Turning off Sentry and stopping battery drain

[oldmanbm]

I keep turning off Sentry Mode on my '22 Model 3 and it keeps coming on again! It's causing battery drain and I have left the car parked with 10% and went out next morning to see 6%. Not much fun if you are travelling 12 miles to work where you get free charging! How do I make sure no battery drain?

[CharlieAlphaMike]

I'd be very nervous about letting my battery go down to 10% without being able to connect to a charge point. However, are you switching Sentry off via the in-car screen or your phone App? My works fine using the screen and although I haven't tried it via the App, I'd be wary of using that.

Also, are you sure it's not 'recording' that keeps coming back on? When I disable Sentry, 'Recording' always seems to come back on after a few seconds. I then tend to lose approx 2% battery per day with the car parked in my garage, not charging and with Sentry off.

I guess the best advice would be to contact Tesla though and ask them to take a look.

[Heres Johnny]

As said sentry won’t run below 20% soc so something is wrong and a reboot might help or it’s something else.

Reboot is easy, press and hold in the steering wheel scroll wheels.

The rest of the settings, and there a few possibles, are explained here

https://youtu.be/aA79erSOUf0

[CharlieAlphaMike]

CheesecakeRunner said:

Are you sure nothing else is waking the car? No apps like TeslaFi polling it, or Octopus Intelligent charging?

If I have Sentry off in mine, it literally takes days to lose 1%.

Good point about other things waking the car up. If you keep checking on the car via the App, that will drain the battery.

I'm amazed to hear you lose 1% over several days. Mine loses approx 2% per day.