Test your jack and spare tire accessories before you need them

[cybercricket]

All you need is some blocks of wood (others have done it in a pinch with rocks).

Quote:

Steps:​

Drive up tire on to a 4 inch rock​

Put truck in extraction mode​

Once it is 15 inches, slide the stud under the jack point of that tire..​

Loosen lug nuts​

go into service mode (see video)​

Select individual suspension tire and deflate (see video)​

Tire will rise and will lift off the rock, so remove it.​

Replace tire​

tighten lug nuts..​

Go to service mode, inflate that one tire..​

exit service mode​

remove stud​

What if you only have 3.5 and 4.5 inch rocks though ?

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[cybercricket]

I have a compact light weight 3.5T aluminum floor jack like what the pros use. The sawd may have different height needs than air suspension but I will be trying mine out on day 1 to get my new wheels installed.

Do pros use floor jacks in the mountains while parked at an angle as well ?

 

[Ruffles]

I've got the Tesla spare tire and jack kit and have had to use it. It BARELY gets the tire off the ground on level pavement. How does jack mode work? Is it supposed to prevent the tire from drooping or just turn off auto leveling? The manual says to put the suspension in Medium height but even then it droops. Would it work to put the truck in Entry height and then jack mode?

 

[hemiarch]

I've got the Tesla spare tire and jack kit and have had to use it. It BARELY gets the tire off the ground on level pavement. How does jack mode work? Is it supposed to prevent the tire from drooping or just turn off auto leveling? The manual says to put the suspension in Medium height but even then it droops. Would it work to put the truck in Entry height and then jack mode?

All jack mode does is prohibit the truck from changing height so it stays in whatever height you’re in I believe.

 

[cybercricket]

I've got the Tesla spare tire and jack kit and have had to use it. It BARELY gets the tire off the ground on level pavement. How does jack mode work? Is it supposed to prevent the tire from drooping or just turn off auto leveling? The manual says to put the suspension in Medium height but even then it droops. Would it work to put the truck in Entry height and then jack mode?

That's exactly the issue - suspension extends under its own weight until it reaches some kind of limit.

 

[hemiarch]

This one works and gets high enough if any of you are as lazy as I am
https://a.co/d/06pMrDnT

I run mine off my Ecoflow power station but you could just as easily get a power brick and plug it into the vault plug.

Not my listing but ran into this on marketplace
If anyone is in Phoenix and wants one.
https://www.facebook.com/share/18KfWGQNk6/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

[kpanda17]

I was deep in the woods earlier this week, and got a flat... No worries I figured, got a spare and all the stuff with me. Started jacking up the vehicle and it just wouldn't get high enough even with some block under the jack. I had a 4 ton hydraulic jack similar to the one Tesla supplies. Ended up digging to get the spare installed, but that prompted me to look for a better jack... I ended up ordering this : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BX6N9V3G which claims nearly 17" of total height when fully extended. And guess what ? It has insufficient height to get the wheels off the ground even on paved flat terrain. Did a second test with a 6 or so inch block, and then it worked.

So the lesson is test your gear to identify gaps and fix them before an emergency.

totally agree
And doc the steps
Be prepared

 

[That Beast Mode]

Just to re-emphasize how lazy I am, that’s one of the things I use my Teslaref credits for. To pay Tesla service monkeys to do it.
I hate rotating tires in the Arizona heat.

@hemiarch So how does this work tho? There are 4 tires and they can't count that high. Do you have to make separate appointments?

 

[scjmc]

What if you only have 3.5 and 4.5 inch rocks though ?

Crap, all we have are metric rocks down here.

 

[MCraft99]

All you need is some blocks of wood (others have done it in a pinch with rocks).

Quote:

Steps:​

Drive up tire on to a 4 inch rock​

Put truck in extraction mode​

Once it is 15 inches, slide the stud under the jack point of that tire..​

Loosen lug nuts​

go into service mode (see video)​

Select individual suspension tire and deflate (see video)​

Tire will rise and will lift off the rock, so remove it.​

Replace tire​

tighten lug nuts..​

Go to service mode, inflate that one tire..​

exit service mode​

remove stud​

"Once it is 15 inches, slide the stud under the jack point of that tire.."

What is this stud, and what's the jack point of the tire?

 

[cybercricket]

"Once it is 15 inches, slide the stud under the jack point of that tire.."

What is this stud, and what's the jack point of the tire?

More importantly I don't understand why the tire would rise. Suspension deflate doesn't mean the suspension will retract by itself, it needs some force being applied to it. Maybe I'm missing something though...

 

[MCraft99]

More importantly I don't understand why the tire would rise. Suspension deflate doesn't mean the suspension will retract by itself, it needs some force being applied to it. Maybe I'm missing something though...

You and me both. I think they're putting the jack stand or bottle jack under the lower control arm and pushing up once the airbag is deflated.

If the tire is still fully inflated, deflating the tire completely with the suspension in jack mode(no airbag deflation), should give room to slide the tire out.

 

[HaulingAss]

I was deep in the woods earlier this week, and got a flat... No worries I figured, got a spare and all the stuff with me. Started jacking up the vehicle and it just wouldn't get high enough even with some block under the jack.

It would have been easier to just plug the leak and air it up. Jacking off-road can be an involved process depending upon the terrain. It's generally best to avoid it if possible. I was taught to solve problems in the simplest, least time-consuming, most direct way possible:

Problem: Tire doesn't have enough air pressure.

Put more air in.

Problem: Tire won't hold air pressure.

Plug the leak.

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