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Turning on Off Road Assist makes a huge difference driving in snow and slippery road conditions.

This is the tire repair kit that I use and highly recommend it. It's the same kit used by the tire professionals: https://safetyseal.com/kits/

The centering device is just a piece of plastic that screws to the bottom of table/chair lets to prevent scratching the floor. I don't know what they're called but can buy them at hardware stores. I find it helps center the puck at the jack point but the it doesn't hold the puck in place (i.e...

Has anyone tried a different tire/size for 19" Gemini wheels which would be less prone to scraping the wheels? May need a different tire size than the OEM 255/45R19 tire size. If so, what tire and size?

Car wash, polish, and wax using Meguiar's products: Gold Class Car Wash, Ultimate Compound Paint Restorer, Hybrid Ceramic Liquid Wax, and Ultimate Black Plastic Restorer.

Car wash, polish, and wax using Meguiar's products: Gold Class Car Wash, Ultimate Compound Paint Restorer, Hybrid Ceramic Liquid Wax, and Ultimate Black Plastic Restorer.

I just bought 4 hockey pucks from the sport store and used a rubber bumper screwed into each of the pucks. The bumper just help center the puck at the lifting point and doesn't hold the puck in the place. But works fine with a hand jack for rotating tires.

With the MY hatch fully open, the highest point is the lip of the spoiler and it's ~90 inches from the ground. It's almost 8 ft which is quite high. My previous car, Honda Odyssey can fully open the rear hatch without hitting anything above in my garage. The MY cannot and I've set the MY rear...

Another thing to consider which is not obvious until you park your MY in your garage is that if you drive-in into the garage, you won't be able to fully open the rear hatch as it will hit the overhead garage door opener rail. Be sure to set the opening height of the rear hatch before you try...

Off-Road Assist made a big difference for me in snow/slippery road conditions. Without it, the car felt like it was on the verge of fishtailing. With it, the car is stable and balanced.

Turn on Off-Road Assist for driving in snow and slippery road conditions.

I have the same tires on MYLR and it does drive with a "twitchy" feel, like it's going to fishtail every time the accelerator is pressed. But enabling "off-road assist" made a big difference and it drives more stable and balanced.

I was getting skeptical about my MYLR on slippery and icy road conditions cause it has so much torque that it feels like it's about to fishtail when the accelerator is even lightly pressed. Today, in the light snow, I tried "off road" mode and it made a big difference. It drives more stable and...

Yes, I have mine adjusted to not hit the garage door opener but moving big items in/out of the trunk is not convenient unless the hatch is fully opened.

Backing into your home garage allows you to fully open the rear hatch without hitting the garage door opener.

There was an article about CCS support on Teslas indicating that a retrofit would be available from Tesla to enable CCS support if/when the CCS adapter was made available to the North American market (currently only available in Korea).

Issue happened to my MY this morning and fixed it with a hard reboot (press brake pedeal and both scroll buttons).

It really depends on the jack being used. If the contact surface of the jack is rubberized, then pucks aren’t needed. Safer to use a puck to avoid damage.

I used a 1/2 drive 24" breaker bar with 21mm deep socket and didn't have any problems with the tightness of the lug nuts. Torque wrench to finish up.

Just did my first tire rotation on MYLR and took about an hour (front-to-back rotation). I used a Torin 3T low profile jack from Costco and lifted the front tire about 6 inches which will also lifted the rear tire about 1 inch. I used a homemade jack pad which is basically a hockey puck with a...

To help with Tesla wall connector placement in my garage, I cut a 18' piece of string (24' for the newer wall connectors) and taped it to the proposed wall connector location and verified that it would reach the car charging port if it was parked forward or backwards. Depending on the height of...

Sounds like there will be an option to enable the CCS adapter when it becomes available: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/634/tesla-ccs-adapter-coming-to-us-will-your-car-support-it

You should be setting the rear hatch open limit to avoid hitting in your garage. Just manually move the hatch to the desired open height and hold the round close hatch button until to beeps multiple times. Just FYI, the same can happen if you accidentally press the open hatch on your phone app...

Here is someone's app with Gemini wheels without covers. Supposed to be configurable from Service menu and pick Gemini without covers but I don't have that option.

Yes, I've seen app show Gemini wheels without cap too but haven't figured out how to do this.

Your inside-house panel has a 220V circuit labeled "Range". If all your appliances are gas, this 220V circuit may not be currently used so it can be reused for your Tesla wall connector. Looks to be 40 or 50A (hard to see in the picture) which is sufficient for car charging.

Agreed. And should be able to view the sentry video that caused this notification from the app. IMO, this would be more useful than the live sentry feature currently being rolled-out to the app.

Takes 2 seconds to remove the center cap with a suction cup.

Your garage door opener is somewhere in your car with the button constantly pressed.

I took delivery of MY7 on July31 and has front mud flaps, rear PPF, and biohazard filter.

Not sure if you did this but if you want to give someone access to your car, login to your Tesla account (not the app) and under Manage->Car Access add that person's email account. That person will receive an email and needs to install the Tesla app (if not already installed) and accept access...

The MY is shaped like a hedgehog so my kids have nicknamed it "Sonic Hedgehog".

Does dashcam automatically save if you get into an accident? Or do you need to honk your horn after an accident or remember to hit save dashcam?

The MY7 comes with standard carpet floor mats for the first 2 rows, none for the 3rd row. The 3rd row carpet floor mats are available on the Tesla online store.

Aero hubcaps removed and replaced with Tesla center caps.

Just removed the aero hubcaps and installed the Tesla center caps.

I tried the suction cup again and it works if moisten the suction cup with water first.

Is there an easy way to remove the wheel center cap? I also have the aero cover removed on my MY and wheel center caps installed. For road trips, I may go back to the aero cover but don’t see an easy way to take out the center cap without removing the wheel from the car and pushing the cap from...

What insurance coverage(s) are you buying from ICBC?

Update to my original post... I got a couple more quotes: one for $4000 and another for $1800 (but does not include trenching). Both are permitted and inspected installations. Was favoring the $1800 quote, not because it's the cheapest but because this was a highly reputable electrician. I...

You will be parking your MY inside your garage so presumably you'll want the wall connector installed inside the garage (and not outside the house)? Assuming you have no electrical connection constraints on where to place the wall connector inside your garage (electrician will be able to...

Yes, I see it online on Tesla website now. I wonder if this will come with new MY7 deliveries as it does have front and back carpeted mats.

The Honda probably has many more years to go, don't know about the 10 year old BMW. If you trade-in the Honda now, you may need to make another car decision in a few years with the BMW. Just thinking from another angle...

Did you not get floor mats with your MY7? The SA said it does come with one set of carpet mats.

I was willing to try the white MyQ but chatted with Chamberlain technical support and they said there's no difference between the black and white MyQ other than the newer white one is compatible with more garage door openers. The technical support kept saying that TCP port 8883 needs to be...

I’m planning to buy the Tesla wheel locks and hoping the wheel cap lug nut covers will fit over the wheel locks.

I made a set of jack pads using 4 hockey pucks, and a set of rubber bumpers: 1) Routed a circular groove in the puck for the rubber bumper about 1/8" deep. 2) Glued the rubber bumper to the puck. Total time to make ~1 hour. Total cost ~$13.