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Most of the stations in OK are run by a company called Francis Energy. I have not had an issue with payments they work via CC, EVgateway app or an RFID card you can get from them. They have had problems lately about getting parts to fix broken chargers, so there are some chargers out of...

I have used my CCS adapter a lot now. In OK there are 5 supercharger locations but around 250 CCS stations. The CCS ones are everywhere.

Well I never found out what happened with my cabin camera. I traded it in for a new Model 3. I tried to get it into service during the 2 weeks prior to trade in, but of course you cannot get an appointment in 2 weeks...

One thing that might be holding it up is compatibility with different vendor's chargers. I got a new Model 3 last week and wanted to try out the new CCS charge adapter. My 2018 prior M3 did not have the hardware support. I stopped at a station that had 2 different brands of chargers. One...

I just scheduled service for my cabin camera. It does not like to work in the mornings. In the afternoons I do not have an issue with it. I suspected a calibration problem. Bad lighting seems to cause it to complain. It went away after a few minutes until the last update where now it...

In Oklahoma the entire "Indian Territories" area is now black: When you drive into these areas the map is all black. I really do not like it since it very hard to read street names.

Hopefully Tesla releases a CCS adapter in NA soon. Looks like EA is going to stop putting in chademo adapters: https://www.evnewsdaily.com/2021/07/29/electrify-america-to-phase-out-chademo-29-july-2021/ The South Korean one passed certification and is supposed to come out during the second...

Well my Model 3 upper control arms started to squeak really bad. I have 100k miles on it. I had Tesla replace them and it made a huge difference in road noise. As described in previous posts in this and other threads, I pretty much sound treated the whole car (August 2018 AWD M3) and still...

They should allow transfer of FSD to a new Tesla for current FSD customers. Many have had this for years with little more than automatic lane changing sort of working. Perhaps if you pay full price you get 1-2 transfers in the first 7 years of ownership. If they allow 2 transfers, you could...

I believe that it is just trade offs they make. Each adjustment has positive and negative effects. It could help your particular driving route/situation, or it could hurt it. Adjusting, for example, autosteering to handle one case could cause it to behave slightly worse in some situations...

It would in some cases. I drive on Highways that go through towns, the speed limit drops down and the Tesla slows as the speed limit slows. When the speed limit goes up it will go up as long as it is under the speed you originally had set. So, in TX with 75 MPH speed limits, entering a town...

I believe it also only sees them when it thinks you are in town/city limits based on GPS. I live off a road that goes out of town for a mile between the interstate and my house. It now sees the speed limit signs and has a speed limit when I get off the interstate (used to not know the speed...

Oklahoma is covered with CHAdeMO chargers if you have the adapter...

On interstates it appears to only go via its GPS and MAP data, not what the camera sees. If you get on a federal/state highway you will have a very different experience. I have yet to see it "see" a sign over 65 MPH. Many TX highways I have been on in the past week where you are stuck doing...

It is very useful in Oklahoma, 5 superchargers in the state but hundreds of CHAdeMO stations all over. CHAdeMO is expensive (31 cents per minute plus $1 activation), but they are convenient.

I have had these on my 3 for the last 27,000 miles. They are a bit quieter than the Continentals. I have done a lot of sound conditioning in my Model 3 (you can see my posts in the sound threads). So, perhaps they did not make as a dramatic difference for me as they would for someone that did...

The last update (32.3) When driving on a highway that goes through towns it now "sees" the speed limit signs, you can see them in the animation. But, the bit problem is that it only "sees" signs 60 MPH and under. TX typically goes 75MPH rural, 70 approaching town, 55 at town edge, down to 45...

I had a similar issue, but it turned out to be the charging pin inside the car charging port. Check to be sure the pins all look OK. There was a TSB on the plastic covers of the pins breaking off. They could get stuck in the wall plug so it would not insert all the way in, or by breaking off...

I get significant improvement in the winter with the heat off and the seat warmer's on. On really cold days wearing a coat in the car. This is only on long drives. If I am not trying to stretch the limit of the batteries, I use the cabin heat and not worry about the high drain.

You have to take the back seats out to get the carpet all the way out of the trunk. I did not do behind the trunk lid. I did eventually do the front wheel area. I have posted about it in the big Sound deadening thread which I found after doing this thread: Sound Deadening Model 3

At 54k miles now. On my 3rd set of tires. 12v battery replaced early on (first few thousand miles), factory defective. No charge. Had a wheel alignment done after bad uneven wear discovered on the second set of tires. If I had spotted it much earlier probably would still be on second set of...

Musk's low price was an estimated battery replacement price in 5 years when the first higher mileage model 3s would start to need pack replacement. As noted above the price has dropped from 15k to 12.5k already, Tesla wants a much lower battery price since it means that the new car price will...

The chademo adapter is big and hard to use. I say hard to use because the fittings are very tight, and it tends to stick when trying to pull off after charging. I would like a CCS adapter because as mentioned some of the CCS chargers are faster. The ones on the OK turnpike are 50KW just like...

I used a large electrical box at my office.

Here in Oklahoma there are 5 super charger sites. But, now there are over 100 chademo/CCS sites. One company is putting in over 100 charging stations. They are the only ones available on the turnpikes now. They limit their CCS at the stations I have visited to 50kw just like their chademo...

I have a LR AWD with about 44k miles on it. I have 19" wheels. In TX with the chip and seal roads the mileage is pretty bad. Smoother asphalt/concrete roads do better. When it is below 80 degrees I only count on 220-240 miles on a full charge. On hot days, 260+. If I really nurse it...

Mine just started to update to 2020.40.1, it was on the 2019 one before.

Apple is in a different usage catagory... People run their phones full to empty every day (some more than once a day) for 2 years before they start the throttling. If you go 100% to lets say 10% every day in a LR Tesla, it is lets say 270+ miles a day, in 2 years it is around 200k miles...

https://ww.electrek.co/2019/12/26/tesla-patents-battery-chemistry-cheaper/#more-116311 Tesla patents new battery chemistry... Perhaps more storage density? The patent does not appear to say anything more than improved properties....

Another side effect - after the upgrade the car sounds different. I notice the difference sub 40 MPH, there is also a slight difference in the vibration of the steering wheel. There is definitely more sound coming from the front of the car now. Now I have put a lot of noise insulation in my...

I doubt that they will increase pack size, but perhaps they are working on a new/improved chemistry obtained via their Maxwell acquisition that could get 10-20%+ more storage per cell. So, pack size remains the same, just holds more. I doubt they would want to redesign the M3 to hold a...

My car is in that range, I wonder if there is a way to check to see if VIN in recall list (i.e. do they give a list to the government)? Since it does not appear to be a safety recall, NHTSA may not have it.

Rather than a grand conspiracy theory a simple explanation would be that they intended from the beginning to use a less expensive motor in the non P AWD, but they were in production hell and had far bigger problems to deal with at the time. Rather than testing and validating a less expensive...

I wonder if the boost was limited to .5 seconds because of the rear motor change in later AWD vehicles? In the long version thread it cataloged that the P and the AWD had the same motor part numbers at first then in 2019 Tesla changed the rear motor part number on AWD. Perhaps owners of the...

I bought it through my Tesla account online.

99% of them are me walking up to the car to get back in... At first I would review them often, but since they were all me, I have not bothered in a while.

Signage was still missing last week on half the stalls. 150kw is the max charge rate. And still not on the map...

Well this does seem to explain how without preconditioning (i.e. go to a SC without navigating to it), it will start at 146kw and slowly work its way up to 150kw, then after a while the radiator fan kicks on...

I filled mine up with dynamat. It worked pretty well. I tried to get some thinsulate up in there and gave up. The area that I could fit the thinsulate into was just too small to do any good. The plastic wheel well cover is pretty much up against the metal too much.

I put in a 2TB drive, but it kept getting corrupted. It would work a day or two then I would have to format it again. I tried several ways to format it (different PC programs and my macbook). I finally got it to work reliably when I formatted it just below 1TB. It has worked a couple of...

Well it looks like they finally turned on the billing for the station. Monday's visit was not charged, but now, yesterday's visit showed up. Charge of 24 cents per minute Tier 2 charging... Still missing half the signs, and still not on the Supercharging map...

Went by again today... Still missing signage and still not on the supercharger map... But, at least it is still free to use...

Sound Deadening Model 3 Is a long thread on various treatments people have tried. I used a sound meter and posted the results after I did each treatment. My sound meter was not calibrated (I did not have an 80db 1KHZ tone available), but I assume that the results were relative. My car is a...

My experience with AAA is that they are third party too... A local wrecking/service company is dispatched. I keep an air compressor ($20-$30 available at Walmart or any autoparts store) in my frunk. I fill up my tire, and wait like 10 minutes to check pressure again. If it is a slow leak I...

Actually it may still not be "complete" since half of the signs were missing. Perhaps they do not want to say it is officially open without the handicap signs up. They probably do not have the official inspection done from the TX department of licensing and regulation yet without the signs...

The shipping weight of the dynamat and dynapad was 30 pound (15 pounds each). I saved 2 sections of the dynamat to do the front wheel wells, so just under 30 pounds I would say.

Once this makes the Tesla maps, does Tesla show if a station is out because of local utility? Or do you just arrive and are out of luck?

I bought FSD when I bought the car, but I plan on keeping the car at least 5 years (kept my last vehicle bought new 11 years). If I were one to trade in my car every few years, I would not buy FSD. I do not really believe that FSD will fully come to be in the next 3 years. My hope is that...

Probably got warmer outside and the battery heated up.

Only thing I have noted with the EA charger is that you have to have the car all hooked up with the adapter before you pay. If you try to pay then hook it up it will not work.