Nina's Blog - Tuesday 18th November 2025
Tuesday 18th November 2025, 19:27
The intermittent fault on the left headlight of my car has finally become continuous so I've scheduled a visit to the Tesla workshop. Unfortunately the nearest service centre is very busy so it won't be looked at before 16th December. There was an option to book it into a different one that could have taken it today but I decided against it because it's nearly two hours away by public transport and involves two busses and a train.
And i found that the problem with my car key was that the battery was flat, or at least that changing the battery for another one seems to have fixed the problem. But this is a bit odd because I changed the battery recently and I thought that it came from the same blister pack a the one I've put in it now. It uses a CR2032 coin cell and when i checked the voltage on the one I've just taken out of the key it was 3 V, I checked the new one before I put it in and it has 3.3 V. The nominal voltage is 3 V. It's doubly odd because usually the car whines about the key fob battery being low for quite and that's why I changed it a couple of weeks ago but it didn't complain about low battery this time just that it couldn't detect the key. Very odd.
The intermittent fault on the left headlight of my car has finally become continuous so I've scheduled a visit to the Tesla workshop. Unfortunately the nearest service centre is very busy so it won't be looked at before 16th December. There was an option to book it into a different one that could have taken it today but I decided against it because it's nearly two hours away by public transport and involves two busses and a train.
And i found that the problem with my car key was that the battery was flat, or at least that changing the battery for another one seems to have fixed the problem. But this is a bit odd because I changed the battery recently and I thought that it came from the same blister pack a the one I've put in it now. It uses a CR2032 coin cell and when i checked the voltage on the one I've just taken out of the key it was 3 V, I checked the new one before I put it in and it has 3.3 V. The nominal voltage is 3 V. It's doubly odd because usually the car whines about the key fob battery being low for quite and that's why I changed it a couple of weeks ago but it didn't complain about low battery this time just that it couldn't detect the key. Very odd.
70-79, T
