Recent content by khorton

Check-ins for 2024-06-12 - Terrace Bay, ON (#471) - White River, ON (#472) - Wawa, ON (#473) Day three of our road trip around Lake Superior. Today we drove from Nipigon, ON to Sault Ste Marie, MI. There was quite a bit of fog for the first two hours, but we finally got out of it when the...

Check-ins for 2024-06-11 - Two Harbors, MN (#467) - Tofte, MN (#468) - Thunder Bay, ON (#469) - Nipigon, ON (#470) Day two of our road trip around Lake Superior. We had a great night in Duluth, staying at the South Pier Inn, right next to the Aerial Lift Bridge. And a wonderful dinner at the...

I'll look again once I get home from this road trip, but I'm not sure where those bolts are. I thought I looked pretty hard for them when I was considering removing that airbag panel. Does anything else need to come off to provide access to those two bolts?

Check-ins for 2024-06-10 - Marquette, MI (#465) - Duluth, MN (#466) We started a loop around Lake Superior yesterday. North to Marquette, MI, then a 249 mi leg to Duluth, MN. We stopped in Duluth for the night, as we had never been there before and wanted to have bit of time to check it out...

I removed the yoke and upper and lower column shrouds again. I got the gap filler at the end of lower shroud approximately back in place. It would take more disassembly than I am willing to do to get the gap filler fully secured in place. This is good enough for now. The next time the Tesla...

This is perhaps not a freak occurrence. I heard a bit of a noise when retracting the column for the first time after the first installation, but couldn't figure out what the cause was, and it never repeated. I later found one metal retaining clip on the floor, but couldn't figure out where it...

I gave the system a turn signals and PRND selections a good workout in my driveway. In 50 very quick (i.e. quick press and release, with no attempt to pause before releasing) I had one failure. R or D selections do appear to require moving the R stalk all the way to the stop (upwards for R...

I have not yet had any PRND failures. I'll try to do a bunch of testing the next time I go for a drive - I'll make a bunch of PRND selections to give the system a good workout.

I have had two occurrences where the turn signal failed to activate from the L stalk. In both cases I had very quickly pressed the L stalk to the first detent and immediately released. I concluded that there might possibly be a timing issue whereby a very short duration activation could be...

I am definitely not an expert in this area, so these comments are probably worth less than what you paid for them. I would have two areas of concern about using an impact wrench on the steering yoke/wheel bolt: Potential damage to the bearings on the steering column, Potential damage to the...

I received the TesLaunch Model S/X stalks kit on 2024-05-25 and installed the kit yesterday. Fit and Finish All in the all, the stalks and trim pieces look like they are well made, and they generally match the other materials of the car. The steering column upper trim piece is very slightly...

Great photos! We lived in Moses Lake for four years, and loved the scablands topography found in parts of eastern WA. The drive up to Dry Falls was one of our favorites, as was the drive between Quincy and Wenatchee along the Columbia River gorge.

The factory bolt does come with thread locker. And Tesla only charges $2 for the bolt, so it is a no brainer to use a new one. I will reuse the old one to get it reassembled for a fit check of the upper column shroud to the stalks. I'll put the new bolt in once I have confirmed that...

Feature Request - Route Planner Supercharge.info has a rudimentary route planner function. The problem with using the route planner there, is that the map shows all SCs. It would be quite useful if supercharging.life had a similar route planner, as then the map could show only unvisited SCs...

Check-ins for 2024-05-25 - Sault Ste Marie, ON (#464) I did a day trip today to Sault Ste. Marie, ON and back to snag some Tavel wine that we like. For some reason Tavel is very hard to find in the midwest, yet Ontario manages to bring in a decent amount every year. One of the Liquor Control...