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Pre conditioning, or even just defrosting will use a significant amount of mains electricity. I guess as the main reason to properly pre condition is to maximise your range they sensibly not to use the battery. Unfortunately any HVAC operation seems to prioritise taking power from mains, even...

TeslaFi show it’s for a Cybertruk so it may be specific to that.

Did you try as a regular Model 3 Performance and not a highland reference which don’t actually exist? Lots of Model 3 Performance’s already being insured.

Sensible decision. One of my cars was quite fickle wrt tyres and when the item was no longer available one brand was singled out as being a good choice. Unfortunately they suddenly changed the country of manufacture and their characteristics changed so were no longer a good match. They were...

There are 2 levels of update notifications. One fleet aggregated which needs no subscription to view which is what @Dilly is describing. And another when you subscribe and register your car with them that will show updates for your car, including historical updates (not sure if it’s...

All pull to refresh seems to do is manually check the download available status that the other sources seem to poll, that is, it’s doing a similar check that the others are polling for. If your car has been selected for download since the last manual check, or last 24 hours whatever is longer...

The car doesn’t need to check for an update. You can see the update notification from a number of other sources, eg Tesla App, TeslaFi dashboard notification, TeslaFi email notification et. al. The later is unsolicited so you don’t even have to go looking for it. I don’t know how instant these...

Because the update being ready can occur at any time and can be seen via various other means and not just in the car. Checking in car does not necessarily trigger it being ready, it will show it being ready if it had been scheduled to your car earlier but you didn’t get the earlier...

It’s very disconcerting but the car does not continuously charge within the scheduled time slots so just because it says it’s going to start at a particular 1/2 hourly slot doesn’t mean that it will. Sometimes it only charges for a few minutes at some point within that slot. A nights charge...

Standard install. I’ll wait a few more weeks before installing. Bound to have one more final update to fix a few more things.

Is that because the US didn’t have an NHS type to have already driven down the pricing?

Ours varies anywhere between too quick and need to adjust limit/time after schedule created, to uncomfortable long and not sure it’s going to so go tweaking limit/time which often creates a schedule pretty quickly, but not always. Tesla integration. Seems better with new API.

Pulling up to a compact traffic light controlled roundabout was always a bit of a cluster ****. Or maybe it was a way of reminding you to turn TACC off. Oth Phantom traffic lights in fast lane of motorway was a reminder to turn off stop line control - never turned it back on. So I disabled the...

When we picked up our Model 3 in 2019 at West Drayton there was a Model X collection in the corner getting the special treatment whilst all the Model 3 collections were told to find their car, pair the phone, sign the pad and off you go. At least we got some cookies and coffee whilst waiting to...

This has been going on for decades, and not just insurance, but grant based schemes etc. As an example, about 20 years ago, I had a medical procedure done privately. Originally it was going to be done as part of (iirc) Bupa package but in the end I paid myself. I got to see both Bupa and self...

Tbh, you are unlikely to get any individual service, even if it is not having something done that all the other cars are having done. Tesla like to streamline everything, which means doing everything the same for everyone, unless you are one of the few who will ruthlessly promote the car on...

There is a table somewhere on Tesla website showing what features are available on what versions of hardware. I don’t think some of the potential MCU2 improvements listed above will work with AP1 cars. It’s a completely different camera setup, eg single camera for starters.

Does it sound like something flapping? If so, if you can’t see anything, it could be a bag or something that has got caught underneath possibly between aero covers that has started flapping. Its not uncommon to see something caught under cars.

I don’t other than standard octopus app. If third party app has it then I guess the api can provide this info? I wasn’t on IO when I last looked at the api.

Is there any way to retrospectively see the off peak schedule? Before the bill arrives at least? I’m pretty sure the car put in an additional boost that was outside standard off peak hours and not mentioned in last nights charge schedule that was all within the off peak hours. The car reach...

One of our summer tyres seemed to start losing a psi every couple of weeks. It was so subtle I wasn’t 100% sure so left it over the winter tyre swap. Ahead if refitting start of this summer I checked the tyre. It was 10psi down. Close inspection, no sign of puncture or impact. Took it to my...

CAV - but unfortunately Tesla are unlikely to join that party as it means cooperation with others. Many aspects of it, especially the connected part, are also further advanced than some might otherwise speculate.

TeslaCam is always on when driving. If an incident occurs you need to actively save the incident. There is plenty of time to regain composure and save (by pressing dash cam button or, if enabled, the horn) after an event - in fact saving too quickly after an event risks loosing the specific moment.

You can’t leave it on that cliff hanger. What happened next? Did it detect the train and if not, did it crash and did they all die. I’m not going to be able to sleep until I get the hear what happened next episode…

That’s park assist not auto park. Not the same thing. Someone may correct me, but I don’t think think the park assist occupancy network is currently being used for auto park outside of North America FSD. Your auto park functionality will have been using the same methods that it was before.

epc.tesla.com identify part(s) then order by app

Driving other vehicles is third party ‘emergency’ cover only. I had this forcefully pointed out by Direct Line when I suggested I use it to drive a temporary company car replacement for my wife’s car and I was not explicitly covered on her company car insurance for that specific car - I was on...

It’s about £10 from Tesla direct. No need to wait for China.

Most cars with auto lights, not just Tesla, do not work properly in fog or road spray when in daytime conditions. As @KennethS says, you need to turn on lights in these conditions manually. For lights are never auto. A recent release turned on lights when it was raining which would have...

Yes. As below, I had a whole host of warranty fixes agreed with one service guy (eg rear lights, side B post cameras condensation that day it was in for repair it was hot and dry) but by time repair was in everything was ‘within tolerance’. A few other visits were postponed (several times) at...

We have had more than our fair share of service visits - >10 visits across 3 different service centres and 2 mobile. In the near 5 years we have been using service, the experience has changed considerably. In early days, customer service was face to face, then covid when minimal face to face...

Seems like some are confusing v12 FSD and the stack developed for and now used by FSD v12. There is nothing regulatory preventing the stack developed for and used by FSD v12 to be deployed in other countries. That stack will benefit regular AP, EAP and FSD but it is not a panacea for making...

It wasn’t that long ago that some were hyping Tesla experiencing exponential or 50% growth.

So it seems that Tesla do not currently use distance tracking technology available when using UWB so Tesla’s are still subject to being nicked in seconds using relay attack approach. Two weeks then ;) https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-ultra-wideband-radio-relay-attacks/ tl;dr turn on pin to drive

It’s actually stop charge/unlock charge connector that’s needed as unlock charge port is actually implemented by tapping the charge port when car is unlocked. This is the reason why many buy the Tesla wall connector as it has ‘the button’. Various work arounds people have posted over the...

Thread here about recent change of providers may give some insight. Helvetia (& Tesla?) no longer offering extended warranties

If there is a charge and Octopus don’t absorb it, then IO will likely only work with non Tesla vehicles and/or charge points that can be controlled. Otherwise standard Go may become a cheaper alternative. Shame if that becomes the situation as 6hr vs 4hr made quite a difference on slow charging...

Waypoints is a fairly recent thing and would most certainly post date Aug 21 above. That said, whether sharing a route with correct waypoints to Tesla was now implemented is a very different thing to waypoints being created/edited in car UI. I stopped sharing waypoints with the car (via share...

So sounds like the Lead Acid battery advice was not a thing in UK as even early Model Y’s were Li. But earlier post that I missed when answering showed it to be much more of a lottery. Hopefully an older module could be retro fitted? That will more likely get a positive response than waiting...

As far as I am aware, it has always been that it was effectively a 7 pin connection in a 13 pin shell. Certainly as far as our early Model 3 (MCU2/12v) with tow, instructions have always stated that the higher number pins were not connected. This was always stated in the manual. Maybe look at...

And someone else won’t love showing you… But feel free to see what happens and post after image here ;)

Last time (~6 months ago ish) I enquired with Cleevely about mobile it was approx 20% more expensive and a couple of months wait.

Not Surrey but we took ours to Cleevely in Cheltenham. We stayed over in a hotel but wouldn’t bother next time. All easily doable in a day from Surrey and time to have a stroll/lunch around Cheltenham - centre is easy walk from Cleevely.

I recall something like this with our MCU. Someone had been waiting months for one so when ours failed I was expecting the same. But thankfully not, job done next day. So our MCU was next day but poor soul with same MCU had been waiting months. Thankfully they got theirs not long after. Maybe...

Have you got FSD? Or just expecting the functionality as part of standard AP or EAP?

They would have to ignore all the nags about daily charging limits and set the charge limit to 100%. I would think that anyone stupid enough to ignore all the warnings would also be stupid enough to be able to keep the charge limit at 100%. But there will be exceptions I guess. Now, leaving...

I’m surprised how big it is. A huge amount of space potential under the bonnet just waiting for someone to come up with a solution to replace the front covers and surround what looks like to be be either a heat pump or front motor. I have it on good authority that it looks pretty well built...

Have you got FSD stop line control? That’s what that functionality does, except I turned it off as it would do the same for phantom traffic lights on the motorway or in tunnels 😱

Reminds me of the Sami houses in Norway.

Not near Farnborough by any chance?