If you can enable it in settings it should be licensed, unless either:
- there was an MCU replacement in the car's history and somehow there is a mismatch between the car and the MCU
- Tesla abandoned supporting such old base cars, so your configuration is not in the current software database, leading to this confusion
Typically if not licensed, when you use the AP stalk to engage it, it would tell you it's disabled. Are you able to engage regular cruise control?
However, if your car does not have a Tech package, you are missing the following (this image is from early 2015 order page, before AP became its own package in April 2015)
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Hope the above list helps you.
Sounds consistent with no automatic keyless entry. The handles need to present when unlocked or else you couldn't grab them. What you're missing is the fob detection near the car. When unlocked, the handles will present even if you don't have a fob on you. I am not sure if this is just a software option, as I know there are fox proximity sensors all around the car (e.g. at each end of the dashboard, under the little plastic end panel that touches the door) which might be missing from your car. Similar for other features in the tech package, you might be missing the hardware.
Yea, even supercharging enablement (which came with free lifetime supercharging at the time) was optional on the S60, which was meant to have the lowest possible price (back then this was the lowest priced EV with almost 200 mile range).
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You might be able to get DC charging enabled by Tesla today for a small fee or maybe even free, which would enable you to supercharge (but not for free). It might be worth a try to inquire about it. At one point there was a cheaper post sale option to just enable DC charging, but no free supercharging. I also know that enabling the supercharging used to be possible remotely, as I had a 2013 MS without supercharging, on which I paid to enable it, and Tesla did it remotely.
Whitex, thanks so much, this is very informative. Where did you get the pictures of the Tech Package and SuperCharger feature descriptions? The user manual mentions the Tech Package for the door handle presenting issue, and the SC has confirmed my car doesn't have it, but I didn't realize it also included the AP TACC and lane keeping and auto steering features which I've been trying to test the last couple of days.
There are multiple versions of the user manual and the first one I downloaded was poorly written making me believe that the door handles should present simply by pressing them, even with the car locked. Now I know that this only works when the car is unlocked and I need to use the key fob to unlock the car.
As for the SuperCharging, I've been going back and forth with the SC about it. If you're interested you can search my detailed descriptions of my nightmare trying to get CCS DC Fast charging, and my limited need for SuC. Long story short, I don't make long driving trips ever. And by long I mean greater than about 150 miles! I can count on one hand the number of times I've done this in the past 35 years. That doesn't include work related trips where I rent a car so I'm not putting wear and tear on my personal vehicle.
What I need SuC for is local "topping off" my battery in the local suburban Chicago area if I'm out and about and have to make an extra side trip and exceed my range and end up, say 30-50 miles from home at the end of the day with a battery at 10% charge, requiring me to sit at a God awful destination charger for 1-2 hours charging at 5-6 kWh just so I can go home, hours late.
Id like the ability in cases like this to be able to stop at a SuC for say 15 minutes to get the battery up to 30-40%, whatever is required to get the car back home to my L2 home charger. In these cases I don't need to charge to 80-90%, just enough charge, QUICKLY, to get back home!
Initially, I didn't think I needed SuC at all, and when the SC verbally told me it was $2500 to license it, I held off until I had a few months of experience with the car and better understood it's range. Im in sales but post-COVID, I work from home and only occasionally get out to meet partners and customers, and they are usually within my limited range. The 60kW battery pack range is rated at 208 miles but in reality is more like 150 actual miles. And that would be for 100% charge.
Typically I charge to 90-94% having read that it's not good for these old batteries to regularly charge to 100%. And of course I don't ring it down to 0% for obvious reasons, I always try to go no lower than 8-10%. So this further reduces my actual effective range.
And the very cold weather doesn't help either, though I haven't driven it enough to quantify the reduction. We had a snow storm recently and I parked the MS60 and drove my ICE until the majority of the snow melted and the temps warmed up into the 30s.
I live in the far western suburbs of Chicago, near Aurora IL. With my reduced range, even the northern suburbs are pushing it if I want to get home quickly, this is where SuC would be beneficial. I could leave the house with a SOC of 92% and drive to the far northern burbs and arrive with 25-30% charge.
When I'm ready to head home a 20-25 min SuC "top off" would ensure I made it all the way home with no further stops to charge. Arriving home with say 15% charge I have overnight for my L2 home charger to charge me back up to 92%. But right now, tha trip would require a 2-3 hour charging stop at a dest charger - unacceptable, so the MS60 stays home and I drive the ICE car.
I know I'll never SuC at 150-250 kWh rates, the 60kW pack will only handle about 75 kWh rates, but that's about 10x the rate of most L2 destination chargers and I would be absolutely ecstatic with that!
Not wanting to spend $2500 for this "limited use" SuC I was very happy to see the CCS charging could be enabled for my car for $450 which includes a CCS to NACS adapter and a retrofit hardware kit. With that I could use non-Tesla L3 DC Fast chargers like the EVgo network. See my other posts about how the SC didn't confirm if it would work with my car, it didn't. Not clear though if the mobile tech configured it correctly.
When it didn't work, the SC said that CCS charging requires Tesla SuC charging first be licensed, and they said, oops, that's not $2.5K it's really $12.5K, but that includes lifetime free SuC. Great, but I am still not convinced I need FUSC for my limited use case for the reasons I explained.
I guess I'm an unusual Tesla owner, I'm not obsessed with FUSC like so many others seem to be. I'm perfectly willing to pay for usage, I just need a REASONABLE cost to enable the "right to use" license. 12 grand is not reasonable! And no, that didn't include a battery pack upgrade to an 85 kW pack, strictly SW license. At this point I will gladly pay $2500, but even that seems excessive for my meager needs.
Yeah, I know, Tesla just didn't sell many of these "budget" model MS60s and I'm in a very small minority, but I feel like I'm being punished for buying my first Tesla without realizing all this before buying the car, and am being penalized because the initial owner didn't buy any optional licenses, and now, ala carte, Tesla still wants to charge thousands to license each of these features for a 10 year old car.
I can live w/o the Tech Package and AP. I didn't buy the car for any self driving features. But being able to make a relatively short range round trip in the immediate greater suburban Chicago area w/o spending hours charging SLOOOOWLY just to get home doesn't seem unreasonable.