Long story short, I had a very unfortunate incident where I sustained front-end damage to my two month old Model X LR. However, luckily no structural components were damaged. I spent a while digging deep into the car to find every little part that is damaged, and besides the front bumper and some adhesive for the fascia lamp brackets, everything is swappable plastic and fairly straightforward. I’m doing the work myself to avoid a collision claim because insurance is already too darn high. I plan on repairing the bumper fascia as well instead of replacing it (for now), however…
As many of us know, Model X vehicles manufactured around and after Q3 of 2023 (manual states January 2023 although I’ve heard it’s as late as March 2023) do not have fully-automatic front doors. This is due to the removal of ultrasonic sensors, which I personally believe was a grave mistake and disservice specifically to the Model X considering there was additional functionality permanently (manual nor Tesla have made no indication of “Vision-based” fully-automatic front doors) removed other than simply ultrasonic-based parking sensors.
My question is, would it be at all possible in any capacity to do an ultrasonic sensor retrofit for the sole purpose of enabling automatic front doors? Seems I just need a fascia with ultrasonic sensor cutouts plus the fender flares/garnishes (one needs replacing anyway), along with sensors and wiring harnesses and whatnot.
I assume this relies on two things:
1. Is there an existing port on non-USS/HW4 Model X vehicles to plug any USS wiring harness into?
2. If so, is there a way to enable functionality, whether it be plug-and-play or through Tesla Toolbox?
I’m pretty certain the ultrasonic sensors used for the front doors are located on the front of each fender flare/garnish. These have specific part numbers in the Tesla parts catalog. Although from the parts diagram it seems that they all still connect through one harness. Otherwise I’d just opt for those two parts/sensors.
I wouldn’t consider this unless an opportunity like this one arose.
As many of us know, Model X vehicles manufactured around and after Q3 of 2023 (manual states January 2023 although I’ve heard it’s as late as March 2023) do not have fully-automatic front doors. This is due to the removal of ultrasonic sensors, which I personally believe was a grave mistake and disservice specifically to the Model X considering there was additional functionality permanently (manual nor Tesla have made no indication of “Vision-based” fully-automatic front doors) removed other than simply ultrasonic-based parking sensors.
My question is, would it be at all possible in any capacity to do an ultrasonic sensor retrofit for the sole purpose of enabling automatic front doors? Seems I just need a fascia with ultrasonic sensor cutouts plus the fender flares/garnishes (one needs replacing anyway), along with sensors and wiring harnesses and whatnot.
I assume this relies on two things:
1. Is there an existing port on non-USS/HW4 Model X vehicles to plug any USS wiring harness into?
2. If so, is there a way to enable functionality, whether it be plug-and-play or through Tesla Toolbox?
I’m pretty certain the ultrasonic sensors used for the front doors are located on the front of each fender flare/garnish. These have specific part numbers in the Tesla parts catalog. Although from the parts diagram it seems that they all still connect through one harness. Otherwise I’d just opt for those two parts/sensors.
I wouldn’t consider this unless an opportunity like this one arose.