Electric Power Frunk Kit Install: Tesla Model S (Power Struts + Soft-Close Latch)

0:00you have the power

0:18Today we're going to be working on the Tesla Tesla again. This for model S but it the.

0:48automatically open and close. Now, if you guys were looking to buy this, check out in the

1:18is you know you grab this hook or something like that you pull it down and

1:22You have to close it like this

1:24Now first off you're touching your paint which you're means you're probably going to get your hands dirty, and you're also scratching your paint

1:31Which is no good on top of that you leave like greasy like grease

1:36So you'll see like right now that you can get close

1:39. You can see that the car is not clean

1:41So there's dust on the car when I'm pressing down on it

1:48and it also leave like a little like fingerprint dust there so that's always

1:55pretty annoying but with the new power struts it's gonna solve all that. Now let's check

2:01out the unboxing see what's going on over here. Now this is gonna be the controller

2:08the aka the brain this is more like a you know an add-on it doesn't change

2:15the computer on your Tesla it's just a little helper so you still retain all

2:20your functions with that. Nicely wrapped wrapped and then again we have a car from Tony

2:30Smart Tesla workshop. I follow them on Facebook Facebook because they

2:33started posting stuff on Facebook and that's easy for me but they also sell,

2:36sell things on eBay and things like that.

2:40So that's awesome.

2:42Thank you, Tony, for that.

2:46Get some unwrapping.

2:47So I have my knife.

2:48I know it's pretty crazy looking knife.

2:51Gotta be careful when I'm cutting the tape.

2:57A little serrated knife action right there.

2:59Some plugs, zip ties.

3:02Now this is going to be the new motor for the soft closing and this is going to be the locking mechanism.

3:14You're going to put this on your OEM latch. This is cool. You gots some harnesses, some more wiring, your power strut so you got two each side.

3:27You're gonna plug this into of course the little brain thing right here

3:35And you'll have two of them

3:37And this is gonna be a little speaker so cool. We got a little speaker

3:42And you had the news helper spring for the latch up front

3:49Very cool

3:51So this is what comes into the kit, two power struts

3:54you have your new motor,

4:24some quality control stuff right there. So we're gonna work on the the

4:33is gonna open the front. You have to remove these pieces because what we're

4:39trying to do is we're trying to remove basically remove this which is

4:44really easy all you need is a flat-head screwdriver for

4:52So I would say anything you have in your front, set that aside.

5:05And we're going to remove some pieces, these are just help Eclipse and this little like

5:10rubber gasket thing.

5:11So we're going to just pop this bad boy off, super easy.

5:20I can like have a little noise like that.

5:23Two real right there, set that to side.

5:25Do it the same thing on the side.

5:27There's clips on this a

5:27There's clips on this end.

5:29So you can't want to take the clips out there.

5:31You can hear the sounds of the clips.

5:33Little rubber-basket thing.

5:38Some clips up the front.

5:45Then you want to remove this bad boy.

5:47I believe it's

5:53actually it's part of this so we'll hold out on that.

5:57and yeah, let's see what we should do next.

6:11So we're going to take off the frunk.

6:14I heard you just take this liner out so we're going to take the liner out.

6:25And now watch for these, for the liners you do have the trunk, the

6:31tape opening and then the LED light, so let's get to that.

6:37Alright so we have the little plastic trims removed.

6:40Now when we have the liner removed we had for the nose cones 2015 P85D at least in my case

6:47We had a 14 right here 14 millimeter if you want to get close. You had a 14 millimeter bolt right here

6:52You have a 14 millimeter bolt right here, and we had an 8 millimeter bolt right here a little nut right here and?

7:00It could be another 8 but for my car for some reason it didn't have it so it could be

7:10bad boy out, hopefully, hopefully, oh, look at this tub, I think this is like, okay,

7:21it's not, you get the little harness right here, I'm like, man, you can

7:25probably source them, like, make this into a cooler, and now we have the inner

7:32They're goods, isn't it beautiful?

7:36Look at that.

7:39We could remove this cowl too.

7:41I don't think it's needed, but yeah,

7:45let's a remove lap of the cowl.

7:52Isn't that sick?

7:53You can literally, you wanna sit in there?

7:56I don't know.

7:57So for the next part is we're gonna have to get a little

7:58closer to this little hook thing.

8:01If you have a single hook, again,

8:03single hook means you're able to do this mod.

8:06I believe that the two hooks, you cannot.

8:09So single hook, you're good to go.

8:11Now the best way to pop the nose cone

8:13from my testing, is you just sit on it.

8:15You see how it happens when you just,

8:17you give it a little sit,

8:18like kinda comes out a little bit.

8:22Yeah, but so you just sit on it,

8:25or you can just pop it up that way.

8:26And it kinda comes out.

8:31And this would give me some access, it doesn't clip on real good.

8:39And now there's some sensors right here, parking sensors.

8:42Now you just press on them, and you should be fine.

8:47Now the kit will come with an emergency front opener.

8:52You can put it anywhere you want.

8:56I think what I'll do is put my emergency front opening in here.

9:03Nose cone boys have that ability, but, you know, if you don't have a nose-cone, then

9:12you can probably tuck it into the wheel well or something like that.

9:15Now look at that.

9:17We have the nice nose cone, carbon-fibre.

9:24Now to remove this it's also pretty simple you can use a of these tabs.

9:31You can, you can, you can just use a wrist action and then it pops it out halfway.

9:45You should be the be able to pull it out at this point, because when you push it in it

9:51expands the thing you pull it out it makes it a less expanded

9:56put that somewhere somewhere safe

9:59let's do

10:21So, we're really exposing this this locking mechanism, which is

10:29great, and then we have the power struts.

10:31now we're going to start doing the most of these

11:01and

11:31It doesn't matter which side you do it, they're both the same.

12:01insert the thing here and pop it in.

12:08And now we got the new power struts.

12:10Let's do that to the other side.

12:12We'll get hit

12:12with one more time.

12:13Now we have destroyed

12:43I use of you, I use your head.

12:50then pop this one now now now pro tip heavier with the

13:13We put the motorized the gangster one in here, you want the wires towards the bottom and you

13:24want to rotate it so it can actually go in like that.

13:30Alright, let's see, let go.

13:32So it looks like the motorized ones can hold its own weight.

13:38Cool.

13:39Cool, so we've got that part done.

13:45Now we want to do the latch part, let's go to the

13:49the tools and the latches.

13:52We have the latch boy and yeah we're going to have to um, so we have the latching mechanism

14:07right here with its power harness or some kind of harness.

14:10Now you want this thing to go into here spew while you're doing that.

14:16y

14:17This is where your emergency latch is, so let's say your car battery dies for whatever reason, you should be

14:22be able to have access by just pull it, it actually waits.

14:29So, I mean, ideally you would want it like right here or something like that.

14:34So you pop your nose cone off, you do

14:45it.

14:46I don't think anyone's gonna be popping your nose cone off and open your

14:48frunk, because I don't know what you would put in your frunk but it's a good thing to consider.

14:55So the next thing we have to do is remove this latch. Now depending on if you have a refreshed one

15:02you basically have to go from the top and it's insanely kind of tight up here.

15:07I would use just a regular wrench but if you have your the basically the nose comb boys

15:14again to doing it good. We actually actually have a little

15:17little more clean. I don't think you even need to go from the nose cone. You can just

15:21do it right here. There's just more clearance and there are two 10's so just

15:28remove the two 10's and there's another 10 right here on the opposite side.

15:33All right so this thing's kind of loose. I'm just gonna go it by hand. That

15:39way I have more control. I have one hand unscrewing and one holding. Now I do have

15:52power tools and I do have magnetic trays but not not not everyone has that so I'm

15:59doing it the old-fashioned way for you guys. There you go. So now we have let's

16:08remove this little plug right here so we we want to read we have to reuse this

16:20plug because it's going to be plugging into the little controller over there so

16:24we have this bad boy right here we're going to replace the spring and we're

16:29also going to add in this little part right here that we were talking about.

16:36Okay just remove the spring be careful for your phalanges honestly the spring

16:50is kind of super strong. Move the spring I just pretty much pride it open I had

16:55safety glasses on because it's a spring you want to be safe now it will look

17:01like something like this your locking mechanism now what you want to do is

17:04get this bad boy right here with the and we gotta find a way to basically to

17:10open it motorized and to do that you see that how there's this little hook

17:16right here. You want

17:20to have that hook right here. So it's

17:25hooked and then this is where your 10

17:28millimeter bolt is going to go. And on

17:31this side you want to have it, you see

17:34there's a

17:38a little thing so let's have a kind of

17:41loose put this little rectangle thing in

17:43here have it hooked and it's nice and

17:51secure and should be good to go with

17:56the ten mills back this is probably like

17:59the hardest spot like this is not a

18:01Especially if you just like to fidget with things, but it is a little bit out of most

18:09people's comfort zone.

18:10You can do this with the lock out of it, but I have it already installed.

18:15You want to put this spring, basically pull it into that little notch.

18:20Again, doing it outside might be easier.

18:26This is how we are doing it.

18:33So you you have it locked into this little latch right here and then you just pull.

18:37Pull the

18:46pull the spring on. It might be easier. It might be easier to do it outside. I bolted

19:00it on because of I it's bolt it on because it and it's not flying all overer the place. In

19:05my. In my case it was easier. We have the spring on. We have the bracket nice and in.

19:10So we're going to mess with the electronics part.

19:16To do the electronics, we need power to it.

19:21So I'm going to show you guys how to do power.

19:23This is going to be your 12 volt battery.

19:26You just pop this cap off.

19:28If you're, you know, if you worked on cars before, you're very familiar with this.

19:34Just pop it off.

19:35Looks like it's easier right there.

19:40And then you're going to see like an 8mm bolt, we are gonna need of you need

19:43need to use this to basically tap into it.

19:48So let's unscrew that.

19:49We, we have to remove this little tab right here.

19:51We're gonna have to get power of the battery.

19:54Now we're gonna use a 10mm unscrew this.

20:00So we get some power or you can do right here too.

20:04let's do it before the fuse

20:08I just kinda to kinda want to snake it through it

20:10be careful obviously this is

20:12it's not too

20:13I mean it the only 12 volts so I mean it's not

20:15anything crazy

20:17and you have the fuse right there so

20:27you want a nice snug

20:30Then pop this back over it

20:33I'm gonna close this so it's like at least kind of water tight

20:39And then we need the ground wire as well

20:43Now you can ground directly to the battery again or just anywhere on the Chansey same in thing on the side to

21:00make a metal contact so we now we have ground and I'm going to keep the twist

21:16high so so now you have your power to your to this cable we're gonna have to

21:23use to get the brains of the operations into the thing so we have

21:26power we have the struts and now let's look over this thing real quick we have

21:37the motors for this we're gonna do left motors again there's a lot of twist

21:44size so just remove them and then we're gonna connect they fit like

21:53Legos so you can't like do the wrong plugs boom and then we're gonna do the right

22:00motor we are doing great we have the power we just did the power so get that

22:09power purple wire in. Purple wire in. Oh it's lighting up. But we still need the, soft

22:27clothes. Now your kit comes with another plug-and-play harness, which is again

22:31clutch and we're gonna have to start plugging things in. So we're just gonna

22:40start doing it. So we're gonna intercept that plug, male to female on the side.

22:52And then we're going to connect it to the latch.

23:00And let's kind of just loop it all under this and I'm plugging the main bad boy here.

23:12that signal. Another Y split plug right here.

23:33then the main harness. The main harness has a light which I am not too sure about yet. We

23:40We have a, a buzzer, so that we have a little sound thing, and we also have some, we have

23:48a plug that basically does a split between the trunk button, so you want to plug in

23:53the trunk thing right here, so you have a little Y split, so that way the computer

23:58knows but it's still going to the Tesla thing as well and then you have this little

24:04yellow wire, now the yellow wire you need to plug into the OEM, so instead of having

24:09a y-split. Now if you get it from this angle we're gonna have to actually tap into

24:18this plug right here. Unfortunately we don't have an adapter so we're gonna actually just have to use

24:29it so I believe we're gonna splice into the red wire. So this is just a little crimping tool

24:38and you just try to pull back this little like tape like material and we're

24:44just gonna plug it in right here and clamp it on now you're gonna need a

24:51little bit of force to get through the wires so yeah do something like this

24:59You're a clip sound, and then you're going to plug it back in here.

25:09And now we are plugged in, plugged in, everything is plugged in, power wire is plugged in.

25:26Yeah, so we have everything plugged in besides this

25:32light the

25:34So yeah, stay tuned. You just hold this buttonnarrow button right down here to initializes it, it

25:43You hear like a beeping sound

25:45And then, and now if you press it, it should close.

25:52And then, then, there you go.

26:11Alright so I have the front right now all the wires are plugged in I'm just

26:17gonna hit the little thing right here and it's just gonna be automatically closed

26:24now I have on the slower settings I don't really care about making it fast

26:28anything but

26:29you can get there and then if I want to open it's just two buttons on this key

26:34and it opens again this is on the slower speeds which I don't mind

26:39because yeah I rather to

26:41to do it safer and for the beepings right now of course we're still product like

26:48installing but I can remove the speaker and get rid of the beeping but the beeping

26:53is nice because it does tell you like when you close it and it's like a lock

26:57down

26:59Now let's go, it will work from the app too I believe.

27:06So, let's go try on the app, see if you can see the controls and then we're going to do

27:16the front.

27:18This action, yes, so it works on the app too and then it also shows on the app that

27:28your trunk is open and if you go to controls again they hit hit closing and let's see the picture.

27:44So it should show it closing I guess it's taking a while to the process

27:50but it's closed oh there you go so it does update through the internet saying that

27:56your trunk your your front is closed and we'll go from the inside to now I have the

28:09nose close the nose cone unplugged with those parking sensors so let's say

28:13now let's go to the quick controls hit open boom it's

28:25going up it's nice and if you want to Close you just hit open

28:34again and it will close same thing with your apps and stuff like

28:43plug the button because we're putting the

29:13or two so you can kind of see in here where I mounted it it's a 3M they're

29:49There's a little mushroom right here.

29:59It's always cool to get this little mushroom in there.

30:09Mushroom awareness.

30:10You can't open up please open up baby

30:34I gotta go to sleep guys, I'm just kidding, but yeah, it's a lot faster, check this out.

30:58Oh, baby, almost hit the top of the house.

31:28and now if you want to open the front, we just use our keys and a double click and it opens

31:36like that.

31:37It's nice, it's quiet, I took out the speaker because it was kind of noisy, it's good for

31:43the installation process but I think it looks a lot more, you know it's- a stealth being like

31:46this and then if you want to close it just double click it and then it goes

31:54here and soft closes the rest of the way that's awesome now

31:58installation wise I think it's very easy we just use a 14 millimeter 10

32:03millimeter in like a flathead screwdriver yeah and you'd never had to

32:08get under the car everything is super accessible pretty easy to install I...

32:12I think. I think anybody can do it. I never did struts before thes.

32:42check out his products on his store.

32:53Now I can open stuff.

32:54And this also works with the Tesla Model 3,

32:57Tesla Model X and Tesla Model Y, I don't know.

33:03X, Y, Z, all of them.

33:05You're gonna be pretty much the much good to go.

33:08And it, it's pretty bad ass.

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