Recent content by Tha_Ape

You do exactly what I do, same daily miles and everything. I hope in a few years my car is an outlier, but realize that's likely not going to be the case

FWIW, the stalks on both my 21 MY and 23 M3 are spotty sometimes. I don't think it's a switch issue, i think there's something in the software that's busy doing something else some times and doesn't "listen" to the switches. They work a majority of the time, but there have definitely been...

I rarely chime in on stuff like this (i don't even have a plaid). But I've taken a fair share of cars to the track and have run in cold/ heavy rain. I second that DWS 06s are great tires. I plan on switching both my Teslas to them as soon as the factory tires go. I think Continentals also...

This is the best graph I've found over the years that shows the oM3P (o for: original... old... OG, whatever). I think around 75% power starts falling off. Then again, some of that could likely be adjusted in software and who knows what Tesla does, they're so opaque.

Electric planes advantage are noise. They sacrifice performance for low detectabiliy. See "Great Horned Owl aircraft". Or for high altitude, long endurance "pseudolites" like NASAs pathfinder. Conventional planes get lighter as they fly which directly affects range. With electric...

??? That's weird. The recline is on the lower side (the switch below your thigh), not up top like the 5 seat. If yours doesn't, that's a new change as far as I know

You still get a reclining second row (and 1" more of leg room) with 3rd row. You do lose a little bit storage area.

Dang! You dropped 0.5sec off the M3P just with weight reductions?!? How much weight did you lose?

I thought so. To the point that I'd actually consider retro fitting them if it's possible to keep at least seat heater/ airbag functionality.

I just measured my 23 M3P. It's identical. Same with the front tires. Rear tires on the 24 are wider, likely due to more powerful motor. My friend recently got a Highland (long range) and those seats are ridiculously more comfortable. I'll bet the performance ones are even better

Same issue. Started about a month ago. Using center console USB-C ports... they've worked flawlessly for 3yrs. Sounds like it's software related since I'm not alone here

Whenever I use voice commands to "turn on the radio", the car displays "turning on AM radio". That should be "FM", especially since my Tesla doesn't even have AM radio.

If you're going to do all that to your car, you need to keep it to get value out of it. In general, selling a car before you've owned it for 5yrs is a losing proposition (yea, COVID did weird things to the market, but that wasn't normal). Did you get $7500 back? Is that included in your...

I'd wait for the inevitable issues of a new model to be ironed out. Generally speaking it's best to get the last year of a model. Who knows, they may add in that high resolution radar in a year or so... they could also take stuff away, Tesla is odd

Quick silver is the rarest. I see them from time to time to time. They should bring that color back