Code PM_w013 was reported by the “Pedal monitor” controller in the car. The letter “w” in the middle places it among entries of the warning type.
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The Pedal Monitor — independent supervision of the accelerator pedal and torque. It makes sure the car only accelerates when the driver actually asks it to. Being a safety function, its codes lead to reduced power.
The car is flagging that something is not right. Driving is usually still possible, but some function may be limited.
This is how the fault is named inside the car's firmware. For codes without a description it is the most precise clue there is — the name itself says what the event is about.
The text below comes from Tesla's technical documentation. We leave it in the original English so that translation cannot shift its meaning.
The Pedal Monitor (PM) has detected a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus issue. This alert is an indication that some other component on the Powertrain (PT) CAN bus is overloading the CAN bus and is filling the CAN buffer.
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Copy it exactly, letter and number included. Photographing the screen is safest — codes often differ by a single digit, and mixing them up leads somewhere else entirely.
Some codes clear after a screen restart or after the car sits locked for a few hours. If the code does not come back, it was usually a one-off glitch.
A one-off entry and a code that appears after every drive are two different things. It helps a service centre enormously if you know exactly when it shows up.
With airbags, brakes, steering and high voltage there is no point waiting it out. With the other groups you can watch and see whether the code returns at all.
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