Great post!

Yeah, I got one. If I go for it I know what will happen, and it won't be pretty.

Maybe "an additional transformer in each stall" means there won't be any pairing. When it opens see how the stalls are numbered. If it's "1, 2, 3, ..." instead of "1A, 1B, ..." that might be it.

I picked up a 2013 CPO P85+ about 13 months ago. Car had 35k miles back then; it's pushing 50k now. I've had a 12v issue which took them a couple of times to find, a leak in the right rear taillight (pretty common), and a busted motor mount which got me a new drive unit. All this was covered...

I agree with your concern about the locals. I live in the LA area and like to visit my family in central Contra Costa County whenever I can; however, I have plenty of adapters in my trunk and can just continue to hijack my brother's dryer outlet in the meantime.

How about a supercharger in Concord/Walnut Creek/Pleasant Hill?

Just wanted to share this editorial by Greg Autry in SpaceNews. Elon tweeted the link. Mr Autry clearly Gets It. Thank you Sir. Op-ed | Despite SpaceX setback, future of private space exploration is bright - SpaceNews.com

I have a 2013 CPO I picked up a year ago with 35k miles on it. I've put an additional 12k miles since. I had a 12v no-start condition due to a faulty junction box interlock switch - took them a couple tries to find it but it's resolved. Yesterday I took it in for a pretty significant "clunk"...

Took it to the SC. They felt it pretty quick, after driving it a car length. After a trip around the block the tech said this is not a typical drive unit noise, this is pretty bad. They want to keep the car. Probably a motor mount. Out of loaners (of course) so I have a rental. They are a...

I just developed the clunk today. I'll call Buena Park SC tomorrow and take it in. I hope they don't give me a hard time about my aftermarket TSW Geneva 20" wheels. Tire size is 245/40/20 which is same dia as OEM 19's.

For your conditions I would consider AWD mandatory. 85D.

Thanks. This forum is like panning for gold and I'm just an ol' claim jumper. Every once in a while you get a nugget!

All good points. I'll back off to 33A in my garage. Thanks for the thread.

Thank you for this thread. On my road trip to Portland OR last weekend I opened the hatchback and received a shower from the hatchback button and the passenger-side bumper. I'll contact my SC.

Concur. A driver's side window falling out is unacceptable, especially for a car as pricey as an A8. But an intermittent electrical problem that kills the car dead? That's Russian Roulette every time you leave the driveway.

I take it you are now constantly monitoring 12v? Great idea. Did you pick up one of those digital voltmeter/USB chargers quoted by @W0QR? I bought four of them.

@GJ79 looks like they are really taking this seriously - good to hear. Good luck to you. I'm looking forward to hearing how this is resolved.

Also Gore-Tex has an extremely wide usable temperature range - far outside anything the car would be expected to see.

I just put on 245/40/20 Michelin PSS on TSW Genevas. Went with square pattern to allow rotation for longer tire life. Works for me.

My staggered PS2s (rear) are down to ~1/32 (2 mm) after 8,000 miles. They do all the acceleration and virtually all the braking. My fronts have at least 50% of their tread left. Tesla told me to expect this when I bought the car last year. As of a week ago have aftermarket 20" with 245/40/20...

Buena Park is my SC as well. I'm one out of two for loaners there. December yes (MC red P90D!), January no. In January I just had them Uber me home and back and drove my '05 Tundra. Been driving that Tundra for 10 years. I can drive it for a few more days - it has a killer aftermarket sound...

Well, it's part of a car. That counts.

@GJ79 I'm not sure what other choice you have. I was going to recommend you drive the car down there, make them keep it, and not return it to you until they find and fix this. Looks like that is what they want to do, and if this is happening with increasing frequency they should find it. I've...