Hey! That's what we want to see, green light.
Hi John here. A bit of an update on our Tesla supercharging problem.
If you're not familiar with that just
backtrack a bit. I've done a video up here
which details all about it so you can have a read of that
or watch of that even. You can read it I guess, because there's subtitles.
But anyway. There was a comment on there
from Andy. Which was a great one and he said have
you tried a public charging CCS connection to see whether that works.
I thought, you know I haven't. All I've done is the
Type 2 connection which you can do at home and that works fine.
So we've just dropped out to Peterborough services
where they've got the ionity chargers the DC fast charges there.
And we've just connected those up to try and see
whether it would charge. Connects up okay. Went through all the payment option...
And no nothing. Nada. It wouldn't charge.
It gave a fault. Which sort of points towards the fact that it is
something to do with the CCS connection or the
the two pins of the CCS connection at the bottom
of the charge port. So yeah it's booked in for
Monday with Tesla Service in Milton Keynes. I've got a loaner
not sure what the loaner is so we'll find out what that is on Monday.
You'll join me next on Monday at Milton Keynes
and I'll give you an update then. Morning. just arrived at the Tesla Service Centre
in Milton Keynes. Just parked up and just going to drop this car off.
There's some kind of key box scenario here. Contactless
exchange and pick up my loaner car.
Okay so that was easy. So we're looking for
black Model S, registration...that
Model S, not around there...
must be over here somewhere. It's over there.
Just shut the door. Just had a confirmation on the text message from Tesla that
the Model 3 is ready for collection. They've sorted out the problem with it.
Apparently two things really. One they did a software update.
A couple of people said that when they've had exactly the same problem
with been unable to supercharge that
the Ranger or Service Centre sent a software update, forced one to the
car and I've just had an update
confirmation come through for 2020.36.11
and that's installed on the car so they've done that. And they also noticed
that the front louvers at the front of the car
don't open and they should open when the car supercharges.
Which means that if they don't open it can overheat
so that may certainly have been the problem anyway they fixed that
and the car is ready for collection. So I can take this loaner back
and go and collect our car so that's what I'm gonna do.
So that's a swap over done. I've given back the loaner,
the 75D model S, which was good fun and now back in my own car. And it's
funny isn't it how you always prefer your own car whatever that car is.
It's all familiar and comfortable. It's all been fixed apparently so I'm
going to go and test it.
Okay you have to guess where we are from the photo.
I've come to Milton Keynes to see if the supercharger works so
fingers crossed we are good to go. So let's go and have a look shall we.
Let's just turn you around
Yay, that's what we want to see. Green light. You'll now see we are supercharging.
Great news. Fixed. All good in the hood as they say. So yeah any comments any
questions drop them down below and i will respond.
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that good stuff. Thanks very much take care bye.