let's go in deep
here is the fuse box
yeah don't go randomly pulling fuses had a little bit of an issue last weekend where
apparently i blew a fuse on my model x now i did an upgrade i replaced the x's black and white uh
autopilot 2.0 camera uh the triple forward facing camera i replaced it with the later generation
colored i should say partially colored uh camera whereas the first one had a habit of seeing
red and black and white for the most part the newer one sees all the colors just not full color
i don't know if i'm explaining that right probably not either way when i did that i had to remove the
rear view mirror and i noticed that the little plug-in for the self-dimming rear view mirror
wasn't the best but it seemed to clip in well apparently not because now a year or so later what
i think happened was that clip was just making intermittent connection must have had a little
bit of sparking or something and it blew the five amp fuse unfortunately that fuse also controlled
not only the dimming mirror but the lighted uh cabin mirrors and tire pressure monitoring system
great so let's replace the fuse well any of you seasoned at tesla owners already know tesla
doesn't like giving up the information there is no diagram publicly available which fuse does what
they just want you to make a service appointment and pay 150 an hour sometimes more for them to
replace the fuse for you don't vaguely remember elon sedating they don't want to make money they
want service to be a profit center or something like that either way what would have taken me
two minutes if even that long if i had a fuse diagram took me a week of trying to figure out
where which fuse it was because you know unlike my friend bjorn hi bjorn um who had some issues
randomly pulling fuses on his model x to fi try and find the one that blew i think it
was for his trailer lights i wasn't going to go that route i did end up figuring it out it was
well whatever whatever fuse number i write in the description box of the video below because
i don't remember off the top of my head but it was an in-cabin fuse and it was a 5 amp now of
course being tesla tesla doesn't do anything normal not even the simple stuff so instead of
using a standard two blade fuse now this is a mini fuse now there's also one that's half that size
a micro and this actually this isn't the micro but that's what a micro fuel size fuse is
no they couldn't have used that well tesla does use some microfuses but for some reason
they decided to use a triple blade microfuse yeah you know where you can find these
not at your auto parts store napa didn't have them autozone didn't have them advanced auto didn't
have them o'reilly's didn't have them firemen fleet did not have them walmart even didn't have
them i could not find them at any local store so i did a little hack job with a with a mini fuse
just temporarily to make it work so at least i had tpms made all the errors on my screen go away
half the fuse does tpms self-dimming mirror and your lighted mirrors
the other half of the fuse does abs traction control stability control and i think i got like
50 other errors which at least that worked until i pulled the fuse out so i'm going to show you where
that fuse goes now some people power uh uh what do you call a dash cams off of the
power for the the mirror the lighted mirror or the dimming mirror um so you're going to want to know
this too so let's go take a look and i'll show you exactly where you go for that fuse and yes if look
real closely there is a way to test these fuses without having to remove them that's kind of how i
eventually found it is you can stick a multimeter probes in there and check for continuity so
i only had minis on hand to show you guys let's go take a look let's go fuse hunting
so we're gonna go down here
first thing we are going to do we are going to pull this size inside
here because i actually have the bad fuse back in so i can demonstrate and pull it
now loosen this up here pop goes the weasel next we got to remove this section
let's see if i can prop the phone up here hopefully it doesn't overheat
we're gonna pull this carpeted section off somehow
we're gonna do this without disassembling a good chunk of vehicle
i have no idea where the hell that goes oh well
off
grab my fusey woozie yeah let's go let's go in deep
there is the fuse box
yeah don't go randomly pulling fusion
let's turn on light won't let me all right let me get my flashlight
that did not help whatsoever that fuse go hold on lost my fuse
zoom in a wee bit
okay you can see some larger fuses
and you can see some minis minis many many many many many
and see those larger blue ones and then that red one down there those are triple blade fuses
so
small one on the left that's a microfuse or what was i saying minis i meant micro um so
those small ones on the left those are microfuses those one on the right are triple blade microfuses
in all my years in automotive i have never seen a triple blade microfuse i'm sorry i know that
it must have been out there for a while especially since i was able to get them on amazon which the
link for that will be in the description box below they probably they were cheap enough where
you're probably gonna want some on hand just to keep in a junk drawer at home just in case
and the fuse of the day is
that five amp on the left that triple blade on the left
so let's back out
get the fuse remover
we're probably gonna get some error warnings
oh god i hope i pulled the right one
pop it here
let's see it's a wee bit melted
wow no error messages today
let's make sure they shipped me and i ordered the right thing
it's a little smaller but everything lines up so put that bugger back in
sorry about that phone overheated i don't know why iphones overheat so
much my 6s never overheated i could record for an hour straight video recording with my eight
overheats video recording with my xs overheats
video recording with my wife's 12. overheats my 4s 5s 6s never overheat so let's put that
back in here
yeah i'm gonna have to move the camera there it is it seems shorter than uh
than uh the originals but it works there we go my phone's gonna overheat again put this bugger back
so
shazam oh yeah
there you go these are cheap too uh you can get a pack of 32 assorted amperages
it's only like 13 bucks shipped
i don't know don't want to close the door
restore
there we go 209 miles on the x that's pretty sad
got a brick of cells in my battery that
is about 65 millivolts lower than the rest of the pack causes a whole bunch of bms calculation
issues but of course oh that's within normal specs i'm sorry tesla you guys are really dropping the
ball anyways adios see you guys next video oh right yeah we're good fuses here see a lit oh nope
blades are the same length overall shorter though but hey it works it works right folks
i'll probably just put those in here with the matching different amperage sizes
you got five 7.5 10 and 15.
bye-bye
you