Recent content by FalconFour

There's no problem slapping the door closed. It's a clutched gear mechanism. You can't grind gears or do any damage by slapping it shut, just the same as (or arguably safer than) closing a CD drawer by pushing it. It's the only way I ever closed the door (give it a good whack) for the nearly...

Aha, hey there! Yeah, I can't advise mucking about in this direction - but if you want to press on regardless, you're definitely going to have to start getting down and nerdy with it - compare charge port wiring and service info. When I first dug into mine, I got all the information I could -...

Aye, you PM'd and made a thread separately ;) Well, there are some questions I asked in PM that are answered here. The "invalidMacAddress" is more concerning to me - it means you haven't flashed it, or that has somehow otherwise gone wrong. That alert appears only on a new install, just before...

I'm guilty of mixing that up 😅 Only in the past few posts, I realized that the "navigate to a CCS, then put a Supercharger ahead of it" trick (I use multiple times a week) wouldn't work outside the SC-dense Bay Area. If the SC is too far ahead in nav, it'll just figure it's got way more time...

Actually, that came back with the 2021 holiday update -- just before V11 UI took our dreams of a coherent, bug-free user interface and shattered them on the floor. (hey, auto high beams will be usable soon, right? ... right?) I was super excited to see USB album art back again. And then it...

It was discovered (for me, shortly after the CHAdeMO adapter became compatible with the 3) that Tesla software has dumb logic for battery heating: "if the charging mode is DC, heat the battery" - target varies by battery type/chemistry but the logic is the same. End result: you waste 10-20% of...

Oh my god, YES! That sounds like incredible news - the update we've only been waiting ~4 years to hear 😂 (Just in time for me to be interested in selling the Tesla after getting past the breaking point of such issues piling up...) Of course, it'll be about another 3 months before it'll trickle...

Prox disconnected, latch disconnected, thermistor irrational... 🤔 A bit weird, like maybe your Bundle isn't fully plugged in, or maybe defective? All those signals ought to be on that connector, so it's a bit sus. I'll PM ya 😄 Might need to get a replacement... if anyone else sees these...

I'm a bit sad that I had to be the one to point it out (I very much "got the message" from TMC admin-ship that I should shut up about CCS retrofits... so I'm just here sparsely now), but yeah, CCS retrofits are registered with Tesla as "compatible", evidently. I just ordered mine today, because...

That's not the case in the battery world though. There is no "single best battery for every job". It's always a trade-off between energy density and performance -- how much energy you can cram into a single cell (of the same size/weight) varies depending on whether you want it to sustain...

Meh, you can get away with putting tiny devices directly on the 12v battery. Its draw is well within the margins of error of typical battery charging (the variance between a new and aged lead battery, etc). The car won't notice it. Tesla Service would almost definitely whine about it, though...

Not to flex, but this was my weekend, and what can _really_ be powered off a Tesla. :) A bit around 1000w of lights, and around 500w (average) of sound... all night, sunset to sunrise. 12v cigarette-lighter port? lol lol. no 😂 I can't emphasize this enough, because it's the first thing...

That line's "missing-ness" is definitely regional - I've heard that from other people in other regions as well. The presence/lack of "CCS adapter support" doesn't indicate anything by itself - it's just a visual change. The support/lack of support is still there based on the installed hardware...

You'll be baked alive in the car and then frozen to preserve your corpse. 😂 No but really, it'll get a bit hot inside, then cool. Nothing too wild. I'm pretty sure "test thermal performance" refers to power-train/battery heating and cooling, so not relevant here. You'll get a whole page of...

Everyone I've seen that's still having trouble is on FSD Beta (myself included), so still stuck on an old version (pre-2022.16.x). So, hooray, FSD Beta feature disparity bites us again :(