purplewalt
Active Member
Today around 2:30PM, I went to the Plano NTTA office and spend a bit of time with one of the supervisors named Rine Sanchez. He was really helpful and said he knows of other Tesla owners that are having this same problem. He had a hand-held tag reader and we went out to the car to try various locations. Some seemed promising, so I hopped on the tollway to test it out but none of them worked. He checked the system each time I got back and they never registered.
1. Sticky slim tag stuck to the middle of the inside of the nosecone
Reader had to be almost touching the nosecone but never registered on the tollbooth
2. Sticky slim tag slipped between the dash and windshield, just below the IR coating
Reader had an easier time reading it, but tollbooth still didn't register it.
3. Older hard plastic tag, will try it between the dash and the windshield. I'll be putting a string or something on it to retrieve it.
Once I have #3 in place, I'll tool around the booths to see if it registers. If not, I'll get the larger black module and put it behind the nosecone. I'll be damned if I'm forced to drill holes in my nosecone or pay the ZipCash toll price.
I had read about the difficulty of the reader on a MS.
I went to NTTA, sat down with one of the clerks and asked them to do a visual scan of my license plates.
He and his supervisor agreed, so no reader is typically required.
For when I do visit the airport, I still have my old cream-colored thick plastic reader that I keep in the front lip of my seat (with my Blink card).
I just open window and hold on roof as I approach the tollbooth, it gets read, and I proceed.