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Hi all, I have these available on Etsy for anyone with a Model 3/Y pre-2024 facelift and has a Samsung T5 dangling about in their centre console bin: Tesla Model 3/Y Samsung SSD Cradle - Etsy Cable and drive not included, but the cable I used (after a few abortive tests on USB C ribbon...

What's a BBC?

The tweet this is referring to in text for those who don't want to go there: "2 main goals this year: - Starship to orbit - FSD wide release Many other things, of course, but those are the 2 giant kahunas. Will require insane work by many super talented people, but, if anyone can do it, they...

The pitch needs to be "tailored" imho e.g. "Dear Elon, can I have a pit limiter function on my Model 3, like an F1/GT race car please"....just need to get it noticed amongst the half million Twitter posts I expect he receives every day ;)

Customer tax incentives would be a more accurate description, so FTFY. Subsidies implies a government hand out never repaid, whereas a tax incentive, which would only be due on an ICE vehicle purchase, is not. Resorting to semantics is a pretty weak argument, but keep going with the sophistry...

Can you quantify "made hay" for those interested, as well as when the hay was made and quantify what the subsidies were when the hay was being made? My elderly memory is not what it was, but I seem to recall the US subsidies tailing off before, or around the time that Tesla first made a profit...

Don't forget car dealerships - Tesla have at least knocked that one off the list...if only they can do the same in other areas.

Installing now.... No idea what's in it 😊

Yeah for normal road use its of limited benefit, but there's plenty of other racing enhancements that fit into that category also. Since the advent of track days and before that, there's always been a fair bit of cross over in parts and applications between motorsport and road use, which...

The motorsport application of dried pure nitrogen is supposed to result in a more consistent/predictable expansion as the tyre warms up during racing. This means they can be inflated to a pressure prior to use (which is underinflated), knowing that once at race temps the pressure will be at the...

Do you have a link in the UK perchance? My M3 is idle a lot of the time and a good/bad candidate for 12V battery issues (so were my ICE cars for that matter), so a replacement that solves the root cause would be a good investment for me.

I would look at ChipsAway first, provided your local branch can do Teslas (not all can) for an estimate/benchmark and then Tesla. Make choice based on that.

What suppliers are you guys using for your solar/battery installations? Out of the three in my region I have tried to engage, I've had two ignore a contact and one asking for £1,000+ just to do a survey/quote... (all three supposed to be Tesla Accredited). The market smells of the dodgy double...

Another Portfolio Edition Jag. This car was amazing for long distance runs - did a number of Aberdeen to southern England runs in it, which were glorious. There are "feel"/handling similarities to the Tesla, but the Model 3 also feels like the future in a way the XK/F-Type (had the latter also...

Unless there is already a "petition Elon" thread on the forums, link your tweet to Elon here and we can all then pile on to maybe raise its profile...

Mine did/does this every time I accessed the charger and it stayed in that mode for about 10 to 15 minutes, before going to solid green i.e. ready to charge. I figure it may do that every time its accessed, as that act is deemed commissioning, but I've not tried it since getting the car. Doing...

In keeping with the Gerry Anderson theme earlier in the thread I went with the following for my MSM M3: S.H.A.D.O.1 I thought the full stops/periods might have messed with the software, but nothing seems out of place so far...

@Mr Miserable - whilst collecting my car today, the handover agent reckoned there are four more ships due into the U.K this year. Of course that's 1st line chit chat, so not necessarily gospel, but does tally with your daily report. Thanks also for the detective work over the last couple of...

Collected my M3LR in MSM from Cribbs Causeway this morning, even though I was booked in for 13:00 I got there not long after 11:00 and made a queue of one at the collection point in the shop/showroom. A quick wait of no more than a minute or so, for one of the staff to appear from the collection...

Why does this thread start off sounding like a poorly syntaxed troll farm post?

Wow that paint looks way better than I thought it would after its travels. Looks like Tesla didn't turn the black paint into a swirl monster when they prepped it....there's hope for not having to breakout a rotary polisher yet :)

Looks like it has.

I agree - I vote to bring back Dazzle Ship paintjobs :)

Ah yes, a good choice - GMTA :) - unless I go shopping for a new phone afterwards, I will be gone I expect by the time you collect yours, as I'm booked in for 13:00, but good luck also and here's hoping our cars are blemish free...

Got my Reg text at 18:26 also - I think a fair assumption would be they check the VIN, as they come off the ship (or shortly afterwards) and Tesla feel fairly certain that the vehicle will get delivered at that point. The test would be to see if a flurry of texts arrive for folks once the HELIOS...

Couldn't edit my last reply: I've just had my VIN and Reg texted to me (I know and had the VIN confirmed some time ago). Now to try and insure the thing, as the SMS reckon they don't complete DVLA registration until the day of collection...

I may see you there 😀

I had to think long and hard about whether to drain and shrink wrap this, but it was SORN'd for 12 months and I could count on my fingers the number of times it had been out in the two years before that, so it had to go. Unfortunately cars still cost money even if you're just preserving them:

I suspect the answer can be found in this video:

I'll probably going to run out of musical analogies soon, but here's one for HELIOS RAY:

Yeah anything with wireless seems to be that way - I think the OnePlus 9 Pro is even larger...

You can only really do this if the owner/operator offers this as a service on their website. Currently I think that's limited to the HOEGH ships and there's a link some pages back in Mr Miserable's posts to their site to do that, If your car is not on a Hoegh ship (which given you're in Scotland...

I'm also possibly in the market for a new phone and was looking at it from a viewpoint of the wireless charging our cars should have and that I don't want something the size of a tablet. My current choices seem to be Samsung S20/21 or a OnePlus 9 (no Apple products here). Any other recommendations?

Of course, as soon as I post the jukebox video above, Wu Wa comes through with a look at the main loading pier on the Yangtze River:

As we wait for MR M's internet connectivity and daily report I note the VIKING OCEAN has entered the Bay of Biscay, so I feel another kick of the jukebox is required.

I'll be surprised if anything comes out of that facility before Q4 2022. Its a shame they can't arbitrage their inertia nearshored any more...

When does the Berlin factory come online?

I was looking at their relative speeds - HELIOS RAY has been consistently a little (and sometimes a lot) faster than VIKING OCEAN since they entered the Med, but with only 3 days left I agree it doesn't look like they'll trade places. I don't know what tolerance shipping has in terms of missing...

Are we saying that velociraptors are better at learning than humans? ;)

Sorry to necro this thread, but am I right in thinking if I have a Tesla Gen3 Wall Charger and my house is on a TT supply, then I just need over current protection in the consumer unit (40A for Single Phase) and a new Type B with 6mA DC protection would be just overkill (or belt and braces if...

I hope the government keep their money sucking and incompetant fingers out of the whole thing, other than OFGEM actually doing the job they're paid for and telling the power companies and NDOs they have to invest in infrastructure and not their pension funds...

I was thinking HELIOS RAY would have overtaken VIKING OCEAN by the time they reach Southampton... In the meantime and given the sedate speed, I imagining the crews are catching the sun and listening to something like this:

Whilst we await Mr M's internet service to be restored to normal, here's a late breaking video from Wu Wa, showing operations on the Southern Shanghai dock. There are a lot of RHD cars there, as well as some LHD and usefuly shows the holding lots being used, before loading on the GRAND DAHLIA.

When I've done this with other car marques it's done on a tablet at handover.

Looking at Jason Yang's Shanghai GF3 video this week (as well as Wu Wa's), shows the holding lot is nearly empty compared to previous weeks, as are the two test tracks. Plenty of road transporters appear to be awaiting cars and some single car transporters are loading, which I can only assume...

I swear LV don't won't any more business, as I've moved 4 policies away from them this year due to excessive price hiking on renewals (cars and house).

Did you offer the ship name, or was it given unprompted? Some of these service desk agents will operate like fortune tellers if it means closing a call/ticket ;)

Am I right in thinking a fair few cars get handed over with their shipping docs still attached/inside somewhere? If that's the case with mine I'll certainly report back here as it may help with the "last mile" mysteries and timings....might be useful if others do the same...

I bet the dock workers are going to love that /s ;)

As we have 4 boats in the vicinity this tune has been floating round my head this morning ;) : I see there is some weather in the Med today - a large front between Sicily and Sardinia with thunderstorms (looking at the lightning map) and what looks to be a fairly deep low pressure system...