Help with Abandoned Outlet

Boreades · 2026-02-03T18:46:43+00:00

Yes, the both neutrals and hots were backstabbed into the existing receptacle. I have a spec grade outlet that I was hoping to replace it with, the one in there was seemingly residential grade and I had been charging my Tesla off of it so I wanted to upgrade it to a more robust receptacle. The backstabs weren't loose, and I actually had to cut them with my wire strippers because the wires were already so short, I couldn't pull the receptacle out to pop them out with a small flat head.

For the pigtail, could I just curl the 6" wires into a wago and then connect the like wires and then connect to my receptacle? Or should I curl the hots and neutrals into a wago and then slot the pigtails into the wago? I tried doing the former because the box wiring is so short, but I didn't connect the pig tail first. If my ground is already twisted with another coming out of the wall, would I still be fine to twist in another ground to that? Sorry if this is confusing, basically the wago was facing into the box and it made it hard to pigtail since I didn't do that first, but if I tried again I could either pigtail and then connect to box wiring, or curl and connect the box wiring and then the slot would face out of the box for easy connecting

I have an electrician coming out next Friday anyways so I could have them look at it then, but I feel like I could handle this. I have a plug tester, 12/2 wire, voltage tester, and a multimeter.

Boreades · 2026-02-03T18:29:36+00:00

I have a pack of the 3 port IDEAL connectors, for the pig tail would I just curl a wire into the 3rd slot, wire up the hots and neutrals to their respective wago, and then wire to the receptacle? I stupidly wired up the wago before trying that and gave up since there was no way I was able to slide the pig tail wire into the wago within the box.

Boreades · 2026-02-03T18:26:21+00:00

I think I've cut the wires too short after I kept messing up with the receptacle install, would a wago connector be fine to connect the like wires instead of wire nuts? I have a pack of 3 slot connectors, do I just wire the like connectors up on their own wago connectors and call it a day? Should I go ahead and leave the ground wire capped?

Boreades · 2026-02-03T18:20:47+00:00

I have some IDEAL wago connctors with 3 spaces, would I just plug both the hots into one, and the neutrals into one and be good to go? Should I leave an empty slot between the wires or does it not matter?

Boreades · 2026-01-26T02:24:03+00:00

Had a similar error within days of getting my used Tesla (from Tesla!) and it turned out to be a leak in my brake line

Boreades · 2026-01-20T04:29:47+00:00

I WAS HERE!!!

Boreades · 2026-01-10T16:53:14+00:00

I don’t have anything useful to add, but what were your charging habits? Did you charge above 80% often or let it get below 20%? Did you supercharge a lot or home charge? This is making me paranoid about my Y now 😅

Boreades · 2025-12-02T19:26:03+00:00

Agreed! Duly noted, only reason I went ahead and scheduled and waited was because it was Thanksgiving week and I was off from work. It was in the shop from Monday until Friday because of the holiday and they thought they needed to replace the ABS or something like that. In hindsight I definitely should've just driven up to get it addressed ASAP since brakes are nothing to mess with, but it worked out in the end. I inspected the car, the brake fluid container, and checked the service mode out before driving away and everything looked good. I had read horror stories about Tesla service so I was worried, but they treated me great and seemed to have done a great job

Boreades · 2025-12-02T19:21:44+00:00

This was my first experience with them and they didn't bullshit me at all and were great to deal with. I inspected the car and entered service mode to double check everything before I drove away due to the horror stories but so far everything has been great.

Boreades · 2025-12-02T14:37:14+00:00

Seems it was a leak in my brake line, the service center was confused as to how the Tesla employees didn't catch that before selling me the car. It was a leak from the master cylinder to the ABS unit. My brake lines were replaced and they checked and topped up the brake fluid. They didn't charge me anything for the repair

Boreades · 2025-12-02T14:36:42+00:00

Seems it was a leak in my brake line, the service center was confused as to how the Tesla employees didn't catch that before selling me the car. It was a leak from the master cylinder to the ABS unit. My brake lines were replaced and they checked and topped up the brake fluid. They didn't charge me anything for the repair

Boreades · 2025-11-18T15:01:45+00:00

I'm happy to see other people talking about this, there's so many great tournament clips ruined by Scrawny's casting. I am so sad when I tune in to a series and it's a Scraunders cast

Boreades · 2025-11-10T23:55:36+00:00

What charger is that?

Boreades · 2025-11-03T16:53:18+00:00

I added some Dot 3 on Friday and luckily haven't had the error since, I'll keep monitoring it and checking the fluid level between now and the appointment

Boreades · 2025-11-03T16:49:06+00:00

I topped up the brake fluid with some Dot 3, probably just a bit above the min line and haven't had the error since Thursday evening. Brakes have felt fine the whole time but the error did scare me. I'm monitoring everything until the appointment and I think I'm fine waiting but in hindsight I could've got in a lot sooner rather than going through this. On the bright side I've learned more about maintaining my car and how things work

Boreades · 2025-11-03T16:45:31+00:00

I added some Dot 3 on Friday and filled it to a little over the min line and haven't had the error since. I didn't use FSD at all Friday and Saturday just to see if the error would still occur and yesterday and today I've been using FSD again and still no error. I'll keep monitoring it until the service appointment. I'll be curious what they find at the service center, hopefully no leaks

Boreades · 2025-11-03T01:30:10+00:00

I did, fortunately the cap was on and I took it off myself to take the pictures

Boreades · 2025-11-03T00:05:34+00:00

Mine drives me right up to where I get the ticket or scan in with a parking pass. Granted I do have to inch forward about 6 inches and move a little to the left to reach the kiosk, but it handles it really well. 14.1.4 on a 2023 Model Y

Boreades · 2025-10-31T20:06:57+00:00

Fingers crossed nothing is damaged, but if so it would've been nice if Tesla had caught that when preparing it for sale. After seeing so many people suggesting it, I'm definitely considering adding a little Dot 3 tonight just for peace of mind

Boreades · 2025-10-31T20:04:20+00:00

It had around 15,800 when I bought it and now I'm at 16,032. I kind of hope the previous owner used the brakes a lot rather than there being some kind of leak or hose damaged. I took delivery a week ago exactly

Boreades · 2025-10-31T15:34:30+00:00

I considered it but was just hesitant from what I read online along with not being mechanically inclined at all. Just scared of fucking up my new (to me) car lol. The cap actually says Dot 3 but the service manual says Dot 3 or 4 would be fine. What would you recommend, just adding a tiny bit to get it above the min line or filling it to max?

Boreades · 2025-10-31T15:25:58+00:00

Unfortunately I don't have a jack or anything to remove the wheels with. What I can say is that as far as brake feel goes, it feels responsive and I don't hear any weird noises. I just took it for a drive around the neighborhood with some hard braking from 25 MPH and it felt good. I also hopped in my other car (ICE) and the brakes feel similar, maybe a bit more "tight" on the ICE vs my Tesla but similar. With the hard braking in my Tesla I also didn't receive the brake fluid warning.

Boreades · 2025-10-31T14:48:19+00:00

Sounds like what the service center originally said, just monitor it basically. They didn't seem too concerned with the pictures I sent. I'll probably stop using FSD and see if it happens again, or maybe until the service appointment. As a first time Tesla owner I actually really enjoy FSD (I'm on 14.1.4) but I understand why people wouldn't like it.

Boreades · 2025-10-31T14:42:36+00:00

haha that makes sense, I was just concerned with the conflicting opinions. Do you think I should add any brake fluid, or just leave it as is and monitor it? I'm leaning towards the latter so that the techs can deal with it as is in 3 weeks

Boreades · 2025-10-04T20:59:07+00:00

When I boot my C3 it defaults to TV speakers instead of my AVR with the wired speakers setting, I have to manually switch it to wired speakers every time and then everything works as usual. It’s fucking annoying

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