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I apologize for my statement that mentions "most ladies". I did not mean to offend ladies. I have seen many ladies driving Tesla. Some people I know (relatives, friends) are ladies who are reluctant to buy, drive Tesla cars. My wife does not like "controls" done on the screen. She can drive it...

I put a tape mark on the garage floor behinh the car. Each time I park the car in the garage, I put in REVERSE just to see this tape mark is seen and lined up with the back of the car, then put the car in PARK. This way, the trunk has room to move all the way up without touching the garage door.

THANKS SO MUCH. This method works great, like on any other cars that I owned. Took me 8 months to know this, 3 months to know how to get water spray on the windshield. No wonder why most ladies do not want to drive a Tesla even if their husbands bought it for them. My wife can drive this M3, but...

I am thinking about buying the key fob for my M3. This post seems to highlight some issues with the fob. Strange as the remote key for all other car brands work flawlessly. Especially the one that need to plug in to start the car, its battery is charged when plugged in. I never had the need to...

On my M3, 2023, There is a button on the trunk to close it. Once it's close, the button is no accessible anymore. Is there a button to open the trunk instead of using the app OR open the car door then touch the "trunk open" icon on the screen ? Most of the time, we open the trunk first to put...

That's exactly what I did when going on vacation.

No , I don't. In this case, the % of energy used for battery conditioning should show a few % ? Mine shows 0%. My plain guess: leaving the car plugged in prevents energy loss while parking at the cost of electricity usage. This does not save anything !!! My driving is mostly less than 30 miles...

I only turn ON the circuit breaker when I schedule it for charging (once a week or once every 10th day). Otherwise, the circuit breaker is OFF.

I just experienced same Soc% loss over 24 hours period. The battery was charged to 50% (by wrong setting, should be 100%), car parked in garage. Next day (24 hours), Soc loses 3.5% due to vehicle standby, 0% everywhere else. Mine is a M3 2023 with the 16V battery, not 12V. The screen shows...

Well, there is some new EV models (Chevrolet) that supports "two way charging". I did not understand this feature until reading more about it. What this means: one can use the car battery to supply power to one's home, i.e the car acts as a backup power system for home.

My FSD trial ends today. IMHO, FSD is good for routes that are not too complicated (Straight, few turns). Some of my city driving are this simple. However, FSD sometimes changes to a wrong lane for freeway entrance and I had to cancel it. Good: stop at red light, stop sign. Bad: use wrong...

I tried the new FSD for 2 weeks now. It seems to work well except in some cases it made me feel uncomfortable and I had to take over control. It also chose the routes that I routinely avoid. I am sure it works great on long trips. For city driving, I have to pay much more attention than I...

I will try that.

I tried FSD V12 since Apr-01-2024. It seems to work pretty good but not perfect. Each time getting near my destination, I press the brake slightly to turn OFF auto-pilot because I like to drive in the parking lot (or my garage) and park the car myself. 30% of the time, I also turn OFF auto...

Thanks for all good suggestions.

I found it on Amazon for 89$ + tax. It's good if you already have a dryer (30 Amp) outlet for plugging in. Note that it only charge at 16A max (3.8kW). My M3 with 57kwh battery capacity would take 15 hours to charge to full starting from near 0%. Could be good to charge half a night, repeat...

A dedicated 50A with NEMA 14-50 also need a dual 50A GFCI circuit breaker. Quality parts cost nearly the cost of the Tesla Wall Connector. I did this homework before buying the Tesla Wall Connector. For my home, I could not find a dual 50A GFCI circuit breaker anywhere. Only found a dual 50A...

I would say it works well 90% of the time. Here are what not working well: 1) stopping at red light or behind a car in front is not so smooth, it's like it brakes without any confidence 2) before a right turn (more than 1 mile away), the car moves to the right lane too soon. This right lane...

I did try this, but the screen stay lit. Maybe I did not hold them long enough. Will try again.

My M3 RWD did the same thing when it's rainy , even just a shower rain.

Today, I drove my Tesla M3 to the gym, after parking in an empty slot, I tried to open the trunk by touching the screen where it says Open Trunk. Nothing happened, And the music from a karaoke song plays, I tried to pause it, could not do it !!! No matter what I do the screen seems insensitive...

I disabled the FSD and go back to basic Auto Pilot. The screen display reverts back to what I had, no surprise. The unpleasant part is that I have frequent phantom braking (that I never had before) on my routine routes. The new software gets worst for basic Auto Pilot while FSD is amazing.

To verify this, I select Auto-Steer instead of FSD, the selection of "stop on RED light and STOP sign" still ON. The screen reverts back to what it was before FSD enabled !!! The driving behavior is pretty much the same except 2 things: 1) when stopping , the car does a series of "brake-go"...

This humming also occurs after finishing a trip and park in the garage. I hear the humming for a good 5 mins. Cooling the battery makes sense.

Too bad, false hope then.

I feel almost the same way. I am truly fascinated with the full FSD which works well for my daily driving. Let's see how many days the fun wears out. Anyway, I won't have full FSD anymore on May-01 !!! So, I better try just the basic Autopilot now to see what will be in May-01.

Yesterday, I made two more trips , the second one at dark. Both went really well as expected. The new screen layout is much better. I am wondering if it reverts back to what I had before the FSD trial is activated. I really hope that the Stop on Red light and Stop sign feature stays with the...

After charging the battery to full (overnight), I disconnect the charging cable. Everything seems normal. 15 min later , I walk in the garage, my M3 starts a humming sound (which I have heard many times previously) Q1: does the car think I am about to drive it so it precondition the battery ? If...

Sorry , I meant Tesla3 SR RWD which I have. If I bought a better Tesla model that can draw 48A for charging, what I have is still usable. It just take longer to do a full charge but that is done at night. And the OP is referring to a mobile home. I would not install a 60A breaker (to get 48A...

Yes, the OTA software update is shown on the screen today. Here is my very first experience with FSD which I never tried during the first 3 months period. I drove to Walmart which is 2 miles from my home: 1) Engaging FSD is like turn ON autopilot, 2) it keeps lane, stop on red light and STOP...

I got an email from Tesla yesterday notifying that my Model 3 SR (bought in Sep-20-2023) has been updated with the new FSD. Today, I drove the car and saw a few improvements using just the basic TACC: 1) the car stops gracefully when there is car already stopped in front (it used to do a very...

I have been keeping track of my Tesla3 max range during the last 6 months. Since the energy screen shows more data, I noticed that the PARK mode also consumes energy. And the DRIVE mode also shows some energy consumed for Standby, Battery preconditioning. The actual driving energy is therefore...

Most people do not charge their Tesla every night. So just arrange to take turn.

My home panel is rated for 125A. It already supports oven with 40A breaker, dryer at 30A breaker. The breakers here are dual breaker type. You will need similar one. For Tesla 3, a 40A breaker is good as the model 3 only draws 32A. I use 6/3 wire with the 50A breaker.

The entire charger.

I think the Nema 14-50 outlet is the wrong one in this case. Get a Nema 14-30 to be sure. 10-3 wire and 30A breaker is fine. You should set 80% of 30A = 24A max charging current.

My brother had a working MC charger in the same condition. Suddenly it stopped charging. After doing some measuring , he thought that the MC is defective. He bought a new one and it worked.

Well, your neighbor can only turn ON the charger at 12am for example for you to charge overnight at lowest rate. You can plug in in the evening and schedule it to charge it at 12:30am for example. Your neighbor has the inconvenience of turn ON the charger at 12am. So he deserve some extra fee...

I just witnessed one accident today, I pushed the camera button right away to save the clip. It's a good clip.

Today, I witness for the first time an accident at an intersection (4 way STOP). I pushed the camera button to save the clip. The clip is a bit less than 20 seconds and showing clearly which car is at fault.

Can't really tell. I got windshield cracks on my previous cars a few times and learned to stay away from big trucks by a long distance. However, on roads with gravel, an accelerating car in front could send gravel to my windshield, hard to avoid. In this case, the dashcam could have recorded the...

Sorry, I forgot to add "in US", people drive past speed limit by 10 or 15MPH, not me though, 5 miles over speed limit is the max. When most cars on highway moving 10 or 15 past limit, police has trouble to stop all of them for ticket. I do hope that speed limit is truly mandatory in US too.

With FSD, we are at the mercy of Tesla software engineers. I have never tried out the FSD (free in the first 3 months) as I heard so many issues with it.

On highways, it has been recommended to follow the traffic. If other cars run at 75MPH and one's car driven at 60 MPH (speed limit), that would be an issue unless moving to the slow lane (if there is one) !!! This is the reason why RVs , typically run slower, have to move to the rightmost lane.

This happens to my 2023 M3 very often. When moving to a new section of the road, I have to adjust the max limit with the scroll wheel. One of the straight road I drive thru every week is 11 miles long, and the speed limit changes from one section to.another section, clearly marked on the road...

Slowing down is not a big issue for me. It's the not slowing to match current street limit is a problem. In Hawaii, I drove on.a highway at 60 mph, speed limit for about 20 miles, suddenly there are signs showing only 40mph. If the car does not automatically reduces speed and the driver only...

AGREED, I feel the same way , Auto Steer I'd only good on long roads without difficult curves. BTW, if the car does not have FSD, or FSD disabled, the screen should display "Adaptive Cruise Control" or ACC, and "lane keeping". TACC and Auto Steer are confusing. I know Elon want to set a new...

IMHO, driving way too fast get one to "another world" really fast, if there is another.world.

It's fast for me too. No complaint about its accerelation. Get past many, many other car quietly when needed.

I tried the scroll wheel already. But I found that by touching the brake pedal slightly to turn off TACC also start slowing down the car, similar to stopping at traffic lights with no car in front. Then using the accelerator or brake pedal to stop at 1 car length is also easy to do. But TACC...