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by theogravity 969 days ago
I don't think autopilot works if the cameras are not calibrated. I had to also drive a certain set of miles for it to operate again.

Your response corresponds to a lot of research I did on if I had to pay the recalibration fee or not (when I initially got a quote from Safelite) - the consensus online is mixed, but I'm speaking from my own personal experience here that I did not require recalibration tooling other than to press the recalibrate service button after my windshield was replaced and drove 20-30 miles before autopilot would be re-enabled again.

Although these are Model Y instructions, they pretty much reflect the experience I had:

https://service.tesla.com/docs/Public/diy/modely/en_us/GUID-...

The document does mention "Contact Tesla only if your Model Y has not completed the calibration process after driving 100 miles (160 km) in the described conditions.", which probably means you would need external hardware calibration tooling because it couldn't auto-calibrate.