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Mine look like that too. I’ll clean the car one day I promise!

That actually happened to a friend and me. We were driving along the seafront in Ryde on the Isle of Wight in a Hillman Imp (in the 1980’s) and were waved down by a policeman. He insisted on looking in the boot and looked confused when there was an engine there, and my friend said that was the...

Mine was (is, I still have it) a 88” Series One Land Rover.

My M3 has not been washed in over a year (that will get me into trouble!) and it still dry wipes.

Mine stopped at 96% and did not restart in the last half hour slot, so I adjusted the end time to 0900 and it managed to start again and finish charging.

I have finally managed to reconnect the Tesla, but I still had the “we failed to control…” error message when the car was doing an overnight charge.

No, it does it to me too.

I removed my M3 as requested by the email, then followed the instructions, got to step 4 adding the car back and it never went to the Tesla app for anything and it just sat there charging and with the octopus app saying complete test charge to finish. It is still going after an hour of charging...

Just got back from the Southampton service centre, they were very friendly and helpful. This is what they did: “Confirmed presence of alert. Found that AC cable was old type cable without water seal, evidence of water damage through the CP. Replaced the harness with the new type with water seat...

I have been on IO since September last year and had extra cheap slots only 14 times so far, so I think it will not be too much bother to manually control the battery whilst I investigate HA. Thanks everyone.

I am looking at getting a Powerwall 2 now that VAT has gone on battery installations. The question I have is that I am on Octopus IO and so how does one deal with any extra cheap charger slots outside the 23:30 - 05:30 slot? I obviously don’t want the battery to try and run the house or charge...

Yes, I contacted Tesla today and they booked it in for the harness to be changed.

Thanks!

Thanks for the replies, I only do trips that require supercharging a couple of times a year. It is still under warranty so I have booked in a service request. The only issue I have with this is that I have to pay around £100 for a ferry to get to a Service Centre and I don’t know when they will...

Last night I have a message appear on the screen when I got into my 2021 M3 SR+. “DC Fast Charging unavailable - OK to AC charge Service required to restore DC Fast Charging” The message disappeared just before I could take a picture, but it is there in the Alerts log. Should I be worried...

I am still on 2023.44.30.9 as well.

Standard 2021 SR+, I have had it since Dec 2022 and my long term efficiency is 227Wh/mi.

So I finally succumbed and bought a Tesla seat cover, but now I have another question! The instructions on the piece of paper are not very clear, on the door covers do the plastic “clips” go between the glass and the rubber window seal, or somehow between the door trim and the rubber window...

Octopus have just got back to me and said about the “excess” charging: “It does all appear to be a part of our scheduled charging so that will all be billed at off peak rates.” Even though it did not appear in the app on my phone.

I did not charge outside the schedule that was in the octopus app. They started the charge but did not manage to stop it so the car carried on charging after the schedule had ended. I have contacted Octopus and have sent screen shots of schedule and the notification of finishing after the...

I plugged my Tesla M3 in yesterday and got a charging schedule 11:00pm - 03:00 am, 03:30 - 04:00 am and 04:30 - 05:00 am but this morning I had a notification from my Tesla saying the charging had completed at 07:13. Does this mean I will be charged the high rate for the hours 05:00 to 07:15?

Has anyone else ever had alerts from the Octopus app in the middle of an overnight charging session saying “Unable to control your device”? The Octopus app is controlling IO via my Tesla M3 as I have a dumb charger. This is the schedule that it was due to follow: And this is a screenshot of...

I assumed that the seat cover must work with harnesses as it is a requirement for dogs to be restrained when travelling on the rear seat now, but the description on the Tesla web site does not mention them. Though one of the pictures does show something where you expect the access to the...

Thanks for all the help - I would like to see one in real life, but might just take a gamble and get one. My Labradors are too well fed to be able to squeeze through any narrow gaps!

I have a Model 3 and two labradors that come with us on long journeys. After seeing the price of the Tesla seat cover I bought a rear hammock seat cover off of eBay and it is ok, though I had to extend the various straps by stitching in extensions and the fit of the cover is a bit off, so I am...

I’m on 2023.38.6 and it is constantly degfogging it in my M3

Is anyone still having this issue after the latest software update 2023.44.1?

It’s doing this for me too, very frustrating! You can set the heating controls to manual and that will turn off the auto defogging.

I have checked all the carpets, boot etc and they are all perfectly dry. The air is hot and blowing at the windscreen but the auto-defogging stays on for ages, even when the screen is clear. When it finally stops defogging if I get out of the car then back in it immediately starts auto-defogging...

It is a late 2021 made in China SR+. I’ll check all the carpets tomorrow and the boot to see how damp they are and feel how much the vents are blowing. Thanks for the help!

For me the de-fogging is no good at all. Even on maximum de-fogging it takes at least 4 minutes to mostly clear the windscreen. On our Leaf pressing the windscreen demise button put the fan on maximum, AC and heater on and clears the screen in 3 to 4 seconds. I have checked to see if the air...

I don’t have a Zappi (the Tesla 3 is connected to IO) but recently there has been a long time between plugging in, stopping the charge and the charge schedule arriving. The other day I plugged in the car at 10:00 and did not get a schedule in the app until 14:30.

I don’t know if the smart meter has battery backup, or if when the power goes off it does not record anything hence a gap in the records. I’ll have to see what the records show.

We had a power outage last night of about four hours due to the storm Ciaran. We have only been on IO for a few months. Does anyone know if/how this could affect our charges/tariff as there will not be any half hour readings from our smart meter?

I have had this message too, bank card not changed or expired.

Yes I am on V3.82.0. I am running two properties though (I look after my mother’s bills) so maybe that could be having an effect.

If I click on the picture of a face (top left) it goes to “Account & Settings”

So there will be even less chance of Octopus actually dealing with any of my issues/questions now then…

Thanks for your help, I’ll await my statement, hopefully all will be fine. :)

It is an IO sort of question as does this mean that they charge full rate if I charge my Leaf in the cheap period. Also I am not looking at the IHD (I don’t have one) I am comparing the data the smart met has sent to Octopus against the rate 1 and rate 2 meter readings stored on the meter...

I have a question about Octopus IO. Do they use the data uploaded to Octopus from the smart meter for billing, or the meter reading from the smart meter? I’ll try and explain! I have switched to IO a few weeks ago using my Tesla as the connected car and charged it up successfully. The other...

All I can remember is he said it was something to do with the adjusting of the mirror - sorry can’t recall exactly!

I reported it to Tesla and they came today and replaced the mirror under warranty. :)

Thank you both for the prompt replies. I’ll just put the clip/stopper in the glovebox and hope nothing else falls out!

I found this hanging out of my drivers side wing mirro, does anyone know what it is? The 50p is for scale!

You could all vote for the island to have a supercharger installation! (there is an option for Newport IOW) https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/supercharger-voting/overview

There are a few rapid chargers on the Island but as the island is quite small most Islanders charge at home and don’t use them. The fastest chargers on the Island are only 50kW. Quite a few MER chargers have been installed recently, mainly 22 kW but there are a couple of rapid changers (Ryde...

My model 3 happily start/stops all day with my Zappi in ECO+ mode. I just get a notification every time it stops which can get a bit annoying!

My o-ring is cracked too, and the boot sometimes stops after starting to open. I tried to book a mobile service and it only gave me the option to travel to a service centre.

I find this in towns as well, so I push the left hand stalk forward and it turns off the auto high beam and stays on dipped beam until I push the stalk again. I do this whenever I am going into urban areas.